Month Wrap-Up: September 2021 and October TBR

Read in September 2021: 3 books

Book(s) of the month: I know there’s a lot of controversy regarding this book but it was really good so I have mixed feelings.

October 2021 TBR

I am snailing my way through War and Peace.

2021 Challenge Updates

1. Read atleast 50 books – 43
2. Read more classics (at least 10) – 9
3. Read more owned books (at least 20) –20 (8 newly acquired)
4. Read huge books (at least 4) – Shantaram, Gone with the wind and one more – 0
5. Re-read  books – 2
6. Read more non-fiction (atleast 10) – 11
7. Total Stories read – 87

Total number of Pages read: 15262

How was your September reading-wise? Leave a link to your wrap-up post and I’ll come visit.

Month Wrap-Up: August 2021 and September TBR

Read in August 2021: 7 books

Book(s) of the month: Both hard-hitting non-fiction.

September 2021 TBR

Have you read War and Peace? This book has been on my shelf for more than 14 years now. About time!

2021 Challenge Updates

1. Read atleast 50 books – 40
2. Read more classics (at least 10) – 9
3. Read more owned books (at least 20) – 19 (7 newly acquired)
4. Read huge books (at least 4) – Shantaram, Gone with the wind and one more – 0
5. Re-read  books – 2
6. Read more non-fiction (atleast 10) – 11
7. Total Stories read – 87

Total number of Pages read: 13449

How was your August reading-wise? Leave a link to your wrap-up post and I’ll come visit.

Month Wrap-Up: July 2021 and August TBR

Read in July 2021: 3 books

Book(s) of the month: Didn’t like any that much.

August 2021 TBR

2021 Challenge Updates

1. Read atleast 50 books – 33
2. Read more classics (at least 10) – 8
3. Read more owned books (at least 20) – 15 (4 newly acquired)
4. Read huge books (at least 4) – Shantaram, Gone with the wind and one more – 0
5. Re-read  books – 2
6. Read more non-fiction (atleast 10) – 9
7. Total Stories read – 87

Total number of Pages read: 11649

How was your July reading-wise? Leave a link to your wrap-up post and I’ll come visit.

Month Wrap-Up: June 2021 and July TBR

June has been a busy month so reading hasn’t been that great. What about you?

Read in June 2021: 4 books

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Book(s) of the month: 4 stars to 

What a Brilliant Audiobook! Highly recommend!

July 2021 TBR

2021 Challenge Updates

1. Read atleast 50 books – 30
2. Read more classics (at least 10) – 8
3. Read more owned books (at least 20) – 14 (3 newly acquired)
4. Read huge books (at least 4) – Shantaram, Gone with the wind and one more – 0
5. Re-read  books – 2
6. Read more non-fiction (atleast 10) – 9
7. Total Stories read – 87

Total number of Pages read: 104507

How was your June reading-wise? Leave a link to your wrap-up post and I’ll come visit.

Month Wrap-Up: May 2021 and June TBR

Been such a dismal month reading wise. Was yours better?

Read in May 2021: 6 books

Book(s) of the month: 4 stars to 

June 2021 TBR

2021 Challenge Updates

1. Read atleast 50 books – 26
2. Read more classics (at least 10) – 5
3. Read more owned books (at least 20) – 13 (3 newly acquired)
4. Read huge books (at least 4) – Shantaram, Gone with the wind and one more – 0
5. Re-read  books – 2
6. Read more non-fiction (atleast 10) – 9
7. Total Stories read – 87

Total number of Pages read: 9803

How was your May reading-wise? Leave a link to your wrap-up post and I’ll come visit.

Month Wrap-Up: April 2021 and May TBR

April has been a difficult month for India and especially, the latter part of the month, I have been distressed or been trying to find COVID resources for friends and strangers. No end seems in sight. I try reading to distract but it seldom helps.

Read in April 2021: 4 books

Book(s) of the month: 4 stars to 

May 2021 TBR

2021 Challenge Updates

1. Read atleast 50 books – 26
2. Read more classics (at least 10) – 3
3. Read more owned books (at least 20) – 10 (3 newly acquired)
4. Read huge books (at least 4) – Shantaram, Gone with the wind and one more – 0
5. Re-read  books – 2
6. Read more non-fiction (atleast 10) – 7
7. Total Stories read – 87

Total number of Pages read: 8511

How was your April reading-wise? Leave a link to your wrap-up post and I’ll come visit.

Month Wrap-Up: March 2021 and April TBR

I know. I know. A little too late but you can’t blame your girl for traveling the moment she got an opportunity. The world we live in, that’s a priority. So here I am a little later in the month, telling you all about what I read which frankly wasn’t much.

Read in March 2021: 4 books and 22 short stories

Book(s) of the month: 4 stars to

April 2021 TBR

2021 Challenge Updates

1. Read atleast 50 books – 22
2. Read more classics (at least 10) – 2
3. Read more owned books (at least 20) – 6 (3 newly acquired)
4. Read huge books (at least 4) – Shantaram, Gone with the wind and one more – 0
5. Re-read  books – 2
6. Read more non-fiction (atleast 10) – 5
7. Total Stories read – 87

Total number of Pages read: 7575

How was your March reading-wise? Leave a link to your wrap-up post and I’ll come visit.

Month Wrap-Up: Feb 2021 and March TBR

Read in Feb 2021: 8 books and 29 short stories

and Three Days and a Child

Short Stories

Book(s) of the month: 5 stars to

March 2021 TBR

2021 Challenge Updates

1. Read atleast 50 books – 18
2. Read more classics (at least 10) – 2
3. Read more owned books (at least 20) – 6 (3 newly acquired)
4. Read huge books (at least 4) – Shantaram, Gone with the wind and one more – 0
5. Re-read  books – 2
6. Read more non-fiction (atleast 10) – 4

Total number of Pages read: 5784

How was your Feb reading-wise? Leave a link to your wrap-up post and I’ll come visit.

Month Wrap-Up: Jan 2021 and Feb TBR

Read in Jan 2021: 10 books and 36 short stories

Short Stories

Book(s) of the month 4 stars each to

February 2021 TBR  

and Three Days and a Child

2021 Challenge Updates

1. Read atleast 50 books – 10
2. Read more classics (at least 10) – 1
3. Read more owned books (at least 20) – 5 (3 newly acquired)
4. Read huge books (at least 4) – Shantaram, Gone with the wind and one more – 0
5. Re-read  books – 2
6. Read more non-fiction (atleast 10) – 2

Total number of Pages read: 2835

How was your Jan reading-wise? Leave a link to your wrap-up post and I’ll come visit.

Month Wrap-Up: January & February 2019 and March TBR

The year has begun on a slow note but I am definitely getting out of the reading rut.

January 2019

February 2019

March TBR

2019 Challenge Updates

1. Read at least 50 books (Goodreads goal) – 4
2. Read more classics (at least 10)
3. Read more owned books (at least 20) – 1
4. Read huge books (at least 3) – Shantaram, Jane Eyre, A suitable boy, 100 years of solitude
5. Re-read- Anna Karenina, Thirteenth Tale, To the Lighthouse
6. Read more non-fiction/ memoir/ autobiography (at least 20)
7. YLTO Challenge

2019 Popsugar Challenge

Regular
1. A book becoming a movie in 2019
2. A book that makes you nostalgic
3. A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction)
4. A book you think should be turned into a movie
5. A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads
6. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover
7. A reread of a favorite book
8. A book about a hobby
9. A book you meant to read in 2018 – The Japanese Lover
10. A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title
11. A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover
12. A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore
13. A book published posthumously
14. A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie
15. A retelling of a classic
16. A book with a question in the title
17. A book set on college or university campus
18. A book about someone with a superpower
19. A book told from multiple POVs
20. A book set in space
21. A book by two female authors
22. A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title
23. A book set in Scandinavia
24. A book that takes place in a single day
25. A debut novel
26. A book that’s published in 2019
27. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature
28. A book recommended by a celebrity you admire
29. A book with LOVE in the title
30. A book featuring an amateur detective
31. A book about a family
32. A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America
33. A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title
34. A book that includes a wedding – Today will be different
35. A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter
36. A ghost story
37. A book with a two-word title – Spider’s Web
38. A novel based on a true story
39. A book revolving around a puzzle or game
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge

Advanced
41. A “cli-fi” (climate fiction) book
42. A “choose-your-own-adventure” book
43. An “own voices” book
44. Read a book during the season it is set in
45. A LitRPG book
46. A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters
47. Two books that share the same title
48. Two books that share the same title
49. A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom
50. A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent

3/ 50 Done

How was your February reading-wise? Leave a link to your wrap-up post and I’ll come visit.

Month Wrap-Up: September to November 2018 and December TBR

I haven’t read much these past few months so combining these posts together.

September 2018

October 2018

November 2018

December TBR

2018 Challenge Updates

1. Read at least 40 books (Goodreads goal) – Goal completed – 87
2. Read more classics (at least 15) – 8
3. Read more owned books (at least 20) – 16
4. Read huge books (at least 3) – Shantaram, Gone with the wind and one more – 0
5. Re-read  books – 0
6. Read more non-fiction/ memoir/ autobiography (at least 10) – Goal Completed – 16

Total number of Pages read this year: 17078

2018 ultimate reading challenge

1. A book you read in school
2. A book from your childhood
3. A book published over 100 years ago – Heart of Darkness
4. A book published in the last year – Genuine Fraud
5. A non-fic book You can do it
6. A book written by a male author – The Gift of Therapy
7. A book written by a female author – Sunbathing in the rain
8. A book by someone who isn’t a writer – When breath becomes air
9. A book that became a film – The painted veil
10. A book published in the 20^th century – Changing Planes
11. A book set in your hometown/ region – How I Became a Farmer’s Wife
12. A book with a name in the title – A Man called Ove
13. A book with a number in the title – Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
14. A book based on a true story – Dying Well
15. A book someone else recommended – 1984
16. A book with over 500 pages
17. A book you can finish in a day – Ghachar Ghochar
18. A previously banned book
19. A book with one-word title – Malice
20. A book translated from another language – Moonrise From the Green Grass Roof
21. A personal growth book – The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
22. A memoir or a journal – Tiger tiger
23. A book by someone from another country – The Notebook
24. A book set somewhere you’ll visit this year – The Blue Castle
25. An award-winning book – Pulitzer Prize – Angela’s Ashes
26. A book you read in school
27. A book with a character with your first name
28. A book with a place in the title – The Mayor of Casterbridge
29. A book set in the future – Cinder
30. A play – The live Corpse
31. A scary book – Dracula
32. A funny book – Where did you go, Bernadette
33. A book of short stories – Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
34. A trilogy or series Me Before You
35. A bestseller – The Hate U Give
36. A book you own but haven’t read – Haroun and the sea of stories
37. A book about philosophy
38. An epic poem
39. A Victorian novel
40. A book of poetry
41. A book with a colour in the title
42. A book with an appealing cover – Everything everything
43. A book about psychology – Love’s executioner and other tales of psychotherapy
44. A book about science – The Mind’s Eye
45. A graphic novel – Asterix the gaul
46. A self-published book
47. A book from a different culture– Shanghai Girls
48. A young adult book – This sky
49. A book of non-fiction essays – At the same time
50. A book by an author you haven’t read before – Gifts
51. A book set in a country you’ve never been to – Into the water
52. A book set in the place you live today

39/ 52 Done

How was your November reading-wise? Leave a link to your wrap-up post and I’ll come visit.

Month Wrap-Up: August 2018 and September TBR

Read in August 2018: 13

Book of the month

4 stars

September 2018 TBR

2018 Challenge Updates

1. Read at least 40 books (Goodreads goal) – Goal completed – 80
2. Read more classics (at least 15) – 8
3. Read more owned books (at least 20) – 16
4. Read huge books (at least 3) – Shantaram, Gone with the wind and one more – 0
5. Re-read  books – 0
6. Read more non-fiction/ memoir/ autobiography (at least 10) – Goal Completed – 15

Total number of Pages read this year: 17078

2018 ultimate reading challenge

1. A book you read in school
2. A book from your childhood
3. A book published over 100 years ago – Heart of Darkness
4. A book published in the last year – Genuine Fraud
5. A non-fic book You can do it
6. A book written by a male author – The Gift of Therapy
7. A book written by a female author – Sunbathing in the rain
8. A book by someone who isn’t a writer – When breath becomes air
9. A book that became a film – The painted veil
10. A book published in the 20^th century – Changing Planes
11. A book set in your hometown/ region – How I Became a Farmer’s Wife
12. A book with a name in the title – A Man called Ove
13. A book with a number in the title – Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
14. A book based on a true story – Dying Well
15. A book someone else recommended – 1984
16. A book with over 500 pages
17. A book you can finish in a day – Ghachar Ghochar
18. A previously banned book
19. A book with one-word title – Malice
20. A book translated from another language – Moonrise From the Green Grass Roof
21. A personal growth book – The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
22. A memoir or a journal – Tiger tiger
23. A book by someone from another country – The Notebook
24. A book set somewhere you’ll visit this year – The Blue Castle
25. An award-winning book – Pulitzer Prize – Angela’s Ashes
26. A book you read in school
27. A book with a character with your first name
28. A book with a place in the title – The Mayor of Casterbridge
29. A book set in the future – Cinder
30. A play – The live Corpse
31. A scary book – Dracula
32. A funny book – Where did you go, Bernadette
33. A book of short stories – Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
34. A trilogy or series Me Before You
35. A bestseller – The Hate U Give
36. A book you own but haven’t read – Haroun and the sea of stories
37. A book about philosophy
38. An epic poem
39. A Victorian novel
40. A book of poetry
41. A book with a colour in the title
42. A book with an appealing cover – Everything everything
43. A book about psychology – Love’s executioner and other tales of psychotherapy
44. A book about science – The Mind’s Eye
45. A graphic novel – Asterix the gaul
46. A self-published book
47. A book from a different culture– Shanghai Girls
48. A young adult book – This sky
49. A book of non-fiction essays – At the same time
50. A book by an author you haven’t read before – Gifts
51. A book set in a country you’ve never been to – Into the water
52. A book set in the place you live today

39/ 52 Done

How was your August reading-wise? Leave a link to your wrap-up post and I’ll come visit.