2025 Reading Challenge discussion

This is the first time I'm participating in the yearly personal challenge.
I found myself with nothing to do for 3 months in the midst of the pandemic and hence I reached 50 (my all-time high) books in 2020. Reaching 51 in 2021 is going to be more challenging, but that's what I'm here for!!
I discovered and added many more books to my TBR this year and want to get as close as I can to finish them all.

Progress: 28.
Doing a bad job at updating the books. :/

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LISTENING: 9 books. msg #4

Progress: 7/9

GIVE US A CLUE:
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msg #9
12 books (4 deductions)

Progress: 9/12 books
1/4 deductions

SERIAL READER:
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21 books pledged -msg 172
Progress: 7/21

Have to finish:
The Dark Tower

The Clifton Chronicles

William Warwick #2

Want to start:

Goodluck!

COLOR CHALLENGE 2021:
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Progress: 15/18

I hope you go beyond your 51+ book resolution! Best of Luck!

Thanks Lisa and Blagica!!

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Charming prose with a good balance of feel-good and sad moments. The book has a great flow in unfolding the events of the war in Guernsey.
As mentioned in my review, I love to read about the lives of "unimportant" people during important times.

UNO 2021 (Challenge from a different group)
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2. Wizard and Glass
Best book of the series so far. Their ka-tet is back on the path of the beam after a long peek into Roland's past

3. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
A touching short story, one that only Fredrik Backman could pull off. It's short enough for me to keep re-reading it every once in a while.

4.It Only Happens in the Movies
Liked the ending. One extra star just for it.

5. Eleanor & Park
2 kids who don't quite fit in. Park readily accepts that he loves her while Eleanor is more resistant to do so. Park comes from a loving well-to-do family while Eleanor doesn't. An overall well-put love story.

6. Mightier Than the Sword
This one was finally a little better than the rest. It is the only book I like after the first one in the series.

7. Veronika Decides to Die
It seemed like a lifetime ago since I first read this one. I was not sure I would like it again in the current state of my mind. But I ended up liking it even better.

8. The Catcher in the Rye
The book was good but I personally found the whiny tone quite annoying but, maybe that was the point of it.

9.Hidden in Plain Sight
Good thriller if you're in the mood for it. I hope this doesn't become another Clifton Chronicles type series.

10. A Christmas Carol
I loved it.

11. 'Salem's Lot
I have quite a lot to say about this book. Most of all I hadn't read a proper horror standalone by Stephen King in a long time and I realized how much I missed that.

12. Anxious People
There is something about Frederik Backman. He just puts everything I need to hear in words.

13. Dark Matter
2 days of journey 7 days apart and I was so engrossed in this book that I didn't feel the fatigue of traveling or even the discomfort of wearing a mask and face shield all day long.

14. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
Just the kind of light-hearted humor I needed.

14 books is great progress! is there a book you would read again or recommend to anyone!

Blagica wrote: "14 books is great progress! is there a book you would read again or recommend to anyone!"

Thank you Blagica!
Frederik Backman's books keep me grounded to my feelings and And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is a book short enough to definitely keep revisiting every now and then.
Also I'd recommend Recursion to anyone who is interested in thrillers!!

Well, clearly I could've done much better at updating my progress. I finished 52 books this year.
So I did achieve my goal and I'm proud of it but I'll be less ambitious next year to leave space for me to read bigger books and keep updating my progress as well.