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Next Month's Reading Plans - 2021
I'm having a hard time getting used to your new pic Janice. I've never seen your hair so dark 😆
I have no idea what my reading plans are for January. I have a lot of books on hold at the library and I keep adding books to my list, but it's already more than I'll be able to read. I may just make a list and mood read whatever I can off of it.
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JANUARY 2021
YLTO! GROUP READ ~ ✔️🎧Blackberry & Wild Rose 9 Jan
YLTO! GROUP CHALLENGE ~ ✔️🎧Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 18 Jan
NEW YEAR'S PARTY
✔️🎧
1 Jan🎉Nice to see you! - ...has glasses on the cover
UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️☯🎧🎧The Story of Arthur Truluv 18 Jan
✔️☯🎧 Hatchet 2 Jan
✔️☯🎧Gold Medal Summer 14 Jan
✔️☯🎧 Say That Again 11 Jan
✔️☯🎧Ghost 21 Jan
✔️🎧Interior Chinatown 28 Jan
GET A ROOM
✔️☯🌈✂🎧The Feast of Love 16 Jan
✔️🌴Still Life with Woodpecker 16 Jan
✔️☯🎧 Transcendence 31 Jan
SIGH-PHAN
✔️☯🌈🎧Reign of the Fallen 7 Jan
✔️☯🦅🎧Before the Coffee Gets Cold 5 Jan
✔️☯🎧The City of Brass 4 Jan
✔️🎧The Bird and the Sword 19 Jan
✔️🔥 The Fur Person 20 Jan
✔️🐾🎧The New Wilderness 12 Jan
✔️🎧The Subtle Knife 26 Jan
✔️☯🎧 Small Favor 19 Jan
✔️☯🎧The Watchmaker's Daughter 21 Jan
✔️🎧Fortune Favors the Cruel 3 Jan
✔️🎧Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance 31 Jan
☯🎧The Broken Raven
☯🦅🎧🎧Haroun and the Sea of Stories
☯🦅✂🌴Thus Were Their Faces
☯🦅🎧🎧Code of Honor
☯🦅Romanov
☯🎧Piranesi
☯🎧The Lace Reader
The Good Hawk
🎧The Ring of Solomon
🎧Peace Talks
☯🎧A Kiss Before the Apocalypse
PACKING HEAT
✔️☯🐾🎧Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race 25 Jan
✔️☯🐾🎧This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor 5 Jan
✔️☯🎧 Free Lunch 30 Jan
🐾🎧🎧Feuding Fan Dancers: Faith Bacon, Sally Rand, & the Golden Age of the Showgirl
☯🐾🎧The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️🎧The Silent Corner 23 Jan
✔️🎧The Whispering Room 24 Jan
✔️☯🎧Nightwing 20 Jan
✔️🎧Guilty Pleasures 2 Jan
HISSY FIC
✔️☯🐾🎧🎧The Last Nude 7 Jan
✔️🐾🎧The Signature of All Things 22 Jan
☯🎧The Gift Of Rain
☯🌴The Mask of Ra
☯🎧🎧Rhino Ranch
🦅🎧🎧Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet
☯🎧 Mudbound
✔️☯🦅🎧Fifty Words for Rain 6 Jan
✔️🎧Such a Fun Age 8 Jan
✔️☯🎧War Horse 6 Jan
✔️☯🎧Wild Rover No More:
Being the Last Recorded Account of the Life & Times of Jacky Faber 10 Jan
✔️☯🎧Whiskey River 17 Jan
GEEZER LIT
✔️☯🎧Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan: A Novel of a Life in Art 17 Jan
✔️🎧Miss Julia Takes the Wheel 12 Jan
DYING TO READ
✔️☯🔥The Janus Stone 10 Jan
✔️☯🔥A Jade In Aries 23 Jan
✔️🎧 Where All Light Tends to Go 24 Jan
✔️☯🎧 The Man in the Crooked Hat 26 Jan
✔️🎧Wiseguy 27 Jan
✔️🎧Four to Score 11 Jan
✔️☯🎧🎧The Face of a Stranger 14 Jan
✔️☯🦅🎧The Searcher 13 Jan
✔️☯🎧The Twisted Root 8 Jan
✔️☯🎧The Company of Cats 28 Jan
✔️🎧A Rule Against Murder 29 Jan
✔️🎧Quarry in the Middle 29 Jan
✔️🎧 Scarecrow Returns 30 Jan
🎧🎧Painted Veil
☯🎧Details at 10
☯🎧The Raven in the Foregate
🌴The Corset
🔥In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: The Complete Black Room Story
✂🎧🎧Hardly Knew Her
🎧The Daughter of Time
🌴Hail to the Chef
ABOUT BOOKS
✔️🎧The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books 15 Jan
IN A LAND FAR FAR AWAY
✔️☯🦅🐾🌴I Get on the Bus 25 Jan
MYSTERY, CRIME, THRILLER GROUP READ
✔️🎧The Jealous Kind 4 Jan
EVERYONE HAS READ THIS BUT ME
✔️🎧☯🐾The Bell Jar 27 Jan
I don't have a complete list, but I want to start the year with something heavy, like Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan 💪😤
Margo wrote: "I'm having a hard time getting used to your new pic Janice. I've never seen your hair so dark 😆"It's been many years since it's been that dark. My hair gets lighter all the time though my hairdresser is using the same colour. She said the difference is the natural colour underneath. I'm not ready to find out what colour that is. LOL!
Unfortunately I am being brought back to the reality of my natural hair colour quite frequently this year as they keep shutting down our hair dressers!
Margo wrote: "Unfortunately I am being brought back to the reality of my natural hair colour quite frequently this year as they keep shutting down our hair dressers!"I gave up on the hairdresser a while ago. I was due to go when we shut down, then my hairdresser was anti-mask, so I wouldn't go. I found a new hairdresser, but haven't been yet. I figure at this point I might as well wait for the vaccine to be started and for us to be at least heading towards less cases. I haven't been since January, so I think I'll end up cutting off all the color and just go back to my regular hair, at least for a while. I'm just pretending the white is blonde highlights. Really, really light blonde. lol
Mine snuck me in last week, just days before the latest shutdown went into effect.
My list for JanuaryYearly 3/Buddy read (Jan 4)- Murder of Crows
Yearly 4/Buddy read- Reliquary
Yearly 4/Buddy read- The Shadow of the Wind
Yearly 1/Theme reads- Black Rose
Monthly challenge-TBA
Yearly 3- Stranded
Yearly 3- The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince
Yearly 3- Cough
Yearly 2- Summer of the Loon
Yearly 5- Dead Girl Running
Christina wrote: "My list for JanuaryYearly 3/Buddy read (Jan 4)- Murder of Crows
Yearly 4/Buddy read- Reliquary
Yearly 4/Buddy read- The Shadow of the Wind
Yearly 1/Theme ..."
Great start on the yearly challenge.
I'm trying to 'plan' my reading for next months, but I'm not much a planner.I participate in different challenges from different groups and I was wondering how you keep track of things. Do you keep an Excell - sheet with the challenges and the books needed or do you write it down in a note book?
There are a few ways to do it, Saar. The trick is finding what works for you. I have several things that work in conjunction. I know a lot of people like spreadsheets. I have one for my books for review only. I use it mostly to keep track of things that I don't normally think about with other books, such as publication dates, publishers, when I review the book, etc. I don't tend to use spreadsheets for a lot, but I do find it helpful for reviewing purposes.
For challenges, I actually have my own private group. It is set as secret so no one else can find it or join. I just copy my challenges over into the threads in that group. I also use that space for planning topplers and other challenges.
Even just having a word document could help if that works for you. That's how I started.
I'm like Kristie in that I use a couple of different things.I plan my challenges on a spreadsheet. My Museum Spreadsheet
I also have a private group where I track things like series, new releases, and where I write the annual challenges so that I can copy and paste them quickly into this group when they go live.
The other thing I use is Evernote where I plan my monthly reads. It's more a checklist of what activities I want to include. Here's December's:
Each month:
[]1 Year Long -
[]1 Year Long -
[]1 Year Long -
[x]1 Monthly Challenge - Mexican Gothic
[x]1 Group Read - Night Broken
[x]2020 Published - Mexican Gothic
[x]Series - Blood of Dragons
[]TBR Print - Death in August
[]TBR Audiobook - Farthing
[] Syndicate - Remember Us
Thanks for the input, Kristie and Janice. You've put a lot of work into your spreadsheet, Janice.I think I'll start with a word document first. Just a bit of brainstorming and when I've found the thing that works for me, I might use a spreadsheet. It will be a good exercise for me to work with Excell - sheets.
I like your spreadsheet, Janice. I don't have markings on my list for books that are used in multiple tasks. That's a great idea. I also add whether I own a book or it's from the library, etc., but I add the number of pages or audio length to mine too.
* One Monthly Challenge* One Yearly Challenge Read
* One Yearly Challenge Read
*One Yearly Challenge Read
*One Bookclub Sisterhood Read
*One Judge a Book by its Color Read
*One Words and Wanderlust Read
*One Tift Bookclub Read
*One 2021 New Year’s Challenge Read
* The Coldest Night
*A Beautiful Mess
It’s a start!
I think I'm going to list up all the challenges from the different groups that I'm planning on doing. Maybe I have around 20 or so that I've signed up for allready. I think I'll need a lot of paper :)
For tracking what books I have read I use a spreadsheet made by Portal in the Pages (from youtube she puts a link in the description of the unveiling video). She puts a new spreadsheet out every January and it tracks all kinds of book things and makes nice graphs :) Here's a link to the 2020 versionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYm5o...
Then I make a separate spreadsheet just for challenges so I can go between pages and see what tasks can be crossovers.
This year I am trying something new too. BookRiot has a paper book journal that I am trying out next year. When we were all locked down in the spring I got myself a bunch of bullet journal supplies
Kristie wrote: "For challenges, I actually have my own private group. It is set as secret so no one else can find it or join. I just copy my challenges over into the threads in that group...."Hey Kristie when you wrote that you have your own private group for challenge threads do you mean here in GoodReads?
Jayme wrote: "Kristie wrote: "For challenges, I actually have my own private group. It is set as secret so no one else can find it or join. I just copy my challenges over into the threads in that group...."Hey..."
Yes. I have a group called Kristie's challenges set to private. I have a folder for challenges that I'm working on, another for topplers I create, another for challenges I create in another group. I even have a folder for completed challenges so once I complete a challenge I can move it out of my active challenges folder. I find it very helpful.
If you want to try it, you just go to the Goodreads groups page and on the right side of the page click on "Create a group." When you create the group it will explain all the different privacy options available. I chose the most private one so that my group doesn't show up in searches and no one can request to join.
Kristie wrote: "Jayme wrote: "Kristie wrote: "For challenges, I actually have my own private group. It is set as secret so no one else can find it or join. I just copy my challenges over into the threads in that g..."........
Yes. I have a group called Kristie's challenges set to private. I have a folder for challenges that I'm working on, another for topplers I create, another for challenges I create in another group. I even have a folder for completed challenges so once I complete a challenge I can move it out of my active challenges folder. I find it very helpful.
I have something similar, although it is created in a YLTO! folder, even though not all challenges have been set by YLTO! moderators.
In addition to YLTO! activities, there are topics for additional challenges.
I have set many personal challenges based on my group Challenge Yourself. Links to the progress of all these challenges are included in my YLTO! Next Month's Reading Plans
In the YLTO! Member Zone, i have listed all Goodreads activity eg: Almeta's 2021 Reading Goals. This includes both YLTO! and all my other group challenges in one place.
I consider this group as my "home", it is where I go when I log in. I don't mind my plans being viewable by YLTO! members. I enjoy our discussions most.
WARNING!!! If you make your plans public and use a spot for brainstorming....
Janice and Sarah will peek and question you immediately. They don't miss a trick!☺
Having a personal group is brilliant, and will definitely have to keep it in mind, but I think that I am still doing pretty good with my thread in the members folder. I just keep editing the first message with current info, then moving the completion info to a new message at the end of every month because it is kind of cool to have a record of my reading - fun to look back on what I read, and why lolI also use an excel spreadsheet for big plans, I find it easier for building big lists and moving things around (and it’s color coded lol).
Kristie wrote: "Jayme wrote: "Kristie wrote: "For challenges, I actually have my own private group. It is set as secret so no one else can find it or join. I just copy my challenges over into the threads in that g..."Thanks for the info. I think I'll play around with it after Christmas. I have all these Goodread tabs bookmarked and it might clear some space. :)
Jayme wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Jayme wrote: "Kristie wrote: "For challenges, I actually have my own private group. It is set as secret so no one else can find it or join. I just copy my challenges over into the t..."Another suggestion if you don't quite need or want a private group is to set up a thread in the member zone (as others have mentioned) and you can add links to your challenges there too. That way you don't need to keep all the bookmarks. I also have a thread there, but don't post everything.
Kristie wrote: "Jayme wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Jayme wrote: "Kristie wrote: "For challenges, I actually have my own private group. It is set as secret so no one else can find it or join. I just copy my challenges o..."That's a great idea. That might work better for my needs.
My over ambitious January 2021 plan:Audiobooks:
The Heiress of Linn Hagh, Jan 1st, YLTO New Year Party
Loyalty in Death, MC
Witness in Death, MC
Fire Touched, Series, MC
The Broken Raven, New Release
The Sin Eater's Daughter, TBR
Book/eBook:
Wolfking, Monthly Challenge
LaRose, Group Themed Read
The Hungering Saga Complete, TBR
The City of Brass, Buddy Read after Jan 25
Thanks to you guys I've finally made my private group 😂 I have 2 threads in Member Zone and not planning to add more (for now) cause I'm afraid I'll forget the older ones. I also made my spreadsheets recently but excel is not my best buddy and I'm more into mobile so editing on phone is kinda troublesome. And I track my books on my somNote as well but some entries are gone when I reset my phone. So the private group is my new hope.My January reading plan will be:
Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan (annual)
The Miserable Mill (new year)
The Borrowers (monthly)
and maybe
Snow & Rose (group read)
Janice wrote: "My over ambitious January 2021 plan:Audiobooks:....."
I've stolen your The Broken Raven for possible museum read.
Of course I will have to read The Good Hawk first. Glad you gave it a glowing review.
I've been eagerly awaiting the second book. Which task were you thinking of using it in?
Janice wrote: "I've been eagerly awaiting the second book. Which task were you thinking of using it in?"Museum 9
3. Collection - Read a book with a raven(s) on the cover or in the title.
Ahhh! Good one. I have Find Me for that task, but I plan on reading The Broken Raven for January and I will likely slot it in that spot. First read; first reported.
I just swapped it out. I had Museum 9 slotted for badge 2, but since I'm reading 2 books on it in January, I've moved it to Badge 1.
Janice wrote: "Ahhh! Good one. I have Find Me for that task, but I plan on reading The Broken Raven for January and I will likely slot it in that spot. First read; first reported."No Fair!! Now I've added that one too. That's 3 books already.☻
I have Find Me slotted for that task as well, but not for January. I already have more books than I can read planned for January. My hopefuls: January Plans:
Reliquary - buddy read
If It Bleeds - GCABC group read
Reviews:
Prodigal Son
A Caller's Game
The Wife Upstairs
The Unwilling
RL book clubs:
Pachinko (NN)
January challenge: New Beginnings
Across the Green Grass Fields - passage on cover, door theme, transition to new place, end one life / begin another, duality - two worlds
January theme: Rose
The Good Sister
Maybe from library:
I have at lest 8 books that will likely become available in January. I will probably try to postpone all my holds due to how many books I already plan to read. I'll update below if that changes.
Special New Year's event: Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021!!
Come Tumbling Down - Jan 1
Unplanned:
My January PlansTheme read Roses The Once and Future Witches
This came from the library and I was pleasantly surprised it had roses on the coverNew Beginnings The Wife Upstairs
Buddy read/Museum 1 The City of Brass
New Year’s Party and Museum 7 Perestroika in Paris
If time but may bleed over to next month
Museum 7 The Silkworm
Just because: To be determined
Jan 1-3 is going to be my own personal readathon as I put a bunch of books (with different availabilities!!!) on hold and I have like 6 of them that came in and I have more on hold or that I have adjusted the holds. They are all for 2021 challenges so I can't start any of them yet and I go back to work on the 4th so I will have to get as much listening done as possible that weekend!So I'll be starting the year with these that are already checked out and just staring at me everyday waiting for the 1st:
The Night Diary (New Year's Party and Museum 11)
The Secret Scripture (Museum 1)
A Long Petal of the Sea (Museum 2)
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Museum 1)
Akata Warrior (Museum 1) and
The Only Good Indians (Museum 24)
Then I have these coming up in the first weeks of Jan from the library too
Mexican Gothic (Museum 16)
What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism (Museum 21)
The City of Brass (Buddy read and Museum 22)
A Blade So Black (Museum 3) and
Fatal Throne (Museum 3)
I have some books from my audible library if I manage to get through all those.
Oof! It's going to be a busy 3 days for you Katrisa.
Janice wrote: "Oof! It's going to be a busy 3 days for you Katrisa."Ya, I am hoping to finish 3 1/2 of the 6 books I have checked out right now during that weekend and think then I can finish the rest of them in time before they take them away again!
That's where overzealous gophering gets me! :)
Oh that is a lot, Katrisa! Good luck getting them all read on time. I have a bunch of holds that I had to postpone because they keep coming in all at once and I can't finish them all. I currently have 8 that I expect to become available in January and my January is already full. There is just never enough reading time for all the people & places I want to visit.
I think I'm taking it easy for next month:Museum 1: Broken Pride
Museum 4: I Am a Cat
Museum 10: De kraamhulp
Kristie wrote: "Oh that is a lot, Katrisa! Good luck getting them all read on time. I have a bunch of holds that I had to postpone because they keep coming in all at once and I can't finish them all. I currently h..."I have always wished for a clone I could just have reading all day. But you would have to have some way to sync up your brains or the clone wouldn't do any good
Janice wrote: "Ahhh! Good one. I have Find Me for that task, but I plan on reading The Broken Raven for January and I will likely slot it in that spot. First read; first reported."Oh, I just saw that cover somewhere. I had a couple of other books slotted, but I have added this one too. Thanks!
Katrisa wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Oh that is a lot, Katrisa! Good luck getting them all read on time. I have a bunch of holds that I had to postpone because they keep coming in all at once and I can't finish them al..."Yes! I've been wanting that too! A clone to go to work, to do the household...Made me think of a movie: 'Multiplicity', I think it was.
The lady who makes the reading tracker spreadsheet I use just came out with the 2021 version. Here is a link if you guys want to try it outhttps://youtu.be/RNJYGnGjD7Q
Katrisa wrote: "The lady who makes the reading tracker spreadsheet I use just came out with the 2021 version. Here is a link if you guys want to try it out
https://youtu.be/RNJYGnGjD7Q"
I just saw this too! Getting ready to take a look.
https://youtu.be/RNJYGnGjD7Q"
I just saw this too! Getting ready to take a look.
Katrisa wrote: "The lady who makes the reading tracker spreadsheet I use just came out with the 2021 version. Here is a link if you guys want to try it outhttps://youtu.be/RNJYGnGjD7Q"
I'll have to check this out. Thanks for sharing.
Although it is only Jan 17th, I feel like I should be planning February. I'm getting ahead of myself.
Janice wrote: "Although it is only Jan 17th, I feel like I should be planning February. I'm getting ahead of myself."I feel the same. My January predictions are way off from reality! I need to move so many books to future months.
An over eager gophering beginning!
me too Almeta... plus I kept adding books and audio after the month started. So much for sticking to a game plan.
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