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'Everyone's read this but me' group BOTM or my selection from group shelf
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' Plays, Scripts, Screenplays, etc' My Shelf :
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' Biographies of all kinds' My Shelf:
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✔️Around the world in 80 books An imaginary round the world trip, starting in England and reading from countries connected by land and sea 'travel' only.
Started the journey June 2017
Finished! January 2024
( Will continue to use the post in link below to send 'postcards' from countries I 'visit' in the future)
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Countries Visited : 80
Silver Screen Group From May '17
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✔️ BondPersonal Goal
Read all 14 of the Ian Fleming James Bond Books in published order
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I'm reading the James Bond books too, although I've o my read the first so far. He's a very different character in the books, that's for sure.
I didn't know that he was different in the books, that makes me interested in reading them!
He's not a "good" different ... which is possibly why I haven't gone back for #2 yet! He is totally devoid of the charm & wit of movie-Bond, and is a total misogynist. That said, I still really enjoyed Casino Royale. Ha!
Jody wrote: "He's not a "good" different ... which is possibly why I haven't gone back for #2 yet! He is totally devoid of the charm & wit of movie-Bond, and is a total misogynist. That said, I still really enj..."I've read several of the books over the years but not all and not in order. I agree Bond is different but I think much more believable as a character with the job he has to do and as a man of his time. The stories I have read are different and better too, I particularly liked parts of Dr No and all of Diamonds are Forever. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the movies or I wouldn't have read the books, there's just more to the books. But the. I'd probably say that about most book/movie adaptations!
I haven't been able to start on Casino Royale as my copy got lost in the post and I'm waiting for the replacement! Doubly annoying as I have a beautiful pink 1988 copy of Live and Let Die sitting here waiting - it's one of the ones I've never read too.
I hadn't thought about that, but it's very true - much more believable as a spy in the books.
'Guardian BOTM' The Guardian newspaper has(had) a monthly book club.Reading books from those discussed since August 2017 ( not necessarily during the month they were selected )
Also link to The Guardians 1000 best books list :
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Agatha Christie Reading my " Agatha Christie Book Collection" of facsimile first additions in publication order. Most but not all are re reads.
( Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three Acts: Ive read and included this in the order it was first staged but it was not published as part of the "'Agatha Christie Book Collection")
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Disc World˥️🐢
Re-Reading the Disc World Books , this time in published order
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Wider WorldBooks read from 2015 onwards, set in countries other than England or the USA. Including books from Around the World in 80 books challange above, plus books read for imaginary 'single trips' to individual countries.
I have completed the 80 books challange, but will continue to use that post to 'send postcards' from places I visit on short trips (see link above)
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Countries and Territories Visited : 96
✔️ATY52 (2018) (Completed)Books can be read for the AYT52 annual challenge and one or more of my other challenges, including PopSugar 2018. Books cannot be read for more than one catergory of the ATY52 challenge. I'm not reading in week order. Re-reads and repeating authors to be avoided where possible.
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Reading Women Link to Reading women Podcast for ideas
Goal to read more female authors /even balance. Have kept individual record for 10 years , in 2025 will combine shelves and keep just running total
2015: 13/38 (34%F)
2016: 12/32 (37%F)
2017 :47/129 (36%F)
2018: 36/67 (54%F)
2019: 33/86 (38%F)
2020: 20/41(49%F)
2021:44/82(54%F)
2022: 30/49( 61%F)
2023: 40/73(55%F)
2024: 38/59(64%F)
Running total 2015-2024 :313/656(48%)
✔️ATY52 2020Not completed during 2020 ( 41 by year end)
Completed 12/2/2021
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Ngaio Marsh 
My new favourite author! Have already read a few but have decided (July '21) to add a challenge to read all the Inpector Alleyn books in order
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✔️2022 : Lifetime of Reading Challenge( Completed 24/2/2023)
Book Girls Guide
Books featuring main characters of different age ranges (in age order)
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Under 10- I'm Not Scared✔️
10-20 The Astonishing Colour of After✔️
20s Franny and Zooey✔️
30sThe Midnight Library✔️
40sMiss Benson's Beetle✔️
Spanning a characters lifetime: Moon Tiger✔️Violeta✔️
50sBack When We Were Grown-ups✔️
60sThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry✔️
70s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo✔️
80sThe One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot✔️
90s and over The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared✔️
Multi generational The Couple at No. 9✔️Alberto's Lost Birthday✔️
2025will be the year of the mystery !
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Magical mystery Tour 2024 ( from 8/11/2024- practice)
Rank Neibourhood snoop
Magical mystery tour 2025
Current rank Gumshoe
Calendar of Crime 2025
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Other Goals1️⃣ Total reads
2017 : more books than 2016 (>32):� Done (Final total 128)
2018 : 100 books � Final total 67
2019 : 88 books �86
Library books read in 2019: 19(22%)
2020: 90 books �41
Library 7(17%)
2021 :63�(15/8/21) Total read 82
Borrowed:19(30%)
2022: 52 �49
Borrowed : 30(61%)
2023: 52�73
Borrowed :45(62%)
2024 :52�59
Borrowed 30 ( 51%)
2️⃣ Big Read List
2017 Read an additional 5 or more from the list �(6)
3️⃣Translated Books : Note Around the World Challenge finished in 2023
2016 - 1(32%)
2017 - 9 (7%)
2018 - 8(14%)
2019 - 4 (5%)
2020 - 2((5%)
2021 - 8 ( 10%)
2022 - 6 (12%)
2023 - 11 (15%)
2024 - 3 ( 5%)
4️⃣ Priority Goal : Reduce the amount of print books I own but haven't read as much as possible and read more from library rather than buy ( see 1️⃣ for borrowed figures)
2019
Total on 'owned not read' shelf (all formats) 1/1/2019 : 225
Shelf changed to seperate shelves for print/digital/audio during 2019
@31/12/2019
Total on owned not read (print):121
Total on owned not read (digital):96
Total on owned not read (audio): 8
Total owned not read :225! ➡️
@31/12/2020
ONR Print :118 ⬇️
ONR Digital 99⬆️
ONR Audio 14⬆️
Total ONR 231 ⬆️
@31/12/2021
ONR Print 91 ⬇️
ONR Digital 100 ⬆️
ONR Audio 14 ↔️
Total ONR 205 ⬇️
@31/12/2022
ONR print 92 ⬆️
Total ONR not relevant
@31/12/2023
ONR print 88⬇️
@ 31/12/24
ONR print 86⬇️
5️⃣ From 2023 :
Read longer books /more pages rather than more books
So prioritise longer books already owned and books over 200 pages. Except for Agatha Christie challenge. Audio books read changed to most popular edition on GR so that page count given.
Previous years for comparison ( Pages/Books/Average)
2015 : 11,510/38/302
2016: 10, 187/32/318
2017: 33, 119/129/256
2018: 17,881/67/266
2019: 21,656/86/250
2020: 10, 867/41/265
2021:24,361/82/297
2022: 16,299/49/332
2023: 22,940/73/314
2024: 18,522/59/313*
* 2024 average was 320 but last book read was less than 50 pages which brought it down.
2025 goal 15,600/52/300
Around the Year in 52 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
4.50 from Paddington (other topics)Dead Man's Folly (other topics)
Hickory Dickory Dock (other topics)
Destination Unknown (other topics)
A Pocket full of Rye (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Ngaio Marsh (other topics)Ian Fleming (other topics)
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Books can be read for the AYT52 annual challenge and one or more of my other challenges( except PopSugar 2016) Books cannot be read for more than one catergory of the ATY52 challenge.
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