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Continuing series, because they rule my reading life:
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Bill wrote: "Ah, the series. You've gotta love 'em, eh? So many great ones to start and to continue to work through."Ha...I get so excited when I'm reading the last book in a series - like one I'm reading now, from The Expanse series. Then I get sad. Because, I'm reading the last book in a series. Doh.
Linette, I had to laugh at your situation with reading the last book in a series. I am the exact same way - so excited because I will be at the end and know what happens, and then so massively disappointed because there isn't any more. There's no pleasing me. :-)I have read and enjoyed A Gentleman in Moscow, Fragile, Project Hail Mary, Recursion, Scythe, the Anne of Green Gables series, and Last Breath. I was going to abandon the Court of Thorns and Roses series, but now A Court of Silver Flames sounds good, so I am going to keep going for now.
We have a lot of the same books on our lists. I have Home Before Dark, Malibu Rising, Tales from Watership Down, The Last Thing He Told Me, King of Scars and Rule of Wolves, and Under the Whispering Door. I didn't put Twelve Months on my list, because I'm not sure when Jim Butcher will finish it and I don't want to be disappointed if it doesn't happen soon. I'm so anxious to read the next book in the series!!
Good luck and hope you have fun with the books you chose.
Lea wrote: "Linette, I had to laugh at your situation with reading the last book in a series. I am the exact same way - so excited because I will be at the end and know what happens, and then so massively disa..."Hah, exactly, Lea - no pleasing me. :) Jim Butcher will be another bittersweet series finish.
Funny, I'm the same way with the Sarah J Maas books - they make me roll my eyes so hard I strain a muscle with their highschool drama...but then they get quite good for a while. And second book better than first...less eye rolling...so..okay I'll try book 3. But I bet I roll my eyes a lot. And then read book 4. :)
Lots of good books, nice variety. Here are some that I've read and enjoyed: Big Lies in a Small Town, Home Before Dark, Ordinary Grace, Project Hail Mary, Recursion, Sleeping Giants, The Kind Worth Killing, The Perfect Husband, The Time Machine, A Closed and Common Orbit, Under the Whispering Door.I have quite a few others on my TBR, I hope you'll have a wonderful year of reading!
Linette wrote: "Hah, exactly, Lea - no pleasing me. :) Jim Butcher will be another bittersweet series finish.Funny, I'm the same way with the Sarah J Maas books - they make me roll my eyes so hard I strain a muscle with their highschool drama...but then they get quite good for a while. And second book better than first...less eye rolling...so..okay I'll try book 3. But I bet I roll my eyes a lot. And then read book 4. :)"
Linette, you have summarized my exact situation with the Sarah J Maas books. While I'm reading them, I'm sure it is the last one, but once I'm done, I forget the parts that made my eyes roll and just remember the main plot points and tell myself, "It really wasn't all that bad. And don't you want to know what happens next..." I do want to know what happens next, but some of the places she goes makes me roll my eyes...and here we go again. Another case of no pleasing me!! Good to know that it's not just me... :-)
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I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Malice.
Good luck and Happy reading, Linette!!
Alondra wrote: "You know that I absolutely love your lists. I am still lurking, trying to see what I need to add to my tbr. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Malice.
Good luck and Happy reading, Linette!!"
Alondra, Malice is only back on my list because of you, hoping if I give it a better try this time that I'll like it the way you and other friends did.
Ioana wrote: "Lots of good books, nice variety. Here are some that I've read and enjoyed: Big Lies in a Small Town, Home Before Dark, Ordinary Grace, Project Hail Mary, Recursion, Sleeping Giants, The Kind Worth..."
Ioana, that's great that you enjoyed so many of the books I'm diving into this year, can't wait to see if I like them too.
Challenges complete...with just hours to spare, lol.
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Woot-woot!!
Linette wrote: "Challenges complete...with just hours to spare, lol."Impressive! Here's hoping that 2023 is another great year!
Linette wrote: "Challenges complete...with just hours to spare, lol."Nicely done! Happy New Year :)
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Overall I want to read at least 70 books in 2022. Hopefully mostly good books. Complete - 97 books read
At least 15 books from this list of authors that are new to me, or books I own: Complete - 17 books read from this list
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The Gilded Wolves2.
Recursion3.
Green Rider4.
Project Hail Mary5.
The Atlas Six6.
Verity7.
The Bone Shard Daughter8.
Jade City9.
The Jasmine Throne10.
A Master of Djinn11.
The Rose Code12.
The Shadow of What Was Lost13.
The Lost Apothecary14.
Entry Island15.
The River of Silver: Tales from the Daevabad Trilogy16.
The Last Thing He Told Me17.
The Paris ApartmentA Beautiful Poison
A Darker Shade of Magic
A Natural History of Dragons
A Spindle Splintered
A Spy in the House
Anything Goes
Big Lies in a Small Town
Black Sun
Cackle
City of Lies
Darling Rose Gold
Dead Simple
Death at Greenway
Death Deserved
Dragon Springs Road
Dregs
Empire of the Vampire
Fatherland
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
Fragile
Gallows Court
Gideon the Ninth
Holy Island
Home Before Dark
I Found You
ILLBORN
Kisscut
Little Girl Lost
Little Secrets
Luck in the Shadows
Malibu Rising
Malice
Mariana
Murder at Mallowan Hall
Murder on Astor Place
Only the Innocent
Open and Shut
Ordinary Grace
Post Mortem
Redwall
Sabriel
Scythe
Servant of the Underworld
Shadowmarch
Sleeping Giants
Sometimes I Lie
Spring Tide
Summer Frost
Swordheart
Tales from Watership Down
The 22 Murders of Madison May
The Ashes of London
The Barrister and the Letter of Marque
The Beach
The Blacktongue Thief
The Bone Orchard
The Book of Accidents
The Book of Lost Friends
The Burning
The Councillor
The Creak on the Stairs
The Eight
The Escape Room
The Glass House
The Hand of the Sun King
The Justice of Kings
The Kind Worth Killing
The Life We Bury
The Lighthouse Witches
The Magnolia Palace
The Mask of Mirrors
The Missing Ones
The Neon Rain
The Next Accident
The Night Swim
The Ninth Rain
The Perfect Husband
The Poppy War
The Quiet People
The Rage of Dragons
The Ruin of Kings
The Secret of Crickley Hall
The Skull Mantra
The Silent Sister
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
The Stardust Thief
The Stone Angel
The Sword of Kaigen
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Time Machine
The Vanishing Season
The Watchman
The Wife
Things in Jars
Threadneedle
Trouble in Nuala
Unwanted
Upon the Sands
Victim Without a Face
What the Wind Knows
Witches Steeped in Gold