2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I am going to continue with my goal of reading a book a week in 2018.

Good luck & happy reading Anne!

1. Jan 2 A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

2. Jan 11 The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life by Bernard Roth

3. Jan 24 A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

Wishing you the best of luck with your goal this year.

4. Feb 1 Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

5. Feb 16 A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 by Joseph Loconte

6. Feb 18 The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille Fun beach read while in Hilton Head for a wedding.

7. Feb 20 Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by William H. McRaven Listened on Audio, very inspirational.

8. Feb 22 The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness by Epictetus Modern translation of Epictetus' advice for living. Just as appropriate for human nature now as it was 2000 years ago.

9. Feb 24 The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien Wonderful book. It's now among my favorites. I can't believe that I've never read these books before.

Hope you had fun getting lost in pages this first month of the year!

Blagica wrote: "Hope you had fun getting lost in pages this first month of the year!"

Thank you!

Nice on track I see! Which one was your favourite?

Susy wrote: "Nice on track I see! Which one was your favourite?"

I wouldn't really rank any as favorites. Probably learned the most from Dreamland. The Court novels were recommended to me by my daughter. They were escapist fun, but not my style. I'm hoping to get to some better reading soon.

Fingers crossed!

March 2018
10. How to Live a Good Life by Jonathan Fields

11. 3/17 Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy

You are doing great! Hoping March is a smashing success for you.

Blagica wrote: "You are doing great! Hoping March is a smashing success for you."

Thanks so much!

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. I hope that April brings you many more five star reads. Do you have a stand out book so far this year?

April 2018
12. 4/8/2018 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson

13. 4/17/2018 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

14. 4/19/2018 The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin

15. 4/26/2018 Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind by Jocelyn K. Glei

16. 4/29/2018 The Passage by Justin Cronin (a multiple re-read)

May 2018
17. 5/3/2018 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

18. 5/3/2018 Victoria by Daisy Goodwin

19. 5/17/2018 Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian

20. 5/26/2018 Wait, What?: And Life's Other Essential Questions by James E. Ryan

21. 5/28/2018 The Lightning Keeper by Starling Lawrence

22. 5/31/2018 The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery by Rick Beyer

“Reading brings us unknown friends” While the warm weather is coming I hope you make some new friends in May! Awesome job so far!

June 2018
23. 6/22/2018 Fugitive Colors by Lisa Barr

24. 6/29/2018 Passage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart into Daily Life by Eknath Easwaran

25. 6/30/2018 Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss

July 2018

26. 7/3/2018 The Tour by Jean Grainger

27. 7/6/2018 The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

28. 7/16/2018 Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice by Sidney Powell

29. 7/20/2018 Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage by Nicholas Wapshott

30. 7/25/2018 The Golden Lion by Wilbur Smith

31. 7/26/2018 Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path by Erin Loechner

32. 7/28/2018 The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France by Seth Meyerowitz (audiobook special)

Hoping July is full of page turning and falling in love with a new book!

August 2018

33. 8/5/2018 The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower

34. 8/7/2018 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans by Karl Pillemer

35. 8/9/2018 Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson

36. 8/12/2018 Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey

37. 8/15/2018 The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own by Joshua Becker

38. 8/23/2018 Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

September 2018

39. 9/1/2018 Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose

40. 9/2/2018 Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends by Peter Schweizer

41. 9/7/2018 The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy Loved this book!

42. 9/11/2018 Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue by Ryan Holiday

43. 9/13/2018 Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

October 2018

44. 10/12/2018 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

45. 10/19/2018 The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams

46. 10/23/2018 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

47. 10/29/2018 Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker

November 2018

48. 11/11/2018 Dark Star by Alan Furst

49. 11/15/2018 Educated by Tara Westover

50. 11/26/2018 Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp by John Medina

51. 11/26/2018 The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

December 2018

52. 12/22/2018 The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

53. 12/27/2018 Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

54. 12/27/2018 Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear

It was a good year for reading, working part time helps!

Here is my read-in-2018 shelf;
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