We are back again! And again I’m a bit late with this thread, oopsy? I’ve been doing this for 2 years now and I couldn’t keep up with it because life became a little crazy but it’s all good now so let’s hope this year is better! Since I’m always on Goodreads and every year you get to set your reading goal, I thought it would be fun to do something similar here! You can do whatever you want here, have fun with it - set your reading goal, your other goals, write down your tbr list, do little updates after every month and see your progress, which book you liked the most…
Reading goal: 40 Other goals: Read more classics and thrillers, new worlds and not that popular books
Priority tbr: Lie with me, The Starless Sea, Caraval, Mayflies, The Raven boys, My dark Vanessa, Betty, Babel, Nothing but blue skies, Apples never fall
January-Feb
Read:
The Unbearable lightness of being ✓ (E)
Lolita✓ (P)
Jane Eyre✓ (P)
Caraval ✓ (P)
Prorites: , Frank Kafkza Works (starting with metamorphosis) The Chalice of Gods, Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Once Upon A broken heart,
Year goal: 24 [subject to change]
Other goals: Continue to work through physical tbr. Buy fewer books than I read. Try to read a variety of genres, as I’m still exploring my tastes/figuring out what I like.
January
Read:
Glory- NoViolet Bulawayo
If We Were Villains- ML Rio
dnf:
Enbury Heath- Stella Gibbons
Started:
The Fellowship of the Ring- JRR Tolkein
Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman
A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess [continued from last year]
Bought (for shame!) [1/4 second hand, 4/4 in person]:
If I Had Your Face- Frances Cha
This is How You Lose the Time War- Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
The Dispossessed- Ursula K Le Guin
Earthsea (the first four books)- Ursula K Le Guin. This counts as one entry because they are contained in one book and I did not realise there were multiple. I am not open to criticism.
January-Feb
Read:
The Unbearable lightness of being ✓ (E)
Lolita✓ (P)
Jane Eyre✓ (P)
Caraval ✓ (P)
The Metamorphosis ✓ {E}
The Chalice of the gods ✓ {P}
currentlyreaidng crime and punishment by dostoevsky
priorities future ig: Anna karina, ninth house, book 2 of caraval, No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, the 5 people you meet in heaven and more poetry in general
Read:
Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman
This is How You Lose the Time War- Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
The Walking Dead volumes 1-3- Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore
If I Had Your Face- Frances Cha
Currently reading:
The Fellowship of the Ring- JRR Tolkein
The School for Good and Evil: Quests for Glory- Soman Chainani
Station Eleven- Emily St. John Mandel
Bought [1/3 second hand, 2/3 in person]:
The Walking Dead volumes 1-3- Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore
Read:
The School for Good and Evil: Quests for Glory- Soman Chainani
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
dnf:
The House in the Cerulean Sea- TJ Klune ):
Currently reading:
The Dispossessed- Ursula K Le Guin
Circe- Madeline Miller
Bought [4/6 second hand, 1/6 in person]:
Babel- R.F. Kuang
The Parable of the Sower- Octavia E. Butler
Fifth Season- N.K. Jemisin
the Sunbearer Trials- Aiden Thomas
Gideon the Ninth- Tamsyn Muir
The Walking Dead Volume 4- Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore
A lot more bought this month than read, but I’m supposed to be working on my project and revising rather than reading recreationally, so I will choose to see this as a good thing.
No, not at all! It was cosy, as had been promised-- I just struggled to get invested. It was more of a ‘not for me’ thing rather than a ‘bad book’ thing. I was only sad about it because I had really wanted to like it!
Read:
The Dispossessed- Ursula K Le Guin
The Walking Dead: Volume 4- Robert Kirkham & Tony Moore
The Light Fantastic- Terry Pratchett
A Wizard of Earthsea- Ursula K Le Guin
The Word for World is Forest- Ursula K Le Guin
Circe- Madeline Miller
Currently reading:
A Natural History of Dragons- Marie Brennan
Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain (ish)
Bought [0/5 second hand D:, 4/5 in person[1/5=gift]]:
The Word for World is Forest- Ursula K Le Guin
A Natural History of Dragons- Marie Brennan
James- Percival Everett [gift]
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea - Ursula K Le Guin
Read:
A Natural History of Dragons- Marie Brennan
Galatea- Madeline Miller [reread]
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea- Ursula K. Le Guin
Still Life- Sarah Winman
Currently reading:
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers- Grant Naylor
Looking for JJ- Anne Cassidy
Bought: [5/8 second hand, 8/8 in person]
The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
The Three Body Problem- Cixin Liu
Rosewater- Tade Thompson
Five Ways to Forgiveness- Ursula K. Le Guin
Kindred- Octavia E. Butler
Woman on the Edge of Time- Marge Piercy
Pride & Prejudice- Jane Austen
the Handmaid’s Tale- Margaret Atwood
//started keeping track of where the books I’m buying are coming from I’m trying to buy fewer books online, and keep the number of books I buy new limited.
I’m trying to buy fewer books online, and keep the number of books I buy new limited.
