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Conny Tries Again: ATY 2020
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Emily wrote: "I love your weekly progress posts, Conny. I think I'm going to incorporate something like that into my plan!"Happy to be an inspiration :)
10/1/2020Reading Der Novembermörder (Detective Inspector Huss)
20th entry on my GoodReads TBR list
PROGRESS: 38/52
Love your list! It looks like you are on track this year!
Joan wrote: "Love your list! It looks like you are on track this year!"Thanks for the cheers :)
10/27/2020Reading Fjorgaar - Der rote Vogel
I've knocked off a few books of the PopSugar list and now I need to get a move on for the ATY :D
PROGRESS: 42/52
With two months left in the year, I have 10 prompts left for the ATY and 8 for PopSugar. That's eighteen books in total to read until December 31, and even though I'm fast and it should be doable for me, I am not quite sure if I'll be able to meet that goal.I have decided to power through the PS challenge first, mainly because I've been doing it longer and it somehow feels right to give it precedence, but also because the books I have slotted for it include a few quicker reads which will hopefully free up some more reading time for me toward the end. I may also swap a few pending books out against shorter ones from my TBR, just to take the edge off. I like the challenge aspect, but I don't want to rush through it and forget about the actual point: the enjoyment of reading.
I have temporarily lowered my reading goal for the ATY to 45 prompts but will still try to make it all the way to the end!
PopSugar is finished and I'm back^^ Let's see if I'll manage to power through the remaining eight books in the next five weeks!11/26/2020
Reading River Road
PROGRESS: 45/45(52)
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Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch (other topics)The Goldfinch (other topics)
Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch (other topics)
Hyperion (other topics)
Helltown (other topics)
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My own rules: This time I will allow re-reads and cross-challenge double-dipping (i. e. counting the same book for both challenges), although I will try to keep the former to a reasonable minimum (except for my planned Dark Tower series re-read) and avoid the latter if at all possible. Also, I will start by pledging only the categories I can fill from my TBR, leaving the unpopulated ones out for now. That may change, of course, as the year progresses and my TBR grows once again.
Around the Year in 52 Books: Conny's 2020 Challenge
✓ 1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Requiem
✓ 2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
Kartiks Schicksal (The Sweet Far Thing; literally, "Kartik's Fate")
✓ 3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
Ritus ("Rite"; not published in English)
✓ 4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
The Regulators
✓ 5. The first book in a series that you have not started
Der geheime Zirkel I - Gemmas Visionen (A Great and Terrible Beauty; literally, "Gemma's Visions")
✓ 6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
The Last Survivor
✓ 7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
The Agatha Christie Book Club (Popsugar double dip)
✓ 8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
The Reunion
✓ 9. A book that can be read in a day
Where We Land
✓ 10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
Altered Carbon
✓ 11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
Lucas (2003)
✓ 12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
Abaddon's Gate
✓ 13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
A book you have owned, but not read, for more than a year:
Das Wispern der Angst (literally, "The Whisper of Fear"; not published in English)
✓ 14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
Troubled Blood
✓ 15. A book set in a global city
Der Rache süßer Klang (Nothing To Fear; literally, "The Sweet Sound of Revenge")
✓ 16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
Ruth's First Christmas Tree
✓ 17. A book with a neurodiverse character
The Institute
✓ 18. A book by an author you've only read once before
River Road
✓ 19. A fantasy book
Fjorgaar - Der rote Vogel (literally, "Fjorgaar: The Red Bird"; not published in English)
✓ 20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
Der Novembermörder
✓ 21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720
Hyperion
✓ 22. A book with the major theme of survival
The Long Walk
✓ 23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
What If It's Us
✓ 24. A book with an emotion in the title
Heidezorn (roughly, "Rage on the Moors"; not published in English)
✓ 25. A book related to the arts
Sturmflut: Ein Sylt-Krimi ("Storm Surge", not published in English; set during a poetry festival)
✓ 26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
✓ 27. A history or historical fiction
Ross Poldark
✓ 28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
What Alice Forgot
✓ 29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
The Lost Plot
✓ 30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
The Fifth Season
✓ 31. A book inspired by a leading news story
The Hate U Give (Popsugar double dip)
✓ 32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
Afterdark (Popsugar double dip)
✓ 33. A book about a non-traditional family
Drei (The Drawing of the Three; Popsugar double dip)
✓ 34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
Romance: At Any Price
✓ 35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
Helltown
✓ 36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
Dollhouse
✓ 37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
Heiss glüht mein Hass (Count to Ten; literally, "My Hate Burns Hot")
✓ 38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
Cold Light of Day
✓ 39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
Judas Goat
✓ 40. A book with a place name in the title
Ninth and Nowhere
✓ 41. A mystery
Die Suche (literally, "The Search"; not published in English)
✓ 42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
The Goldfinch
✓ 43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Die Seuche Gottes (Critical; literally, "The Plague of God" => Pestilence)
✓ 44. A book related to witches
Flieh, Hexe, Flieh!: Unheimlicher Roman (Burn, Witch, Burn!)
✓ 45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
Two Can Keep a Secret
✓ 46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
So Many Steps to Death (Cold War era)
✓ 47. A classic book you've always meant to read
Frankenstein
✓ 48. A book published in 2020
VANITAS - Grau wie Asche
✓ 49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
A book involving geology or earth science:
Deep Storm
✓ 50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch
✓ 51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
Dead Woman Walking
✓ 52. A book related to time
The Time Machine (Popsugar double dip)