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I definitely have not been doing the monthly thing in this thread. In fact, this is my first post. Granted, that color challenge last year killed my booklord years-long streak, but... Total goal: 100. I'm at 59 at the end of May, so I think that is probably achievable.
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First half of the year report. Hey, better late than never, right? 1. All's Well - Mona Awad 2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (HP #2) - J.K. Rowling 3. The Book of Emptiness and Form - Ruth Ozeki 4. The Trees - Percival Everett 5. Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz 6. Intimacies - Katie Kitamura 7. No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood 8. The Labyrinth of the Spirits - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 9. Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban (HP #3) - J.K. Rowling 10. Several People are Typing - Calvin Kalsuke 11. Subdivision - J. Robert Lennon 12. Baltazar and Blimunda - José Saramago 13. The Echo Wife - Sarah Gailey 14. When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin Labatut 15. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (HP #4) - J.K. Rowling 16. A Psalm for the Wild Built - Becky Chambers 17. Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie 18. Our Country Friends - Gary Shteyngart 19. Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead 20. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (HP #5) - J.K. Rowling 21. Harsh Times - Mario Vargas Llosa 22. The Path Between the Seas - David McCullough 23. Shadow & Bone (S&B #1) - Leigh Bardugo 24. The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman 25. The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Tom Lin 26. Possession - A.S. Byatt 27. Siege and Storm (S&B #2) - Leigh Bardugo 28. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (HP #6) - J.K. Rowling 29. Ruin and Rising (S&B #3) - Leigh Bardugo 30. The Great Eastern - Howard A. Rodman 31. The Bone Ships - K.J. Parker 32. Free Food for Millionaires - Min Jin Lee 33. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (HP #7) - J.K. Rowling 34. The Confession of Copeland Cane - Keenan Norris 35. Long Bright River - Liz Moore 36. Devil House - John Darnielle 37. Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters 38. Saga vol 1 - Brian Vaughan & Fiona Staples 39. Apeirogon - Colum McCann 40. Dear Martin - Nic Stone 41. Saga vol 2 - Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples 42. Saga vol 3 - Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples 43. Call of the Bone Ship - RJ Barker 44. Saga vol 4 - Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples 45. Saga vol 5 - Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples 46. The Love Songs of WEB DuBois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 47. Anatomy - Dana Schwartz 48. Saga vol. 6 - Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples 49. The Nameless City (Nameless City #1) - Faith Evans Hicks 50. Moon Witch, Spider King (Dark Star #2) - Marlon James 51. Saga vol. 7 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples 52. The Stone Heart (Nameless City #2) - Faith Evans Hicks 53. Saga vol. 8 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples 54. The Divided Earth (Nameless City #3) - Faith Evans Hicks 55. Saga vol. 9 - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples 56. Born a Crime - Trevor Noah 57. Trust - Hernan Diaz 58. The Hummingbird’s Daughter - Luis Alberto Urrea 59. The Bone Ship’s Wake - RJ Barker 60. Beasts of a Little Land - Juhea Kim 61. Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel 62. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House - Cherie Jones 63. Tristam Shandy - Laurence Sterne 64. Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas 65. The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn #1) - Tad Williams 66. Twelve Angry Men - Reginald Rose 67. The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune 68. House Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday 69. Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn #2) - Tad Williams 70. The Magic Fish - Trung Le Nguyen 71. To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn #3) - Tad Williams A pretty good number for just halfway through the year. (Yes, the Saga books are cheating a little bit. Don't care.) Best ones so far are The Hummingbird's Daughter (story of a 'saint,' the author's ancestor, who played a role in the Mexican Revolution), The Trees (mystery about dead white men being found with dead black men holding their detached testes), A Psalm for the Wild-Built (adorable hopepunk sci-fi about a monk and a robot), When We Cease to Understand the World (fictionalized biographic sketches of famous scientists), the Bone Ships trilogy (fantasy pirate poo poo), and Devil House (unreliable narration of a satanic-panic-murder case from the 80s). 1. Set a goal for a number of books and/or another personal challenge. (71/100) 2. Of the books you read this year, make sure at least 25% of them are not written by men. (46%) 3. Of the books you read this year, make sure at least 25% of them are written by writers of colour. (24%) 4. Of the books you read this year, make sure at least 8% of them are written by LGBTQ writers. (12%) 5. Read something originally published... a. In the past year [Trust, Anatomy, Sea of Tranquility] b. At least 5 years ago [Dear Martin] c. At least 25 years ago [The Path Between the Seas] d. At least 50 years ago [Twelve Angry Men] e. At least 100 years ago f. At least 250 years ago [Tristam Shandy] g. At least 500 years ago 6. Read two works by the same author (read series by Williams, Rowling, and Bardugo) 7. Read something by a disabled author - Leigh Bardugo 8. Read an issue of a story-focused/literary magazine (there are many available online entirely for free!) 9. Read an anthology or collection containing the work of more than one author 10. Read something from a genre you rarely or never read (Anatomy: A Love Story…. YA romance) 11. Read something about exploration - The Bridge Between the Seas 12. Read something about transformation (Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters) 13. Read something about film or television 14. Read something fictional, based (however loosely) on a historical event - The Hummingbird’s Daughter 15. Read something written by an author living in the opposite hemisphere from you where you currently live/the one you'd call home (North/South and/or East/West - Bonus Points* for both axes!) 16. Read something about mountains 17. Read something you've been meaning to read for a while, but haven't yet (Tristam Shandy) 18. Re-read something you love - The Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn series, Harry Potter 19. Read something scary 20. Look through some other Book Barn threads (or the Discord) and pick a book suggested or discussed there to read (Bonus Points* if you also post in that thread to discuss the book once you've read it!) 21. Ask someone in this thread for a Wildcard to read OR read something that was explicitly recommended to you either by someone you know, or by someone in another thread in The Book Barn (Bonus Points* if you do both!) 22. Read something that will teach you something new (and briefly tell us what you learned!)
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I have been very remiss in keeping up with this (I used to post in these every month!) but I'll hopefully have a year-end post soon. I most definitely did not complete the Booklord Challenge, but I hit 138 books total, so that's nice.
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July 72. The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham 73. The City in the Middle of the Night - Charlie Jane Anders 74. The Heart of What Was Lost (Last King of Osten Ard #0.5) - Tad Williams 75. The Witchwood Crown (Last King of Osten Ard #1) - Tad Williams 76. Crying in H-Mart - Michelle Zauner 77. Empire of Grass (Last King of Osten Ard #2) - Tad Williams 78. Into the Narrowdark (Last King of Osten Ard #3) - Tad Williams 79. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky Chambers (L) 80. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 81. The Lioness - Chris Bohjalian (L) 82. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line - Deepa Anappara August 83. The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronauts #1) - Mary Robinette Kowal 84. H is for Hawk - Helen McDonald 85. Los Alamos - Joseph Kanon 86. Chess Story - Stefan Zweig 87. The Fated Sky (Lady Astronauts #2) - Mary Robinette Kowal 88. Crooked House - Agatha Christie 89. Imajica - Clive Barker 90. Naked Earth - Eileen Chang 91. Boxers - Gene Luen Yang (L) 92. Hey, Kiddo - Jarrett J. Krosoczka September 93. The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronauts #3) - Mary Robinette Kowal 94. Babel - R.F. Kuang 95. Saints - Gene Luen Yang (L) 96. Sag Harbor - Colson Whitehead 97. The Plague of Doves - Louise Erdrich 98. All the Crooked Saints - Maggie Stiefvater 99. What a Carve-Up! - Jonathan Coe 100. Stone Junction - Jim Dodge 101. How to Read Now - Elaine Castillo (L) 102. The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. - James Spooner (L) 103. The Mapping of Love and Death - Jacqueline Winspear 104. American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang (L) October 105. Middlemarch - George Eliot 106. The Terror - Dan Simmons 107. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands - Kate Beaton 108. Sailing to Sarantium (Sarantine Mosaic #1) - Guy Gavriel Kay 109. Macbeth - William Shakespeare 110. Mercury Pictures Presents - Anthony Marra 111. Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie 112. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 113. Lord of Emperors (Sarantine Mosaic #2) - Guy Gavriel Kay 114. Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 115. The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste 116. The Golden House - Salman Rushdie November 117. Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng (L) 118. Fight Night - Miriam Toews (L) 119. Pride - Ibi Zoboi 120. Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 121. Rules of Civility - Amor Towles 122. Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto 123. Beneath a Scarlet Sky - Mark Sullivan 124. In the Distance - Hernan Diaz 125. Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata (L) 126. Jingo - Terry Pratchett 127. Checkout 19 - Claire-Louise Bennett (L) 128. The Last of the Wine - Mary Renault December 129. Mating - Norman Rush 130. The Violin Conspiracy - Brendan Slocumb (L) 131. Olga Dies Dreaming - Xochitl Gonzalez 132. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin (L) 133. V for Vendetta - Alan Moore 134. My Volcano - John Elizabeth Stinzi (L) 135. The Rabbit Hutch - Tess Gunty (L) 136. Fairy Tale - Stephen King (L) 137. Legendborn - Tracy Deonn 138. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka Not bad for a second half of the year. Best books included: -Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: two friends make video games together -In the Distance: an unconventional Western (a dude heads east from the west coast after taking the wrong boat) -H is for Hawk: a memoir about taking care of a hawk -Babel: a historical fantasy about imperialism and linguistics -Mercury Pictures Presents: Hollywood in the 1940s from the perspective of artists who fled fascism, now trying to make art to fight it 1. Set a goal for a number of books and/or another personal challenge. (138/100) 2. Of the books you read this year, make sure at least 25% of them are not written by men. (46%) 3. Of the books you read this year, make sure at least 25% of them are written by writers of colour. (24%) 4. Of the books you read this year, make sure at least 8% of them are written by LGBTQ writers. (12%) 5. Read something originally published... a. b. c. d. e. At least 100 years ago - Middlemarch f. g. At least 500 years ago Didn't Do 6. 7. 8. Read an issue of a story-focused/literary magazine (there are many available online entirely for free!) Didn't Do 9. Read an anthology or collection containing the work of more than one author - Didn't Do 10. 11. 12. 13. Read something about film or television - Mercury Pictures Presents 14. 15. Read something written by an author living in the opposite hemisphere from you where you currently live/the one you'd call home (North/South and/or East/West - Bonus Points* for both axes!) - Snow Country or Kitchen - both from Japan. 16. Read something about mountains - My Volcano 17. 18. 19. Read something scary - The Terror 20. Look through some other Book Barn threads (or the Discord) and pick a book suggested or discussed there to read (Bonus Points* if you also post in that thread to discuss the book once you've read it!) - Snow Country (BB BOTM for November) 21. Ask someone in this thread for a Wildcard to read OR read something that was explicitly recommended to you either by someone you know, or by someone in another thread in The Book Barn (Bonus Points* if you do both!) - Legendborn (recommended by a colleague who teaches 9th grade) 22. Read something that will teach you something new (and briefly tell us what you learned!) - DUCKS - learned about the oil sands of Alberta
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