2025 Reading Challenge discussion

My first goal is 80 books in 2018.
I read a lot more in 2017, but felt I hurried through some of them... I will try to relax a little more in the future :-)

Updated my goal to 110 books (09.07.18) COMPLETE ✔️

Challenges will be tracked here: link

Total no. of books: 147
Total no. of pages: 47.127
Books: 53 / Ebooks: 49 / Audio: 45

Ratings:
1* = I hated it / DNF
2* = I did not like it
2,5* = Could be worse
3* = I liked it
3,5* = Above average
4* = Really good
4,5* = Can’t get much better
5* = Fantastic

Extras (not part of any challenge): 34

✅ And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer - 3,5⭐️
✅ How to Live in Denmark: A humorous guide for foreigners and their Danish friends - 2,5⭐️
✅ Alex, Approximately - 4⭐️
✅ One Small Act of Kindness - 4⭐️
✅ The Love Detective - 3,5⭐️
✅ The Rosie Project - 5⭐️
✅ Båven om Gud - 3,5⭐️
✅ The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country - 4⭐️
✅ Little Lord Fauntleroy - 4,5⭐️
✅ And the Mountains Echoed - 3⭐️
✅ Curtain - 3,5⭐️
✅ Love from Paris - 4⭐️
✅ The Giving Tree - 2⭐️
✅ The Kidnapped Prime Minister: A Short Story - 4⭐️
✅ The Angel's Game - 4⭐️
✅ The Deerslayer - 3,5⭐️
✅ The Last of the Mohicans - 4⭐️
✅ The Pathfinder - 4⭐️
✅ The Pioneers - 3⭐️
✅ The Prairie - 3,5⭐️
✅ Marcherende Myrer - 4⭐️
✅ Hothouse Flower - 4,5⭐️
✅ Hævn - 3,5⭐️
✅ By the Pricking of My Thumbs - 4⭐️
✅ The Prisoner of Heaven - 3⭐️
✅ Last Sacrifice - 4,5⭐️
✅ Tilgivelse - 3,5⭐️
✅ Nynne 4: Alt skal væk - 3,5⭐️
✅ The Scorch Trials - 3,5⭐️
✅ Making Faces - 4⭐️
✅ The Alphabet House - 3⭐️
✅ The Deal of a Lifetime - 3,5⭐️
✅ En ualmindelig og kortfattet danmarkshistorie: fra begyndelsen til for nylig - 3⭐️
✅ The Mysterious Island - 4⭐️

BBC Classics - more or less this list: link

Read before 2018: 59
Read in 2018: 9

✅ 1. Far from the Madding Crowd - 2,5⭐️
✅ 2. The Lovely Bones - 3⭐️
✅ 3. Romeo and Juliet - 2,5⭐️
✅ 4. Prince Caspian - 3,5⭐️
✅ 5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - 3⭐️
✅ 6. The Silver Chair - 3,5⭐️
✅ 7. The Horse and His Boy - 3,5⭐️
✅ 8. The Magician's Nephew - 3⭐️
✅ 9. The Last Battle - 3⭐️
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Every year:

Read a book from every year - here is the complete list so far: link

Added in 2018:
✅ 1874 - Far from the Madding Crowd - 2,5⭐️
✅ 1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin - 4,5⭐️
✅ 1959 - Cat Among the Pigeons - 4⭐️
✅ 1895 - The Time Machine - 2⭐️
✅ 2018 - Still Me - 4,5⭐️
✅ 1920 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles - 3⭐️
✅ 1595 - Romeo and Juliet - 2,5⭐️
✅ 1963 - The Clocks - 3,5⭐️
✅ 1887 - A Study in Scarlet - 3⭐️
✅ 1929 - Partners in Crime - 4,5⭐️
✅ 1953 - The Silver Chair - 3,5⭐️
✅ 1948 - Taken at the Flood - 3⭐️
✅ 1933 - Lord Edgeware Dies - 4⭐️
✅ 1886 - Little Lord Fauntleroy - 4,5⭐️
✅ 1975 - Curtain - 3,5⭐️
✅ 1841 - The Deerslayer - 3,5⭐️
✅ 1826 - The Last of the Mohicans - 4⭐️
✅ 1840 - The Pathfinder - 4⭐️
✅ 1823 - The Pioneers - 3⭐️
✅ 1825 - The Prairie - 3,5⭐️
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Reducing my own-not-read pile in 2018: 35

✅ Uncle Tom's Cabin - 4,5⭐️
✅ Murder in Mesopotamia - 5⭐️
✅ Cat Among the Pigeons - 4⭐️
✅ Captains Courageous - 4⭐️
✅ Hvilken befrielse: Fortælling fra en barndom i nazismens og retsopgørets skygge - Ny revideret udgave - 2,5⭐️
✅ 4:50 from Paddington - 4,5⭐️
✅ Stalky & Co. - 3⭐️
✅ Origin - 5⭐️
✅ Evil Under the Sun - 4⭐️
✅ The Mysterious Affair at Styles - 3⭐️
✅ Belmarsh: Hell - 4⭐️
✅ American Gods - 3⭐️
✅ The Clocks - 3,5⭐️
✅ The New Collected Short Stories - 4⭐️
✅ If You Could See Me Now - 3⭐️
✅ Heksen - 3,5⭐️
✅ Elephants Can Remember - 4⭐️
✅ The Man From St. Petersburg - 4⭐️
✅ Purgatory - 4,5⭐️
✅ The Accused - 4⭐️
✅ Båven om Gud - 3,5⭐️
✅ Det andet ansigt - 4⭐️
✅ Lord Edgeware Dies - 4⭐️
✅ Heaven - 4,5⭐️
✅ The Secret of Chimneys - 4⭐️
✅ The Silkworm - 5⭐️
✅ Little Lord Fauntleroy - 4,5⭐️
✅ The Deerslayer - 3,5⭐️
✅ The Pioneers - 3⭐️
✅ Hothouse Flower - 4,5⭐️
✅ Den tredje søster - 5⭐️
✅ Nynne 4: Alt skal væk - 3,5⭐️
✅ The Gift - 3⭐️
✅ The Alphabet House - 3⭐️
✅ The Mysterious Island - 4⭐️

January

January no. of books: 9
January no. of pages: 3186
Books: 3
Ebooks: 4
Audio: 2

Chronological order:
01 Jan - Book: Batman: The Long Halloween - 2,5⭐️
01 Jan - Ebook: Far from the Madding Crowd - 2,5⭐️
02 Jan - Book: De voksnes rækker - 4⭐️
04 Jan - Ebook: Murder in Mesopotamia - 5⭐️
05 Jan - Audio: Dybet - 4⭐️
06 Jan - Book: Uncle Tom's Cabin - 4,5⭐️
12 Jan - Ebook: Spirit Bound - 4⭐️
21 Jan - Ebook: Cat Among the Pigeons - 4⭐️
26 Jan - Audio: Bad Boy - 4⭐️

February

February no. of books: 13
February no. of pages: 3567
Books: 6
Ebooks: 4
Audio: 3

Chronological order:
01 Feb - Book: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - 3⭐️
05 Feb - Book: Turtles All the Way Down - 5⭐️
06 Feb - Ebook: Caught - 4⭐️
08 Feb - Ebook: All the Bright Places - 5⭐️
11 Feb - Book: Captains Courageous - 4⭐️
16 Feb - Audio: Victim Without a Face - 3,5⭐️
18 Feb - Ebook: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - 3,5⭐️
19 Feb - Book: Hvilken befrielse: Fortælling fra en barndom i nazismens og retsopgørets skygge - Ny revideret udgave - 2,5⭐️
21 Feb - Audio: And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer - 3,5⭐️
22 Feb - Ebook: 4:50 from Paddington - 4,5⭐️
24 Feb - Book: Stalky & Co. - 3⭐️
26 Feb - Book: The Time Machine - 2⭐️
27 Feb - Audio: Pagten - 4⭐️

March

March no. of books: 13
March no. of pages: 3975
Books: 6
Ebooks: 5
Audio: 2

Chronological order:
04 Mar - Book: The Cuckoo's Calling - 5⭐️
05 Mar - Audio: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - 3⭐️
06 Mar - Ebook: The Martian - 4,5⭐️
09 Mar - Book: The Lovely Bones - 3⭐️
10 Mar - Ebook: Five Little Pigs - 4⭐️
12 Mar - Book: Quidditch Through the Ages - 3,5⭐️
13 Mar - Ebook: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - 4⭐️
14 Mar - Book: The Tales of Beedle the Bard - 4⭐️
16 Mar - Audio: The Chemistry of Death - 4⭐️
18 Mar - Ebook: Evil Under the Sun - 4⭐️
21 Mar - Book: Origin - 5⭐️
23 Mar - Ebook: The Sun Is Also a Star - 4,5⭐️
26 Mar - Book: Still Me - 4,5⭐️

April

April no. of books: 12
April no. of pages: 3677
Books: 4
Ebooks: 3
Audio: 5

Chronological order:
02 Apr - Audio: The Ninth Grave - 2,5⭐️
05 Apr - Book: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - 2,5⭐️
08 Apr - Audio: The Mysterious Affair at Styles - 3⭐️
11 Apr - Book: Belmarsh: Hell - 4⭐️
14 Apr - Ebook: Insurgent - 3,5⭐️
14 Apr - Audio: Written in Bone - 4⭐️
20 Apr - Audio: Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods - 4⭐️
22 Apr - Book: Romeo and Juliet - 2,5⭐️
22 Apr - Ebook: Murder Is Easy - 4⭐️
23 Apr - Audio: Gregor and the Marks of Secret - 4⭐️
26 Apr - Book: Et forjættet land - 3,5⭐️
29 Apr - Ebook: Will Grayson, Will Grayson - 4,5⭐️

May

May no. of books: 12
May no. of pages: 3760
Books: 3
Ebooks: 5
Audio: 4

Chronological order:
06 May - Ebook: Parker Pyne Investigates - 4⭐️
06 May - Audio: Lime's Photograph - 3⭐️
08 May - Ebook: Dødsvalsen - 3,5⭐️
11 May - Book: American Gods - 3⭐️
13 May - Audio: Gregor and the Code of Claw - 4⭐️
16 May - Book: The Last Jew - 4,5⭐️
19 May - Ebook: Allegiant - 4⭐️
23 May - Audio: Whispers of the Dead - 3,5⭐️
25 May - Audio: Prince Caspian - 3,5⭐️
26 May - Ebook: Four: A Divergent Story Collection - 3,5⭐️
27 May - Ebook: How to Live in Denmark: A humorous guide for foreigners and their Danish friends - 2,5⭐️
30 May - Book: Summer Desserts - 3,5⭐️

June

June no. of books: 11
June no. of pages: 4094
Books: 3
Ebooks: 5
Audio: 3

Chronological order:
01 Jun - Ebook: The Clocks - 3,5⭐️
04 Jun - Book: The New Collected Short Stories - 4⭐️
05 Jun - Book: If You Could See Me Now - 3⭐️
06 Jun - Ebook: A Study in Scarlet - 3⭐️
10 Jun - Audio: Eighteen Below - 3⭐️
13 Jun - Audio: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - 3⭐️
14 Jun - Ebook: We Were Liars - 3⭐️
22 Jun - Ebook: Partners in Crime - 4,5⭐️
24 Jun - Audio: Alex, Approximately - 4⭐️
26 Jun - Ebook: Tangled - 4,5⭐️
29 Jun - Book: Heksen - 3,5⭐️

July

July no. of books: 18
July no. of pages: 5352
Books: 9
Ebooks: 4
Audio: 5

Chronological order:
01 Jul - Ebook: While the Light Lasts - 3⭐️
01 Jul - Ebook: Twisted - 4⭐️
03 Jul - Book: Elephants Can Remember - 4⭐️
04 Jul - Ebook: Black Coffee - 4⭐️
05 Jul - Audio: Little Fires Everywhere - 3⭐️
05 Jul - Book: Tamed - 4,5⭐️
06 Jul - Audio: The Silver Chair - 3,5⭐️
08 Jul - Book: Tied - 3,5⭐️
09 Jul - Audio: The Horse and His Boy - 3,5⭐️
13 Jul - Book: The Man From St. Petersburg - 4⭐️
18 Jul - Audio: The Calling of the Grave - 4⭐️
22 Jul - Book: Løbende tjener - 4⭐️
25 Jul - Book: Red Rising - 4,5⭐️
27 Jul - Book: Starclimber - 4,5⭐️
28 Jul - Audio: One Small Act of Kindness - 4⭐️
29 Jul - Book: Purgatory - 4,5⭐️
30 Jul - Ebook: Taken at the Flood - 3⭐️
31 Jul - Book: The Accused - 4⭐️

August

August no. of books: 12
August no. of pages: 3638
Books: 4
Ebooks: 4
Audio: 4

Chronological order:
01 Aug - Book: Where the Heart Is - 4⭐️
03 Aug - Audio: The Love Detective - 3,5⭐️
04 Aug - Ebook: The Pale Horse - 3⭐️
10 Aug - Audio: Red Queen - 3⭐️
11 Aug - Ebook: The Rosie Project - 5⭐️
13 Aug - Book: Båven om Gud - 3,5⭐️
17 Aug - Audio: Dansende røde bjørne - 3,5⭐️
19 Aug - Audio: The Magician's Nephew - 3⭐️
19 Aug - Ebook: The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country - 4⭐️
21 Aug - Book: Det andet ansigt - 4⭐️
24 Aug - Ebook: The Secret of Chimneys - 4⭐️
26 Aug - Book: The Giver - 4,5⭐️

September

September no. of books: 9
September no. of pages: 3756
Books: 2
Ebooks: 2
Audio: 5

Chronological order:

01 Sep - Audio: The Maze Runner - 3⭐️
01 Sep - Book: Heaven - 4,5⭐️
02 Sep - Audio: The Last Battle - 3⭐️
02 Sep - Ebook: Lord Edgeware Dies - 4⭐️
05 Sep - Audio: The Silkworm - 5⭐️
09 Sep - Book: Little Lord Fauntleroy - 4,5⭐️
12 Sep - Audio: Hviskende lig - 4⭐️
20 Sep - Audio: And the Mountains Echoed - 3⭐️
24 Sep - Ebook: 11/22/63 - 5⭐️

October

October no. of books: 17
October no. of pages: 4874
Books: 5
Ebooks: 6
Audio: 6

Chronological order:
01 Oct - Audio: Golden Son - 3⭐️
04 Oct - Book: Speaker for the Dead - 4,5⭐️
06 Oct - Audio: The Song of Achilles - 2,5⭐️
07 Oct - Ebook: It Ends with Us - 5⭐️
10 Oct - Ebook: Gathering Blue - 4,5⭐️
13 Oct - Ebook: Curtain - 3,5⭐️
14 Oct - Audio: Career of Evil - 5⭐️
19 Oct - Audio: Love from Paris - 4⭐️
19 Oct - Book: The Giving Tree - 2⭐️
20 Oct - Audio: The Kidnapped Prime Minister: A Short Story - 4⭐️
20 Oct - Ebook: The Angel's Game - 4⭐️
21 Oct - Book: The Deerslayer - 3,5⭐️
22 Oct - Ebook: The Last of the Mohicans - 4⭐️
22 Oct - Book: The Pathfinder - 4⭐️
24 Oct - Book: The Pioneers - 3⭐️
24 Oct - Ebook: The Prairie - 3,5⭐️
29 Oct - Audio: Marcherende Myrer - 4⭐️
.

November

November no. of books: 9
November no. of pages: 3505
Books: 1
Ebooks: 5
Audio: 3

Chronological order:
01 Nov - Ebook: Blodspor - 4⭐️
04 Nov - Ebook: Messenger - 4⭐️
04 Nov - Audio: A Place Called Here - 2,5⭐️
11 Nov - Book: Hothouse Flower - 4,5⭐️
15 Nov - Audio: Hævn - 3,5⭐️
16 Nov - Ebook: Son - 4,5⭐️
18 Nov - Ebook: By the Pricking of My Thumbs - 4⭐️
23 Nov - Audio: The Prisoner of Heaven - 3⭐️
27 Nov - Ebook: Last Sacrifice - 4,5⭐️

December

December no. of books: 12
December no. of pages: 3739
Books: 5
Ebooks: 3
Audio: 4

Chronological order:
01 Dec - Book: Den tredje søster - 5⭐️
02 Dec - Ebook: Home For Christmas - 4⭐️
02 Dec - Audio: Tilgivelse - 3,5⭐️
05 Dec - Book: Nynne 4: Alt skal væk - 3,5⭐️
08 Dec - Book: The Gift - 3⭐️
10 Dec - Audio: The Scorch Trials - 3,5⭐️
14 Dec - Audio: Making Faces - 4⭐️
17 Dec - Book: The Alphabet House - 3⭐️
18 Dec - Ebook: Flere bitre mandler - 2⭐️
19 Dec - Ebook: The Deal of a Lifetime - 3,5⭐️
21 Dec - Book: The Mysterious Island - 4⭐️

I always love your organization, Mie! I'm curious to see what you'll be reading this year in both English and Danish :)
Best of luck!

Happy reading Mie in 2018!

Mie wrote: "My first goal is 72 books in 2018.
I read a lot more in 2017, but felt I hurried through some of them... I will try to relax a little more in the future :-)..."

Ah yes, relaxing while reading and not rushing... I want that too.... But I also want to read A LOT OF books, cause there are so many great books waiting for me (and so little time, I'm a slow reader). So quite a dilemma!

Wishing you the best of luck on your goal and all of your challenges Mie & happy reading of course!!

2018 is getting nearer, and I am as excited as ever about all the new challenges ahead, so I’ll be hitting the ground running!

Already started 3 of books that will count towards numerous prompts, so I am expecting a great start :-)

Wishing everybody a fantastic New Year and, of course, happy reading!!!

Happy New Year, Mie! I hope you have a fantastic 2018, reach your goal and find some great books along the way :)

January summary:

Even if this month was dominated by 12 days in Croatia with very little time to read, I still somehow managed to finish 9 books :-)

There were a couple of not-so-good ones among them, but mostly 4 star reads. My one top rating of 5 stars went to Agatha Christie’s Murder in Mesopotamia - not surprisingly, as I am a big Christie-fan ;-)

Now back from holiday I can’t wait to pick up the reading pace again!!!

Wow, impressive Mie!

Hoping you had fun getting lost in some pages in your first month!

February summary:

I think, that in future I will trust my instinct - if I am hesitant towards a book and have postponed reading it for years, then I should probably avoid it all together...

There are enough good stories out there, that I can’t wait to get started on, to “waste” time on so-so books :-) And with that in mind I will go through my pre-picked choices for the yearly challenges again! Something I love to do, as it happens, haha...

This months favourites are definitely Turtles All the Way Down and All the Bright Places - gave both of them 5⭐️

Mie wrote: "February summary:

I think, that in future I will trust my instinct - if I am hesitant towards a book and have postponed reading it for years, then I should probably avoid it all together...

There are enough good stories out there, that I can’t wait to get started on, to “waste” time on so-so books :-)..."

Very wise words Mie! I should follow them...yet I keep reading books I’m not really invested in. For a variety of reasons. I’m afraid it will pick up and that I would be missing out on a fantastic book (end). Also I’d feel like I’d read the first part for nothing, that I had wasted my time on a book I didn’t finish (a book and pages that would not count towards my challenge lol).

Exactly, Susy - imagine that? :-D

What would be worse, I wonder... Forcing myself to finish for a challenge, or the wasted time spent on a DNF, that won’t count? Arghhhh....

Hmm, for now I will (hopefully) enjoy the books I am really exited about. And if I suddenly get the urge, maybe then I will try out the ones, I am less exited about :-)

Mie wrote: "Exactly, Susy - imagine that? :-D

What would be worse, I wonder... Forcing myself to finish for a challenge, or the wasted time spent on a DNF, that won’t count? Arghhhh......."

I’m quite sure the first one is worse... So, why doesn’t that help me accept that sometimes I should just not finish a book??

Sounds like a plan Mie! Happy reading!!

You are doing great! Hoping March is a smashing success for you.

March summary:

WOW - what a month! 13 books read/listened to and 10 of them I gave 4-5 stars... That is a lot of great books 😄 One stands out from all the others and that is Origin - I expected it to be fantastic, so I was afraid of being disappointed, but I wasn’t in the least!

I won’t be off to flying start in April; 2 of the 3 books I’m currently reading are a bit “so-so”, although not so boring, that I will abandon them - I’ll probably just take a few days longer reading them 😉

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. I hope that April brings you many more five star reads. Do you have a stand out book so far this year?

April summary:

Not a five star month, April... Although, some very good books thankfully found their way to me and it all culminated with Will Grayson, Will Grayson - almost as good as Turtles All the Way Down, my favourite year-to-date :-)

Reading different genres makes it difficult to compare the books - like apples and pears. Is a good and exiting mystery as good as the heartwarming YA that made me cry? Yes! Because they both entertained me thoroughly!

Must remember that thought :-)

Mie wrote: "Reading different genres makes it difficult to compare the books - like apples and pears. Is a good and exiting mystery as good as the heartwarming YA that made me cry? Yes! Because they both entertained me thoroughly!."

I know what you mean. I have that problem too for example first reading a very deep story that has a lot going on and with very interesting characters and after that a mystery, thriller or action where it is all about the suspense. I tend to evaluate the latter as superficial although within its own genre it might be really good (and perhaps I wouldn't have felt the way I did if I had read some other book before)....

Exactly! And you are spot on - about how a book can feel superficial compared to the last book, even if it was really good.

Maybe I feel like it is a bit of a guilty pleasure to enjoy what some people would call “lighter” genres? But that is just silly and I will stop that immediately, haha...

Mie wrote: "Maybe I feel like it is a bit of a guilty pleasure to enjoy what some people would call "lighter"genres?..."

That's exactly what I feel... Will stop it too (if you will lol)

You are doing great! I hope May is a fantastic month filled with books and sunshine!

Not a lot of great reads this month... But you can’t win every time ;-)

I did, however, have a Why-did-I-not-read-that-before-experience in The Last Jew. I read a trilogy by this author a couple of years ago, and I really liked it. So why I kept putting it off, I don’t know - happy to have read it now :-)

We are having fantastic weather in Denmark right now, and I am really enjoying reading in the sun! I love summer ❤️

Mie wrote: "We are having fantastic weather in Denmark right now, and I am really enjoying reading in the sun! I love summer ❤️ "

Same here in the Netherlands!!

Got through a big book this month - well, big for me (670 pages) - and the first half took me quite some time... It turned out to have a nice plot, but for me it could have been 200 pages shorter 😄

Summer holiday is starting in 2-3 weeks, and I hope that the books I am planning for that will be amazing! At least the planning is amazing - I just love that part 😉

Mie wrote: "Got through a big book this month - well, big for me (670 pages) - and the first half took me quite some time... It turned out to have a nice plot, but for me it could have been 200 pages shorter 😄..."

Love the planning too! 😃

Hope you’ll find some gems!

Hoping July is full of page turning and falling in love with a new book!

Ahhh, summertime! Been on vacation and all I did was relaxing in the sun, swimming, eating, drinking - and reading 😄

I saved many good books for this month - no less than four of them I gave a 4,5⭐️ rating! One of them was Red Rising and I am really looking forward to the next one in the series!

That sounds wonderful Mie!

In August I could still enjoy a couple of weeks holiday, and I really mixed up the genres I was reading. From sci-fi over macabre murders to romances 😊 My best read of the month was - rather surprisingly - The Rosie Project. So sweet and funny!

According to the calendar summer is now over, but as an avid reader I look forward to spending rainy days in the company of good books 😍

September summary:

I am getting better at choosing books, that I really WANT to read, instead of what fits into my schedule or a challenge or what I think I ought to read...

That doesn’t mean they are all 5 star books, but I had f.ex. been meaning to read 11/22/63 for 2 years, but it is almost 900 pages, so I kept putting it off.

And then it turned out to be one of the best books I’ve ever read!

I hope I won’t be making that mistake again 😉

October summary:

Read a lot this month, but many of them were short ones. My best read, though, was It Ends with Us - I laughed and cried 😍

I can’t help it - I started planning for next year! So, I know which books wil definitely be read, and which probably will be read - now I need some prompts to match them to...

Come on with popsugar reading challenge, already! 😂

Thank you for your comment over on the "Let's Chat" thread!
It prompted me to come visit your Personal Challenge thread here.
Gracious, but you read a lot!
I had to giggle a little how you started out the year with the thought to read at a more leisurely pace and yet you read so many books this year!
I'm with you about planning for next year. I started a 2019-tbr shelf and a series-tbr shelf lately so I won't forget later which books I'm saving to read first next year. *rolls eyes

I do understand what you say about the short (monthly) challenges. After I get my yearly and quarterly reading lists decided, I get tempted by a monthly...I'm trying to exercise more prudence. HAHAHA

Hahaha, I know... My “slow pace reading” plan didn’t go so well!
And that is also why I will do less short term challenges...

There are more books over 500 pages I want to read and more books in English (and my first language is Danish) and I have put them off to fit more books into monthly challenges.

So... Fingers crossed that I will have more luck with that in 2019!

Good luck with your planning. I’ll check out your choices in the challenges and personal folders for next year 😄

You know this already, I'm sure, but this year's PopSugar Reading Challenge was announced last year on November 2.

Doesn't that mean that the 2019 PopSugar Reading Challenge will be announced in the next few days?
I'm stupidly excited, haha.