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Mort is my favourite Discworld book - I hope you love it! A lot of people seem to be reading Burial Rites for that prompt - I read it this year, and it was definitely atmospheric. I'm currently reading Les Misérables and absolutely loving it, so I hope you do too!
Mort is actually going to be my fist Discworld Novel - so overdue! I've heard that it's a good place to start? Would you agree with that? Yes, Burial Rites just seemed like the obvious choice - it came to mind right away. I'm not even sure if there is another novel on my TBR that would fit.
I'm hoping I'll love Les Mis as much as I love the musical - fingers crossed!
I read the Discworld books in order (I've not yet finished, I'm up to #31, I think), but I know a lot of people suggest to read them out of order. It's so hard to know what the best way is, as you can only read them for the first time one particular way. Personally, I could only ever read starting at #1, but I think Mort is still pretty accessible if you haven't read any others. Death is my favourite character in the series - he's awesome!
Thanks for the input! I'll think it over - whatever I decide, I'll definitely start the Discworld books this year!
I can definitely understand why people suggest to read out of order, as the first two books are far from the best in the series. :) I just get twitchy thinking about it ... I can be a little rigid when it comes to following the rules!
That's exactly how I am usually when it comes to books :D I've just heard the suggestion so often... And I've heard that Mort is kind of the first of the death novels so that made me feel a lot better about this :)
I love Burial Rites, one of my all time favorites. I have Hannah Kent's new book The Good People in my challenge for 2017.I'm also excited to dive into VE Schwab and have the first book in the series A Darker Shade of Magic on my challenge list for next year; hopefully if I like that I can join in on A Gathering of Shadows which it seems like a lot of people have on their challenge list.
A Darker Shade of Magic was great - I honestly don't know why I did not get around to reading A Gathering of Shadows last year, so that's definitely at the very top of next years list. I hope you enjoy the series, too!
Sam wrote: "I love Burial Rites, one of my all time favorites. I have Hannah Kent's new book The Good People in my challenge for 2017.I'm also excited to dive into VE Schwab a..."
I didn't know about Hannah Kent's new book, thanks! I also loved Burial Rites and visited the place where the murder took place in Iceland, it was amazing to be able to really see the landscape as it's described in the book!
Katie wrote: "Good luck with your list, Julia :) I read Stardust recently and really enjoyed it, and The Time Traveler's Wife is very good too :)"Thanks Katie :) I've been meaning to read Stardust for years - or anything Neil Gaiman for that matter! It's high time...
Sophie wrote: "I didn't know about Hannah Kent's new book, thanks! I also loved Burial Rites and visited the place where the murder took place in Iceland, it was amazing to be able to really see the landscape as it's described in the book"All of you are getting me so excited for Burial Rites that I'm seriously considering to toss my resolution of reading in order overboard and to skip ahead to week 15 :D ...already. That didn't take long.
Iceland is also one of the places I want to try to visit this year! If I do I'll make sure to check that place out - It sounds amazing!
Iceland is an incredibly magical place! I went in the beginning of April and it was great to see spring start in the South, but the North still in high snow. Plus, there weren't a lot of tourists and we got to see auroras 4 nights in a row! I definitely recommend April or September if you want to see them...
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Additional Goals:
Finish or Catch up to a Series
Read the Man Booker Winner of the Past Year
Read One Embarrassing Unread Book ✓✓
✇ 600+ Pages
✼ less than 250 Pages
Completed 34/52
1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 ✓
Nominated - Best Historical Fiction
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view) ✓
3. A book you meant to read in 2016
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" ✓
5. A historical fiction ✓
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 ✓
In Germany - where I am - the movie does not come out until January 2017... So I'll count that :)
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title ✓
Original Choice: The Raven Boys or Life of Pi
8. A book written by a person of color
Original Choice: The Kite Runner or Behold the Dreamers
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list ✓
10. A dual-timeline novel ✓
11. A category from another challenge ✓
A Book about Books
12. A book based on a myth ✓
I'll count Zombies as a myth.......
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors ✓
I'm sure many authors recommend this....
14. A book with a strong female character ✓
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia ✓
I had to find a category for this, but I'll try to fit in my first choice Burial Rites somewhere else!
16. A mystery
17. A book with illustrations ✓
18. A really long book (600+ pages) ✓
19. A New York Times best-seller ✓
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
I think I've had this book for a good 10 years now.......
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read ✓
22. A book by an author you haven't read before
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list ✓
Original Choice: Les Misérables ✇
24. A book written by at least two authors ✓
25. A book about a famous historical figure ✓
Original choice: The Other Queen
26. An adventure book ✓
Original Choice: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
27. A book by one of your favorite authors
28. A non-fiction
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre ✓
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) ✓
33. A magical realism novel ✓
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty ✓
Original Choice: The Queen of the Tearling
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee
37. A book you choose randomly ✓
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
The Wizard of Oz
39. An epistolary fiction
40. A book published in 2017 ✓
41. A book with an unreliable narrator ✓
Maybe he's reliable. Maybe he's not technically the narrator. But I still don't trust Louis.
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) ✓
Original Choices: Wolf Hall ✇ or Atonement Re-Read
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold) ✓
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next"
45. A book with a one-word title ✓
Original Choice: Vicious
46. A time travel novel ✓
Time Travel... Time Stopping... Meh
47. A past suggestion that didn't win: A book about a place you've been
I fully agree with the title...
48. A banned book
Original Choice: 1984
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
My Grandma thought I'd love this
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) ✓
52. A book set in a fictional location ✓
Original choice: Empire of Storms ✇