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A month long blog event hosted by
Girlxoxo, and Traveling with T
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January: Started this blog! Read 33 books, the most for year. Threw The Goldfinch across room in frustration at page 200. Sent it back to library undamaged and unfinished. Most Hyped/Least liked.
My first Goodreads win Andrew's Brain (I liked it.)
Began exploring new
February: 1st LibraryThing win: Snow in May by Kseniya Melnik. Happy to give it a good review!
March: Won Mr. Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo on LibraryThing. Significant because it was a great book and it also introduced me to a new (to me) publisher: Akashic Books. They have a great list. Lots of diversity.
April: Finished longest (a Goodreads win) took me 2 months to read
this rewarding book: A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François
Mitterrand by Philip Short. 640 pages.
My first ever online Readathon--Dewey's 24 hour. Lasted the entire 24 hours. Read 5 books.
May: Set up My World Of Reading map.
May: Set up My World Of Reading map.
June: A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi 856 pages--More pages than the Mitterrand book but this was graphic--not a lot of words.
Participated in Dolce Bellezza's Japanese Lit Challenge 8.
July: Read for both Spanish Lit Month and Paris in July
August: A quiet month, with lots of reading.
September: Only read 9 books. Maybe because I got bogged down in The Bone Clocks (624 pages). Also read a dense chunckster Traveler of the Century by Andrés Neuman (576 pages), Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (608 pages), and The Hidden Child by Camilla Läckberg (528 pages). (Number of books read statistics can be misleading.)
My first ever participation in crowd sourced funding! I contributed to What if the Queen Should Die? By John-Paul Flintoff at Unbound
October: My second Deweys Readathon. Crashed during hour 17, with 3 books read.
Had birthday--got books.
November: Read & reviewed 5 books and read umpteen blog reviews for German Lit Month IV. A great event.
Added German Lit Page to my blogs.
Changed templates so I could do a little more with blog.
December: It's probably going to be my "Read the fewest" month because I'm spending so much time (and having so much fun) with the Faves.
Read The Good Life Elsewhere - one of the funniest books I've read this year.
What book made you laugh this year?
YAY!! Another Goldfinch non-fan! Whooo! You did great with your Dewey's Readathon!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Readathon was so much fun. The Goldfinch was not fun. I keep crying "Editor! Edit-her! Please!"
DeleteHmmm, a book that made me laugh? Definitely Redshirts by John Scalzi. I know there were more, but I remember giggling at that, when my hubby was asleep and I had to be quiet. I was listening to the audio version so Wil was just cracking me up. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your timeline. Here's my Mammoth Timeline Breakdown.
Don't know Redshirts, will have to check it out. Another on that made me laugh - One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak
Deletewow, sounded like a great year. and ouch, have not read yet this book on Miterrand!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, It was a good year and I didn't even mention finding all these neat blogs.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great year of reading. Snow in May has a very intriguing cover. I don't think I've read *any* notably funny books this year. Sounds like I ought to give The Good Life Elsewhere a try!
ReplyDeleteThe British edition of Snow in May also has a great cover: https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1404279911l/22595761.jpg
DeleteI can't decide which one I like best.
It does! That just means I need one of each, right? ;-)
DeleteYep!
DeleteYour year seems great (we will forget your problem with The Goldfinch ;) - I haven't tried to read it: I wasn't interested). Have I well understood? You've read 33 books in January? O_o
ReplyDeleteyou participating in 'X Lit Month(s)' to be stimulated to read translated books or it is just more fun to read with others? I'm interesting as a French who reads mainly translated books naturally. I've noticed that lot of English-speaking persons read very little translated literature so I'm always interested by those we read it!
I barely read funny books but I remember having a real good time with The Importance of Being Earnest by O. Wilde.
DO you participatE in... T_T
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those WHO read it!
(maybe I should go back to bed)
I woke up at 4:30 this morning. Tried to go back to sleep, but didn't.
DeleteI have always read a lot of translated literature. I participate in the various Lit months because it's fun to see what others are reading. Also, those projects attract interesting readers from all over the world.
About the number of books read: Yes, 33 in January. We had bad weather and I had a very sore knee. I didn't go out much at all.
Ha - You and Tamara (Traveling with T) both quit The Goldfinch at page 200! I loved it, but it's way too long to stick with if you don't! Congrats to you for having the guts to listen to your own gut. And congrats on your first year with the blog!
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with not finishing a book I don't like. But I really shouldn't have thrown it, what f I'd damaged it and had to pay for a book I disliked. Shocking behavior for a book lover (and former librarian).
ReplyDeleteThank you for the congrats. :)
Hey1 You did great with your read-a-thons, I'm not very good at them, but I always try. It is also so cool you won a couple of books as well. That is alway so exciting!
ReplyDeleteI've been lucky with the book wins. It sure makes getting the mail more interesting.
DeleteAmazing timeline! I loved following along your adventures!
ReplyDeleteThank you! It's been a fun year.
ReplyDeleteI can hardly believe you only began blogging in January! What a lot you've accomplished! So glad you found the Japanese Literature Challenge 8 in your adventures, and I can commiserate with throwing The Goldfinch across the room. While I loved The Secret History, and even enjoyed most of The Goldfinch, Tartt really gave us a bleak and hopeless look at life. Or, making the wrong choices after sorrow comes our way...~Bellezza (dolcebellezza.net)
ReplyDeleteI found the Japanese Lit challenge through Tony Malone's January in Japan. I can't remember how I found that. And it's almost January again! I'd better see what Tony has for this year.
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