Friday Reads: December 02 to December 22 2017

Currently Reading

- Peony by Pearl S. Buck
- The Three Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl S. Buck
- The Jungle Books v2 by Rudyard Kipling (30%)
- Ulysses by James Joyce (05%)
- From Holmes to Sherlock by Mattias Bostrom (01%)
- Dragon Seed by Pearl S. Buck (47%)
- The Mortifications by Derek Palacio (05%)
- Slaughter: Origin Story by James Beltz (60%)
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (37%)
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (15%)

- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (24%)

- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (15%)

- To the Letter by Simon Garfield (51%)

- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (19%)

- The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (24%)

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I am aware that I forgot to write much this last few weeks. Christmas shopping is a killer. I am sorry about that. I have been forgetting for a bit now. I'll go back through my journal and see if there's anything that I can post for you. I was working on my 2018 Bookish Resolutions. I'll post those for the time: 

1. Meet/exceed my Goodreads goal for the year – This year I decided to keep it somewhat simple and set my goal for only 50 books. Something I'm sure I can reach and I will feel great when I read over the goal. Anything more is almost beyond my capabilities as a reader at the level I currently am at.

2. Review all of the books that I read – I had this same goal last year and I think I nearly got 100% completion on it. I realized that I didn't actually post my review for a few books, but it was in my own personal blog, so I count it.

3. Read Les Misérables by Victor Hugo – I sorted it out, in a comment to be seen later on in the entry, that if I read 308.25 pages per quarter from 1 January forward, I should finish the book on or near 31 December.

4. Enter and win Camp NaNo and NaNoWriMo – Yeah this is a difficult challenge to meet since I will have a job by then and my time set to write will be going down. That's okay, we can still do it if we actually plan it out a little bit. I planned 2015's and I won with 57,000.

I also came up with the 24 books I want to read in 2018. These do not have to all be read in the order they appear in, or even completed. It's just something that I thought of that I thought would be fun to try to accomplish. 

 Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics

 Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey

 How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather

 Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

 With Malice by Eileen Cook

 Critical Failure by Robert Bevan

 Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco

 The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

 The Mortifications by Derek Palacio

 Butterfly's Child by Angela Davis-Gardner

 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery

 Villette by Charlotte Brontë

 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

 The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

 Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

 Horns by Joe Hill

 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

 Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

 Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

 Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

 Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

I think most if not all of these books are manageable for 2018.