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Just started ŷ again this year so yeah and also a newbie to this group! So here's my Reading Stats this year! (Hopefully it will last until december lol) I'm also planning on improving in giving book reviews sso wish me luck!Lets do this 2022! Happy Reading!
Here's the link to my Reading Challenges
Christene Paula's Corner
Christene Paula's burning more books from TBR shelf this year 2022
ARCs Update 2022
BOTM and SOTM
BUDDY READ
2022 Reading Challenges:
--Yearly--
> Let's Turn Pages 2022
> Bookworms Take Shelfies 2022
> Clear the Shelves 2022
> Serial Reader 2022
> TBR JAR Challenge 2022
> Popsugar Challenge 2022
--Quarterly--
> Q1 Gratitude Jar 2022
> Q2 Celebrating Diversity 2022
> Q2 Lore of Yore 2022
--Monthly--
> M-Feb I'm Your Biggest Fan 2022
> M-Feb Fandomonium 2022
> M-March A Few of my Favorite Things 2022
> M-March Wish Upon a Star 2022
> M-Apr The Creative Arts 2022
> M-Apr Tunes and Tomes 2022
> M-May Meme, Myself, and I 2022
> M-May Media Mayhem 2022
Turn Pages Challenges:
> Love Potion Challenge 2022
> Genre of the Month 2022
> Eurovision Songs
> Roads to Masters
> Cafe Challenge
> Baskets and Buttons Challenge
> Sassy's 70's Challenge
> Ocean Layers Team Challenge
--Monthly Readathon 2022--
> February Monthly Readathon
> March Monthly Readathon
> April Monthly Readathon
> May Monthly Readathon
--Mini Challenges--
> April Gardening Challenge
> Cinco De Mayo Scavenger Hunt
> Spring Challenge
Challenge Corner
> 2nd Solo Quarterly: Color Challenge
> Team Cadbury Eggs
> Team Jedi
> Team Onyx
Nothing But Reading Challenges
> NBRC Reading List
--Reading Challenges--
📚 2022 Serious Readers Challenge - Level One
📚 NBRC never ending series challenge
The Challenge Factory
> Christene Paula | Reading Corner
> Christene Paula | TBR
> Listopia - May
> Can you survive the wilderness
> 100 Genre Challenge
> Weird & Funny Holidays - May
> Reporting Challenge
> 22 Resolutions Challenge
100 Book Genre Challenge 2022Progress: 39/100
Fantasy 11/20
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Mystery/Thriller 13/30
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Romance 12/30
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Historical Fiction 3/20
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REPORTER CHALLENGE (2022):6/25
Who? What? Where? When? Why?
How? � In a cozy chair with a hot cup of cocoa and a box of bonbons!
Cub reporter: 5 books (1 from each category)
Columnist: 10 books (2 from each category)
News Anchor: 15 books (3 from each category)
Editor: 20 books (4 from each category)
Newspaper Mogul: 25 books (5 from each category)
BONUS CATEGORY:
Pulitzer Prize Winner (Newspaper Mogul plus Bonus Category) = 30 books
EXTRA BONUS CATEGORY:
Nobel Prize for Literature (Newspaper Mogul plus Pulitzer Prize + Extra Bonus) = 31 books
WHO
✔️ Protagonist is in the book business (bookshop owner, librarian, writer, etc)
Protagonist works with an animal (K9 cop, Vet, etc.)
✔️ Protagonist OR a Main Character is paranormal (witch, vampire, ghost, etc)
Protagonist is starting a new business or job
Protagonist is a senior citizen or a juvenile (under 18)
WHAT
✔️ A color in the title
✔️ A number in the title
Title is at least six words
Title is exactly two words
Title is a pun (ex: Hooked on Ewe)
WHERE
Set in Europe (NOT England)
Set in a country village or small town
Set in a state starting with a vowel
Set in a state or country you have lived in
Set on foreign soil (NOT America or England)
WHEN
Set in the 1800s or earlier
Set in the 1900s
Set during a celebration
Set during summer
Set during a storm
WHY (Motives)
Money/Greed
Jealousy
Revenge
“LDZ�
✔️ To keep a secret/cover up
BONUS CATEGORY � PULITZER PRIZE
✔️ WHO � The protagonist is a widow/widower
WHAT � The title starts with your first or last name’s first initial
WHERE � Set in a place (city, village, state, country, etc) starting with your first or last initial
WHEN � Set in the decade you (or a close family member) was born
WHY � Accidental death
EXTRA BONUS CATEGORY � NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
Horoscope (from on-line or a newspaper or wherever)
Pick a date that has special meaning for you (your birthday, anniversary, birthday of a child, parent or pet, etc.)
Read your 2022 horoscope for that date.
Then read a book that relates to that horoscope.
Example: Horoscope says � While you may feel the urge to put on a pair of boxing gloves and duke it out with your family, try putting on an oven mitt instead. Cooking a meal or performing other domestic chores will help take your mind off your troubles with your family.
For this horoscope, you could read a book about a boxer or a chef or a baker or a maid or a butler or a cleaner, etc. Something in the book must somehow relate to the horoscope.
May 2022📖 Aces Wild: A Heist by Amanda DeWitt 3.5 � ~352 pages
5/7
📖 My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth 4.0 � ~ 272 pages
5/12
📖 Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman 4.0� ~320pages
5/13
📖 Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman 4.0� ~384pages
5/14
📖 Heartstopper: Volume Four by Alice Oseman 5.0 � ~384pages
5/15
📖 Book Lovers by Emily Henry 4.0 � ~384pages
5/26
📖 The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa 4.0 � ~277pages
5/27
Total pages read: 9,961 pages (7588 pages + 2,373 pages)
Pending Books:
Finished Books: 7 books
June 2022📖 The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James 4.0 � ~344pages
6/11
Total pages read: 10,305 pages (9961 pages + 344 pages)
Pending Books:
Finished Books: 1
July 2022📖In the Shadow of a Wish by Maci Aurora 4.0 � ~518pages
7/3
📖 Under One Roof by Ali Hazelwood 3.0 � ~121pages
7/6
📖 The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill 5.0 � ~292pages
7/10
📖 The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager 4.0 � ~353pages
7/16
📖 Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer 4.0 � ~560pages
7/27
Total pages read: 12,149 pages (10,305 pages + 1844 pages)
Pending Books:
Finished Books: 5
August 2022📖 Tell No One by Harlan Coben 5.0 � ~370pages
8/2
Total pages read: 12,519 pages (12,149pages + 370 pages)
Pending Books:
Finished Books: 1
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For A Love Of A Book
📚 Monthly points 2023
📚 2023's For Love of a Book's Annual Reading Challenge
📚 Baskets of Babies
📚 FLOAB Scouts
Serial Series Challenge 2023
📚 Before the Coffee Gets Cold
📚 CRESCENT CITY
Monthly Challenges
📚 May BOTM - Thriller
A Million More Pages
🛡� 2023 Badges Lovers Challenge
Link to: My Badges Collection
🎭 AMMP Weekly Festival
Monthly Challenges
📚 TBR Series Challenge
📖 Word of the Month
֡ 2022 Route 66 Film Festival
📜 Word Hunt
📘 Cover Hunt
Nothing But Reading Challenges
Reading Challenges
📚 2023 Serious Readers Challenge - Level One
📚 New Release Challenge 2023
📚 Christene Paula's � Marauding Monster
Monthly Challenges
📚 Monthly audiobook challenge: May 2023
📚 May: Wear Purple for Peace Day
NetGalley ARCs Update
May 2023
GameNight
🎱 Game Night Bingo
🏆 2023 Ultimate Challenges
Monthly Challenges
May CotM - Hidden Object Cover Challenge
🧁 Cake Wars - 7 Much Ado About Muffins
🍉 Summer Picnic Exchange - Team Incrediberry
🎡 Summer Fair
🌞 Summer Days -Team 3 - The Noble Napsters
🎪 Disney Celebration
📚 Embrace Your Inner June
☶� SRC Summer Challenge
Reading Challenge 2023 Goal:
25 books
15k pages
Im planning to post my books-read-in-2023 here together with my book reviews!
**DISCLAIMER- All opinions on books I’ve read and reviewed are my own, and are with no intention to offend anyone.**
However, you can click the link on each book and like my review if you enjoyed it!
2022 - 2022 Reading Challenge
2022 Members Corner
2023-2023 Members Corner
JANUARY 📖 The Devil Wears Scrubs by Freida McFadden ~282 pages 3.5�
January-30-2023
Total pages read: 282 pages
Pending Books:
Finished Books: 1
APRIL Total books: 4/25
Total pages: 1461
📖 Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González ~349 pages 4.0�
April-17-2023
📖 Happily Married by Victoria Jenkins ~257 pages 4.0 �
April-20-2023
📖 Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn ~573 pages 5.0 �
April-27-2023
Total pages read: 1461 (282 +1179) pages
Pending Books:
Finished Books: 3
MAY Total books: 17/25
Total pages: 6,596
📖 Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban ~384 pages 4.0 �
May-01-2023
📖 Again, but Better by Christine Riccio ~384 pages 3.5 �
May-02-2023
📖 The Other Mrs. by Mary Kubica ~418 pages 3.5 �
May-05-2023
📖 Only a Monster by Vanessa Len ~368 pages 4.5 �
May-06-2023
📖 Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman ~408 pages 3.5 �
May-11-2023
📖 Happy Place by Emily Henry ~400 pages 5.0 �
May-14-2023
📖 Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros ~662 pages 5.0 �
May-18-2023
📖 The Wedding Day by Sue Watson ~400 pages 3.5 �
May-19-2023
📖 The Fine Print by Lauren Asher ~450 pages 4.5 �
May-21-2023
📖 Sheets by Brenna Thummler ~239 pages 3.5 �
May-21-2023
📖 Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda ~352 pages 3.5 �
May-23-2023
📖 People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry ~382 pages 4.5 �
May-26-2023
📖 Ward D by Freida McFadden ~288 pages 4.5�
May-27-2023
Total pages read: 6,596 (1461+5,135 pages)
Pending Books:
Finished Books: 13
JUNE Total books: 30/50
Total pages: 11,408
📖 My Word Against His by Lauren North ~329 pages 4.5�
June-1-2023
📖 Delicates by Brenna Thummler ~320 pages 4.0�
June-2-2023
📖 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood ~325 pages 4.0�
June-3-2023
📖 Yellowface by R.F. Kuang ~350 pages 4.5�
June-4-2023
📖 The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah ~464 pages 4.5�
June-6-2023
📖 The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi ~396 pages 3.5�
June-8-2023
📖 Paper Names by Susie Luo ~288 pages 3.5�
June-11-2023
📖 Falling by T.J. Newman ~304 pages 3.5�
June-12-2023
📖 The Dragon's Promise by Elizabeth Lim ~482 pages 3.5�
June-14-2023
📖 Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen ~320 pages 3.0�
June-17-2023
📖 Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher ~494 pages 4.5�
June-18-2023
📖 The Awakening by Caroline Peckham ~436 pages 3.0�
June-19-2023
📖 Drowning by T.J. Newman ~304 pages 4.0�
June-20-2023
Total pages read: 11,408 (6,596+ 4,812 pages)
Pending Books:
Finished Books: 13
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100 Book Genre Challenge 2023
Time Frame: 01 January 2023 - 31 December 2023
Progress: 53 out of 100
SciFi Fantasy
1. Bloodmarked April-27-2023 5.0�
2. Only a Monster May-06-2023 4.5�
3. Fourth Wing May-18-2023 5.0�
4. Sheets May-21-2023 3.5�
5. Delicates June-2-2023 4.0�
6. The Handmaid’s Tale June-3-2023 4.0�
7. The Gilded Wolves June-8-2023 3.5�
8. The Dragon's Promise June-14-2023 3.5�
9. The Awakening June-19-2023 3.0�
10. The House in the Cerulean Sea July-1-2023 4.0�
11. Burned by Magic July-2-2023 2.5�
12. A Crown of Ivy and Glass July-13-2023 3.5�
13. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride July-21-2023 3.5�
14. A Deadly Education August-13-2023 4.5�
15. House of Hollow August-19-2023 4�
16. The Last Graduate August-23-2023 4.5�
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Mystery/Thriller
1. Happily Married April-20-2023 3.5�
2. Lying in the Deep May-01-2023 4.0�
3. The Other Mrs. May-05-2023 3.5�
4. The Wedding Day May-19-2023 3.5�
5. Such a Quiet Place May-23-2023 3.5�
6. Ward D May-27-2023 4.5�
7. My Word Against His June-1-2023 4.5�
8. Falling June-12-2023 3.5�
9. Drowning June-20-2023 4.0�
10. Beware the Woman July-17-2023 2.5�
11. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers July-23-2023 4.0�
12. Sworn to Silence July-28-2023 4.0�
13. Ace of Spades August-1-2023 4�
14. The Villa August-4-2023 3�
15. The Beekeeper's Apprentice August-6-2023 3�
16. Pray for Silence August-14-2023 4�
17. The Legacies August-24-2023 4⭐�
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Romance
1. The Devil Wears Scrubs January-30-2023 3.0�
2. Again, But Better May-02-2023 3.0�
3. Happy Place May-14-2023 5.0�
4. The Fine Print May-21-2023 4.0�
5. People We Meet on Vacation May-26-2023 4.5�
6. Terms and Conditions June-18-2023 4.5�
7. Red, White & Royal Blue July-9-2023 4.0�
8. Adelaide July-15-2023 3.5�
9. The True Love Experiment July-29-2023 4.0�
10. Meet Me at the Lake July-31-2023 4.0�
11. Love, Theoretically August-10-2023 4.5�
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Historical Fiction
1. Pandora May-11-2023 3.5�
2. The Four Winds June-6-2023 4.5�
3. Lessons in Chemistry July-5-2023 4.0�
4. Hang the Moon August-2-2023 3.5�
5. The Great Alone August-18-2023 5�
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Contemporary Fiction
1. Olga Dies Dreaming April-17-2023 4.0�
2. Yellowface June-4-2023 4.5�
3. Paper Names June-11-2023 3.5�
4. Counterfeit June-17-2023 3.0�
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JULY Total books: 42/50
Total pages: 15,798
📖 The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune ~394 pages 4.0�
July-1-2023
📖 Burned by Magic by Jasmine Walt ~239 pages 2.5�
July-2-2023
📖 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus ~400 pages 4.0�
July-5-2023
📖 Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston ~425 pages 4.0�
July-9-2023
📖 A Crown of Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand ~560 pages 3.5�
July-13-2023
📖 Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler ~304 pages 3.5�
July-15-2023
📖 Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott ~320 pages 2.5�
July-17-2023
📖 The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi ~289 pages 3.5�
July-21-2023
📖 Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto ~339 pages 4.0�
July-23-2023
📖 Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo ~384 pages 4.0�
July-28-2023
📖 The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren ~416 pages 4.0�
July-29-2023
📖 Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune ~320 pages 4.0�
July-31-2023
Total pages read: 15,798 (11,408 + 4,390 pages)
Finished Books: 12
August Total books: 53/50
Total pages: 19,822
📖 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé ~480 pages 4.0�
August-1-2023
📖 Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls ~368 pages 3.0�
August-2-2023
📖 The Villa by Rachel Hawkins ~288 pages 3.5�
August-4-2023
📖 The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King ~384 pages 3.5�
August-6-2023
📖 Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood ~400 pages 4.5�
August-10-2023
📖 A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik ~336 pages 4.5�
August-13-2023
📖 Pray for Silence by Linda Castillo ~304 pages 4.0�
August-14-2023
📖 The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah ~448 pages 5.0�
August-18-2023
📖 House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland ~292 pages 4.0�
August-19-2023
📖 The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik ~388 pages 4.0�
August-23-2023
📖 The Legacies by Jessica Goodman ~336 pages 4.0�
August-24-2023
Total pages read: 19,822 (15,798 + 4,024 pages)
Finished Books: 11
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📍30+ BOOKS READ
📍 30,000+ PAGES READ
January 2022
📖 The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 4.5 � ~ 304 pages
1/17
📖 The Cruel Prince by Holly Black 4.0 � ~ 370 pages
1/19
📖 Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover 5.0 � ~ 335 pages
1/26
📖 The Lost Sisters by Holly Black 3.0 � ~ 50 pages
1/20
📖 The Queen's Poisoner by Jeff Wheeler 4.0 � ~ 336 pages
1/28
📖 The Thief's Daughter by Jeff Wheeler 4.0 � ~ 368 pages
1/31
Total pages read: 1763 pages
Pending Books:
Finished Books: 6
February 2022
📖 If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen 4.5 � ~ 418 pages
2/7
📖 The Arrangement by Kiersten Modglin 4.5 � ~ 223 pages
2/8
📖 The Amendment by Kiersten Modglin 4.0 � ~ 214 pages
2/11
📖 The Paid Bridesmaid by Sariah Wilson4.0 � ~ 296 pages
2/12
📖 The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 5.0 � ~594 pages
2/17
📖 Beach Read by Emily Henry 4.0 � ~279 pages
2/28
Total pages read: 3787 pages (1763 pages + 2024 pages)
Pending Books:
Finished Books: 6
March 2022
📖 House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas 5. 0 � ~ 803 pages
3/16
📖 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid 4.5 � ~389 pages
3/31
Total pages read: 4979 pages (3787 pages +1192 pages)
Pending Books:
Finished Books: 2
April 2022
📖 Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp by Marieke Nijkamp 2.5� ~ 121 pages
4/4
📖 She Is Me, Too by T.M. Shivener 5.0 � ~303 pages
4/5
📖 Tell Me the Truth by Kiersten Modglin 4.5 � ~216 pages
4/12
📖 My Evil Mother: A Short Story by Margaret Atwood 3.5 � ~32 pages
4/14
📖 Legendborn by Tracy Deonn 5.0 � ~511 pages
4/15
📖 Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid 5.0 � ~88 pages
4/15
📖 Say You're Sorry by Melinda Leigh 5.0 � ~337 pages
4/17
📖 Best You by Keith Yocum 3.5� ~179 pages
4/21
📖 Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado 4.0 � ~352 pages
4/26
📖 The Never King by Nikki St. Crowe 4.0 � ~192 pages
4/28
📖 Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman 4.0 � ~278 pages
4/30
Total pages read: 7588 pages (4979 pages + 2609 pages)
Pending Books:
Finished Books: 11 books