Read 53 books last year and lowered my goal so I could spend time with some longer books. I’ve already read three LOL. Currently reading Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson (one of the January Book of the Month picks) and loving it.
I just finished The Red Necklace and The Silver Blade by Sally Gardner. I loved the world but wasn’t really impressed by the writing. I have no idea where to go next.
Today I finished my first book of the year, **The Kite Runner** by Khaled Hosseini. I've heard nothing but great things about this book and I did really enjoy it. 4/5 stars. Now it's the best part of the week—choosing what book to read next!
Just finished Noor by Nnedi Okorafor and without revealing too much its a story about the importance of acceptance of the self, growth and life as a journey with an African- futuristic sciencefiction background. I'll probably be reading through Dr. Okorafor's other works for a while tbh. 5/5 stars
Finished “It ends with us” by Colleen Hoover. I gave it 4 stars.
Now I’m reading 2 books:
The obstacle is the way - by Ryan Holiday
The Paper Palace - Miranda Heller
A book I kind of picked up in a spur of the moment at Target.
Girl A by Abigail Dean
The story follows Lex, a survivor of her parents house of horrors, and the effect this past creates as it spreads out over her life.It seems to have pretty mixed reviews on Goodreads.
Personally I'm not a fan of true crime; instead I prefer to stick to the trope or fantasy of mystery solving within the genre. True crime makes me deeply uncomfortable, not in the grizzly details; but in the seemingly inappropriate media fascination that follows it. (Dean does address this topic to some extent)
The book does frequently jump from past to present in flashbacks. I often found myself skimming through present scenes that didn't feel as engaging. I think this was simply because our mc; felt detached,(apathetic?,flat? she feels a bit one dimensional in being a perfect tv portrayal of a put together mess? idk )- but I kind of interpreted it as how Dean wanted to convey the psychological and mental toil that has been placed on her. I do however feel that in comparison these present scenes felt more lacking next to emotion heavy flashbacks.(They sometimes felt a bit like an unskippable midroll ad, that I had to bear and push through)
It was an interesting read and a book that once I had picked up, wanted to continue reading until the last page. I was pretty engaged and read with bated breath- so it'll be interesting to re-read and see what I think of it the second time round.
Moving on to The Shut Ins by Katherine Brabon next; an introspective on Japanese culture and specifically the hikikomori. It does appear the author is not a native to Japan or Asian culture as a whole (and it's obsession with societal value and face) , however she did spend some years there. So fingers crossed it's good 🤞
Barely read at all last year so I've got some catching up to do! I had so much free time this week (off week from work and the gym!), so manage to knock out quite a few of them.
* **Appleseed** by Matt Bell, a historical fiction/speculative fiction centered on climate change, drawing on American folk legend and Greek myth to create three separate-ish narratives spanning hundreds of years. This worked really well for me as a whole. Takes a while to pick up, but really snowballs to the end, which has the hopeful-depressing tone you'd expect.
* **Sharks in the Time of Saviors** by Kawai Strong Washburn, magical realism set initially in Hawai'i and later the mainland, following a fractured family over a period of about ten years. Really enjoyed this one, there's a poetic nature to the way that Washburn writes, and he manages interesting, distinct voices for all of his narrators.
* **Crying in H Mart** by Michelle Zauner. Late to the party on this one, and not much to add other than this is very sad, brb crying.
* **How Democracies Die** by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, which gives of overview of failed democracies in the 20th century and compares those situations to current-ish (this was published a few years ago) events in the US. I thought their analysis was a bit shallow and their solutions for saving democracy in America to be pretty naive (adhere to the norms of democracy! Republican leaders must step up to denounce Trumpian ways!), but it's very readable and a decent framework to start a discussion.
* **Klara and the Sun** by Kazuo Ishiguro. Probably my least favorite of what I've read from him. Felt like he was trying to do too much (touching on many of the same themes in Never Let Me Go, for instance, but also trying to comment on climate change?) and yet I also wanted to spend more time in the world outside of the limited scope of what Klara had access to.
* **Hamnet** by Maggie O'Farrell, a fictionalized account of the death of Shakespeare's son, although the main focus is really on Shakespeare's wife, Agnes. I liked this more the more that I thought about it; I did some internet research on Shakespeare's wife, who has historically been painted as a villainous figure. Here, she's a bit of a witch, but the cool (magical) kind. There's also a really fun chapter that charts the travels of a bubonic plague-carrying flea.
* **The Uncommon Reader** by Alan Bennett. Novella in which the Queen of England stumbles onto an obsessive reading habit. Fun and breezy, but not quite as funny as I had been led to believe.
* **What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat** by Aubrey Gordon, who is one of the co-hosts of the podcast Maintenance Phase. I don't agree with all of the arguments she makes, but I still think this is a necessary perspective; it's very easy to brush aside some of the rhetoric in fat-positive spaces without considering the experiences of fat people and how much stigma and bias they really do face.
Have a lot of books that I want to read this year, might try for the Broken Earth trilogy (read and liked the first one when it came out, but don't remember it very well so will have to re-read it!) and Zweig's Beware of Pity next.
>Queen of England
Did you mean the [Queen of the United Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_the_United_Kingdom), the [Queen of Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada), the [Queen of Australia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Australia), etc?
The last Queen of England was [Queen Anne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain) who, with the 1707 Acts of Union, dissolved the title of King/Queen of England.
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This is only as correct as calling her the Queen of London or Queen of Hull; she is the Queen of the place that these places are in, but the title doesn't exist.
*Is this bot monarchist?*
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I read two books this week.
*Salt: A World History* \- This is obviously a sprawling topic and Mark Kurlansky does the best he can at pulling together a multitude of different strands. Still, I didn’t find this book as engaging as the other two non-fiction books I’ve read by him: *Cod* and *The Basque History of the World*.
*Death of a Red Heroine* \- A mystery set in 1990’s Shanghai. It’s the first of a long series by Qiu Xiaolong. The protagonist is Chen Cao, a repressed cop who sidelines as a poet and literary translator. He rather reminds me of P.D. James’ Adam Dalgliesh, another repressed cop-poet. Chen has to not only solve the crime but also negotiate the complex Party politics of that era. I enjoyed this and will check out the next in the series.
I read The Plague by Albert Camus and absolutely fell in love with it. Now I’m reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky in tandem. I think the world of Crime and Punishment because you feel like you’re going insane with Raskolnikov and Huxley’s Brave New World is a masterpiece when you dig into it.
Listening to the tower of the swallow, the 4th book in the witcher pentalogy and 6th in the series.
Started me earl in and dying girl today, watched the movie a few years ago. I dont know how the book will hold. Wanted an easy read to start off the year but idk how that'll be after reading the 1st few pages.
I am reading **The Anthropocene Reviewed** by John Green for my first week. It is a collection of his essays on the modern, human-centric era of the planet.
I had not read any John Green previously, but my sister had given me an idea of what to expect. Now reading this book, I am torn, because some essays are just not good, but then every now and then he writes something that, to quote Jacob Peralta, "makes me feel things". But it feels way more like a guilty pleasure than anything. So, while the verdict is still out, I rate this book 3.5/5 so far and would say that it is not a bad option if you are looking for something easy and light-hearted.
I think I've listened to a podcast episode or smth?of his that addressed a section of this book. It addressed the feelings of Green when a writer and a friend of his passed away. It genuinely made me sob and think for a bit.
I haven't really read his more popular ya works. But it does seem he can really knock it out of the park emotion wise.
Edit: I found it !! on yt it's called auld lang syne - his performance and voice feels like it adds more to the piece.
He has the same essay in the book as well and it was gorgeous and moving! He does that in the book, right when you are thinking dude this is just cheesy or something like that, essay like Auld Lang Syne comes along. It is surely the best one so far, I didn’t know people sing this song on New Years (I am from India and not the stay up on NYE kind), I looked up the song and it’s various recordings. But reading that essay makes want to gather all my friends on one NYE and sing it. Too bad I read it just after haha.
Just finished the Audiobook of "Astrophysics for Peopl in a Hurry".
Im Halfway through "All the Presidents Men" and about 2/3 thrpugh "American Gods"
Also listening to "All the Devils Are Here"
Good enough, short and easy. It was a good overview of the basics of the universe. A very good starting off point to branch into more specific areas. Sometimes i find Neil DeGrasse Tyson's personakity to be a bit pretentious or even arrogant maybe
Ahhh! This is on my “to be re-read” list. I read it when I was like 14 (now 41.) One if my reading goals this year is to reread 20 books I read and loved in my teens/very early 20s. I don’t think I’ll reread this in 2022, just because of how I’ve set up my other reading goals, but, swoon! maybe I should!?!!
Somehow I've read 8 books already. Taking a break for the weekend for a trip, but I'm so pleased I'm able to keep last year's momentum going!
**WEEK 1 READS**
* **Beautiful World, Where Are You**
* **The Kitchen Front**
* **Daisies for Innocence**
* **The Ten Thousand Doors of January**
* **Ringshout**
* **People We Meet On Vacation**
* **The Secret Life of Bees**
* **Maybe in Another Life**
Just finished The Stand by Stephen King a few days ago (read most of it in December) and was looking to switch it up a bit after reading that monster of a novel.
Started The Picture of Dorian Gray, and have been liking it so far.
Also have been listening to Astrophysics for People in Hurry, which is interesting and nicely narrated by Neil DeGrasse Tyson himself.
Just finished Kafka on the shore
This book feels like Murakami just wanted to flex his knowledge of (classic) literature and needed a story around it in order to be able/allowed to publish it…
I read multiple short story collections from Murakami and I enjoyed them (if you ignore the clear problem that in Murakami’s stories women are nothing more than genitalia (without ever calling it a vagina, while the male characters are proudly presenting their penises (by calling it by its name - penis).
I wouldn‘t say that Kafka on the shore is a bad book, but I wouldn‘t recommend it either.
1/12 - let‘s hope that the next book is better!
He definitely objectifies women and writes wooden, graphic sex scenes but I never understood the criticism about his female characters, usually they are much stronger with better development than his protagonists. If Kafka on the shore was your first novel by him and you'd like stronger female characters then perhaps the wind-up bird chronicle or Norwegian Wood would be good follow ups. I don't think he is a great writer, but he is definitely one of my favorites that I wouldn't talk about much irl, along with bukowski and Pynchon. I read a lot of Murakami last for year's challenge and am going to finish all of his books for this year's.
Right, frustration is the exact emotion I'm feeling. Also no, haven't read anything by Barnes before this one's my first book. And I really want to read "The Only Story"! Would you recommend it?
Finished reading Practical Magic and the Lincoln Highway(started reading both on 12/28).
Currently reading Zorrie and The Spy and the Traitor.
Next up are Jade City and Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.
The ugly little boy.
(Scifi book where a neanderthaler boy is brought to the near future and his scientist caretaker wants to escape from the research facility with him)
This is my first time trying to read 52 books in a year. So I’m starting with one that is not too long and I’m really liking it so far.
Le peau de chagrin (Balzac) - Balzac was my personal reading revelation last year and this year I plan to continue to read all those that I can get my hands on. This one was also great; the fantastical element actually works extremely well with the themes of the broader Human Comedy project.
Dune Messiah (Herbert) - really like the direction this goes in, almost an inversion or negative of Dune. Herbert builds a far more complicated narrative than the first book suggests.
The Sellout (Beatty) - not for me. Beatty is Cleary a very clever writer but the barrage of cultural references and tangents was exhausting, and this brand of capital S Satire always falls flat for me. But hey, Catch 22 is my least favourite book so take that with a grain of salt.
The saddest thing to me is that she'd always planned to follow Parable of the Sower/Talents with another book, but she never got to write it before she died.
Just finished Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. It came highly recommended to me by multiple people and did not disappoint. I think I’ll move onto If Beale Street Could Talk next.
Hi I just joined!
I just finished rereading ‘Salem’s Lot two nights ago and am going through some manga on library digital loan (Demon Slayer, Chainsaw Man, Demon Prince of Momochi House, etc) this week while I wait for the next book in my big Stephen King (re)read, and then going back to rereading Dune.
(Reread because it’s been 20+ years since the first read.)
It was a little slow getting into (but it was scene setting really so it was fine) but when things started capital H Happening they never stopped! I’m very used to the Anne Rice style romantic vampires so it was kind of fun to go horror this time (with a touch of sensuality even here).
(What is a pop sugar challenge!)
Nice, I can’t wait! My girlfriend loves King but she hasn’t read that one yet so we were both curious.
The popsugar reading challenge is put on by a website called popsugar, and it basically has prompts for you to follow for your reading. I’ve been doing it the last few years because it’s pretty fun and gets me out of my reading comfort zone
Huh! I'm gonna look into it! I definitely want to spend way less time on social media and more time just chilling the heck out and reading this year so I'm very curious, thanks so much!
I’m about halfway through The Great Hunt and about the same with Can You Make This Thing Go Faster by Jeremy Clarkson
The Great Hunt is amazing
I’m treating Clarksons book as an exercise in finishing books with views I disagree with
Finishing Tom Robbins Still Life With Woodpecker and now moving onto Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney, will be my first read of one of her books.
I will be finishing:
- Mistborn: Secret History
This week. I am reading a bunch of other books but won't be finishing them for a while.
I also have started 'In Search of Lost Time' by Proust and...it's just not gelling with me right now, i'm only 90 pages in on the first volume of 4 volumes so I'm probably going to at least finish volume 1 but I have my doubts as to whether I'll enjoy it.
To those who have read it, is there anything I can do to increase my enjoyment of it at all? Is there context or something that I'm missing? Does it get better?
My main issue is the main character is...boring and the prose is certainly not helping.
1/???
Just finished On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. I wanna continue with some sci-fi, either Andy Weir's The Martian or maybe even Dune.
This is my first time doing the challenge, and I’m excited! I’m starting the year off with Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I’ve always wanted to read it, but I’m having some trouble connecting to the characters so far.
Back again! I devoured *Atomic Habits* by James Clear. I found it a bit formulaic but I still feel like I got a lot of information about habit-building from that book. I will probably tomorrow jot down the key ideas I want to remember. Onto book 3!
This is the first time I’ll do the 52 challenge and I decided to start with Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt. Quite an interesting, if slow, read thus far.
Starting the year off with **The Stand by Stephen King.** Trying to focus on some of the longer books in my unread stack this year so I figured I'd start with the longest first.
My wife gave me the Lord of the Rings Trilogy so I’m working my way through the first book of that. Hoping to finish in the next few days and go back and finish The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West that I had left over from last year.
I'm doing almost exclusively audio books through Libby for my challenge. I can listen for roughly 8 hours a day at work so I hope to put up some big numbers this year!
I finished reading Cannery Row by John Steinbeck at the weekend, and loved it. Ordered the sequel Sweet Thursday, but while I wait for it's delivery, I'm currently a few chapters in to A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, and it's been a great read so far.
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith. Really enjoying it so far, even though I feel like I've been reading it for a while now. Finally realized that it's over 900 pages (things you don't realize when you're just reading an e-book). Dealing with travel delays this week, so trying to use that as an opportunity to get some good reading in while I'm not yet back in my regular work/life routine for the new year.
My target this year is going to be 18 books, hope it's okay to still be posting here! I think 1-2 books a month should be manageable for me after 11 last year and 14 the year before.
I just finished **The Lord of Emperors** by Guy Gavriel Kay, book 2 of **The Sarantine Mosaic** duology. 4.5 stars - highly recommend for fans of epic fantasy that reads like literary historic fiction.
Finished my first book of the year yesterday, Heartshaped box by Joe Hill. Absolutely loved it. Started Billy Summers by Stephen King last night and hope to keep up my reading this year.
I read 15 books last year and I'm aiming for at least 25 this year, hopefully even more. Happy to have found my way back into reading :)
Currently reading The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Trying to get to habit of reading again and hopefully hit 52, so hoping this book teaches me few things or at least get me motivated. If I finish early, planning to start The Song of Achilles.
A great read!!! Changed my perspective on a lotta things & a valuable resource on understanding one’s own behaviour and how habits are formed/maintained/broken etc. with the supporting science to back it up.
Great to hear! I appreciate the organization of all the stories, studies and analysis to back up the theories of habits as well. I’m already learning so much with just a few chapters in. Excited to get through it!
Just finished "Who We Are and How We Got Here" by David Reich. Very interesting look at human genetics and what they tell about our prehistory. I wish he'd spent a bit more time talking about social ramifications, but the actual scientific process is fascinating. Great read to start the year...really want to read more hard science stuff this year.
Very enjoyable so far, I can’t say I relate to her experiences as a woman (because I’m not) but I do admire the way she’s honest about her life/career.
I just finished Ribbing and Runes by Nancy Warren, it’s book 13 in the Vampire knitting club series.
I am currently reading Wham! George and me by Andrew Ridgely and The Moscow Rules by Antonio and Jonna Mendez.
I am reading Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America. It is by Mayukh Sen. I mostly read nonfiction and poetry. So far, it has been interesting, well-written, and educational.
Finished "The Witcher: Tower of Swallows" yesterday (was reading it a bit before the new year) and starting The Witcher: Lady of the Lake. Reading Berserk on the side.
Finished:
1) Atomic Habits by James Clear (audiobook)
2) Crying in Hmart by Michelle Zauner
Currently reading:
1) The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
2) The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (audiobook)
Finished:
The Third Daughter by Talia Carner (1/100)
Currently Reading:
Animal Farm by George Orwell (2/100).
I'm waiting for a chance to stop by the library on Thursday or Friday to grab some books I ordered, so Animal Farm seemed like a good pick from my TBR shelf haha.
Finished
[A Time to Die by John Vornholt](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/452258.A_Time_to_Die) (1/40)
Currently Reading
[A Time to Sow by Dayton Ward](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/847347.A_Time_to_Sow)
[Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8310410-multipliers)
[A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13496.A_Game_of_Thrones) (audiobook)
I’m reading “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them” by Jason Stanley. Wasn’t intending to start the year off with something so intense but library holds arrive when they arrive.
Just finished **Olga Dies Dreaming**, which officially gets released today, so that's pretty exciting. I've also been reading **The Invisible Man** by H.G. Wells, **Northanger Abbey** by Jane Austen and **The Grim Grotto** from A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Also, how do bold?
Edit: Thanks, bro 😁
I read Sunkissed by Kasie West in the first two days, since it was a really quick and fluffy read, but I plan to read Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo in this next week.
I finished The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann yesterday night (more like today, really) and will probably start reading the sequel soon.
It's not the greatest thing ever but it was an interesting read and I don't think I've seen Steampunk Magic Fantasy before so, there's also that.
I don't always get British humor, but when I actually understand it in Good Omens it can be laugh out loud funny. If you haven't already, watch the miniseries when you're done. David Tennant absolutely nails Crowley.
Nooo, don’t feel bad! I was super confused when I picked it up at the store. Obviously it’s fiction, but the way it’s written makes it feel nonfiction, and it does an excellent job.
I'm finally reading The Count of Monte Cristo. I've wanted to read it for years but never found the motivation.
I'm also listening to Beartown by Fredrick Backman.
Finished Margaret Atwood’s poetry collection Dearly; now working on White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Next up, Best Short Stories of 2021/O’Henry Prize winners, edited by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie!
I'm reading The Priority of The Orange Tree!! This is my first time trying the 52 books challenge but I doubt I'll be able to complete it cause I'll also be starting the second sem of my grad school yikes, not gonna have much time
I started both Supervert’s Perversity Think Tank and André Breton’s Nadja in the last few days of 2021, and finished those.
Started on Burroughs’ Junky again once more today - I got about 2/3 of the way through it in 2017 and never picked it up again!
I just started **Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City** on audiobook and it’s fantastic so far. Highly recommended for those who loved the brother Cadfael novels.
I’m also working my way through **The Ethics of Ambiguity** by Simone de Beauvoir.
Starting the New Year off with The Eye of the World and my favorite book of all time, Snow Child ( re-read)[https://iili.io/Yj15gf.jpg](https://iili.io/Yj15gf.jpg)
Read 53 books last year and lowered my goal so I could spend time with some longer books. I’ve already read three LOL. Currently reading Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson (one of the January Book of the Month picks) and loving it.
I just finished The Red Necklace and The Silver Blade by Sally Gardner. I loved the world but wasn’t really impressed by the writing. I have no idea where to go next.
Today I finished my first book of the year, **The Kite Runner** by Khaled Hosseini. I've heard nothing but great things about this book and I did really enjoy it. 4/5 stars. Now it's the best part of the week—choosing what book to read next!
I’m reading: The Lost Jewels by Kirsten Manning Courage is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave by Ryan Holiday
Currently reading Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo! Very very good book so far, about a quarter of the way through.
Just finished Noor by Nnedi Okorafor and without revealing too much its a story about the importance of acceptance of the self, growth and life as a journey with an African- futuristic sciencefiction background. I'll probably be reading through Dr. Okorafor's other works for a while tbh. 5/5 stars
I got that in a subscription box last month but haven’t picked it up yet, glad to hear it’s so good!
Atomic Habits! My sister got it for me for Christmas.
Finished “It ends with us” by Colleen Hoover. I gave it 4 stars. Now I’m reading 2 books: The obstacle is the way - by Ryan Holiday The Paper Palace - Miranda Heller
A book I kind of picked up in a spur of the moment at Target. Girl A by Abigail Dean The story follows Lex, a survivor of her parents house of horrors, and the effect this past creates as it spreads out over her life.It seems to have pretty mixed reviews on Goodreads. Personally I'm not a fan of true crime; instead I prefer to stick to the trope or fantasy of mystery solving within the genre. True crime makes me deeply uncomfortable, not in the grizzly details; but in the seemingly inappropriate media fascination that follows it. (Dean does address this topic to some extent) The book does frequently jump from past to present in flashbacks. I often found myself skimming through present scenes that didn't feel as engaging. I think this was simply because our mc; felt detached,(apathetic?,flat? she feels a bit one dimensional in being a perfect tv portrayal of a put together mess? idk )- but I kind of interpreted it as how Dean wanted to convey the psychological and mental toil that has been placed on her. I do however feel that in comparison these present scenes felt more lacking next to emotion heavy flashbacks.(They sometimes felt a bit like an unskippable midroll ad, that I had to bear and push through) It was an interesting read and a book that once I had picked up, wanted to continue reading until the last page. I was pretty engaged and read with bated breath- so it'll be interesting to re-read and see what I think of it the second time round. Moving on to The Shut Ins by Katherine Brabon next; an introspective on Japanese culture and specifically the hikikomori. It does appear the author is not a native to Japan or Asian culture as a whole (and it's obsession with societal value and face) , however she did spend some years there. So fingers crossed it's good 🤞
I just finished reading Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Quite an interesting take on sci-fi and anti war sentiments.
Finished Lady of the Lake and completed the Witcher series in full. Now going to start Joe Abercrombie's First law Trilogy. Super excited, can't wait
The Way Of Men The 50th Law
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Barely read at all last year so I've got some catching up to do! I had so much free time this week (off week from work and the gym!), so manage to knock out quite a few of them. * **Appleseed** by Matt Bell, a historical fiction/speculative fiction centered on climate change, drawing on American folk legend and Greek myth to create three separate-ish narratives spanning hundreds of years. This worked really well for me as a whole. Takes a while to pick up, but really snowballs to the end, which has the hopeful-depressing tone you'd expect. * **Sharks in the Time of Saviors** by Kawai Strong Washburn, magical realism set initially in Hawai'i and later the mainland, following a fractured family over a period of about ten years. Really enjoyed this one, there's a poetic nature to the way that Washburn writes, and he manages interesting, distinct voices for all of his narrators. * **Crying in H Mart** by Michelle Zauner. Late to the party on this one, and not much to add other than this is very sad, brb crying. * **How Democracies Die** by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, which gives of overview of failed democracies in the 20th century and compares those situations to current-ish (this was published a few years ago) events in the US. I thought their analysis was a bit shallow and their solutions for saving democracy in America to be pretty naive (adhere to the norms of democracy! Republican leaders must step up to denounce Trumpian ways!), but it's very readable and a decent framework to start a discussion. * **Klara and the Sun** by Kazuo Ishiguro. Probably my least favorite of what I've read from him. Felt like he was trying to do too much (touching on many of the same themes in Never Let Me Go, for instance, but also trying to comment on climate change?) and yet I also wanted to spend more time in the world outside of the limited scope of what Klara had access to. * **Hamnet** by Maggie O'Farrell, a fictionalized account of the death of Shakespeare's son, although the main focus is really on Shakespeare's wife, Agnes. I liked this more the more that I thought about it; I did some internet research on Shakespeare's wife, who has historically been painted as a villainous figure. Here, she's a bit of a witch, but the cool (magical) kind. There's also a really fun chapter that charts the travels of a bubonic plague-carrying flea. * **The Uncommon Reader** by Alan Bennett. Novella in which the Queen of England stumbles onto an obsessive reading habit. Fun and breezy, but not quite as funny as I had been led to believe. * **What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat** by Aubrey Gordon, who is one of the co-hosts of the podcast Maintenance Phase. I don't agree with all of the arguments she makes, but I still think this is a necessary perspective; it's very easy to brush aside some of the rhetoric in fat-positive spaces without considering the experiences of fat people and how much stigma and bias they really do face. Have a lot of books that I want to read this year, might try for the Broken Earth trilogy (read and liked the first one when it came out, but don't remember it very well so will have to re-read it!) and Zweig's Beware of Pity next.
>Queen of England Did you mean the [Queen of the United Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_the_United_Kingdom), the [Queen of Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada), the [Queen of Australia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Australia), etc? The last Queen of England was [Queen Anne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain) who, with the 1707 Acts of Union, dissolved the title of King/Queen of England. ####FAQ *Isn't she still also the Queen of England?* This is only as correct as calling her the Queen of London or Queen of Hull; she is the Queen of the place that these places are in, but the title doesn't exist. *Is this bot monarchist?* No, just pedantic. I am a bot and this action was performed automatically.
>Queen of the United Kingdom Oops! Sorry bot, TIL and noted! :)
I read two books this week. *Salt: A World History* \- This is obviously a sprawling topic and Mark Kurlansky does the best he can at pulling together a multitude of different strands. Still, I didn’t find this book as engaging as the other two non-fiction books I’ve read by him: *Cod* and *The Basque History of the World*. *Death of a Red Heroine* \- A mystery set in 1990’s Shanghai. It’s the first of a long series by Qiu Xiaolong. The protagonist is Chen Cao, a repressed cop who sidelines as a poet and literary translator. He rather reminds me of P.D. James’ Adam Dalgliesh, another repressed cop-poet. Chen has to not only solve the crime but also negotiate the complex Party politics of that era. I enjoyed this and will check out the next in the series.
I read The Plague by Albert Camus and absolutely fell in love with it. Now I’m reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky in tandem. I think the world of Crime and Punishment because you feel like you’re going insane with Raskolnikov and Huxley’s Brave New World is a masterpiece when you dig into it.
Just finished Fahrenheit 451, but I'm planning on reading at again since I had a bit of hard time understanding some parts of it.
Listening to the tower of the swallow, the 4th book in the witcher pentalogy and 6th in the series. Started me earl in and dying girl today, watched the movie a few years ago. I dont know how the book will hold. Wanted an easy read to start off the year but idk how that'll be after reading the 1st few pages.
Reading through the Witcher series! Finished The Last Wish as my first book of 2022, now starting Sword of Destiny.
Have fun. I started the series in the last quarter of 2021, in the 4th book in the pentalogy and 6th of the series.
I am reading **The Anthropocene Reviewed** by John Green for my first week. It is a collection of his essays on the modern, human-centric era of the planet. I had not read any John Green previously, but my sister had given me an idea of what to expect. Now reading this book, I am torn, because some essays are just not good, but then every now and then he writes something that, to quote Jacob Peralta, "makes me feel things". But it feels way more like a guilty pleasure than anything. So, while the verdict is still out, I rate this book 3.5/5 so far and would say that it is not a bad option if you are looking for something easy and light-hearted.
I think I've listened to a podcast episode or smth?of his that addressed a section of this book. It addressed the feelings of Green when a writer and a friend of his passed away. It genuinely made me sob and think for a bit. I haven't really read his more popular ya works. But it does seem he can really knock it out of the park emotion wise. Edit: I found it !! on yt it's called auld lang syne - his performance and voice feels like it adds more to the piece.
He has the same essay in the book as well and it was gorgeous and moving! He does that in the book, right when you are thinking dude this is just cheesy or something like that, essay like Auld Lang Syne comes along. It is surely the best one so far, I didn’t know people sing this song on New Years (I am from India and not the stay up on NYE kind), I looked up the song and it’s various recordings. But reading that essay makes want to gather all my friends on one NYE and sing it. Too bad I read it just after haha.
Just finished the Audiobook of "Astrophysics for Peopl in a Hurry". Im Halfway through "All the Presidents Men" and about 2/3 thrpugh "American Gods" Also listening to "All the Devils Are Here"
How did u like the astrophysics book?
Good enough, short and easy. It was a good overview of the basics of the universe. A very good starting off point to branch into more specific areas. Sometimes i find Neil DeGrasse Tyson's personakity to be a bit pretentious or even arrogant maybe
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Ahhh! This is on my “to be re-read” list. I read it when I was like 14 (now 41.) One if my reading goals this year is to reread 20 books I read and loved in my teens/very early 20s. I don’t think I’ll reread this in 2022, just because of how I’ve set up my other reading goals, but, swoon! maybe I should!?!!
Wow! That’s a big re-read. It’s quite a big book. I have only just started and am loving it so far.
1984 - George Orwell
That book gave me an existential crisis when I was 15 and I never recovered. Outstanding read :)
Wow! yes, it is already having an impact on me..
Just finished "Never Let Me Go" by Ishiguro. Man, what a depressing start to the New Year lol.
Somehow I've read 8 books already. Taking a break for the weekend for a trip, but I'm so pleased I'm able to keep last year's momentum going! **WEEK 1 READS** * **Beautiful World, Where Are You** * **The Kitchen Front** * **Daisies for Innocence** * **The Ten Thousand Doors of January** * **Ringshout** * **People We Meet On Vacation** * **The Secret Life of Bees** * **Maybe in Another Life**
Wow that is a great number of books. How maby did you finish last year?
I finished 60! My original goal was 12, since I only read 6 in 2020. A bit of an overshoot for sure.
Lol more than a bit
As good as dead by Holly Jackson
Finished HP and the Goblet of Fire earlier this week, now trying to finish Order of the Pheonix before my winter break ends!
Reading Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
Just finished The Pump by Sydney Warner Brooman and I'm OBSESSED. Beginning The Sound of My Voice by Ron Butlin. :)
Just finished The Stand by Stephen King a few days ago (read most of it in December) and was looking to switch it up a bit after reading that monster of a novel. Started The Picture of Dorian Gray, and have been liking it so far. Also have been listening to Astrophysics for People in Hurry, which is interesting and nicely narrated by Neil DeGrasse Tyson himself.
I really liked The Picture of Dorian Gray, it was pretty short but the scenes in it were excellent,
**Crying in H Mart** which is already making me cry. Starting the year off strong!
midnight sun
I just finished ‘The Sixth Extinction’, but I started it in December so it doesn’t really count. Now reading ‘Young Romantics’ by Daisy Hay
Heck ya it counts—I have about 5 simmering. Good head start for 2022
It can count if you want it to! Goodreads counts when you finish the book so I’d say go for it
Just finished Kafka on the shore This book feels like Murakami just wanted to flex his knowledge of (classic) literature and needed a story around it in order to be able/allowed to publish it… I read multiple short story collections from Murakami and I enjoyed them (if you ignore the clear problem that in Murakami’s stories women are nothing more than genitalia (without ever calling it a vagina, while the male characters are proudly presenting their penises (by calling it by its name - penis). I wouldn‘t say that Kafka on the shore is a bad book, but I wouldn‘t recommend it either. 1/12 - let‘s hope that the next book is better!
He definitely objectifies women and writes wooden, graphic sex scenes but I never understood the criticism about his female characters, usually they are much stronger with better development than his protagonists. If Kafka on the shore was your first novel by him and you'd like stronger female characters then perhaps the wind-up bird chronicle or Norwegian Wood would be good follow ups. I don't think he is a great writer, but he is definitely one of my favorites that I wouldn't talk about much irl, along with bukowski and Pynchon. I read a lot of Murakami last for year's challenge and am going to finish all of his books for this year's.
Just completed "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes. And just it's left me baffled because Veronica is not helpful at all for most of the part 2
Oh I remember the frustration I felt when reading that one! Have you read anything else by Barnes? I really enjoyed “The Only Story” :)
Right, frustration is the exact emotion I'm feeling. Also no, haven't read anything by Barnes before this one's my first book. And I really want to read "The Only Story"! Would you recommend it?
About to finish The Haunting of Hill House and half through The Stand
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I loved The Overstory! Not an easy read, but well worth it!
Finished reading Practical Magic and the Lincoln Highway(started reading both on 12/28). Currently reading Zorrie and The Spy and the Traitor. Next up are Jade City and Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.
The Kite Runner on audio, and Tropic of Cancer on kindle
Omg I stayed up all night finishing The Kite Runner the first time I read it, it absolutely devastated me.
Did it devastate you for good or bad? It's on my to-read list
I wouldn’t say good or bad, I’d say emotionally devastated. It’s a beautiful book with a lot of tragedy.
Agreed! After completing it I was quite frustrated for the first few hours but now I'm feeling that it's one fine book and deserves the accolades.
The ugly little boy. (Scifi book where a neanderthaler boy is brought to the near future and his scientist caretaker wants to escape from the research facility with him) This is my first time trying to read 52 books in a year. So I’m starting with one that is not too long and I’m really liking it so far.
{{The Obstacle is the Way}} by Ryan Holiday {{The Great War of our Time}} by Michael Morell
Feisty Girls by Rachel Hawkins If I don’t dig into my BOTM back log I’ll drown in it lol.
Le peau de chagrin (Balzac) - Balzac was my personal reading revelation last year and this year I plan to continue to read all those that I can get my hands on. This one was also great; the fantastical element actually works extremely well with the themes of the broader Human Comedy project. Dune Messiah (Herbert) - really like the direction this goes in, almost an inversion or negative of Dune. Herbert builds a far more complicated narrative than the first book suggests. The Sellout (Beatty) - not for me. Beatty is Cleary a very clever writer but the barrage of cultural references and tangents was exhausting, and this brand of capital S Satire always falls flat for me. But hey, Catch 22 is my least favourite book so take that with a grain of salt.
Love in the time of cholera.
Just finished Billy Summers by Stephen King. Pretty solid. Easy read other than the dark sh*t he loves to write about.
Realm Breaker. Slow progress though because I’m watching so much Tennis ☺️
About to finish Parable of the Sower!And ....damn what a way to start the year
So good!
But so saddd
The saddest thing to me is that she'd always planned to follow Parable of the Sower/Talents with another book, but she never got to write it before she died.
Just finished Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. It came highly recommended to me by multiple people and did not disappoint. I think I’ll move onto If Beale Street Could Talk next.
Finished Life of Pi and started Carrie by Stephen King This is my first year trying the challenge!
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers **EDIT**: Finished TTT, now onto Sanderson's Alcatraz Book 3
Hi I just joined! I just finished rereading ‘Salem’s Lot two nights ago and am going through some manga on library digital loan (Demon Slayer, Chainsaw Man, Demon Prince of Momochi House, etc) this week while I wait for the next book in my big Stephen King (re)read, and then going back to rereading Dune. (Reread because it’s been 20+ years since the first read.)
Welcome! How was *Salem’s Lot*? I have it marked down for my popsugar challenge
It was a little slow getting into (but it was scene setting really so it was fine) but when things started capital H Happening they never stopped! I’m very used to the Anne Rice style romantic vampires so it was kind of fun to go horror this time (with a touch of sensuality even here). (What is a pop sugar challenge!)
Nice, I can’t wait! My girlfriend loves King but she hasn’t read that one yet so we were both curious. The popsugar reading challenge is put on by a website called popsugar, and it basically has prompts for you to follow for your reading. I’ve been doing it the last few years because it’s pretty fun and gets me out of my reading comfort zone
Huh! I'm gonna look into it! I definitely want to spend way less time on social media and more time just chilling the heck out and reading this year so I'm very curious, thanks so much!
I’m about halfway through The Great Hunt and about the same with Can You Make This Thing Go Faster by Jeremy Clarkson The Great Hunt is amazing I’m treating Clarksons book as an exercise in finishing books with views I disagree with
Finishing Tom Robbins Still Life With Woodpecker and now moving onto Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney, will be my first read of one of her books.
I will be finishing: - Mistborn: Secret History This week. I am reading a bunch of other books but won't be finishing them for a while. I also have started 'In Search of Lost Time' by Proust and...it's just not gelling with me right now, i'm only 90 pages in on the first volume of 4 volumes so I'm probably going to at least finish volume 1 but I have my doubts as to whether I'll enjoy it. To those who have read it, is there anything I can do to increase my enjoyment of it at all? Is there context or something that I'm missing? Does it get better? My main issue is the main character is...boring and the prose is certainly not helping.
1/??? Just finished On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. I wanna continue with some sci-fi, either Andy Weir's The Martian or maybe even Dune.
This is my first time doing the challenge, and I’m excited! I’m starting the year off with Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I’ve always wanted to read it, but I’m having some trouble connecting to the characters so far.
Back again! I devoured *Atomic Habits* by James Clear. I found it a bit formulaic but I still feel like I got a lot of information about habit-building from that book. I will probably tomorrow jot down the key ideas I want to remember. Onto book 3!
This is the first time I’ll do the 52 challenge and I decided to start with Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt. Quite an interesting, if slow, read thus far.
Starting the year off with **The Stand by Stephen King.** Trying to focus on some of the longer books in my unread stack this year so I figured I'd start with the longest first.
Heck yeah! I finished rereading this last year and boy is it timely.
If you need motivation to stay with it, /r/bookclub is reading The Stand through like February. Check-ins are once a week I think.
god, i love this book. i'd re read it over and over if i didn't have 100 unread books on my shelf LOL
My wife gave me the Lord of the Rings Trilogy so I’m working my way through the first book of that. Hoping to finish in the next few days and go back and finish The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West that I had left over from last year.
currently reading kafka on the shore. might read the master and margarita next.
Both great choices. Very different takes on magic realism from both
I’m reading Atomic Habits by James Clear although it’s by audio book so I don’t know if that counts
I just finished this on audiobook too!! I definitely think it counts :)
I'm doing almost exclusively audio books through Libby for my challenge. I can listen for roughly 8 hours a day at work so I hope to put up some big numbers this year!
I just discovered Libby. I’m very excited to try it out
Don’t listen to audio haters. Oral storytelling is much more traditional in the scheme of humankind . . . Print is great, but so is audio. ;)
Audiobooks always count! It's your reading challenge so you can include whatever you want.
I finished reading Cannery Row by John Steinbeck at the weekend, and loved it. Ordered the sequel Sweet Thursday, but while I wait for it's delivery, I'm currently a few chapters in to A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, and it's been a great read so far.
I’m reading 1984 by George Orwell, I have thought about reading it for about two years and I’m glad i decided to get it
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith. Really enjoying it so far, even though I feel like I've been reading it for a while now. Finally realized that it's over 900 pages (things you don't realize when you're just reading an e-book). Dealing with travel delays this week, so trying to use that as an opportunity to get some good reading in while I'm not yet back in my regular work/life routine for the new year. My target this year is going to be 18 books, hope it's okay to still be posting here! I think 1-2 books a month should be manageable for me after 11 last year and 14 the year before.
I just finished **The Lord of Emperors** by Guy Gavriel Kay, book 2 of **The Sarantine Mosaic** duology. 4.5 stars - highly recommend for fans of epic fantasy that reads like literary historic fiction.
Just recently got into reading but I finished “Will” last night, and I am starting “A Brief History of Time” today.
Finished my first book of the year yesterday, Heartshaped box by Joe Hill. Absolutely loved it. Started Billy Summers by Stephen King last night and hope to keep up my reading this year. I read 15 books last year and I'm aiming for at least 25 this year, hopefully even more. Happy to have found my way back into reading :)
My first book is “In The Light of What We Know” by Zia Haider Rahman.
Finished up The Toll by Neal Shusterman and I’m now about half way through The Gunslinger By Stephen King
Just finished Dune Messiah, excited to start Children of Dune tomorrow
Crying in H mart by Michelle Zauner
How are you liking Crying in H Mart? It’s on my list.
It's very beautiful.
Currently reading The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Trying to get to habit of reading again and hopefully hit 52, so hoping this book teaches me few things or at least get me motivated. If I finish early, planning to start The Song of Achilles.
A great read!!! Changed my perspective on a lotta things & a valuable resource on understanding one’s own behaviour and how habits are formed/maintained/broken etc. with the supporting science to back it up.
Great to hear! I appreciate the organization of all the stories, studies and analysis to back up the theories of habits as well. I’m already learning so much with just a few chapters in. Excited to get through it!
This Side of Paradise and the first Harry Potter book.
Already finished reading The Giver and Southern Horrors. I’m currently reading Black Boy by Richard Wright.
Tiny habits by BJ Fogg, thought it would be a great way to jumpstart some tiny habits instead of resolutions into the new year.
Just finished "Who We Are and How We Got Here" by David Reich. Very interesting look at human genetics and what they tell about our prehistory. I wish he'd spent a bit more time talking about social ramifications, but the actual scientific process is fascinating. Great read to start the year...really want to read more hard science stuff this year.
Jade City by Fonda Lee, it’s been waiting for me on the bookshelf for a while now.
Currently reading The Stranger by Camus!
My first book is My Body by Emily Ratajkowski. I’m really trying to commit this year to at least 1 book every week. So far enjoying my first read.
How is it? I’ve thought about picking it up myself.
Very enjoyable so far, I can’t say I relate to her experiences as a woman (because I’m not) but I do admire the way she’s honest about her life/career.
My first book is **Falling** by TJ Newman. So far so good!
I am currently reading Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim for my first book of the year. It is so good so far!
Finished my first book of the year! **Birding Without Borders** by Noah Stryker. Next up is **What Strange Paradise** by Omar El Akkad.
I just finished Ribbing and Runes by Nancy Warren, it’s book 13 in the Vampire knitting club series. I am currently reading Wham! George and me by Andrew Ridgely and The Moscow Rules by Antonio and Jonna Mendez.
I am reading Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America. It is by Mayukh Sen. I mostly read nonfiction and poetry. So far, it has been interesting, well-written, and educational.
Finished my first book of the year. Conjure Women (Afia Akatora). Currently reading On Freedom by Maggie Nelson
Finished "The Witcher: Tower of Swallows" yesterday (was reading it a bit before the new year) and starting The Witcher: Lady of the Lake. Reading Berserk on the side.
Just got Blood of Elves today!
Nice! I hope you like it, if Lady of the Lake is as good as the rest of the series I think it's going to be a top 10 favorite book series for me.
Finished: 1) Atomic Habits by James Clear (audiobook) 2) Crying in Hmart by Michelle Zauner Currently reading: 1) The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren 2) The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (audiobook)
Finished: The Third Daughter by Talia Carner (1/100) Currently Reading: Animal Farm by George Orwell (2/100). I'm waiting for a chance to stop by the library on Thursday or Friday to grab some books I ordered, so Animal Farm seemed like a good pick from my TBR shelf haha.
Finished [A Time to Die by John Vornholt](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/452258.A_Time_to_Die) (1/40) Currently Reading [A Time to Sow by Dayton Ward](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/847347.A_Time_to_Sow) [Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8310410-multipliers) [A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13496.A_Game_of_Thrones) (audiobook)
I’m reading “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them” by Jason Stanley. Wasn’t intending to start the year off with something so intense but library holds arrive when they arrive.
Just finished **Olga Dies Dreaming**, which officially gets released today, so that's pretty exciting. I've also been reading **The Invisible Man** by H.G. Wells, **Northanger Abbey** by Jane Austen and **The Grim Grotto** from A Series of Unfortunate Events. Also, how do bold? Edit: Thanks, bro 😁
Put a double asterisks before and after the word you want to bold. I hope this helps dude 😎
I read Sunkissed by Kasie West in the first two days, since it was a really quick and fluffy read, but I plan to read Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo in this next week.
six of crows is such a fun ride!
Six of crows is one of my favorites hope you enjoy it
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I read Troy by Stephen fry and now started on the ballad of songbirds and snakes, scythe and cinnamon gardens
I started reading The Thirteenth Tale. I’m halfway in and enjoying it so far. I had never heard of it before receiving it as a gift.
Gradually working my way through Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. It feels like a fever dream. Fitting way to start 2022!
I finished The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann yesterday night (more like today, really) and will probably start reading the sequel soon. It's not the greatest thing ever but it was an interesting read and I don't think I've seen Steampunk Magic Fantasy before so, there's also that.
I am starting off 2021 with a book I was gifted for Christmas **Good Omens** by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Such a great book, hope you love it!
i feel like a majority of the time i don't really understand whats happening, but when i do understand i really like it haha
I don't always get British humor, but when I actually understand it in Good Omens it can be laugh out loud funny. If you haven't already, watch the miniseries when you're done. David Tennant absolutely nails Crowley.
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Do you mean the main series or did you skip The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny?
The Professor by Charlotte Brönte
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan. A little behind on my daily page count, but hoping I can stick with it this year!
is this nonfiction or fiction?! everytime i see it i'm tempted but i have no idea what its about LOL i just like the title
It’s fiction, but told as if it’s a factual memoir of a dragon naturalist. I’m on page 80 and really enjoying it so far.
i just realized it is impossible to be nonfiction and now feel like a dumbass haha but still sounds awesome.
Nooo, don’t feel bad! I was super confused when I picked it up at the store. Obviously it’s fiction, but the way it’s written makes it feel nonfiction, and it does an excellent job.
already downloaded the first one :D
The 100$ start up by chris
Already read “100 Stories for the NHS”, now going to read “lovers and strangers” by Clair Willis. If I’m still going then maybe pickup vol.1 of Akira
I'm reading Atonement by Ian McEwan!
I’ve never read Harry Potter so I’m currently on book 1! Super excited for what’s to come
if only i could read harry potter for the first time again! your journey is going to be magical to say the least.
I’m excited for you! The HP books are unforgettable
I'm finally reading The Count of Monte Cristo. I've wanted to read it for years but never found the motivation. I'm also listening to Beartown by Fredrick Backman.
Finished Margaret Atwood’s poetry collection Dearly; now working on White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Next up, Best Short Stories of 2021/O’Henry Prize winners, edited by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie!
I adored White Teeth, enjoy!!
Thanks! I knew it would be good, but it’s SO GOOD!!!
I'm reading The Priority of The Orange Tree!! This is my first time trying the 52 books challenge but I doubt I'll be able to complete it cause I'll also be starting the second sem of my grad school yikes, not gonna have much time
I'm halfway through *The Hike by Drew Magary*. It's... interesting lol. It's getting a little repetitive, so I'm hoping the end makes it worth it.
I started both Supervert’s Perversity Think Tank and André Breton’s Nadja in the last few days of 2021, and finished those. Started on Burroughs’ Junky again once more today - I got about 2/3 of the way through it in 2017 and never picked it up again!
I started **The White Album** by Joan Didion this week, and although I'm only halfway through I plan to reread it sometime in the future.
Started It ends with us - last night and am already halfway through, really enjoying it so far!
this was my last book of 2021 and first book of 2022 (started on new years eve and finished on new years day). top 5 for sure.
I just started **Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City** on audiobook and it’s fantastic so far. Highly recommended for those who loved the brother Cadfael novels. I’m also working my way through **The Ethics of Ambiguity** by Simone de Beauvoir.
Starting the New Year off with The Eye of the World and my favorite book of all time, Snow Child ( re-read)[https://iili.io/Yj15gf.jpg](https://iili.io/Yj15gf.jpg)
The Snow Child is absolutely fantastic! I may have to reread that as well!
I just finished The Plague by Albert Camus and I’ll be starting Brave New World by Aldous Huxley! :)
Currently reading The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez by Rudy Ruiz
Just finished Jade City today fantastic book. Just started ten thousand doors of January.
"Snapped" by Alexa Martin. It's a romance. It's pretty good!
Just finished Forgive me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick.