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New year, new thread! What are you reading to start this year off? Keep us updated on what you are enjoying or not throughout the year

I'm starting the year carrying over 2 books on audio and on ebook.
I'll also be starting on hardcopy to finally finish off that series

Brittany wrote: "I'm starting the year carrying over 2 books on audio and on ebook.
I'll also be starting [bookcover:Allegiant|17..."

I hope you enjoy ‘The Girl in the Tower�, it was my favourite book from the winternight trilogy.

I'm carrying over a couple of books from 2020 as well, so I'll be starting the year off with these:

I am continuing with my read of

I might as well update what I've read

The great:

The alright:

Then there is . This is going to get a special rant. This is a book about vampire pirates in the year 2500. I wasn't expecting a literary master piece at all when I entered this. Honestly I was just expecting some good old stupid fun. Somehow the author managed to make this boring. First of all the year 2500 thing meant nothing. This could have been set in the 1800's just as easily. There was so much squandered potential for cool tech mixed with old pirate ways. Think laser muskets or what not. Then for a book about vampire pirates the actual vampire pirates were barely in the book and when they were there they did nothing. The author even screwed up ninjas in this. I finished this book bored and just disappointed.

Jo wrote: "I'm carrying over a couple of books from 2020 as well, so I'll be starting the year off with these:...

I'm interested to see what you think of The Midnight Library... I've heard really good things about it! And it sounds really interesting!

Liliana wrote: "Jo wrote: "I'm carrying over a couple of books from 2020 as well, so I'll be starting the year off with these:...

I'm interested to see what you think of The Midnight Library... I've heard really ..."

I'm enjoying it so far!

I just started the series The Selection by Kiera Cass on the first, and i'm already on book three!!! WOAH.

I started The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. 91 chapters to get through! Game on!!

I decided to give up with for now, I only had 11 days left on my Adobe reader to finish and I wasn't going to so I didn't really want to push it. I'll mark it as DNF on Netgalley and maybe come back to it another time. I have too many books on my Netgalley shelf to be dithering with ones I'm not going to finish! Instead, I'll be moving on to

hey everyone!! i'm currently reading "the scorch trials" (the maze runner series 2) from James Dashner, "city of lost souls" from Cassandra Clare and "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" from Yuval Noah Harari. There are so many books I want to read this year such as "the shining" from Stephen King, some more books from Agatha Christie, "little women" from Louisa May Alcott and etc.

if you have any book recommendations especially on classics i'd love to hear about it since i'm trying to get into that :)

Gina wrote: "I just started the series The Selection by Kiera Cass on the first, and i'm already on book three!!! WOAH."

That's awesome! You must really be enjoying it then lol

dana stanford wrote: "I started The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. 91 chapters to get through! Game on!!"

91 chapters... wow! The book sounds really interesting! I am intrigued by the fact that some random dude left a girl his inheritance. I may have to add this to my tbr.

Last night I started and today I also started ... two books I know I'll love 😌

Jo, curious what isn't working for you with These Violent Delights? Hope your next read is better!

Lili yay for starting books you know you'll love

I just finished listening to loved it. Will be starting next

May wrote: "if you have any book recommendations especially on classics i'd love to hear about it since i'm trying to get into that :)"

Have you read any classics yet? If so which have you enjoyed? I keep meaning to read Little Women also. I hope to get to it sometime this year.

Brittany wrote: "Jo, curious what isn't working for you with These Violent Delights? Hope your next read is better!

Lili yay for starting books you know you'll love

I just finished listening to [bookcover:Daughte..."

Honestly nothing really, it was fine, but I only had 11 days left on my Adobe Reader (it was a Netgalley book so you only get 55 days before it expires) and I was only about 4 chapters in, and I didn't want to race through it and not really enjoy it, so I thought it would be better to come back to it later when there was no clock on when I needed to finish it. I also have A LOT of books on my Netgalley shelf to get through, so I thought it was better to move on from one I probably wasn't going to finish in time!

I will hopefully be ready to join you with ACOWAR by Friday, I'm really close to the end of my current read.

May wrote: "if you have any book recommendations especially on classics i'd love to hear about it since i'm trying to get into that :)"

I'm not a massive classics person but a few I have enjoyed:
-Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
-Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (her Shoes books in general are really good, if you like this one, I'd also recommend Dancing Shoes)
-What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
I don't know if it necessarily counts as a classic, but it is an older book, Flambards by KM Peyton is another really good one.

May wrote: "if you have any book recommendations especially on classics i'd love to hear about it since i'm trying to get into that :)"

I'm trying to read more classics too. A few I read are:
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelly (I didn't enjoy this one much, but apparently most people do so I'd say give it a try)
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes (I don't know it counts as a classic but I liked it anyway)
- Narnia by C.S. Lewis (again, I don't know if it counts. I didn't like most of the stories, but again, a lot of people do)
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

One I started but never finished is The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. English was a bit too difficult for me back then but I absolutely loved the parts I was able to read and now his other books are on my tbr.

Got an ARC of this morning and I couldn't help it so I started that one too. Lol.

Lili thats exciting! I know how much you love that series

Yes! I wasn't expecting it, so it was a nice surprise!

Brittany wrote: "May wrote: "if you have any book recommendations especially on classics i'd love to hear about it since i'm trying to get into that :)"

Have you read any classics yet? If so which have you enjoyed..."

no, i haven't read any classics yet but i really want to start reading! i want to read Little Women so bad!! i went to every bookstore where i live and none of them had it and i don't want to read it online (kindle or something like that). i want to actually hold the book hahah. when i find the book and read it i'll update you guys :)

Gwen wrote: "May wrote: "if you have any book recommendations especially on classics i'd love to hear about it since i'm trying to get into that :)"

I'm trying to read more classics too. A few I read are:
- Fr..."

thank youuu. i'll definitely check them :)

Jo wrote: "May wrote: "if you have any book recommendations especially on classics i'd love to hear about it since i'm trying to get into that :)"

I'm not a massive classics person but a few I have enjoyed:
..."

thank youu :)

Happy new year all!! I’m currently reading Gardens of the moon by Steven Erikson.

May, Pride and Predjudice is a good classic, I enjoyed it way more than I expected. I'm also a big of Mice and Men fan. Oh and Anne of Green Gables! I also love the Iliad but I dont recommend that for most people unless you are a big Greek myth fan.

Brittany wrote: "May, Pride and Predjudice is a good classic, I enjoyed it way more than I expected. I'm also a big of Mice and Men fan. Oh and Anne of Green Gables! I also love the Iliad but I dont recommend that ..."

thank you :) i love greek mythology so i'll check it out

dana stanford wrote: "I started The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. 91 chapters to get through! Game on!!"

It's not a huge book though is it? So the chapters should be pretty small.

Just finished and it was so good! I'm so sad it's the end of the series, for now anyway. I was gonna say that I was gonna miss Gin, but honestly, I'm probably gonna re-read some of my favorite books in the series this year lol

Glad you enjoyed it Lili! Maybe this will be the year I finally start the series....

Looks like everyone has some good reads going on for the start of the year! I'm starting out with a revisit to City of Glass on audio - never finished the series - plus all the new spin off series' - so refreshing to continue! Also working on rereading the Wayward Children series before the new one later this month!

I'm starting today. Finishing off my Covenant re-read. I love this series so much.

Finally finished and off the mark for my 2021 reading challenge! I started this one all the way back in November thinking that despite it's considerable size, it would be super quick to read because Skulduggery always has short chapters. Oh poor sweet summer child. Yeah this one definitely dragged, and I was so excited for it after the way the last one ended but with numerous irrelevant subplots and way, way too much "journeying" I think it's fair to say this is a Skulduggery book that won't live in my heart. Oh well, hopefully the next one will be better!

Going to finally dive into next.

Another week and I've read more books.

-3 Stars
Third time reading this and I'm warning up to this one finally. I love the series but I've never been a super fan of the first couple of books. I think I just have more context for what is going and more of an established connection to the characters

-4 Stars
The latest book in a group read of the Valdemar series. I rather enjoyed this one and I'm interested to see where this trilogy is going to go.

- 3 Stars
The latest manga rabbit hole I've fallen into. It's a fairly gory death game kind of manga. The overall mystery of what is going on is my biggest driving force to keep reading right now.


Currently I've started and I'm a couple of chapters in and I'm enjoying it so far. It's kind of early to really say one way or another but it's starting out alright.

I finally finished and am unsure how I really feel about it. The last 15% or so was quite good, the rest I again found so slow. I do think its a me problem more than the book. Unsure if I'll finish the trilogy

Another week of books have passed.

The great:

The not as great but still really good:

The manga:

Up next: and more High Rise Invasion

Gord wrote: "Another week of books have passed.

The great:

The not as great but still really good:

The manga: [bookcover:High Rise Invasion 09|3635..."

I have Poppy Wars but have not started it yet. I am happy to see that you really enjoyed it, so I am hoping I will too!

Another Netgalley arc bites the dust, wasn't really holding my attention, I was around 100 pages in and feeling bored, so I've decided to move on. Going for a surefire winner this time as I love this series!

Jo wrote: "Another Netgalley arc bites the dust, wasn't really holding my attention, I was around 100 pages in and feeling bored, so I've decided to move on. Going fo..."

I do the same, I give the book a few chapters and then will put it down if it doesn't capture my attention.

Ugh! I loved the first book, The Bone Season, but I was not able to get through the second book in the series. Glad to hear that you enjoyed it. Hoping this one is a winner for you!

heather - NightlyReading wrote: "Jo wrote: "Another Netgalley arc bites the dust, wasn't really holding my attention, I was around 100 pages in and feeling bored, so I've decided to move o..."

I'm trying to get better at it, I've got a terrible habit of pushing through, especially with Netgalley arcs because obviously I want my ratio to be good, but it's a waste of my time to keep going with a book that's not grabbing me. I still submitted feedback for it, so it will still count towards my ratio.

Ah really, we were the complete opposites there! I wasn't actually a massive fan of the first book in the series, but the second book really grabbed me and it's just got better from there. I hope so, we've been waiting almost four years for this one, so it would be a real letdown if I didn't enjoy it!

Jo wrote: "heather - NightlyReading wrote: "Jo wrote: "Another Netgalley arc bites the dust, wasn't really holding my attention, I was around 100 pages in and feeling..."

I can't wait to hear if you love it? Maybe I will give the series another shot because I really loved that first book!

I will let you know!

I've finished reading - it was a re-read. It's my fave series and I loved re-reading it. Ready to move onto something new.

I also finished listening to which is also a re-read! And started listening to which again is a re-read! I have a bad memory so I like to re-read before the next book in the series. As I'm in Jen's ARC team I should get book 3 in March sometime so it seemed like a good time to start my re-read/listen

And I've started reading and I am loving it so far!

Good that you are enjoying all those wonderful rereads Kay!

And good for you on quitting books that arent doing it for you Jo! I need to be better about that myself. Fingers crossed this one is a good one

Finished starting

Also read yesterday

Brittany wrote: "Good that you are enjoying all those wonderful rereads Kay!

And good for you on quitting books that arent doing it for you Jo! I need to be better about that myself. Fingers crossed this one is a ..."

Thanks, I'm trying to be better at it! I'm already enjoying The Mask Falling more than my last book!

I just finished . Not sure what I am going to tackle next. That ending though!!!!