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- What are you reading this week? Beauty Queens
- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it? A few of my friends recommended it. I started reading it, and then for some reason (that I can no longer remember) stopped, and I didn't go back to it until now.
- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year? The Graveyard Book that I also read for this year's challenge.

What are you reading this week?
-The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
-Actually, it's been on my shelf since 2014, but I didn't have the time to read it then, so I promised to read it in 2015 but didn't get to either. I tried to read it, but I wasn't in the mood for it then.

Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
-I can't even remember them. They're a lot, but one of them was Throne of Glass.

- What are you reading this week?
The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman

- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
I read the first book in the series in 2015, I bought the second book last year so I could continue the series but I never did.
Now I did and I have plans to read the third book this year too :)

- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
I made changes in my plan during the year and I also bought 61 books and have only read 28 of those last year, so there are a lot of books I wanted to read last year but didn't, maybe this year I will read them.

-What are you reading this week?
Actually read it the week of January 18th, just now catching up to adding-The Ringmaster's Wife
-What made you pick this book in 2016?
It looked very interesting.
-Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
Oh, wow, way too many!

Progress Post:
- What are you reading this week? Make Lemonade
- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it? Saw it on a list... did not have time
- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year? too many to list

What are you reading this week?


What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
I liked the tile of the book. It's a book of short stories that I thought would be inspiring in some way because of the title. It wasn't what I was expecting and I struggled to keep reading this one.

Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
There were a lot of books that I wanted to read last year and never got around to. I'm a sucker for finding books in a shop and buying them and then not having time to read them

- What are you reading this week?
Confessions of a Virgin Sex Columnist! by Kay Marie

- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
It sounded fun and interesting. But then I realised it had a sequel and I decided to wait for it to come out.

- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
ACOMAF by SJM. I finished that this year too.

What are you reading this week?
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
I've read another book by the author and really enjoyed, so I wanted to read more from her and I thought it fitted the task "A book with a beautiful cover". I had to borrow it from the library and a lot of things just happened last year so I never got around to borrow it.

Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
I have a few classics I've been meaning to read the last couple of years: Dracula, Little Women, Brave New World and a few other. I'm hoping I can pull myself together and read some of them this year.

- What are you reading this week?

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?

Two of my favorite Stephen King books, The Stand and The Gunslinger, feature introductions where Mr. King explains their writing process and the changes he has made for the modern editions.

These intros were the best part of the books and a blast to read. So, when I stumbled upon the information that there was a whole book written by King on the subject, I really really wanted to read it.

- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?

There were 10 books which fell off the reading list for 2016 during that challenge. I know because I kept track of them. But the only one that actually hurt to put aside was this one.

I ended up putting it off in favor of Maya Angelou's biography series and only once I had run out of other places to put those. Of the 10, I ended up reading a further 4 in late 2016 after finishing the main challenge. Two more, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch and The Name of the Wind are also on the 2017 list.

The other three are: Sandkings, The Metamorphosis, and Saving Fish from Drowning.

What are you reading this week?
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett.

What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
I discovered Terry Pratchett last year, but didn't get around to reading this book by him.


Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

- What are you reading this week?
Pride and Prejudice
- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
I wanted to read it for forever. This was the last of the big everyone-but-me-has-read-it books. I just kept putting it off due to other books with deadlines (library, book club, challenge requirement, etc).
- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
Ooh, many! I must say I have already finished these that were for last year: Treasure Island, Frankenstein, Six of Crows, and Anne of Green Gables. As you can see, I have been mostly wanting to catch up on classics.
I also planned The Autobiography of Malcolm X and The Blind Assassin for last year, started the latter, will read the former after other deadlined books.

What are you reading this week?
- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it? I really like The Miniaturist, the author's first book. The reason I didn't read it in 2016 is because I just have too many books I want to read and I keep adding to the list!
- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year? So many, but the one I really wanted to read and have not yet is

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- What are you reading this week?
The Kite Runner
- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it? I had chosen it for one of the 2016 challenge topics but never got to read it, so I thought it was a good opportunity to rad it this year. It looked like an interesting book and it filled a category, so it went on my TBR.
- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year? Life of Pi, which I have wanted to read for a few years since seeing the movie. I'm going to try to fit that in this year as well.

What are you reading this week?
I just finished reading The Best Kind of People

What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
I saw it mentioned in our local newspaper, and thought that the plot seemed very interesting. It was very highly recommended in the article. I didn't read it because I was running a bit behind on my challenges last year so I ran out of time for this one. It didn't fit into any of the categories, and I didn't have a chance to get to any side reads.

Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
I really wanted to finally read Dracula, but never got to it. I also really wanted to read Wrecked, but it came out very close to the end of the year. I also intended to read The Way I Used to Be and Feed, both of which I've already read for challenges this year instead. Wrecked and Dracula are both on my list for later on.

- What are you reading this week? Kui ma jään by Gayle Forman
- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it? My daughter bought it in 2016. I had to read too many other books. :)
- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year? I have many books, e.g. Ross Poldark, Klaaskuppel, Klaasveranda and so on. :)

- What are you reading this week?
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
This book was picked for one of my IRL book club picks last year. I didn't read it because life was crazy and it just didn't happen!
- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
I have 1300 books on my TBR! There were a lot I didn't get to :)

What are you reading this week? The Kite Runner
- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
I had it down for my challenge last year but I ended up not finishing the challenge and not reading it but I still wanted to read it.
- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
I still want to read Life of Pi among many others.

What are you reading this week?
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
It looked like it would be a really good book to read. I think the cover caught my eye first. I wasn't able to get a copy from the library before the end of the year. It had a long wait list!

Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
Oh there are so many of them:
Shadow of Night, Career of Evil, Morning Star, Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, Night Shift. Just to name a few!

What are you reading this week? Crossing the Plains with Bruno by Annick Smith

What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it? I had read reviews about this ersatz memoir last year and the premise, an older woman who takes a road trip through the mid-western US with her big chocolate Lab, Bruno, while reflecting on her life, sounded lovely. Unfortunately, I had no time to read it last year, although it's a slim volume. It also turned out to be a hard book to find.

Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year? Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, Station Eleven and The Girls were a few of the books added to last year's TBR list that I never got to read. (This year, I've read two out of those three as part of the challenge so far.)

-What are you reading this week? The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
- What made you pick this book in 2016? A book in a series I have been reading.
Any reason you didn't read it? Just never got to it.
- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year? Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Actually there are so many. Currently have well over 2,000 books on my TBR list and I am constantly adding to it. It will be a miracle if I get them all read by the time I die at a ripe old age with a book in my hands. :)

What are you reading this week?

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid

What made you pick this book in 2016?

It had won the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards in 2015.

Any reason you didn't read it? Just never got to it.

Too many books. Too little time

Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Progress Post:
- What are you reading this week? Everything, Everything
- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it? Lots of great reviews by people with opinions I respect. Don't know why I didn't read it , but propelled now since the movie is coming out
- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year? Redemption Road and The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

Week Three


I originally picked this book up because I love Steven Erikson's other series so I had to give this a try as well. And I couldn't say no to a Star Trek parody. As for why I didn't read it? I just didn't get around to it.

There are honestly too many books I meant to read in 2016 and just didn't get around to them. 2016 was a pretty bad year for me for reading (but sadly not for buying books, saying "I'll read this one right away, I swear!"). If it's on my "to read" shelf, chances are I meant to read it last year.

- What are you reading this week?
Red Rising by Pierce Brown

- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
I had heard really good things in the booktube verse and got super excited about it. Then life got absurdly crazy and I read hardly anything last year so this was one of many I didn't get to. In fact most of my list is the same as last years...

- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?

I really wanted to read The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan when it came out and I never got to it - still haven't.

- What are you reading this week?

- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
The description and cover appealed to me. I didn't read it because I lacked the time and I had heard a negative review from a valued friend who thought the book was overrated. Unfortunately, I agree with her.

- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?

More Fool MeStephen Fry
(Audio read by the author)

I picked this because I really like Stephen Fry and have read several of his other books
I did start to listen to it in 2016 but didn't finish it as I found it disappointing compared to his others. ( It got better but still only managed a 3 stars - and then only because it was read by the author)
What book did you want to read in 2016 and didn't ? The whole of my TBR list! I suppose American Gods as I've had the Audio ( again read by the Author) for a while and not got past the first chapter. (I finished that in a binge listen this February )

What are you reading this week?
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
It was the sequel to a series I wanted to read but I had a weird reading year last year where I barely finished any of the books that I started.

Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
Six of Crows, The Hidden Oracle, The Raven Boys, Sense and Sensibility and many, many others.

What are you reading this week?
You Know Me Well


What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
It came out last year and a lot of booktubers were talking about it. No specific reason I didn't read it last year. I'm just more of a mood reader so didn't get around to this one.

Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
So many. I have almost 700 books in my TBR.

- What are you reading this week? Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling
- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it? Loved the Harry Potter series. I guess I just got distracted by shiny new books.
- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year? There were actually quite a few I didn't get to.

- What are you reading this week?
The Boy Is Back by Meg Cabot

- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
I've read and really liked two other books of the Boys series by Meg Cabot and was excited to hear that there will be a new book in the series.
No speficic reason, I've just read different stuff.

- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone the illustrated version. But I decided to wait a year because of the 20th anniversary of HP :)

Progress Post:
- What are you reading this week?

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins

- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?

It was a Book of the Month pick for me, and the idea of a collection that had been rediscovered intrigued me. I don't quite know why I never got to it, but I was graduating and didn't have a lot of time to read.

- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?

Plenty - I was in school. The first title that comes to mind is This Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams

- What are you reading this week?
A Sheetcake Named Desire by Jacklyn Brady

- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
The author spells her first name the same as I do, which is unusual. Didn't read because I just ran out of time.

- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year? So many I'm sure! Before I Go was one of them.

What are you reading this week?


What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
I got it as a gift towards the end of the year and ran out of time to read it.

Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
So, so many. Freedom by Jonathon Franzen, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes come to mind.

- What are you reading this week?
The Vegetarian by Han Kang

- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
We decided to read it in my book club, but then it was delayed. So, I read it months after I got it.

- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
I meant to read A Brief History of Seven Killings, but still haven't gotten to it.

What are you reading this week?

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?

This has been on my TBR since 2014 and every year I said I'd read it, but I didn't. I probably never read as it's rather a dense nonfiction book.

Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?

The Summer Before the War comes to mind.

What are you reading this week?
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
I've had my eye on this book since it was published, but I don't read a lot of non-fiction so I never quite got round to it last year.

Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?
All The Light We Cannot See keeps dropping back on my to-read list. I'll read it soon...

- What are you reading this week?
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it? I considered to read it for the Challenge AtY 2016 for the category "A top 100 fantasy novel", but at the end, I read something else.

- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year? IT, I have been waiting to read IT for a long time, but I have not been brave enough to start :(

- What are you reading this week?
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Euginides


- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it? I'd seen the movie at some point and put it on my list to read. I just never got around to it.

- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year? There are always a lot of books that get pushed out for later.

- What are you reading this week?
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works - A True Story by Dan Harris

- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it?
I put this book in to read because I wanted to read more nonfiction books. I do not know why I did not read it.

- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year?

- What are you reading this week?Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two by John Tiffany
- What made you pick this book in 2016? Any reason you didn't read it? Its says Harry Potter.... it must be read :-)
I didn't get around to reading it for two reasons, 1. because i have the actual book and i read almost exclusively off my kindle ( so sad, I'm working on changing that for next year) and 2. It was missing two pages in the middle, so I had to get my ex husband to send me screenshots of the missing pages and save them to phone, then read them off the phone when I got to that part in the book.
- Which other book did you really want to read but didn't open last year? Oh there are just so many.....