YA Addicted Book Club discussion

My goal of trying to read 100 books in 2020 was cute, but this year I'm gonna stick with my go-to number: 75 books 😂

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83/75

2021 New Release Challenge

The challenge: To read books released in 2021

Level chosen: New Release Newbie – 1-30 books per year (with a personal goal of at least 10!)



13/10

Mount TBR Reading Challenge

The challenge: To read books you have owned prior to January 1, 2021.

This past year I failed epically at reaching my goal of 60 books, so I'm gonna bring down my goal to something more manageable...

Level chosen: Mt. Ararat — Read 48 books from your TBR pile.



40/48

Finish the Series Reading Challenge

The challenge: To finally finishing those series that you’ve started but not yet completed. Series can be already completed as well as still ongoing. For ongoing series, the goal is to catch up to the most recent book published by the end of 2021.

Level chosen: A-List Series Finisher — Finish 9+ Series



9/9

A Marvel themed reading challenge!

The challenge: Read as many books as you can for each category. (But realistically, I'm gonna aim to read at least one book for each of the 21 categories.)

1. The Reality Stone: Magical realism, alternative histories, historical fiction:
Loop
A Midsummer Night #nofilter

2. The Soul Stone: LGBTQ+ main characters:
The Red Scrolls of Magic
Contagion
Nothing But Blackened Teeth

3. The Mind Stone: Anthologies & collections:
Dangerous Girls
Deadly Games

4. The Time Stone: Different publication years:
2007: Hot Mama
2013: More Than Jamie Baker
2017: Revenge of the Evil Librarian
2018: Archenemies
2019: Curse of the Evil Librarian
2020: Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Three

5. The Power Stone: Authors of color:
Dating Makes Perfect
Warcross
Wildcard
Girl of Flesh and Metal
Dreams of Flesh and Metal

6. The Space Stone: Books translated into your reading language:
The Beauty of Being a Beast

7. Thor: Favorite rereads:
Black Widow
Unraveled
Deadly Sting
Winter’s Web
Silent Night

8. Loki: Books based on legends or mythology:
Touch of Frost
Kiss of Frost

9. Ant-Man: Books under 250 pages:
Midnight Movie
Call Waiting
Dating Makes Perfect
COVID-128
Japanese: An Essential Guide to Japanese Language Learning
A Karma Girl Christmas
Kissing Jamie Baker
The Dead Girlfriend
Christmas On Kaku
Bot Duct Skeleton
Into the Dark

10. The Hulk: Books over 500 pages:
Queen of Air and Darkness
Renegades
Supernova

11. Homecoming: Physical books purchased prior to 2021:
Blind Date
First Date
The Boyfriend
The Rich Girl
Secret Admirer
Killer's Kiss
The Girlfriend
Night Games
The Boy Next Door
Cat
Fear Hall: The Beginning
Fear Hall: The Conclusion

12. Jarvis: New audiobooks/ebooks:
Clash of Flesh and Metal
Orbital Operations
The Dust of Kaku
A Mess Of Gravity
The Trouble with Tinsel
Glitter in the Stars
Sweeping S'Ride
Good Girl, Bad Blood
An Unexpected Boyfriend for Christmas

13. Captain Marvel: New (to you) female authors:
The Supervillain and Me
SuperNova
The Leveller
Baking All Year Round: Holidays & Special Occasions
The Vacuum of Space
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

14. The Falcon: New (to you) male authors
I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

15. Phase 4: New books by previously read authors:
Instant Karma
Survive the Night
The Lodge

16. Journey Into Mystery: Comics
Zeus: King of the Gods

17. SHIELD Recruiting: Books recommended to you by friends/family
Aurora Rising

18. Shang-Chi: Author's debut book:
Being Jamie Baker
Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me

19. The ARC Reactor: ARCs (or books published in 2021):
Last Strand
Capture the Crown
The Final Girl Support Group
Dead Silence
A Sense of Danger
All These Bodies

20. The Bifrost: Authors from different countries:
I Can Make You Thin
None Shall Sleep

21. WandaVision: Books made into TV/movies

20/21

Oh I love the Marvel one! Best of luck on all your challenges

Thanks! Yeah I'm excited for the Marvel one!

Finished my first book of the year ! It's a new release (well, yet to be released, I guess lol) and it's the end of a series... for now. The author said she will come back to the series eventually, but I'm counting this for my Finish the Series challenge. It's the end of this arc, at the very least.

Good luck on your goals this year!

Thanks! 😊

Because I'm not ready to say goodbye to Gin yet, I re-read . It was great, of course 😉

Lol nice Lili!

Finished my re-read of and it was great! Unfortunately, I haven't yet read any books that count toward my mount tbr challenge *sigh* 😂

Me either Lili so I get that feeling!! I just have to finish the one I'm reading though.
Keep enjoying the books

Finished another re-read: it was great!

In January I read 4 books (3 were re-reads):

3 books I purchased and one was an ARC, although all 4 were ebooks.

ALL of them were 5 stars, which is a nice change from last month's mediocre books 😬

And all 4 were adult urban fantasy.

Yay for good reads!

Yay. So glad you enjoyed them.

Finished , my first book that counts for my mount tbr challenge... finally 😅

Yay!

Finished . Another one off the tbr. I wasn't planning on going back to this series so soon... but here we are. Lol.

Finished

Finished my one fantasy book for the year lol And it was SO good!! I think I actually liked this more than the OG series, Crown of Shards 😅

Finished and it was great! I'm doing pretty well on the New Release Challenge, but because of that, I'm not doing so great on the Mount TBR challenge 😅

Wow! Congratulations on at least not starting new series :D

Thats okay! You're doing well on one side at least!

Thanks guys! Yeah, I've only started one series so far this year... but we're only two months in and I have zero faith in myself to keep that number that way 🤣

In Februrary I read 1492 pages across 4 books and 1 novella

The 4 books were part of a series and the novella a standalone. I also started 1 new series and finished 0 😅

2 were ARCs and the rest finished copies. 4 were ebooks and 1 was an ebook/audiobook combo.

4 were 5-star reads and 1 was a 4-star.

All books were by authors I've previously read.

4 were adult books and 1 was YA... I think? Lol.

I read a Horror Comedy, Paranormal Romance, Fairy Tale Retelling, Epic Fantasy, and a Horror book.

Nicely done Lili!

Great stats! Only 5 and 4-stars reads make definitely a great month!

Thanks guys! So that trick to that, Elena, is reading books by authors whose work you know you'll love 😆 But I do need to branch out this month and read some books by new-to-me authors.

I get it! But it's also good to read new authors as you don't know where the brilliant might be hidden :D

Finished which counts for my tbr challenge AND it's a series finished! Yay!

Read . Another book off the tbr!

Elena wrote: "I get it! But it's also good to read new authors as you don't know where the brilliant might be hidden :D"

Yes, exactly! And it's especially surprising when it's a random freebie I got from Amazon. Lol. I've found a lot of gems that way!

Read . Wasn't great but at least it was better than the one I read yesterday 😂 And I'm finally making some progress on that tbr.

There are some freebie gems out there for sure. Theres also a lot of dirt so it can take a lot of sifting!
Good progress you've got going on Lili!

Right! I generally enjoy the search though. Lol.
Thanks! 😊

Read . I think I'm gonna take a break from these books before I fall into a reading slump. Lol. These last three have been duds 😬 I am doing a fun board game for Dewey's 24 hour Readathon, so I'm gonna go do that. I just landed on contemporary so I guess I have to go read a contemporary now. Not my favorite genre, but I don't dislike it as much as I used to. Lol.

That sounds like a good plan Lili! And oo board game things are fun

Finished ... finally. It was... not my favorite. But at least it's another book off the tbr 😅 I have 2 more books left to finish this series, but I'm gonna take a break from this series is too, I'm just not enjoying it very much. The romance is killing me! I kinda hate. Lol. Anyway, after finishing that I almost want to go back to more Stine books... why am I a martyr? 😂

Lol glutton for punishment! But yay for finishing it anyway

I guess?? 😂

So I finished and it was SO GOOD! It was really cute and fun and I really enjoyed it! Especially after having read so many duds in a row. Lol. I'm gonna have to catch up on all the other Marissa Meyer books I haven't read.

I agree it was super cute!

So glad to hear that you enjoyed it too, Laura!

Read and I really enjoyed it! It was really cute and I liked the banter bewteen the characters. Didn't love it as much as Instant Karma, but still a really good read! Especially for someone who doesn't really read contemporary. Lol.

I also read and it was so fun revisiting these characters. I missed them!

Yay for having a second good contemporary read Lili! Whats up next on your game?

Yeah! When it comes to contemporaries, I tend to stick with authors whose work I've read before, and that seems to be working for me so far. Lol.

So after my second contemporary, I landed on Read a Short Story, so that's why I read covid-128. After that I landed on Read for 2 Hours, so today I read . Stine books are always a good 2 hours or less, so that one was easy. Next I have landed on Read an Audiobook 😬 I don't know why, but I'm just not into audiobooks, so this was another square I was dreading. I was actually going to bend the rules and listen to a narration that's not technically an audiobook, with the story being a good 4 hours long. But I actually want to try and complete the prompts here. Lol. So I went to my library and just browsed the site. I finally settled on because I've been really slacking in my Japanese studies so maybe listening to this will get me back into gear. HOWEVER, I also need a physical book to read so I rolled again and landed on Read a Sci-Fi/Fantasy. I think this is technically cheating but I'm gonna be working on both of these squares at the same time, so it's fine? Lol. So for this square I think I am finally going to start . Maybe. Lol.

I think thats allowed in this case so go for it. And its fabulous that the game is getting you to try other things

In March I read 8 book and 1 short story.

7 were part of a series and 2 were standalone. I also finished 1 series this month!

Two were 5 stars, two were 4 stars, two were 3 stars, two were two stars, and one was 1 star.

1 was adult, and 7 were YA.

I read 1 UF, 1 PNR, 4 mystery/thriller, 2 contemporary, and 1 sci-fi.