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I realized that I never answered to you, Rosemarie. Thank you! :)January already passed by and I did start my reading year fairly good. I managed to read 6 book even though I was fairly busy with work.
1 Loki: Where Mischief Lies
2 Durarara!!, Vol. 11
3 Heartstopper: Volume One
4 Inferno
5 Miracle on Cherry Hill
6 Magpie Murders
I'm not sure if I'll be continuing Heartstopper as the art style isn't really mine and the story wasn't special enough to bear with that just to continue. But maybe I will once I got through my tbr piles or feel like I need smth light.
I’m watching Durarara and quite enjoying it. How’s the manga?
I'm actually reading the Light Novel which is a mixture between book and manga. It's really good. Simply written (of course the English translation is a tiny bit weird once in a while as it's simply difficult to translate everything perfectly from Japanese - but my Japanese is by far not good enough yet to be able to read it in it's original state). If you enjoy the anime, Susy, I highly recommend you the Light Novel :)
Finally taking some time to update this thread. I think I'm not the only one with a negatively affected reading pace, but I definitely plan on reading a bit more again this month than the ones before. Here is what I have been reading:February
Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise
Crazy Rich Asians
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Red Threads of Fortune
The Descent of Monsters
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
March
Lair of Dreams
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
Little Women
It's been a while since I updated this thread and I'm definitely doing less participation in this group as I expected, but at least I'm doing fairly good with my TBR pile. Here is what I read the last 3 months:April
Durarara!!, Vol. 12
Children of Blood and Bone
Other Words for Home
Das Gold der Krähen
Haikyu!!, Vol. 36
May
Haikyu!!, Vol. 37
Haikyu!!, Vol. 38
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Blue Exorcist, Vol. 23
Durarara!!, Vol. 13
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
The Librarian of Auschwitz
The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping
June
Das Lied von Vogel und Schlange
Little Fires Everywhere
Ramona Blue
Bibliotheca Mystica - Luxury Edition
I also have so far read a bit more than 500 pages of Les Misérables so this year could be the year I'm finally accomplishing my new year's resolutions for once :D
Decided to pop in and update this a bit as another two months already have passed and they have been rather strong ones for me reading wise :) I took some time to reread the Chronicles of Narnia as I felt like that was the right thing to do after making a huge dent into my physical tbr pile. I also reread The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness as it's been the 5 yr "anniversary" of my diagnosis of depression and this book helped me a lot cooping with this new reality I had to face back then.July
Before the Devil Breaks You
This Monstrous Thing
The Sun and Her Flowers
Norwegian Wood
The Wind in the Willows
The Dead Fathers Club
Der König von Narnia
Prinz Kaspian von Narnia
Die Reise auf der Morgenröte
Der silberne Sessel
Der Ritt nach Narnia
Das Wunder von Narnia
August
Der letzte Kampf
Auf den Schwingen des Adlers
The Samurai's Garden
Bridge of Clay
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Newcomer
Scythe
Treasure Island
Currently Reading The Midnight Library by Matt Haig after attending his online event at Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday. (If anybody is longing for bookish events - the Edinburgh Book Festival has all it's events on a replay option this year as it's been held online due to obvious reasons. It's all free of charge and available on their website :) )
I thought I'd drop by and do one final update. I still am in the middle of two books which I'll include here as I'm definitely going to finish them before the end of the year. This year has been going great in terms of reading. Out of the 3 challenges I set myself I completed 2 and missed on the 3rd one by 1 book. I narrowed down my physical tbr from 76 books to 40 books starting into 2021 (& approx. half of those 40 books are bought this year). I really did manage to get a huge dent into my pile of owned, but unread books. I also set myself an unofficial goal of doing 10 out of the 12 genres of the genre challenge and ended up accomplishing 11.Here are the last 4 months in a short overview:
September
With the Fire on High
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Circe
Lock Every Door
The Time Machine
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
October
Burn
Pachinko
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 7
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 8
The Girl in Red
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Dracula
Middlegame
Unter der Mitternachtssonne
November
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Starless Sea
Thron aus Gold und Asche
December
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
On the Horizon
They Called Us Enemy
Les Miserables
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
The Kite Runner
Descendant of the Crane
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General Goals for 2020
[] Read at least 55 books from this shelf
[x] Read Les Misérables (finally)
[x] Read some new/hardly read genres (comic books, poetry, high fantasy, non fiction, classics...)
Book & page count per month
(view spoiler)[January: 6 books | 2'205 pages
February: 6 books | 1'478 pages
March: 3 books | 1'453 pages
April: 5 books | 1'843 pages
May: 8 books | 2'090 pages
June: 4 books | 2'224 pages
July: 11 books | 3'105 pages
August: 9 books | 2'991 pages
September: 7 books | 1'992 pages
October: 9 books | 3'633 pages
November: 3 books | 1'338 pages
December: 8 books | 2'765 pages
Total: 79 books | 27'099 pages
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