Devour Your TBR discussion

Want to participate in January Jam Jar? You're in the right place!

Simply post your reading progress here! You can also post the beginning contents of your jar, if you'd like!



When you progress in your TBR, you can update your original comment, add a comment stating your progress, or preferably, BOTH! Whether you've just started a new read, finished a book, or just want to share some thoughts, have at it!

If you'd like to update your original TBR comment as you progress, you can strike through the titles, add (READ) to the line, or whatever else you like. Feel free to add more to your TBR as the month progresses!

I’m in!!

January Jam Jar
A ​Sky Beyond the Storm → FINISHED
A Curse So Dark and Lonely → FINISHED
Shadow and Bone → Currently Reading
Dune → FINISHED
The Count of Monte Cristo - audio → currently listening to

TBR left fitting the challenge:
⫸ A Court of Frost and Starlight

⫸ You're Never Weird on the Internet

⫸ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

⫸ Scrappy Little Nobody

⫸ The God Delusion

⫸ Havenfall

⫸ A Curse So Dark and Lonely

⫸ It Only Happens in the Movies

⫸ Assassin's Apprentice

⫸ Stalking Jack the Ripper

⫸ Nature's Way: Native Wisdom for Living in Balance with the Earth

⫸ A Natural History of Dragons


READ for the challenge:

1. A Court of Wings and Ruin

2. A Deadly Education

3. Ready Player Two

4. Lord of Shadows

5. The Nightingale

I'm so proud of myself I gotten some of my TBRs knocked down from early 2020 that I haven't gotten to. I already got books lined up for next month as well lol.

Finished Reads:

I'm so excited for this year and I'll try to read at least one book that I choose every month! It'll be books that I've had on my shelves since 2020 and not new books, review copies and arcs - only books that I've bought my own.

I'll put all of my unread books in a jar, and then pick from it. I'll update here when I'm currently reading something or which book I choose - and of course when I finished it.

I can't wait for 2020 to be over and hopefully 2021 will be full of love and a better world.

Currently reading:
You Should See Me in a Crown

Finished:

Other books I finished that wasn't from the jar
Bärarna
Pojken från skogen
Midnattsbiblioteket

My main reading goal is to read books already on my shelf. Another challenge I'm working on is to do NO uncessary spending and sadly books are off limits this year. I'll use the library to fill that need. Just have to learn to manage it. So frustrating when all the holds come in at once!

January TBR:
This Is How I Lied
The Sister
No Exit
The Silence of the Lambs

Jennifer wrote: "I can't wait for 2020 to be over and hopefully 2021 will be full of love and a better world."

HEAR, HEAR! Lol!

So I've got a readathon for half of January and into February, so some of these prompts fit that too, but I managed to pick a couple out of my pot/jar.

- The Road to Avalon (reread)
- Black Beauty (reread)
- Venom
- Scarlet
- An Echo of Things to Come
- Strange the Dreamer
- Page
- The Scorpio Races (reread)

I´ll give this challenge another go, let's see how many months I last this time 😅
All books will be pick from my tbr 2021 shelf

READ:



READ, ON TBR, BUT NOT ON SHELF:

Now that my life is back to some semblance of normal, I can finally participate in these again haha. I'll post my TBR on the 1st!

I've been planning January reading. I did the Book Riot questionnaire to pick "first book of 2021" and that is Persephone Station, which I own as a latter-year 2020 NetGalley ARC!
And for First Fantasy of 2021 (cause I don't read enough/not much Fantasy), The Priory of the Orange Tree in a Buddy Read at 75 Books!

Here are the other options for January, which I will Randomize online:

SF:
PERSEPHONE STATION Mount TBR
1-4 MURDERBOT DIARIES Mount TBR
THE FIRST SISTER VIRTUAL SCRIBD
CULTURE SERIES 1-7 some Mount TBR
ARTEMIS Mount TBR
THE MARTIAN Mount TBR
HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER Dec. 29 Mount TBR
HOLDOUT NG ARC
DEAD ASTRONAUTS Mount TBR
THE VISITOR VIRTUAL KU
3 by Ester Lopez NG ARC Mount TBR
Beyond Aquila Rift NG ARC Mount TBR
Reach for Infinity NG ARC Mount TBR
Ten Years of Darkness NG ARC
Folder NG ARC
FALL TO EARTH own Mount TBR
SUPERNOVA Cixin Liu
CHAOS VECTOR
LIBERTY. SF. DEC. 30
FANTASY:
PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE Mount TBR
THE BONE SEASON SERIES 1-?4 Scribd Virtual
Other:
THE WOODS

Randomized:
List Randomizer
There were 24 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

THE FIRST SISTER VIRTUAL
Beyond Aquila Rift
THE MARTIAN
PERSEPHONE STATION
PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE
LIBERTY
ARTEMIS
HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER
Reach for Infinity
CULTURE SERIES 1-7
THE WOODS
HOLDOUT
Ten Years of Darkness
SUPERNOVA
THE VISITOR
3 by Ester Lopez
CHAOS VECTOR
MURDERBOT DIARIES 1-4
THE BONE SEASON SERIES 1-4
FALL TO EARTH
DEAD ASTRONAUTS
Folder

January Reads:
Persephone Station
The Last Evolution
Hawk Hallow
Read: Grumpy Sandra And The Horrible Day: The Book About Unconditional And Forgiving Parental Love As A Way To Help Children Handle Their Big Feelings
The Monster of Lake LaMetrie
The Conspiracy: A Superb Roller-Coaster Thriller With A Terrific Twist
The Conspiracy II: Searching for The Truth in Washington D.C.
A Fall of Woodcocks
I Wish You Happiness
Zenith Man
Terror in the Shadows Vol. 12: Horror Short Stories Collection with Scary Ghosts, Paranormal & Supernatural Monsters
It Happened in Silence
Quantum (from August 2018, because sequel releases 12 January)
Sin's Judgment: Supernatural Horror with Scary Ghosts & Haunted Houses
In Darkness, Shadows Breathe
Livid Skies
The Great Escape
Dreidel To The Grave
THE FORGOTTEN: Gods and Monsters applying for permanent residency in Canada
Spin
Across a Billion Years Mount TBR
The Last Astronaut Mount TBR NG
Articulated Restraintnew to me SF
Beyond the Dragon's Gatenew to me SF
Salvation Day Mount TBR
The Time Invariance of Snow
Little Free Library
This World is Full of Monsters
The Woman in the Woods
Memory Dungeon
Ruby Holloway Reads After Dark: A Novel
Wait for Night
The Scavenger
book:Haunting at the Captiva Hotel|56046400]
Night Terrors Vol. 9: Short Horror Stories Anthology
The Variable Man
Dreamy Outer Space: Where Sky's NOT The Limit
The Haunting of Whitecrest Estate: A Riveting Haunted House Mystery
Proxima

The Echo Wife
Ladies of the Secret Circus
The Lost Apothecary

In!

The Familiars
The Runaway Princess (finished)
The Women at Hitler’s Table

Hopefully I'll be able to complete at least half of these. (:

Legendborn
The Midnight Lie
The Gilded Wolves
Incendiary
The Song of Achilles
Among the Beasts & Briars (finish)
These Violent Delights
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
Furyborn
The House of Hades (finish)
We Hunt the Flame
Lovely War
Cursed
Where Dreams Descend
Crownchasers
The Fascinators

Ok so I'll actually be participating in a friend's readathon as well, so I already have my tbr for January planned out!!!

We Rule the Night

Stuart Little

An Enchantment of Ravens

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children

Part of Your World

Straight On Till Morning

Unbirthday

Edit: Wow I've been so bad at updating in here, I'm sorry about that y'all

January Jam Jar 2021
(Books/authors will be linked when read)

This is the first of some books that I wanted to read in 2020:

Slay Bells Ring Mona Marple 1/1/21

I like the pulling out of a container idea, so I'm going to put these titles all in a bowl (sorry, no jar, lol) and draw when I want to read one:

Eggnog, Extortion and Evergreen Tonya Kappes 1/17/21
Grounds for Murder Tara Lush 1/9/21
A Murder Between the Pages Amy Lillard 1/19/21
A Deadly Edition Victoria Gilbert 1/12/21
Rhubarb Pie Before You Die Gin Jones 1/15/21

I still want to read these from 2020 too:
A Catered Book Club Murder Isis Crawford 1/23/21
Bait and Witch Angela M. Sanders 1/21/21
A Wicked Yarn Emmie Caldwell 1/7/21

The titles that'll be in the jar (or bowl, in my case) are:

- The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
- Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
- Reverie by Ryan La Sala
- Working on a Song: The Lyrics of HADESTOWN by Anais Mitchell
- When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

Others (including stuff that might come from the library) are:

- An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena
- Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

I have some books to read for challenges in other groups so that will be my Jan list I think!

The Book Collectors of Daraya by Delphine Minoui
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku Review Here
City of Crows by Chris Womersley
Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh
Allegra in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel
House of Dragons by Jessica Cluess Review Here
The Queen’s Rising by Rebecca Ross
The Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning
A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

January TBR:

1. Tsuredure children Volumes 1-12
2. Ruby and Olivia
3. Prince Caspian

Goodluck to everyone else ☺️

Currently reading:
Compulsion - FINISHED
Proven Guilty - FINISHED
Anne of the Island - FINISHED
Shadow of Night - FINISHED

Going into the jam jar are the books I didn't finish in 2020:
White Night
Anne of Windy Poplars - FINISHED
Anne's House of Dreams - FINISHED
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Sword and Sorceress XI - FINISHED
Killer Dreams
Silver Phoenix
On a Pale Horse
Bearing an Hourglass
With a Tangled Skein
Bringing Up Boys
Falling Kingdoms
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze

This challenge is super interesting!!! I'll be updating my list as and when I pick up a book and finish reading it. My TBR for this month or rather say the January Jam Jar is a pretty huge one - basically all my arcs that I have yet to read!

Books:
Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada (read)

This year, my goal is to read books almost exclusively from my large TBR shelf. To start things off right here is a list of the books I will be tackling this month:

-The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson
-The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
-Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
-How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
-A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
-Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

🥳 My January TBR: 🎉

1. Tender is the Flesh - ⭐️⭐️
2. In the miso soup - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. The Nesting - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. Brother - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
5. The story of a new name - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
6. Those who leave and those who stay - Currently Reading
7. Burn our bodies down - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
8. Deal with the elf king - ⭐️⭐️
9. The haunting of Brynn Wilder - ⭐️
10. Layla - ⭐️⭐️

I'm drawing out of my jar and posting my reads as I go!
Seizure DNF
The Falling in Love Montage READ
A Heart in a Body in the World READ
The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik READ
The Memory Trees READ
Perijee and Me READ
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma READ
CatalystDNF
The HuntREAD
The Architect of SongDNF
OtherboundREAD
Accidental READ
Walk Two Moons READ
Landline READ
March: Book Three READ
The Great Good ThingREAD
The LostREAD
Silver StarsREAD
The Crown's GameREAD

Yes! I love this month's theme!! Also because then I don't need an established list of books that I'll probably ignore xD

Currently reading:
Blood Heir by Amelie Wen Zhao
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (Audiobook)

Finished!
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon 5 stars
Burn by Patrick Ness 5 stars
The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska 4 stars
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 5 stars
Blood & Honey by Shelby Mahurin 3 stars
These Rebel Waves by Sara Raasch 4 stars
These Divided Shores by Sara Raasch 4 stars

New year, new round ♥

Books:

Buffy. Die neuen Abenteuer.
The Silmarillion
The Fellowship of the Ring
Macbeth
Hans Huckebein und andere Bildgeschichten
Dust Devil
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Downhill Love
Der Kruzifix Killer
Love Simon: Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda

and mangas:

Circle of Fire - Equilibrium bonus story
とじこめたいっ！ Tojikometai!
Electric Hands
純情ロマンチカ 20
It Smells Like Lust
絶対求愛プリンス
Hybrid Child
歯医者なんてキライだ! Haisha Nante Kirai da!
Only the Ring Finger Knows: Der Ringfinger schweigt

January:

Update message 2:

A ​Sky Beyond the Storm → FINISHED

I'm just going to post what I pull out of the jar since there are about 80 in the jar.

The Poems of Thomas Dylan
The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst
Dream Big by Bob Goff
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Richardson

Update message 2:

Dune → FINISHED

My January Jam Jar
• A Court of Wings and Ruin →FINISHED
• A Court of Frost and Starlight →FINISHED
• You Have a Match →FINISHED
• Love at First Like →FINISHED
• Technically, You Started It →FINISHED
• Today Tonight Tomorrow →FINISHED
• Six of Crows
• Havenfall
• Escaping from Houdini →FINISHED
• How to Hack a Heartbreak (currently reading)

January Jam Jar

Subject to change based on my mood and can be carried over to the following month

ARCS I have that I need to read:
• And I Darken
• Now I Rise
• Girl Made of Stars (current read)
• Heretics Anonymous
• I Know You Remember
• Made You Up

Update message 2:

A Curse So Dark and Lonely → FINISHED
Shadow and Bone → Currently Reading

Ah my friends!

I finally read The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku and honestly I have to recommend it to everyone! It's such a moving, positive story full of hope!

Please consider checking it out! My review is here if you want more info: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Susy wrote: "Update message 2:

A Curse So Dark and Lonely → FINISHED
Shadow and Bone → Currently Reading"

Actually I postponed Shadow and Bone to finish Dune Messiah first. Started Shadow and Bone today.

Msg. 16: Looks like I got everything done for once! :) It did help that most were ARCs needing moved along! ;)

Since I won't finish any books tomorrow, I can tally up my reads for this month now.

Just over 4,200 pages across 31 books (titles in post #9), and a small dent in the list of books I wanted to read for this month. Happy with the result.

January Jam Jar - WRAP-UP

A ​Sky Beyond the Storm → FINISHED
A Curse So Dark and Lonely → FINISHED
Shadow and Bone → FINISHED
Dune → FINISHED
Dune Messiah FINISHED
The Count of Monte Cristo - audio → currently listening to

Since it is close to midnight here, it's safe to say I won't be finishing any more books in January XD But I did read 7 books in total, which is a Lot more than I thought I would!!! Overall, I'm Definitely pleased with how much I read this month!!!

I read 2 of the 9 on my list whoops XD