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Thank you, Susy, and the same to you :-)
Hope you're still up for a Sanderson BR in February ;-)

rules memo:
+1 Book read
+1 > 400 pages
+1 > 500 pages
+1 > 600 pages
+1 on TBR before 2019
+2 Book fits monthly task task
January: new author
1. book: Archibald Leach und die Monstrositäten des Marquis de Mortemarte (6 points)
2. book: Die Spur der Bücher (3 points)
3. book: The Underground Railroad (4 points)
4. book: Das Schloss (3 points)
5. book: Die Magie der Namen (4 points)
6. book: The Casual Vacancy (4 points)
monthly total: 24 points
February task: One word title
1. book: We Should All Be Feminists (1 points)
2. book: Der Fluch (2 points)
3. book: Encyclopedia neurotica: Kleine Sammlung Asteresker Makabresken (2 points)
4. book: The Prophet (2 points)
5. book: Chronik eines angekündigten Todes (1 points)
6. book: Kismet (4 points)
7. book: Rosen und Knochen (2 points)
8. book: Tangleweed and Brine (2 points)
9. book: Eine kurze Chronik des allmählichen Verschwindens (1 points)
monthly total: 17 points
March task: Standalone
1. book: Die Geschichte von Blue ✔ (4 points)
2. book: The Silent Companions ✔ (4 points)
3. book: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ✔ (7 points)
4. book: Jane Eyre ✔ (5 points)
5. book: Das taube Herz ✔ (4 points)
6. book: Mein kleiner Horrortrip: Die kürzesten Gruselgeschichten aller Zeiten ✔ (1 point)
7. book: Dream Country (1 point)
8. book: Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood (1 point)
monthly total: 27 points
April task: leaving comfort zone
1. book: Die Ballade Der Trockenpflaumen Roman ✔ (4 points)
2. book: The Final Empire (5 points)
3. book: Paper Girls 5 (1 point)
monthly total: 10 points
Mai: erschienen vor 2000
1. Assassin's Apprentice ✔ (5 points)
2. Die Verlassenen (3 points)
3. Lovecraft Country (2 points)
4. Und Marx stand still in Darwins Garten (2 points)
5. No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (1 points)
6.The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince (2 points)
7. The Catcher in the Rye ✔ (4 points)
monthly total: 19 points
June task: original language not DE/EN
1. book: Die Ermordung des Commendatore 1: Eine Idee erscheint ✔ (5 points)
2. book: Der Bergmann ✔ (4 points)
3. book: Die Ladenhüterin ✔ (3 points)
4. book: A Gothic Soul ✔ (4 points)
5. book: Die dicke Prinzessin Petronia (1 point)
monthly total: 17 points
July: female author
1. book: The Burning Page ✔ (4 points)
2. book: Lagoon ✔ (4 points)
3. book: The Shelter - Zukunft ohne Hoffnung ✔ (3 points)
4. book: Anne Lister. Eine erotische Biographie ✔ (4 pints)
5. book: Rot ist doch schön: FUN & FACTS rund ums Thema Menstruation ✔ (3 points)
6. book: The Shadow of the Wind (4 points)
7. book: Märchen von Wölfen: Zum Erzählen und Vorlesen (2 points)
8. book: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (2 points)
9. book: Der Report der Magd ✔ (4 points)
monthly total: 30 points
August: Title ≥ 4 words
1. book: Erasmus Emmerich und die Maskerade der Madame Mallarmé ✔ (3 points)
2.book: The Single Hound (2 points)
monthly total: 5 points
September: Series
1. book: The Power (2 points)
2. book: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ✔ (6 points)
3. book: Lies Sleeping ✔ (4 points)
monthly total: 12 points
October: TBR-"corpses"
1. book: Wassererzählungen ✔ (4 points)
monthly total: 4 points
November: Tomes ( 500 pages minimum)
1. book: Zauberlehrling voller Fehl und Adel ✔ (6 points)
2. book: Small Great Things ✔ (6 points)
3. book: The Sandman #4 (1 point)
4. book: Die unheimliche Bibliothek (1 point)
5. book: Das NEINhorn (1 point)
6. book: This Monstrous Thing (2 points)
7. book: Godsgrave (3 points)
monthly total: 20 points
December: "Comfort food" (favourite genre)
1. book: Der Glöckner von Notre Dame (5 points)
2. book: Binti ✔ (3 points)
3. book: Die Verrückte Welt Der Paralleluniversen: Wie Oft Gibt Es Uns Wirklich? (2 points)
monthly total: 10 points
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2019 total: 196 points
memo: updates to message 2

[ ] 1. Auf Der Suche Nach Der Verlorenen Zeit 2. Im Schatten Junger Mädchenblüte - 2nd part
[✔] 2. Die Ermordung des Commendatore 1: Eine Idee erscheint - 1st part
[✔] 3. Assassin's Apprentice - 1st part
[ ] 4. The Wise Man's Fear - 2nd part
[✔] 5. Lies Sleeping - 7th part
[ ] 6. The Tropic of Serpents - 2nd part
[ ] 7. Drachenelfen - 1st part
[✔] 8. Life, the Universe and Everything - 3rd part
[✔] 9. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - 4th part
[✔] 10. Mostly Harmless - 5th & Final part
[✔] 11. The Burning Page - 3rd part
[✔] 12. The Final Empire - 1st part
[✔] 13. Die Spur der Bücher - 1st part
[✔] 14. Archibald Leach und die Monstrositäten des Marquis de Mortemarte - 1st part
[✔] 15. The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince - 0.5st part
[✔] 16. Der Schatten des Windes - 1st part
[✔] 17. Zauberlehrling voller Fehl und Adel - 1st part
[✔] 18. Godsgrave - 2nd part
[✔] 19. Home - 2nd part
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15/15 books read - challenge complete. ✔
memo: updates to message 21

2/2 Bingos - challenge complete. ✔
















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Self-control failed
Aim: Buy fewer unread books than in 2018: 74
Books bought in 2019: 79















































































Hope you're still up for a Sanderson BR in February ;-)"
Ehhhh, oops, I think you will have to refresh my memory.... 🙈

Hope you're still up for a Sanderson BR in February ;-)"
Ehhhh, oops, I think you will have to refresh my memory.... 🙈"
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...
:-D
@Rachael: Yeah, I know that problem - mean, ghastly book industry!


Hope you're still up for a Sanderson BR in February ;-)"
Ehhhh, oops, I think you will have to refresh my memory.... 🙈"
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/179..."
Aha! Man, that's going to be the 3rd time I'll be changing my 2019-TBR! lol
I think I would rather start the series in April though, seeing that the first quarter will be all about books made to movies and though they have been planning to make a movie of of Mistborn, it won't be coming out in 2019...
But that is, if it fits your reading schedule of course! Just let me know.

@Susy: Fine with me - especially as I wanted to cram in as many books under 200 pages in February as posdible ;-) April it is :-)

@Susy: Fine with me - especially as I wanted to cram in as many books under 200 pages in February as posdible ;-..."
Cool! On my schedule (before I forget again lol)!
Have you seen this chart:
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/quest...

@Susy: Fine with me - especially as I wanted to cram in as many books under 200 pages in February as posdible ;-..."
Cool! On my schedule (before I forget again lol)!
Have ..."
Interesting - Sanderson himself suggests this, which would make starting with Mistborn right for me ;-)

@Susy: Fine with me - especially as I wanted to cram in as many books under 200 pages in February as posdible ;-..."
Cool! On my schedule (before I forget again..."
Yes, I saw that too but didn't find it very useful cause the only recommendation he makes is that we start with the first book of a series and not the second one, I mean duh!
Other than that he says you can read it in any order, which doesn't help my indecisiveness lol.
With the chart I can see that Mistborn is a good start and what to read after the 7 primary Mistborn books. (yup already making plans for 2020 hahahaha)

@Susy: Fine with me - especially as I wanted to cram in as many books under 200 pages in February as posdible ;-..."
Cool! On my schedule ..."
Ok, I'm less ambitious there - I'm mainly trying to find out whether I enjoy Sanderson at all ^^'


@Susy: Fine with me - especially as I wanted to cram in as many books under 200 pages in February as posdible ;-..."
Cool! On my schedule (before I forget again lol)!
Have ..."
Excuse me but I'm eavesdropping on your conversation about the reading order of BSanderson's Cosmere books.
Initially, I thought I might read Elantris in March then join the two of you in April, bbbuuutttt... Elantris is 622 pgs (I had it confused with The Emperor's Soul novella which is 175 pgs.
On a different tangent, I read The Farseer Trilogy this year, Auntie Terror, and really loved it.
I'll be reading The Liveship Traders in 2019--do you plan to continue with Hobb's Realm of the Elderings series?

As for Robin Hobb: If I like the Assassin's Apprentice, then yes, definitely.

As for Robin Hobb: If I like the Assas..."
I went through my 2019 TBRs this morning and deleted enough books to make room for the Mistborn Trilogy, so I'll be joining you for that. *pumps fist
You'd mentioned above that you're looking for short books, too?
(So we can balance our reading of the long books!)
Hobb's Farseer Trilogy has a prequel, The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince, which runs 160-175 pages.
The Assassin's Apprentice begins with an unexplained premise about Wit magic (communicating with beasts). The prequel has a minstrel narrate the tale of a Farseer ancestor to explain why.

Yay!
Ehh, does that mean you'll only be reading the first 3 books?

Ehh, does that mean you'll only be reading the first 3 books?..."
*coughs (Does that "Ehh" express disdain or disappointment? lol)
Have you two decided what order to read the Cosmere series?
Will you be including Elantris, The Emperor's Soul, Warbreaker, and Storm Archive #1 before Alloy of Law?
I'll read in any order the two of you decide.

MB1 The Final Empire, 541 pgs
MB2 The Well of Ascension, 590 pgs
MB3 The Hero of Age, 572 pgs
MB3.5 Mistborn: The Secret History, 160
EL2 The Emperor's Soul, 175 pgs
(Stormlight Archive #1: Way of Kings, 1001 pgs.. Ok, scratch this one for 2019)
EL1 Elantris, 662 pgs
(WB1 Warbreaker, 669 pgs: will read this on my own later)
MB4 The Alloy of Law, 333 pgs (sigh of relief!)
MB5 Shadows of Self, 385 pgs
MB6 Bands of Mourning, 448 pgs
I guess my question is whether we'll be reading Mistborn 3.5 and Elantris #1-#2?
Sorry to clutter your Member's Corner space, Auntie Terror.
Should we go clutter up the Buddy Reads thread instead?

Glad you join us for Sanderson. So far I've made no plans beyond The Fallen Empire - I'll have yet to decide whether I like his writing. And I'm slightly afraid because he, too, is a hyped author in the fantasy area - which doesn't always go well for me (example: GRRM).

MB1 The Final Empire, 541 pgs
MB2 The Well of Ascension, 590 pgs
MB3 The Hero of Age, 572 pgs
MB3.5 Mistborn: The Secret ..."
Please feel free to clutter here all you like/we need ;-)

I read the existing volumes of GRRM's Song and Ice last year at a friend's recommendation but never watched the TV series. I prefer Hobb's books.
I've never read anything by Sanderson before, either, but I keep seeing Mistborn in online articles about "The Best Fantasy Series," lol.


January
Must-read: Archibald Leach und die Monstrositäten des Marquis de Mortemarte ✔
TBR-Jar: Die Spur der Bücher ✔
TBR-Twin: The Casual Vacancy ✔
Bonus-Book: BR The Underground Railroad ✔
Subabbau-Thema: neuer Autor

Feel absolutely free to ;-)
Just read


Thus:
4/36 books read!
February
Must-read: Kismet ✔
[As much from the short reads stack as possible, primarily: [book:We Should All Be Feminists|23301805] [✔], Der Fluch [✔], Der Prophet [✔], A Gothic Soul [ ], Tangleweed and Brine [✔], Märchen von Wölfen [ ], Rosen und Knochen [✔], Eine kurze Chronik des allmählichen Verschwindens [✔], Chronik eines angekündigten Todes [✔], Encyclopedia neurotica: Kleine Sammlung Asteresker Makabresken [✔] ]
TBR-Twin: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ✔
Subabbau-Thema: Einworttitel

14/36 books read!
March
Must-read: Die Geschichte von Blue ✔
TBR-Jar: Das taube Herz ✔
TBR-Twin: Jane Eyre ✔
Bonus-Book: BR The Silent Companions ✔, GR The Catcher in the Rye
Subabbau-Thema: Standalone

I'm very impressed at how you've organized your monthly reads, choosing one or more books from various challenges/goals for every month!
Looks like you will definitely be increasing your 2019 personal challenge, though. It's only early March and you're almost halfway done already!
This year, I impetuously signed up for every yearly challenge this group offers. This is the last time I'll ever do this! It's led me to choose some very light reads just to finish some of the prompts, haha.
Looking forward to April when we start readng Sanderson's The Final Empire together! I've never read any of his books yet....

It's now 18/36 books read!
So I'm mostly satisfied so far ;-)
April
Special exception read: Die Ballade Der Trockenpflaumen Roman ✔
TBR-Jar: Die Verlassenen ✔
TBR-Twin: Lovecraft Country ✔
Bonus-Book: BR The Final Empire ✔
Subabbau-Thema: Raus aus der Comfortzone

But still:
20/36 books read! (And also Paper Girls, Vol. 5.)
May
Must-read: Assassin's Apprentice ✔
TBR-Jar: No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need ✔
TBR-Jar: Und Marx stand still in Darwins Garten ✔
TBR-Twin: The Catcher in the Rye ✔
Subabbau-Thema: erschienen vor 2000

June
Must-read: Die Ermordung des Commendatore 1: Eine Idee erscheint ✔
2nd Must-read: The Wise Man's Fear
3rd Must-read: Der Bergmann ✔
Bonus-Book: Der Schatten des Windes ✔
Subabbau-Thema: Originalsprache nicht DE/EN
I also read/finished A Gothic Soul, Die Ladenhüterin and a graphic novel, Die dicke Prinzessin Petronia.
June went a bit off track, but I can now claim:
28/36 books read!
On to July:
July
Must-read: The Burning Page ✔
TBR-Jar: Lagoon ✔
TBR-Twin: Der Report der Magd ✔
Bonus-Books: Anne Lister. Eine erotische Biographie ✔, The Shelter - Zukunft ohne Hoffnung ✔
Subabbau-Thema: weiblicher Autor

Now going +x from this month on:
August
Must-read: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ✔
TBR-Jar: The Single Hound ✔
TBR-Twin:
Bonus-Book: Erasmus Emmerich und die Maskerade der Madame Mallarmé ✔
Subabbau-Thema: Mehrworttitel

Thus, not much achieved in Augst. But I can at least claim:
40/36 books read, and one audiobook dumped in boredom.
On to...
September
Must-read: Lies Sleeping ✔
TBR-Jar: Wassererzählungen ✔
TBR-Twin: The Power ✔
Bonus-Book: Prinzessin Insomnia & der alptraumfarbene Nachtmahr
Subabbau-Thema: Bücherreihen

At least I can claim:
43/36 books read.
October
Must-read: Drachenelfen
TBR-Jar: Zauberlehrling voller Fehl und Adel ✔
TBR-Twin: Small Great Things ✔
Bonus-Book: (beta-reading unpublished novel of colleague)
Subabbau-Thema: SUB-Leiche

But of this day, I can claim 45/36 books read.
On to November:
November
Must-read: Auf Der Suche Nach Der Verlorenen Zeit 2. Im Schatten Junger Mädchenblüte
TBR-Jar: This Monstrous Thing ✔
TBR-Twin: Godsgrave ✔
Subabbau-Thema: Wälzer

December
Must-read: The Tropic of Serpents
TBR-Jar: Binti ✔
TBR-Twin: Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame ✔
Subabbau-Thema: Lieblingsgenre

Personally, the second half of this year was somewhat difficult for me as I ended my relationship of almost 6 years and had to cope with having to live with them for two more months in one flat. And then somewhat refurbish my flat and find my feet again and stuff. That had a bigger impact on my reading than I thought it would. But:
I've finished 52 books in 2019.
I completed by goals for the TBR Jar Challenge, the Genre Bingo Challenge, the Serial Reader Challenge and got 196 points at the SuBAP-Challenge.
And I've met new and stayed in contact with acquainted readers on here, found new books and authors and enjoyed myself inside books a lot.
So thanks to all my Goodreads friends, contacts and tbr twins, and everybody else on here - hope you have a great New Year's Eve tonight and an even better 2020.
And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere
And gie’s a hand o’ thine... ;-)
Books mentioned in this topic
Home (other topics)This Monstrous Thing (other topics)
Das NEINhorn (other topics)
Die unheimliche Bibliothek (other topics)
Small Great Things (other topics)
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After having felt over-burdened at points in 2018 by my own planning and having sometimes been slightly wearied by (again my own) monthly themes, I’ve come up with a different method this time.
For most months, I’m assigning 3 regular book slots, and one bonus slot for buddy reads, group reads, spontaneous additions, when I just have time for more, and so forth.
So I made myself
a must-read shelf for 12 books, one per month: here
a tbr-jar for the 2019 TBR-Jar-Randomizer Challenge (which will also come to include all books bought in 2019): here
a short reads stack for February – short month, short reads: here
a Serial-Reader-Challenge -Shelf: here
a shelf for Subabbau-Punkte-Challenge (point & theme based): here
a shelf for priority bonus reads: here
January
Must-read: Archibald Leach und die Monstrositäten des Marquis de Mortemarte ✔
TBR-Jar: Die Spur der Bücher ✔
TBR-Twin: The Casual Vacancy ✔
Bonus-Book: BR The Underground Railroad ✔
Subabbau-Thema: neuer Autor
February
Must-read: Kismet ✔
[As much from the short reads stack as possible, primarily:
[book:We Should All Be Feminists|23301805] [✔], Der Fluch [✔], Der Prophet [✔], A Gothic Soul [✔], Tangleweed and Brine [✔], Märchen von Wölfen [✔], Rosen und Knochen [✔], Encyclopedia neurotica: Kleine Sammlung Asteresker Makabresken [✔], Chronik eines angekündigten Todes [✔], Eine kurze Chronik des allmählichen Verschwindens [✔] ]
TBR-Twin: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ✔
Subabbau-Thema: Einworttitel
March
Must-read: Die Geschichte von Blue ✔
TBR-Jar: Das taube Herz ✔
TBR-Twin: Jane Eyre ✔
Bonus-Book: BR The Silent Companions ✔,
GR The Catcher in the RyeSubabbau-Thema: Standalone
April
Special exception read: Die Ballade Der Trockenpflaumen Roman ✔
TBR-Jar: Die Verlassenen ✔
TBR-Twin: Lovecraft Country ✔
Bonus-Book: BR The Final Empire ✔
Subabbau-Thema: Raus aus der Comfortzone
May
Must-read: Assassin's Apprentice ✔
TBR-Jar: No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need ✔
TBR-Jar: Und Marx stand still in Darwins Garten ✔
TBR-Twin: The Catcher in the Rye ✔
Subabbau-Thema: erschienen vor 2000
June
Must-read: Die Ermordung des Commendatore 1: Eine Idee erscheint ✔
2nd Must-read: The Wise Man's Fear
3rd Must-read: Der Bergmann ✔
Bonus-Book: Der Schatten des Windes ✔
Subabbau-Thema: Originalsprache nicht DE/EN
July
Must-read: The Burning Page ✔
TBR-Jar: Lagoon ✔
TBR-Twin: Der Report der Magd ✔
Bonus-Book: Anne Lister. Eine erotische Biographie ✔, The Shelter - Zukunft ohne Hoffnung ✔
Subabbau-Thema: weiblicher Autor
August
Must-read: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ✔
TBR-Jar: The Single Hound ✔
TBR-Twin:
Der Nachtzirkus (audiobook)- abandonedBonus-Book: Erasmus Emmerich und die Maskerade der Madame Mallarmé ✔
Subabbau-Thema: Mehrworttitel
September
Must-read: Lies Sleeping ✔
TBR-Jar: Wassererzählungen ✔
TBR-Twin: The Power ✔
Bonus-Book: Prinzessin Insomnia & der alptraumfarbene Nachtmahr
Subabbau-Thema: Bücherreihen
October
Must-read: Drachenelfen
TBR-Jar: Zauberlehrling voller Fehl und Adel ✔
TBR-Twin: Small Great Things ✔
Bonus-Book: (beta-reading unpublished novel of colleague) ✔
Subabbau-Thema: SUB-Leiche
November
Must-read: Auf Der Suche Nach Der Verlorenen Zeit 2. Im Schatten Junger Mädchenblüte
TBR-Jar: This Monstrous Thing ✔
TBR-Twin: Godsgrave ✔
Subabbau-Thema: Wälzer
December
Must-read: The Tropic of Serpents
TBR-Jar: Binti ✔
TBR-Twin: Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame ✔
Subabbau-Thema: Lieblingsgenre
The Challenges I’m joining for 2019 can be seen in separate posts below so that I can update them more “orderly”.