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2022 STATS73/66
Length
Short (<250 pages): 13
Medium (250-450 pages): 53
Long (451-800 pages): 5
Very Long (>800 pages): 2
Ratings
I didn't like it - 1✩ - 4
It was ok - 2✩✩ - 9
I liked it - 3✩✩✩ - 21
I really liked it - 4✩✩✩✩ - 23
It was amazing - 5✩✩✩✩✩ - 14
Media
Book: 19
Kindle: 18
Audio: 33
Own: 34
Library: 37
Friend:
Series: 6
Banned/Challenged:
Translated: 3
Author
* New to Me: 49
* Debut: 4
* Female: 33 * Male: 38
Five Star Titles
2022 TAGSFiction - goal=80% actual = 41/73 [56%]
Nonfiction - goal=20% actual = 30 /73 [41%]
adventure - 2
athletes - 5
biography -10
canadian - 5
classic - 3
cultural - 7
current events - 1
dystopian - 2
environment - 1
fantasy - 1
farming - 1
food - 1
general - 24
historical - 8
humour - 3
indigenous - 2
language - 2
lgbtq -
mystery - 11
professional - 12
running - 3
science - 2
self-help - 4
short stories - 2
supernatural - 3
travel - 1
war -
young adult - 2
Bound Together Fill In The Blank challengeFeb 21 - May 31 2022!
16/17
✔ 1. I go to bed Alone Together:
✔ 3. If I eat at The Cat's Table, I get scratched
✔ 7. My favorite night out is spent with a Hell of a Book
✔ 8. When I wake up, I have The Power of Habit
✔ 11. I feel creeped out when I am in The Ruins
✔13. I would like to live In a Country Garden
📚 14. When I was a child, I was a Girl, Woman, Other
✔ 15. I love my One True Loves
✔ 16. My first thought in the morning is "Who Moved My Cheese?"
✔ 17. My last thought at night is Eyes Wide Open again?
✔ 19. My favorite candy is on sale around November 9
✔ 20. If I should die before I wake, The Word Is Murder
✔ 21. I look good in The House of Silk
✔ 22. I once forgot to make The Guest List
✔ 23. If the sky is really blue, I can see Malibu Rising
✔ 24. In a swim suit, I am almost Naked
✔ 25. On a nature walk I like The Climb best of all
2. The last time I looked_____________
4. My dog and I _____________
5. I feel sexy when____________
6. I comb my hair with ____________
9. A good movie makes me_______
10. When I am alone____________
12. If one more time I hear___________
18. I cry when __________
Note to Self: stop entering challenges!BT Parts of a Book
March 11-June 11
8/8 (two from each category)
Author
✔1. Male The Climb: The Autobiography
✔ 2. Female Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
3.Pseudonym
Genre
✔1. Mystery Eyes Wide Open
✔ 2. Nonfiction Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19
✔ 3. Historical The Four Winds
Title
✔1. Color in it Greenwood
✔2. Number in it November 9
3. Day of week in it
Cover
✔1. Animal on it The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind
✔2. Food on it Who Stole My Cheese?!!
3. Body of water on it
Author
Genre
Title
Cover
2022 Yearly ChallengeBookworms Take Shelfies
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
message #43
"Your challenge should consist of at least two different themes, with two books minimum per shelf. You may count each book only once within this challenge"
17/16
Author - (3) Anthony Horowitz ✔
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Author - (2) Taylor Jenkins Reid ✔
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Heritage and Culture (2) indigenous ✔
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Biographies (7) - ✔
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Hobby (3) non-fiction running - ✔
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2022 Yearly ChallengeTBR Jar
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
message #24
GoodReads random generator suggested these 40 titles to me in this order.
Many have been on my TBR for a long time because I cannot get a hold of them in my tiny library system. I will make a decent effort for this challenge but I expect to only read 25 of these:
9/25
Cannery Row
Skippy Dies
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
Washington Black
Sh*tshow
Trail Magic and the Art of Soft Pedaling: Mountain biking 3,000 miles along the Continental Divide
Ask Again, Yes
The Yellow House
✔ The Ruins 03 Mar
✔ Bel Canto 04 June
Watch Me Disappear
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Signs of Life: To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About .....
The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev
Speak
The Story of the Night
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
So Much for That
✔ Eyes Wide Open 17 Apr
The Bourne Ultimatum
✔ November 9 03 May
✔ In a Country Garden: Life at Ravenhill Farm
✔ The Climb: The Autobiography 12 Apr
The Bone Clocks
The Orenda
Girl, Woman, Other
Rock Paper Scissors
✔ Naked 10 May
Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail
The Golden Compass
The Woman in White
✔ The Word Is Murder 14 May
What Is Left the Daughter
Magnolia Nights
The Carbon Cycle: Crossing the Great Divide
✔ Apples Never Fall 27 Jan
Ginny Moon
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
I Spy 2022 - Year Long challenge23/25
✅ 1. Color - Greenwood 28 August
✅ 2. Number - The Four Winds 23 Mar
✅ 3. Things That Grow - In a Country Garden: Life at Ravenhill Farm 02 Dec
✅ 4. Seasons - Apples Never Fall 27 Jan
✅ 5. First Name - Olive Kitteridge 21 Nov
✅ 6. Places - Malibu Rising 01 Mar
✅ 7. Body Part - Eyes Wide Open 15 Apr
✅ 8. Weapon - The Word Is Murder 14 May
✅ 9. Body of Water - One True Loves 18 July
✅ 10. Form of Water - (clouds) How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question 29 Nov
✅ 11. Product of Fire - (burn) The Dinner 15 Oct
✅12. Celestial Body - When Stars Are Scattered 21 Jan
✅13. Architecture - The Ruins 03 Mar
📚14. Senses - Watch Me Disappear
✅15. Royal Title - (crown) Outlander 28 Jan
✅ 16. Family Member - The Younger Wife 22 Oct
📚17. Elements - The Carbon Cycle: Crossing the Great Divide OR The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
✅ 18. Time of Day - The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM 18 Feb
✅ 20. Emotion/Feeling - Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 17Mar
✅21. Animal/Insect - (butterfly) The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind19 Apr
✅✅ ✅ 22. Something to Read - ✔Bel Canto OR ✔The Reading List 14 Jan ✔The Plot 17 Jan
✅✅23. Sports - ✔The Climb: The Autobiography 12 Apr ✔I Hate Running and You Can Too 22 Jan
✅ 24. Paranormal Beings - Wrong Place Wrong Time 09 Dec
✅ 25. Occupation - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 16 Dec
BT Author Bingo ChallengeOct 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
message #52
✔ B1 - NOT a human narrator (Crow) Max Porter 08 Dec Grief is the Thing with Feathers
✔ I1 - Translated (Danish) Jussi Adler-Olsen 27 Dec The Absent One
✔ N1 - From a country you would like to visit (Spain) Jeanine Cummins 28 Nov American Dirt
✔ G1 - Initials in name O. Henry 31 Dec The World of O.Henry
✔ O1 - 5 star rated author Peter Heller 27 Nov The Painter
✔ B2 - Dead author J.D. Salinger 14 Nov The Catcher in the Rye
✔ I2 - Foreign author Patrick Radden Keefe 27 Oct Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
📚 N2 - A 5 under 35 author Moriel Rothman-Zecher.Sadness Is a White Bird
✔ G2 - Goodreads author Robert Dugoni 11 Nov The World Played Chess
✔ O2 - On best sellers list Jean Hanff Korelitz 17 Jan The Plot
✔ B3 - 50 years or older Miriam Toews 25 Nov All My Puny Sorrows
✔ I3 - Non-fiction Jennifer Haupt 18 Mar Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19
✔ N3 - Your choice - Scott Smith 03 Mar The Ruins
✔ G3 - Author has a different profession Chris Froome 12 Apr The Climb: The Autobiography
✔ O3 - Cartoon or graphic Victoria Jamieson 21 Jan When Stars Are Scattered
✔ B4 - Author who also narrates Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table
✔ I4 - Author of essays Guy de Maupassant 22 Dec The Necklace and Other Stories
✔ N4 - Memoir Sally Field 04 Oct In Pieces
✔ G4 - Speculative fiction Patricia Lockwood 20 Feb No One Is Talking About This
✔ O4 - Female Liane Moriarty 31 Jan Apples Never Fall
✔ B5 - Pseudonym Elena Ferrante 30 Dec Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
✔ I5 - Award winning Taylor Jenkins Reid . Malibu Rising
✔ N5 - Debut book Noé Álvarez 02 JanSpirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
✔ G5 - Male Matthew McConaughey 17 Feb Greenlights
📚 O5 - 2 related authors Wade Repta The Well Teacher
. 5 under 35
2 related
Commited titles that are part of a challengeI Spy
The Woman in White own kindle
The Yellow House own
Washington Black own
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country library
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us need audio
The Bone Clocks own kindle
Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail library
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer NEED
Ginny Moon library audio
Watch Me Disappear library audio
The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking ... own
What Is Left the Daughter library
The Carbon Cycle: Crossing the Great Divide own
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed own
The Story of the Night NEED
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales library
Rock Paper Scissors library
The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev own kindle
Sh*tshow NEED
The Orenda own
Signs of Life: To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor library
Bookworms Shelfies
Maybe in Another Life own kindle
The Turtle Warrior own
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian library
Boy Racer: My Journey to Tour de France Record-Breaker NEED
2021 STATS:67/60
It has been a great reading year for me. Thank you to all my GR buddies (specifically those BT ladies!) whose reviews and comments have breathed life into my shelves and helped me stretch and diversify my reading. I fell into a slump during this December but the other 11 months were filled with enjoyable and memorable titles. I am proud to see that 2/3 of my books came from the public library and I cleared many titles off my want-to-read shelf. I didn't make my non-fiction reading goal (20% of my books) but I exceeded my usual number of 5-star reads by a long shot.
Five Star Titles
Length
Short (<250 pages): 15
Medium (250-450 pages): 47
Long (451-800 pages): 5
Very Long (>800 pages): 0
Ratings
I didn't like it - 1✩ - 1
It was ok - 2✩✩ - 9
I liked it - 3✩✩✩ - 12
I really liked it - 4✩✩✩✩ - 29
It was amazing - 5✩✩✩✩✩ - 16
Media
Book: 24
Kindle: 12
Audio: 31
Own: 17
Library: 50
Friend: 0
Series: 5
Banned/Challenged: 1
Translated: 6
Author
* New to Me: 37
*Gender - ** Female: 30 ** Male: 36
GENRES
(books may count towards more than one genre)
Fiction - goal 80% of annual reads
56/52
adventure - 1
canadian - 3
classic - 3
cultural - 12
dystopian - 1
environment - 1
fantasy - 1
general - 23
historical - 11
humour - 3
indigenous - 4
lgbtq - 2
mystery - 2
short stories - 4
supernatural - 1
war - 4
young adult - 4
Nonfiction - goal 20% of annual reads
9/12
adventure -1
athletes - 1
biography - 3
current events - 2
environment -
food -
indigenous - 1
historical - 1
running -
science - 1
travel - 1
Bound Together Best Book of the Year 2022Monthly Fiction Favourites
1. Jan. The Plot 5⭐
2. Feb. The Cat's Table 4⭐
3. Mar. The House of Silk 5⭐
4. Apr. The Guest List 4⭐
5. May The Word Is Murder 5⭐
6. June Bel Canto 4⭐
7. July No Hiding in Boise 4⭐
8. Aug. Greenwood 5⭐
9. Sept. The Younger Wife 4⭐
10. Oct. The Sentence Is Death 5⭐
11. Nov. The Dutch House 5⭐
12. Dec. Five Little Indians 5⭐
My favourite fiction of 2022 is ~~~
The PlotMonthly Non-Fiction Favourites:
1. Jan. I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to... 4⭐
2. Feb. Greenlights 2⭐
3. Mar. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life 5⭐
4. Apr. The Climb: The Autobiography 4⭐
5. May This Is Your Mind on Plants 3⭐
6. June Everything is Figureoutable 4⭐
7. July The Mongolian Chronicles 3⭐
8. Aug. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language 5⭐
9. Sept. The Five Thieves of Happiness 4⭐
10. Oct. The Body: A Guide for Occupants 4⭐
11. Nov. Tour de Force: My history-making Tour de France 3⭐
12. Dec. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 5⭐
My favourite non-fiction of 2022 is ~~~
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
The Guest List (other topics)The Cat's Table (other topics)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (other topics)
The Word is Murder (other topics)
The House of Silk (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Patrick Radden Keefe (other topics)Moriel Rothman-Zecher (other topics)
Wade Repta (other topics)
Robert Dugoni (other topics)
Jean Hanff Korelitz (other topics)
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I am new to this group and new to maintaining a member page. Very exciting! But I don't want it to suck up my precious reading time. I'll keep track of my completed books in a single post and with each challenge having its own post.
Besides the challenge of number of books, I also set other personal goals for the year:
GOALS
✅️ 1. 60+ books [actual = 73!]
✅️ 2. 20% non-fiction=12 [actual = 43% (31/73) ]
✅️ 3. Review every book read
✅️ 4. Join 1 yearly challenge (3) [TBR Jar, I Spy, Bookworms]
❌️ 5. Join 1 quarterly challenge
❌️ 6. Join 1 buddy read/TBR Twin challenge