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2014 New Year 'Reading' Resolutions
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It'll be a huge challenge. I actually just plan to get most read haha.
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That's A LOT of books, Maddison! Good luck!
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I only have a few book goals really.Read Harry potter for the first time. (I only read half of the first one when i was younger, but at the time, that sort of book didn't interest me.)
Finish the majority of sequels i have. (We might just be able to finish all these sequels by 2015, Sarah! Haha.)
Read the books that have been on my bookcase for over a year.
I have some that have been sitting there for 2 years. They're feeling unloved, haha.
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Oh I am so relieved I'm not the only one who hasn't read Harry Potter! It's one of my goals this year, I feel left out, haha. I suffered for a decade not watching the movies just to read the books first! LOL! I'll be reading them in April as I'm buying the whole chest set for my birthday and I have loads of free time — April and May is our summer vacation. :)I'm also looking forward to finishing all sequels as soon as I can. I have 60+ sequels left unread. Hopefully it'll be finished before 2015 starts, except of course for those unpublished, yet.
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Mei wrote: "Oh I am so relieved I'm not the only one who hasn't read Harry Potter! It's one of my goals this year, I feel left out, haha. I suffered for a decade not watching the movies just to read the books ..."Haha, i haven't watched the films for the same reason!
I borrowed the first one from my school library when i was 8, but i just wasn't into that kind of genre back then, so i was bored. I've been meaning to give them another go for a couple of years, but haven't got round to it.
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You haven't seen the films? how have you managed to avoid them? I'll have to lend them to you! I think I ended up with them on dvd and blu ray cause I got a boxset for christmas 2012 (and oops, they're still in their celophane wrapper.)
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That would be good ☺ I won't be able to read them in January though :( I have 41 review copies to get through.
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Read Harry potter for the first time. (I only read half of the first one when i was younger, but at the time, that sort of book didn't interest me.)
Finish th..."
I still have 79 sequels to read. I'll join someone for Harry Potter. The books are so much more fun when you play Pottermore online at the same time as reading them. I like getting to the end of each chapter and answering the questions and doing the challenges ☺
Sarah wrote: "Abbie wrote: "Mei wrote: "Oh I am so relieved I'm not the only one who hasn't read Harry Potter! It's one of my goals this year, I feel left out, haha. I suffered for a decade not watching the movi..."It was really hard, i have to admit! My cousin went through a phase if loving the HP movies, so i had to walk out the room every time they were on.
I just hate watching the movie first. :(
I have seen plenty of gifs around though! I' ve probably seen half the movies trough them, haha!
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My goal is to read at least two books a month.
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I'll join you both with morganville. I've read the first 13, but i need a reread before reading the last two.
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@Abbie: Sweet! I've read the first one, and I own random ones in the series haha. I mean to buy and read them all though.
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Me, too! Sarah and Abbie, do you have challenges in store for us for January? :)
It was so hard avoiding the movies. I was actually spoiled anyway, through Tumblr. But it's been a year since I lurked there so now I forgot! Yay, haha!Abbie, when do you plan to read HP?
What do you do in Pottermore, though? I've been hearing it, haha!
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Mei wrote: "It was so hard avoiding the movies. I was actually spoiled anyway, through Tumblr. But it's been a year since I lurked there so now I forgot! Yay, haha!Abbie, when do you plan to read HP?"
Probably sometime next month or the month after. :)
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There are levels for each chapter of the book, and you do things like mixing potions and exploring diagon alley and stuff. I actually really liked it when I did book 1 last year. It's totally free too, and there's loads of quotes and unpublished bonus material, and facts about the books and movies and stuff that you can't find anywhere else ☺
Sarah wrote: "We should have a new challenge starting as the festive spelling ends. I think Abbie is posting sign ups either today or tomorrow ☺"Yep, sign up will up tomorrow. :)
I usually bad at follow my list that's why I never make a new year resolutions but I really want to read more fantasy and classics book. One of fantasy books that I want to read, finish and review it is The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien. I love LOTR & The Hobbit and Tolkien is one of my favorite authors but somehow I never have a gut to read The Silmarillion because it hasn't translated yet into my own language. I find that his writing (and also Neil Gaiman's writing who is also my favorite) is quite difficult to understand so if I "brave" myself to read it that mean I'm making a progress in my English. Does it make sense to you? :DAnother thing is I want to read more books for Read for Review and/or books from NetGalley. I still have 7 books from NetGalley that I haven't read. Maybe that's why I often got rejected by them, lol.
Oh, and I also want to try to finish series that I've started. I think at least one series a month. I didn't count how many series I've started but just like Abbie said if I don't start it, I might finish it on 2015 or even worse I won't finish it at all because it seems most of books are in series now.
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You don't have to have a blog to join in ☺
Glad I'm not the only one who have tbr from NetGalley :D Thanks for the link, Sarah.
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I don't have an account from Edelweiss. How does they work?
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sign up for an account (you can't see the review copies until you have an account). I'm not sure if you have to wait for your account to be approved, I don't remember to be honest. But once you have an account, go to the same web page, and click the tab for 'review copies', the top of the page should look like this once you have an account -
when you click 'review copies' it should bring up a page with available titles -
then you click the blue 'request digital RC' button to request.
If you click on the little 'requests' tab below 'community' it should show you all the titles you have requested, and their status - accepted/declined etc. a bit like netgalleys reader dashboard. Edelweiss do have different books, but it took me ages to work out how to navigate it! If you need more help let me know ☺
I also plan to read the entire HP series for the first time!
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There's more of us who haven't read HP than i realised! Haha. There's a couple on your list that i need to read too, Jacquelyn. :)
@Sarah, I surely will have a lot of questions about Edelweiss. Just prepare yourself :D I might be start it next week, lol.It's only 1.5 hours to 2014, by the way.
Oh, maybe there really are a lot of people who still hasn't read HP! Haha. Abbie & Jacquelyn, would you like to buddy read it?
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