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Will add more throughout the month but I definitely want to get through these!Read
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Saving my spot…🥰 Decided to start with some series...And I didn't end up reading that much :(Finished Reading:
Finished:A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab (owned since 2018/2019)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (bought in December 2022)
We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz (bought in December 2022)
The Snow Cat by Holly Webb (owned since 2018/2019)
Fair Warning by Michael Connelly (bought in October/November 2022)
Winter Magic: A Spellbinding Collection of Christmas Animal Tales by Alison Edgson (bought in December 2019)
A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig (bought in December 2022)
Jumpstart January 2023 - TBR
-- Gathering Storms by Kerry McGinnis
-- Their Rebellious Bride by Vanessa Vale -- 5★ -- 01/01/2023
-- Evil in Emerald by A.M. Stuart
-- Twisted Tea Christmas by Laura Childs
-- The Cellist by Daniel Silva
-- A Stone's Throw Away by Karly Lane -- 5★ -- 13/01/2023
Still working on my winter TBR, so this is perfect.Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems by Mary Oliver
Early Riser by Jasper FForde
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill
Galatea by Madeline Miller
If I'm able, I'd also like to reread A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver.
Hi! I don't have my whole Jan. TBR finalized yet, but here are some of the books I'm planning on reading! The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Sundial by Catriona Ward
This Vicious Cure by Emily Suvada
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie
Jumpstart JanuaryNine Liars
Are You Awake?
The Push
A Million to One
✔️Secrets So Deep ⭐⭐⭐
Unretouchable
✔️Well Traveled ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️Reader, I Murdered Him ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔️Pretty Dead Queens ⭐⭐⭐
✔️Our Crooked Hearts ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Working on my TBR still!
TBR:My #First2023:
Children of Memory NG ARC
Queen of Teeth #First23LOH READ
Churn the Soil #First22 Horror-not LOH
Graham Masterton's Rook Series
Children of Time Reread
Children of Ruin
4 NG current (through 12/31/22) and 4 NG Mount TBR (received before 1/1/22) for my personal '23 Reading Challenge [1 NG Current and 1 NG Mount TBR per each week of 2023] and 1+ from TBR PILE CHALLENGE.
Under a Watchful Eye TBR PILE CHALLENGE
A Bleak Remedy
Dead Station
Needle in a Timestack: And Other Stories
The Twin Paradox
Rook & Tooth and ClawKU
The Haunting of Capstone Mill: A Riveting Haunted House Mystery
The Last Invitation Libby
The Last Party NG
A Lighthouse Christmas
The Drift NG current
The Burning Girls NG Mount TBR
The Chateau
See You Yesterday
Quantum of Nightmares READ
What I don't finish can carry over to February. [All either owned or borrowed--Library, KU, Scribd--before 1/1/23.]
TITLES READ:
1. **Queen of Teeth 5*
2. **Can You Spot the Leopard?: An African Safari 5*
3. ** Quantum of Nightmares 5*
4. **Christmas at Wheeldale Inn 5*+
5. **Equoid 5*
6. **Escape from Yokai Land 5*
7. **The Labyrinth Index 4*
8. **The Thing in the Snow 5*
9. **City Under One Roof
10. Death's Cathedral: Supernatural Suspense Thriller with Ghosts acquired Jan. 10 for Review
11. The Fridge: A Short Story KU Jan. 13
12. You Must Remember This
13. Core Ruleset
14. TAVERN OF TERROR VOL. 4
15. **The Green Panthers
16. The White
17. **It Came From The Ice
18. **Vostok Station 2017! TBR PILE CHALLENGE #1
19.**Vostok
20. Night Terrors Vol. 24: Short Horror Stories Anthology
21. The Dark (#8, #9, #17, #18, #19, #21, #22 are for my personal Arctic/Antarctic Challenge!)
22. Anomaly
23. **Antarctica TBR PILE CHALLENGE #2
24. **Counting Arctic Animals
25. Pirantulas
26. **The Raven Mocker
27. A World Out of Time
28. **Frozen Solid
29. Tavern of Terror Vol. 5: Short Horror Stories Anthology
30. Night Terrors Vol. 25: Short Horror Stories Anthology
31. Oblivion Black
I will count those owned even before 1.1.2022.currently reading:
owned before 1.1.2022:
owned but sorted out
other:
Prompt- Defend the Dawn
- Amari and the Night Brothers
Other
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The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
Sundial by Catr..."
Omg, not you planning on reading The Weight of Blood (which I just finished literally this morning and LOVED) and Sundial (which is one of my 2022 favorites) in the same month, I am blessed 😭
Jumpstart January10/10
These were books I wanted to read in 2022 and somehow didn't get to them.
Books/authors linked when read
Murdered in the Mall Mila Evans 1/4/23
Mystery Maid Hazel Smith 1/6/23
Overboard at Christmas Wendy Neugent 1/3/23
Flea Market Felony Tricia L. Sanders 1/5/23
A Medium Homecoming Lynn Cahoon 1/7/23
Murder Is Proposed Thea Cambert 1/14/23
Poisoned by the Pool K.B. Blake 1/29/23
The Case of the Cat Crazy Lady Debbie De Louise 1/15/23
Sleigh Bells Ring, Jelly's Cooking Donna Clancy 1/18/23
Deadly Diva Hazel Smith 1/30/23
My reads for the month (though I know I won't come close to reading all of them) are as follows:Currently Reading:
- The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield
- Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
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- Quiet Fire: Emily Dickinson's Life and Poetry by Carol Dommermuth-Costa
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- Snuff by Terry Pratchett
On TBR:
- Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare
- Daphne by Josh Malerman
- Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong et. al
- The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
- The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman
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- The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
- My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
- The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling
- The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory
Possible Library Books:
- Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown
- Cackle by Rachel Harrison
- Donner Dinner Party by Nathan Hale
- How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
- Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall
TBR:↪︎ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
↪︎ Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
↪︎ Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
READ (reviews linked):
↪︎ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (4★)
↪︎ I Was Born For This by Alice Oseman (3★)
↪︎ Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (4.5★)
↪︎ La vie est un roman by Guillaume Musso (1.5★)
My goal to read in January:Finish:
* The Only Plane in the Sky
* Madly, Deeply, by Alan Rickman
* Lord of Shadows
Continue:
* Quit like a Woman
* This is your brain on birth control
Start:
* If Only
* My Story: Slave Girl - read: 5/1
Ambitious? Probably :p
Read:
* The Giver (2nd of January)
January Jumpstart 2023TBR: Books Already on my GR TBR list
Books Read:
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My January Jumpstart plan:Books not completed in December:
The Fires of Heaven - FINISHED
Lord of Chaos - FINISHED
A Crown of Swords
Other TBR books:
Maniac Magee - FINISHED
Dogsong - FINISHED
Rascal - FINISHED
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy - FINISHED
Grey Sister
Mr. Popper's Penguins - FINISHED
Other books:
Trixie Belden and the Mystery Off Old Telegraph Road (library) - FINISHED
Hounded (library) - FINISHED
The Night Circus (library) - FINISHED
January TBR so far and hoping to get to all of them!The Song of Achilles
For the Throne
The Luminaries
What Big Teeth
Cool for the Summer
Also I hope all of these are actually marked as on my want to read shelf because sometimes I think they are and then they just aren't lol.
I’m going to try to read 2 books from my bingo list that I didn’t get to read which are:Wishtress by Nadine Brandes
The Rewind by Allison Winn Scotch
And
New Jan release:
The Heir by Holly Black
Alright, New Year, here we go! JANUARY TBR:
(BOOKS OWNED BEFORE 1/1/23)
1. Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
2. Book Love by Debbie Tung
3. The Collective by Alison Gaylin
4. The 9th Judgement by James Patterson
5. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
6. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
7. The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D Jackson
8. Renegades by Marissa Meyer *RE-READ
9. Greenglass House by Kate Milford
10. The Silver Chair by C.S Lewis
11. Fray by Rowena Miller
12. The Bookworm Crush by Lisa Brown Roberts
(BOOKS NOT OWNED BEOFRE THE NEW YEAR)
13. Hitting the Books by Jenn McKinlay
14. Chew, Vol. 1
POSSIBILITIES:
15. House on the Hill, Vol. 6
Plus, finishing up roughly 7 roll-overs from December 😱
⛄ MY TBR ⛄➽ Top Books I want to read this month
Winter Vibes
➽ A Court of Frost and Starlight
➽ The Secrets of Winterhouse
Owned Books
➽ Legends & Lattes (Book Club Pick)
➽ Mysteries of Thorn Manor (Preorder)
eArcs
➽ Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
➽ Begin Again
❄️ PROGRESS ❄️
➽ Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💖
➽ Mysteries of Thorn Manor ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💖
➽ Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ Begin Again ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ Everything Is OK ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ Legends & Lattes ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ The Broken Girls ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ A Court of Frost and Starlight ⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ The Secrets of Winterhouse ⭐⭐⭐
➽ Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School ⭐⭐⭐
➽ Kill Joy ⭐⭐⭐
➽ The Winterhouse Mysteries ⭐⭐.5
➽ Kiss Her Once for Me ⭐
I have sooo many books on my physical TBR (mostly bc I just went on a serious spending spree at Barnes and Noble) so I've got plenty to choose from! It's so easy to get caught up on what you want your first book of the year to be, so I'm going to try my hardest not to worry about it too much lol
Some books I'm hoping to get to in January:
The Shattered City by Lisa Maxwell
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (I doubt I'll finish this one but I'm doing a readalong for it)
Dead Wake by Erik Larson (I'm hoping to read one nonfiction book a month!)
Jumpstart January TBR:
Showtime by Ricky Ruszin
The language of Cherries by Jen Marie Hawkins
Read:
I agree with Ally. Sooo many books on my TBR. First, I have two library books that I want to read:1. Wendell Berry; Life and Work - Jason Peters (decided that this is not the time to read this book; returned to the library)
2. So Far So Good - Ursula LeGuin (finished on 1/14/23)
Books I have on my shelf that are calling me:
1. Liberation Day - George Saunders
2. Why I Wake Early - Mary Oliver
3. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Books I have read in January (not listed above, but owned before Jan. 1)
1. Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home by Sue Bender, 4 stars)
I am going to try to not buy any new books in January. We will see how that goes. (I lasted 16 days before I went to a bookstore.)
Books on my TBR before Jan. 1 that I now own (as of Jan. 16)
1.Hello Grief, I'll be right with you by Alessandra Olanow (Finished on 1/18/23
Books that I didn't have until January
1. Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout (Finished 1/20/23 - 5*)
Happy New Year everybody! Lets get this party started 🎉Library Books
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✿ A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts by Leanna Renee Hieber
On My Kindle
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✿A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
TBR Cart
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➽ Top Books I want to read this month
Winter Vibes
➽ [book:A Court of Frost and Star..."
I'm so excited to discuss Mysteries of Thorne Manor with you! 🥺
destiny ♡ wrote: "Happy New Year, friends! It's time for the first monthly theme of the new year, and one of my personal favorite themes of the year: Jumpstart January!
Kick off the year with books already on you..."
Happy New Year, Destiny! <3 Here's my reading list for January, the majority of which have been languishing on my TBR for far too long.
Throne of Glass
Crown of Midnight
Heir of Fire
Warbreaker
A Touch of Darkness
The Golden Enclaves
A Flicker in the Dark This one is the only one that was not previously on my TBR, and I will be reading it with my in-person bookclub.
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❄️ TBR + current reads (ON-theme) ❄️
• House of Earth and Blood
• Wolfsong
• Kingdom of the Cursed
• Empire of the Vampire
• The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
• Alice
• Swordheart
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
• Book Lovers
• The Assassin's Blade (re-read)
• Legends & Lattes
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
❄️ TBR + current reads (OFF-theme) ❄️
• Whiteout (KU)
• Death (KU)
• Guests (2023 haul)
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☃️ completed reads (ON-theme) ☃️
• The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People ❌ DNF
• War ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• In Darkness, Delight: Creatures of the Night ⭐⭐
• Something Akin to Revulsion: Six Extreme Short Stories ⭐
• Episode Thirteen ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Dismembered ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
☃️ completed reads (OFF-theme) ☃️
• Freaky Briefs: 75 Short Absurdities ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
• Famine ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
• The Tiger Came to the Mountains ⭐⭐⭐
• Ark ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Doctor Ice Pick ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Here is my TBR:On theme
Seventh Son (to finish)
The Late Mattia Pascal
my editions:
Off theme
The Cider House Rules
The War of the Worlds
My NY resolution this year is to read my 23 in 2023 and partake in at least one book per month in this group's challenges/themes.A lot of children's books are on my list thanks to Christmas and my attempts to get my daughter to read new things!
Read
Rain Before Rainbows
That's Not My Kitten
A Big Surprise For Little Card
TBR
The Guide
My TBR for this month: Beasts of Prey **Finished
A Court of Wings and Ruin
The Heart Forger
The Dragon's Promise **Finished
Soul of the Deep
Gone South
Done:
A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel - 5 StarsLore by Alexandra Bracken - 3.75 Stars
The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder - 4.5 Stars
The Severed Thread by Leslie Vedder - 4.5 Stars
Horrific Modern Tales by Nick Schroeder - 4 Stars
Until the Last of the Us by Sylvain Neuvel -
My January TBR is rather small but Living Dead in Dallas by Charlene Harris
Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J Maas
And then whatever else feels right from my shelves this month.
destiny ♡ wrote: "Caro wrote: "⛄ MY TBR ⛄➽ Top Books I want to read this month
Winter Vibes
➽ [book:A Court of F..."
I'm SO excited for my preorder to come 🥰
Updated msg. 15, got 10 read that I'd wanted to get to last year. I'm happy with this jumpstart!
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Happy New Year, friends! It's time for the first monthly theme of the new year, and one of my personal favorite themes of the year: Jumpstart January!
Kick off the year with books already on your TBR! If you've never read it and you owned it (or had it on your TBR) prior to January 1, 2023, it counts for this challenge.
REMINDER: You don't have to only post the books you read that fit the theme, as long as one or more of your reads during the month match the prompt! (I personally like to notate in my list which of my reads fit the theme and which ones don't!)
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