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2018 Plans > DONE! - Moni's "I'll cry of happiness if I finish this" list

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message 1: by Moni (last edited Dec 01, 2018 11:40PM) (new)

Moni (monidzib) So, this is my second year participating, I completed the challenge last year (yeih!) and it (REALLY) help me to improve my reading.
This year I was doubtful because I'm currently in my study abroad semester and I don't have much time to read.
However, so far, so good. January (before abroad) was an excelent reading month and the books actually fit some challenges (¿?), so LET'S DO IT.

ÓË� -> Completed

1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair ÓË�

2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list â€� Eleanor & Park (2011!) ÓË�

3. A book from the 2017 Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards - A Court of Wings and Ruin (YA - Winner) ÓË�

4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth - The Jungle Book ÓË�

5. A book about or inspired by real events â€� Before We Were Yours ÓË�

6. A book originally written in a language other than English â€� El amor huele a café (Spanish) ÓË�

7. A gothic novel - Lair of Dreams ÓË�

8. An "own voices" book - Everything Leads to You ÓË�

9. A book with a body part in the title â€� Every Heart a Doorway ÓË�

10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published) - Attachments (Rainbow Rowell) ÓË�

11. A literary fiction â€� Everything I Never Told You ÓË�

12. A book set in Africa or South America - Americanah ÓË�

13. A book with a plot centered around a secret - Atonement ÓË�

14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire - Fire ÓË�

15. A book with an unique format/writing structure - Illuminae ÓË�

16. A narrative nonfiction - Stupeur et tremblements ÓË�

17. A book you expect to make you laugh - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ÓË�

18. A book with a location in the title - Anne of Green Gables ÓË�

19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author â€� Evil Under the Sun (Agatha Christie) ÓË�

20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends - The Great Gatsby ÓË�

21. A book written in first person perspective â€� Every Day ÓË�

22. A book you have high expectations or hope for â€� The Female of the Species ÓË�

23. A medical or legal thriller - A Dangerous Fiction: A Mystery ÓË�

24. A book with a map - The Smell of Other People's Houses (Alaska's map because I didn't want fantasy) ÓË�

25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view - Heartless ÓË�

26. A book with a text only cover - Imagine Me Gone ÓË�

27. A book about surviving a hardship â€� Those Who Save Us ÓË�

28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water - Salt to the Sea ÓË�

29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title - Graceling ÓË�

30. A short book â€� Stargirl ÓË�

31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to â€� Silver Silence (Russia) ÓË�

32. An alternate history book - The Crown's Game ÓË�

33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you - Love & Gelato (Eurozone - Italy is part of the Eurozone - Gelato, book set in Italy) ÓË�

34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call - Of Mice and Men (A book by a Nobel prize author) ÓË�

35. A book featuring a murder â€� Murder on the Orient Express ÓË�

36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before - The Trials of Morrigan Crow ÓË�

37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine ÓË�

38. A science book or a science fiction book â€� Brave New World ÓË�

39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title â€� Glory O Brien's History of the Future ÓË�

40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list â€� The Complete Persepolis ÓË�

41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials - Dubliners (James Joyce) ÓË�

42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater - The Pirate's Wish ÓË�

43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence - We Were Liars ÓË�

44. A ghost story â€� Before the Devil Breaks You ÓË�

45. A book that intimidates/ scares you - If We Were Villains ÓË�

46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air - Truthwitch (Remind me so much of Avatar: The last airbender) ÓË�

47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own â€� Written in the Stars ÓË�

48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins - Call Me by Your Name ÓË�

49. A book from one of the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Best Books of the Month lists - The Distance Between Us (July 2013) ÓË�

50. A book with a warm atmosphere - A Little Something Different ÓË�

51. An award-winning short story or short story collection - The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories ÓË�

52. A book published in 2018 - Beneath the Sugar Sky ÓË�


message 2: by Katie (new)

Katie | 2360 comments I love the name of your plan!

The Distance Between Us was the first book I read by Kasie West, and since then, I've read everything she's published. I love how fun her books are & they always have a really cute premise.


message 3: by Moni (new)

Moni (monidzib) Katie wrote: "I love the name of your plan!

The Distance Between Us was the first book I read by Kasie West, and since then, I've read everything she's published. I love how fun her books are & they always have..."


It was my third of her, same, also they're quick reads for me:))


message 4: by Moni (new)

Moni (monidzib) January

(S) - Read in spanish.

Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman 5 �
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) by Agatha Christie 3� (S)
The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock 5�
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell 2.5�
Glory O Brien's History of the Future by A.S. King 4.5� (S)
Silver Silence (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #1; Psy-Changeling, #16) by Nalini Singh 2�
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 3�
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell 3.5 �
Every Day (Every Day, #1) by David Levithan 2�
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 4�
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 4.5 �
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot #24) by Agatha Christie 3.5 � (S)
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda 4� (S)
Stargirl (Stargirl, #1) by Jerry Spinelli 2�
The Distance Between Us by Kasie West 3.5�
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett 5�
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3� (S)

N. of books: 17.
Avg. Rating: 3.5


message 5: by Moni (new)

Moni (monidzib) February


Atonement by Ian McEwan 3.5�
Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1) by Seanan McGuire 4�
Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch 3�
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3) by Sarah J. Maas 3.5�

N. of books: 4
Avg. Rating: 3.5


message 6: by Moni (last edited Dec 02, 2018 12:16AM) (new)

Moni (monidzib) March


El amor huele a café by Nieves García Bautista 1.5� (S)
Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, #2) by Libba Bray 2�
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery 3�
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum 2�

N. of books: 4
Avg. Rating: 2.1


message 7: by Tammy (new)

Tammy | 704 comments It doesn't look like you are going to have any trouble finishing this challenge at all! Great work. Keep us all posted and have fun.


message 8: by Moni (new)

Moni (monidzib) April
Before the Devil Breaks You (The Diviners, #3) by Libba Bray 5�
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1) by Amie Kaufman 5�
The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #1) by Jessica Townsend 3.5�
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate 3�
#books for challenge: 4
Avg. Rating: 4.1

May
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 2�
#books for challenge: 1
Avg. Rating: 2.0

June
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart 4�
#books for challenge: 1
Avg. Rating: 4.0

July
Heartless by Marissa Meyer 2�
Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3) by Seanan McGuire 3�
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2.5� (S)
Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1) by Kristin Cashore 3.5�
Fire (Graceling Realm, #2) by Kristin Cashore 4�
#books for challenge: 5
Avg. Rating: 3.0

August
The Pirate's Wish (The Assassin's Curse, #2) by Cassandra Rose Clarke 3�
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) by L. Frank Baum 4�
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour 3�
Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed 4.5�
Dubliners by James Joyce 3� (S)
Truthwitch (The Witchlands, #1) by Susan Dennard 3.5�
#books for challenge: 6
Avg. Rating: 3.5

September
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu 5�
The Crown's Game (The Crown's Game, #1) by Evelyn Skye 1.5�
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys 5�
The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis 5�
A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall 3.5�
#books for challenge: 5
Avg. Rating: 4.0

October
A Dangerous Fiction A Mystery by Barbara Rogan 2�
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 1.5�
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio 4.5�
Estupor y temblores  by Amélie Nothomb 3� (S)
#books for challenge: 4
Avg. Rating: 2.8

November
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 4�
#books for challenge: 1
Avg. Rating: 4.0


message 9: by Moni (new)

Moni (monidzib) CRYING OF HAPPINESSSSSS!!


message 10: by Jody (new)

Jody (jodybell) | 3477 comments Yay!! Well done!! 🥳


message 11: by Bana AZ (new)

Bana AZ (anabana_a) | 836 comments Congratulations! 🎉


message 12: by Rachelnyc (new)

Rachelnyc | 943 comments Congrats!


message 13: by Tracy (new)

Tracy (tracyisreading) | 2573 comments Awesome!! Congrats!! 🎉

I read The Smell of Other People's Houses this year also and LOVED it. 5 stars for me too :-)


message 14: by Marta (new)

Marta (gezemice) | 859 comments Congratulations! I just finished, too! Let’s shere this tissue box :)


message 15: by Moni (new)

Moni (monidzib) Thank youuu! ÓË¥ÓË¥


message 16: by Kelly (new)

Kelly Audiogirl.booking.it (audiogirlbookingit) | 488 comments Yay!!! We have a lot of books in common!! Not sure we ranked them the same but NICE job finishing!!!


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