20 Books that Influenced Me: Part 1 of 4

Friday, May 9th, 2025 09:16 am
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Challenge:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

I'm going to try to finish this before the end of Three Weeks for Dreamwidth so we're going for 5 books a day for four days.

The first five books:

Book cover of Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki Book cover of The Baby-Sitters' Summer Vacation by Ann M. Martin Book cover of The Defining Decade by Meg Jay Book cover of Westmark by Lloyd Alexander Book cover of The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida and Joanna Yardley


I didn't initially intend to have a color theme but they fit so nicely together!

Part Two
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A Retrospective Look at My Reading in 2024

Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 01:51 pm
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I got this amazing year in books prompt from [personal profile] hamsterwoman. Thanks for letting me snag it!

2024 Book List:
1. Dark Heir by C.S. Pacat
2. How Not to Age by Michael Greger
3. A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
4. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
5. Witch King by Martha Wells
6. Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
7. The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman
8. Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
9. The Wager by David Grann
10. The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitin
11. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
12. Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
13. The Enneagram Made Easy by Renee Baron and Elizabeth Wagele
14. The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland
15. Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin
16. The Enneagram by Helen Palmer
17. Meet the Frugalwoods by Elizabeth Willard Thames
18. Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung
19. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
20. Know My Name by Chanel Miller
21. Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb
22. Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
23. Golden Fool by Robin Hobb
24. Dragon Bones by Patricia Briggs
25. Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb
26. Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges



The first book you read in 2024:
Dark Heir by C.S. Pacat

The last book you finished in 2024:
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges

The first book you will finish (or did finish!) in 2025:
The Rifter Volume 1 by Ginn Hale

How many books read in 2024
26

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2019 Reading Resolutions

Tuesday, January 15th, 2019 01:04 am
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I made a few 2019 book-related resolutions, so I thought I'd share them here!

  1. Finish reading all the series that I've started and then put down

    2. My main resolution! I have a bunch of series that I've read a few books in, but haven't finished completely. I'd like to get a few of them wrapped up, because I'm a completionist when it comes to reading and I don't like having so many loose threads! Some of the series are:

    • The Rai-Kirah trilogy by Carol Berg (1 book left)

    • The Alchemy Wars Trilogy by Ian Tregillis (1 book left)

    • A Land Fit for Heroes by Richard K. Morgan (1 book left)

    • The Chronicles of Tornor by Elizabeth A. Lynn (2 books left)

    • Warchild series by Karin Lowachee (2 books left)

    • The Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling (3 books left)


  2. Read books that I already own

    3. This one is pretty self-explanatory, but I do really desperately need to clear out some space on my bookshelves.

  3. Finish 2019 with my TBR pile smaller than it was at the beginning of the year

    4. My TBR (as determined by Goodreads) was at 134 at the beginning of 2019. My goal is to be diligent about reading things that have been languishing on there for a while. Hopefully by the end of the year my list will be significantly shorter than it was at the beginning. One of my chief reasons for wanting to do this is to have more flexibility in reading new releases as they come out (without feeling guilty about neglecting all the things I've already committed myself to reading - and yes I know that I have the freedom to read whatever I want and don't need to feel guilty but I like making goals and sticking to them).


So, that's it! Do you have any reading goals for this year?
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