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Heartless is one I haven't decided if I'll read or not. I enjoyed the Lunar Chronicles, but I didn't love them. So I'm really not sure if it's something I want to read.

C P wrote: "Heartless is one I haven't decided if I'll read or not. I enjoyed the Lunar Chronicles, but I didn't love them. So I'm really not sure if it's something I want to read."

I really liked Cinder, didn't get to the rest of series though. I just didn't enjoy Heartless, I was really disappointed.

Was there something specific you didn't enjoy? Or just the overall story?

It dragged to me, so boring. Way too many pages and way to many stupid characters for what you know is already going to happen. It's a given how it turns out but there were other things that I guessed right off the bat. There were a couple surprises but too much was easy to guess.

I see. Sometimes stories like that really work and other times not so much. Too bad you didn't like it more.

C P wrote: "Kaylin, I'm interested in City of Thieves. When were you planning to read that one? I might be able to fit that in this month."

I don't have a set plan for it. I was thinking more towards the end of the month, though. :)

The end of the month should work for me. I need to get it from the library. Do you want to say the 25th to start?

C P wrote: "The end of the month should work for me. I need to get it from the library. Do you want to say the 25th to start?"

The 25th sounds great!

Perfect, here is the thread, Kaylin: /topic/show/...

I've just added a song for #2 on my playlist, which I left blank before :) It's Getcha Head in the Game from High School Musical

Excellent, will add it. :)

How is everyone doing? Are you able to get some reading time so far in this new year?

I finished a book last night, just have to figure out where it fits. I'm hoping to finish another today between the work I have to get done.

That's great Courtney! :)

I'm going to try and finish one of my library books that won't fit the challenge today. And then I have a book lined up to start reading that will fit the challenge.

Hope you enjoy them, Colleen!

The new year has been busier for me than I expected, so I haven't had much time to sit and read as I would like.

I have been listening to this past week, because I decided to read/listen to more classics this year. Not sure it will fit the challenge yet, but I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would! :)

Wuthering Heights is an interesting read. I've read it twice now. Every time the words "unreliable narrator" are mentioned, it is immediately what comes to mind. We had some interesting discussions about this in a class I took in college.

C P wrote: "Wuthering Heights is an interesting read. I've read it twice now. Every time the words "unreliable narrator" are mentioned, it is immediately what comes to mind. We had some interesting discussions..."

Exactly! I feel like the whole story wouldn't be nearly as interesting without the unique second-hand narration. It took me a little while to get used to, but it puts such an interesting perspective on things.

I can certainly see why it's taught in so many classes, as it keeps making me think and question things!

Definitely. I don't remember finding it so interesting the first time I read it. But two of my classes in college discussed it and there were some great discussions.

1. The Prophet's Song by Queen - A Book About Religion
2. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before by The Smith's - A Book Based on a Classic or
3. Injection by Rise Against - A Book About Health
4. It's My Life by Bon Jovi - A Memoir
5. Over the Hills And Far Away by Gary Moore - An Epic Fantasy
6. Another Heart Calls by All-American Rejects (A Current Fav) - Contemporary/ Romance
7. Brave by Sara Bareilles - A Book About Expressing Creativity
8. True Colors by Cyndi Lauper (1986) - A book about spies/hidden identities
9. Royals by Lorde (Pentatonix Version!) - A Book about ROyalty
10. Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice (First Fav- inexplicably 5yrold me was in love with this song) - A Debut/One Hit wonder
11. Outlaws by Delta Rae - A Heist or Crime Novel
12. Pompeii by Bastille - A Historical FIction

I made a playlist for my playlist:

That's pretty cool Kylara! What a great idea.

How is the reading going everyone? I hope you're all able to have some reading time along with other demands of life.

C P wrote: "How is the reading going everyone? I hope you're all able to have some reading time along with other demands of life."

So far I've read 20 books this year (8 books that count for this challenge) but I find I've slowed down from the beginning of the year. I have one book I need to review but I'm just not feeling like doing that right now. :/

I'm also reading my 9th book for the challenge. :)

Great job, Bookbuyer! That's a lot of books!

C P wrote: "Great job, Bookbuyer! That's a lot of books!"

Thanks. :)

I finished my first two books for this challenge! Working on reviews now!

Yesterday was my birthday and my mothers, and today is my father's birthday, so I have been mostly spending time with family and friends. :)

But I just started:

Happy Birthday, Kaylin! Hope it was a great one. :) That's a lot of birthdays togeether!

C P wrote: "Happy Birthday, Kaylin! Hope it was a great one. :) That's a lot of birthdays togeether!"

Thank you! It was great. :)
Yes! January is an exciting month for my family. :P

Happy birthday!!

I've read 3 books so far. I'm having issues staying focused on my reading goals. I have all my books picked out though that I"m hoping to get to this month.

Three books is great! Hope you are able to get to the ones you're hoping too.

Happy Belated Birthday Kaylin! I hope you had a good one! :)

I'm finishing up a library book and then I'm going to start another book for the challenge!

Thank you, Jackie and Colleen! :)

So I recently finished where the main character spends the whole book advocating for a theory the a girl has gone missing because she actually turned into a werewolf. She spends most of the book researching werewolves, dreaming about werewolves and talking about them. It's a contemporary, so it's quite clear there are no actual wolves.

Would I still be able to count this for #9 on my playlist? (Read a book that features werewolves/wolves.)

Yes, Kaylin. I think that's fine. Since it sounds like a lot of the focus is on werewolves, whether they actually show up or not.

Hope you enjoy your library book, Colleen!

C P wrote: "Yes, Kaylin. I think that's fine. Since it sounds like a lot of the focus is on werewolves, whether they actually show up or not."

Thank you! :)

Thanks Courtney! I finished yesterday and am back to the challenge. I started Fifty Shades Darker. I'm not a big fan but my BF loves the books and we are going to see the movie so I wanted to read the book first. The first movie sucked bad but I've heard the second one is better.

I'm reading a book right now that is set in my province! I'm super excited. I don't think I've ever read a book that was set in Ontario! :D

That's so cool, Bookbuyer! What book is it?

Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson :)

Ha, I see that in your previous post now. Hope you enjoy!

How goes the reading everyone? I'm hoping to finish 1-2 books over the next few days. So we shall see.

C P wrote: "How goes the reading everyone? I'm hoping to finish 1-2 books over the next few days. So we shall see."

I finished Ultraviolet yesterday. So I'm moving on to my late BR from my other group which are

That's a lot of books! Hope you enjoy!

C P wrote: "That's a lot of books! Hope you enjoy!"

Me too. What's crazy is I still have another 17 BRs after those. :/

Yikes. You planned a lot of reads this month. Good luck with getting to them!

C P wrote: "Yikes. You planned a lot of reads this month. Good luck with getting to them!"

Yup. Two I joined due to books I needed for challenges for Crazy for Young Adult Books

I planned a lot of series read a longs (along with there novellas)

As well as a few others

I think my brain would shut down just thinking about that many.