[trystan830]

hi again!!!

i set myself a reading challenge every year, which is to read more books than the previous year. 2017 was the first year i did this on Trisphee, (i had a great time! thanks Moonshadow!) and i started hosting this in 2018. it's great fun ... so here we are again!

so, (snagging from previous threads), set a challenge for yourself: read 50 books, read only the books you have at home that you haven't read yet, read a specific genre, read only non-fiction books... whatever you choose.

Your first post should contain your challenge, and use a spoiler to indicate how you are progressing in meeting that challenge. i use a spoiler for my booklist. =)

Please feel free to chat about books, your day, anything!

[trystan830]

List of members who are joining our 2021 Reading Challenge

trystan830
Kaderin Triste

(each name links to their challenge post)

[trystan830]

reserved... just 'cause it's good to have another post reserved. as soon as i don't reserve one, i'll need it for something.... right, Murphy? XD

[trystan830]

my reading challenge: in 2020, i read 36 books - my goal is to read more than that!

~*2021 Book List*~
1. Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder
2. You by Caroline Kepnes
3. Children of Anubis by Tim Waggoner
4. If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon
5. A Shadow in Riverclan by Erin Hunter
6. Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes
7. the Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
8. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
9. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
10. Windmills of the Gods by Sidney Sheldon
11. The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs
12. Fortune & Glory: Tantalizing Twenty Seven by Janet Evanovich
13. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
14. the Seven 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
15. This Is The Fire by Don Lemon
16. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
17. Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison
18. The Invisible Life of Addy LaRue by V.E. Schwab
19. The Place of No Stars by Erin Hunter
20. The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon
21. A Warrior's Choice by Erin Hunter
22. The Doomsday Conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon
23. You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes
24. The Stars Shine Down by Sidney Sheldon
25. Nothing Lasts Forever by Sidney Sheldon
26. Morning, Noon & Night by Sidney Sheldon
27. The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon
28. Tell Me Your Dreams by Sidney Sheldon
29. The City of Zirdai by Maria V. Snyder
30. The Sky Is Falling by Sidney Sheldon
31. Winds of Change by Erin Hunter
32. Are You Afraid of the Dark? by Sidney Sheldon
33. Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson
34. Off To Be The Wizard by Scott Meyer
35. Killing Time by Caleb Carr
36. Shadowed Steel by Chloe Neill
37. Spell or High Water by Scott Meyer
38. The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
39. A Lonely Man by Chris Power
40. An Unwelcome Quest by Scott Meyer
41. Million Dollar Demon by Kim Harrison
42. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann
43. Fight and Flight by Scott Meyer
44. The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
45. Out of Spite, Out of Mind by Scott Meyer
46. The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee
47. The Vexed Generation by Scott Meyer
48. The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee
49. once a girl, always a boy by Jo Ivester
50. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
51. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
52. Dune: the Graphic Novel part 1 by Herbert, Anderson, Allen, & Martin
53. Dune: the Duke of Caladan by Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson
54. the Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
55. the Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
56. the Sandman: the Doll's House by Neil Gaiman
57. Leopardstar's Honor by Erin Hunter
58. the Sandman: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
59. the Sandman: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
60. the Sandman: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman
61. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
62. the Sandman: Fables & Reflections by Neil Gaiman
63. One of Us is Lying by Karen M McManus
64. Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
65. One of Us is Next by Karen M McManus
66. Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
67. Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
68. The Galaxy, and The Ground Within by Becky Chambers
69. You'll Be the Death of Me by Karen M McManus

for my information:

reread list:
*Sidney Sheldon's books <-- 18 of 18 completed!!
*Sandman <-- 6 of 12 complete
*the Han Solo Trilogy
*Illium; Olympos
*Harry Potter
*Sue Grafton's Alphabet Series A-Y

own and still need to read:
*Dune Graphic Novel
*Dune: the Duke of Caladan
*The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
*The Alienist by Caleb Carr

[Kaderin Triste]

Woohoo! New year, new list!

1. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
467 Pages
Finished January 26th
2. Lord of Snow and Shadows - Sarah Ash
574 Pages
Finished January 30th
3. Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
643 Pages
Finished March 16th
4. Breath and Bone - Carol Berg
515 Pages
Finished April 15th
5. Feast of Souls - C.S. Friedman
564 Pages
Finished May 7th
6. Crown of Shadows - C.S. Friedman
525 Pages
Finished June...something.
7. Kushiel's Avatar - Jacqueline Carey
750 Pages
Finished October 13
8. The Brother's Karamazov (Part 1) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
191 Pages
Finished October 10
9. Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
272 Pages
Finished October 19
10. Daughter of the Blood - Anne Bishop
412 Pages
Finished October 19
11. A Natural History of Dragons a Memoir by Lady Trent - Marie Brennan
334 Pages
Finished December 10
12. Heir to the Shadows - Anne Bishop
482 Pages
Finished November 3
13. Queen of the Darkness - Anne Bishop
430 Pages
Finished November 12
14. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Page 127 of 374
15. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Page 213 of 369
16. Seances Are For Suckers - Tamara Berry
296 Pages
Finished December 22

[trystan830]

i'm still working on Defending the Galaxy - the first book i finished in 2020 was Chasing the Shadows - book 2 in the same series! XD

[Kaderin Triste]

I'm still working on Kafka on the Shore.
Though I don't think I'd added that to my 2020 list. Or the other 2 that I'd finished in December.

Need to find my list for this year that I wrote down and see if I want to change it any before putting the books onto my online list.
XP

[trystan830]

you can still go back and add stuff you finished in 2020 to your list there.

i'm really annoyed at... whatever, i guess myself. i can't find the copy of The Alienist that i found at a library book sale. it's not on any of my bookshelves. o_O *sigh*

[Kaderin Triste]

Yeah...I'm too lazy to update last year's list. It's not like it really makes a huge difference now. XD

Oh no! Hopefully it turns up and isn't actually gone! O.O

[trystan830]

eh, fair enough.

actually i found it! it was right next to my Sidney Sheldon books XD

[trystan830]

finished Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder yesterday! woot!

on to You, the book they made the tv show off of. XD

[Kaderin Triste]

Lol. Found a "classic literature recommendations for every Hogwarts house" post while browsing Instagram and laughed super hard because I'm a ravenclaw and half of the books on the ravenclaw list I've either read, tried to read/am working on reading or are on my "want to read" list. XD

[trystan830]

oh that IS funny! do you have a link or name of the account? i'm also Ravenclaw. :)

[Kaderin Triste]

I don't know how to share posts outside of insta, so I sent it to you on there. XD

[trystan830]

yep, i got it.

lol, i've read books on all those reading lists!

[Kaderin Triste]

I've read at least 1 on all the lists. Mostly because they were books we read in English class. XD
But Ravenclaw is the one I've read or want to read the most of. With hufflepuff being a close second. Lol