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Fingers crossed..

I want to do this in 2021...

Challenge-1
Read 12 Nonfiction Books- 12/12

1)A Promised Land by Barack Obama
2)Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
3)How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
4)The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
5)Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
6)Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
7)The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
8)My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
9)Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life by Diane Tavenner
10)This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
11)Fox & I by Catherine Raven
12)Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family by Mitch Albom


Completed NonFiction Challenge

Challenge-2
Read 12 Translated Fiction Books- 11/12

1)The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
2)Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
3)The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza
4)First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
5)Beartown by Fredrik Backman
6)The Pledge by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
7)What You Can See from Here by Mariana Leky
8)Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
9)The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
10)The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
11)The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Challenge-3
Read 6 Romance Books (puke)- 6/6


1)A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
2)Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
3)Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
4)Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins --DNF
5)Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
6)Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

Completed Romance Challenge

Challenge-4
Read 12 Indian Author Books- 10/12

1)ಸಿಂಗಾರೆವ್ವ ಮತ್ತ�� ಅರಮನ�� Singarevva Mattu Aramane by Chandrashekhara Kambara
2)The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
3)Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
4)Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
5)Dragon in the Tunnel by Ruskin Bond
6)The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
7)The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
8)Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi
9)My Father’s Garden by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
10)Em and The Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto



11)Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
12)Lallan Sweets by Srishti Chaudhary

Challenge-5
Clean the TBR

TBR Count 2020 end: 126

TBR Count Jan 2021 end: 118

TBR Count Feb 2021 end: 116

TBR Count Mar 2021 end: 115

TBR Count Apr 2021 end: 97 (I deleted a few books as I am not interested in those anymore)

TBR Count May 2021 end: 95

TBR Count June 2021 end: 93

TBR Count July 2021 end: 91

TBR Count Aug 2021 end: 33 (deleted almost everything! Why did I add so many books!!?)

TBR Count Sept 2021 end: 31

TBR Count Oct 2021 end: 30

TBR Count Nov 2021 end: 28

TBR Count Dec 2021 end: 28

Challenge-6
Finish The series.

1)Flavia de Luce Series
/series/4616...
6. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
7. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
8. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
9. The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
10.The Golden Tresses of the Dead
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2)The Lunar Chronicles Series
/series/6201...

3. Cress
4. Winter
I have grown out of this series. I am unable to read past few chapters of the Cress. So dumping the series.

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3)A Song of Ice and Fire Series
/series/4379...

2. A Clash of Kings
3. A Storm of Swords
4. A Feast for Crows
5. A Dance with Dragons

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4)Hercule Poirot Series
/series/5113...

24) Evil Under the Sun
25)Five Little Pigs
26)The Hollow
27)The Labours of Hercules
28)Taken at the Flood
29)After the Funeral
30)Hickory Dickory Dock

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5)A Court of Thorns and Roses Series
/series/1040...

2) A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
3) A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas


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6)Dublin Murder Squad Series
/series/5163...
2. The Likeness
3. Faithful Place
4. Broken Harbor
5. The Secret Place
6. The Trespasser

All the best. :)

best wishes ..will keenly watch for good steals

Good luck for ASOIAF!

Thanks all :)

Nathan wrote: "Good luck for ASOIAF!"

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.�� �� Martin Luther King, Jr.

:P

Nice challenges. Good luck Pallavi. Interested to see what you pick for the translated fiction.

Thanks @Gorab
Recently I read a few small press translated books which were too good. And they were not publicized much ..So thinking of reading more of them....

Good luck with your 2021 plan! Quite massive it is!Series#3 - ASOIAF is also a part of my 2021 plan

@Makrand...
thank you:)
ASOIAF are massive... maybe we can do some BR's

I think GRRM would probably complete the ASOIAF series in another 5 years at his current pace and even that's a haphazard guess....




P.S- My mistake, need to change from 5 years to 10 years.
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Pallavi wrote: "@Makrand...
thank you:)
ASOIAF are massive... maybe we can do some BR's"

Yes! Quite huge they are!
I'd love to do a BR
Do ping me whenever you plan on starting it :)

Nathan wrote: "I think GRRM would probably complete the ASOIAF series in another 5 years at his current pace and even that's a haphazard guess....




P.S- My mistake, need to change from 5 years to 10 years.
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+1 with hopes that he finishes it :P

Makrand wrote: "Nathan wrote: "I think GRRM would probably complete the ASOIAF series in another 5 years at his current pace and even that's a haphazard guess....




P.S- My mistake, need to change from 5 years t..."

Also hope that i will finish the existing books in the series by then.. 🙄🤔

Makrand wrote: "Pallavi wrote: "@Makrand...
thank you:)
ASOIAF are massive... maybe we can do some BR's"

Yes! Quite huge they are!
I'd love to do a BR
Do ping me whenever you plan on starting it :)"

Sure Makrand 🙂

You can do it! All the best!

Very detailed plan :) All the best!

Thank you @Dely & @Kavitha :)

I hope you like the Expanse series and that ends up ruining your plans for 2021 :P

@Pallavi:

Imagine if you do finish the ASOIAF series[upto the current one], GRRM takes another 10+ Years to finish the series by which time you may have forgotten the story line and have to re-read it again...

[I do like re-reading novels but not ones which are filled with excessive amounts of information]

Muddle head wrote: "I hope you like the Expanse series and that ends up ruining your plans for 2021 :P"

:P

Nathan wrote: "@Pallavi:

Imagine if you do finish the ASOIAF series[upto the current one], GRRM takes another 10+ Years to finish the series by which time you may have forgotten the story line and have to re-rea..."

that's true.. :D

Nathan wrote: "@Pallavi:

Imagine if you do finish the ASOIAF series[upto the current one], GRRM takes another 10+ Years to finish the series by which time you may have forgotten the story line and have to re-rea..."

Ah, the pain. Cosmere, Dresden Files, ASOIAF... I hate it!

Nowadays i try to restrain myself from starting a new series. But in case of ASOIAF, at least know one kind of outcome (which i hated). So even if he decides to ditch the idea of ever putting out more books, am okay with it. 😊

I just saw Dublin Murder Squad there, good luck with that. I am reading the final book, its a good series. Very consistent throughout all the books.

Have you read Mark Lawrence or Joe Abercrombie?

Em Lost In Books wrote: "I just saw Dublin Murder Squad there, good luck with that. I am reading the final book, its a good series. Very consistent throughout all the books."

Yet to start Dublin Murder Squad. Saving it for next year!

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Have you read Mark Lawrence or Joe Abercrombie?"

Yes, I have read Joe Abercrombie...
The The First Law which were really good...
Then I tried Best Served Cold which is continuation of the series but didnt click with me..


And Dublin Murder Squad, I read the first book long ago and liked it so planning to finish it. I like Tracy Crosswhite series by Robert Dugoni, which is similar but same main character ....

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Nathan wrote: "@Pallavi:

Imagine if you do finish the ASOIAF series[upto the current one], GRRM takes another 10+ Years to finish the series by which time you may have forgotten the story line and..."

Yes, the list is big...
I am yet to read Cosmere, Malazan Book of Fallen, The wheel of time ... i think I am keeping them for my retirement ( If I make it till there :P)

Now a days I am afraid to try out Fantasy, most of the new books are bland or maybe I have outgrown those types.. no idea.. So going with more of Fiction, Thriller, Mysteries even non fiction... :(

Nathan wrote: "Em Lost In Books wrote: "I just saw Dublin Murder Squad there, good luck with that. I am reading the final book, its a good series. Very consistent throughout all the books."

Yet to start Dublin M..."

Good luck. :)

Pallavi wrote: "Em Lost In Books wrote: "Have you read Mark Lawrence or Joe Abercrombie?"

Yes, I have read Joe Abercrombie...
The The First Law which were really good...
Then I tried [book:Best Served Cold|231..."

Trilogy is just too good. Out of the next three, my favorite is Heroes.

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Nathan wrote: "Em Lost In Books wrote: "I just saw Dublin Murder Squad there, good luck with that. I am reading the final book, its a good series. Very consistent throughout all the books."

Yet to..."

Aight! Thanks = )

Pallavi wrote: "Em Lost In Books wrote: "Nathan wrote: "@Pallavi:

Imagine if you do finish the ASOIAF series[upto the current one], GRRM takes another 10+ Years to finish the series by which time you may have for..."

Better read something that is finished. And i totally agree new fantasy is not very good. It feels like everything good has been read and anything new just doesn't as great. :( But once in a while something comes out and wins over most people. Hope we will get something like that soon.

@Pallavi:

Have you read Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini?

I read them back in the day and liked them.
Alaegaesia/Roran/Saphira/Eragon/Arya

Nathan wrote: "@Pallavi:

Have you read Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini?

I read them back in the day and liked them.
Alaegaesia/Roran/Saphira/Eragon/Arya"

Yes I have... I am yet to read the last one though...I didnt like the third Book Brisingr, so stopped...

"finish the series" and "a song of fire and ice" - I see what you did there :P

Good luck :)

Jayanth wrote: ""finish the series" and "a song of fire and ice" - I see what you did there :P

Good luck :)"

Ha ha.... I know but going to try anyway :P

Good luck Pallavi. Great challenges!

Girish wrote: "Good luck Pallavi. Great challenges!"

Thanks Girish :)

Hi, best of luck. Great romance novels are just so good , I hope you can alter your view a little.:)).
do try Unhomeymooners by Christina Lauren

Leena wrote: "Hi, best of luck. Great romance novels are just so good , I hope you can alter your view a little.:)).
do try Unhomeymooners by Christina Lauren"

Thanks Leena..
Yes, I too want to alter my view on the genre, so took up this as a challenge this time... Will surely check on UnhoneyMooners, which I have heard a lot :)

its a fun book, a safe bet till you figure out how much adult content you are willing to accept in the book.

Pallavi wrote: "Challenge-3
Read 6 Romance Books (puke)

1)A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole

Read in:
Ratings:
Review:

2)"

Bwaaahhaaaaa!!! Romance books (puke)....

Pallavi, do try out Neha Yazmin's If You Say Yes. its a brilliant love story with Bangladeshi Muslim mcs, set in London. she's nailed it with Asian flavour.

and most importantly not cringy