Athena

Books read in January 2020 1. Natsuki Takaya - Fruits Basket CE 9 (17-18): Volume 9 2. Tomohito Oda - Komi Can't Communicate 1: Volume 1 3. Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata - Death Note 1: Volume 1 4. Sharon Biggs Waller - Girls on the Verge 5. Jodi Picoult - A Spark of Light 6. Eva Louise Bakker - Desnoods de hele wereld 7. Elizabeth Acevedo - With the Fire on High 8. Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman 9. Luc Descamps - Verkeerd moment, verkeerde plaats 10. Lotte van den Noort - Puck 11. Anja Vereijken - Mijn hoofd is even weg 12. Lana Wood Johnson - Technically, You Started It 13. Emmanuela Düsseldorfer - 1001 Praktische Huishoudtips (Haushaltstipps für alle Fälle) 14. Marja and Liny - Hoe schoon is jouw huis? 15. Zamarra Oomes-Kok - Opgeruimd! 16. Tamsin Winter - Jemima Small versus the Universe 17. Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar - Zo denken katten (How to Be a Cat) 18. Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar - Geluk is... (Happiness Is...) 19. Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar - Vriendschap is... (Friendship Is...) 20. Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar - Echte liefde is... (Love Is...) 21. Stefano Agabio and Studio Ianus - De Geheimen van Geluk (The Search for Happiness) 22. Haemin Sunim (ill. Youngcheol Lee) - The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down 23. Haemin Sunim (ill. Lisk Feng) - Love for Imperfect Things Last Updated: 31-01-2020.

Wow... 2020?!?! My mind isn't quite there yet! Welcome to my 2020 reading log!! Links to my previous logs: Athena's Reading List 2013 Athena's Reading List 2014 Athena's Reading List 2015 Athena's Reading List 2016 Athena's Reading List 2017 Athena's Reading List 2018 Athena's Reading List 2019 Links to posts within this thread: Books read in January 2020 Books read in February 2020 Books read in March 2020 Books read in April 2020 Books read in May 2020 Books read in June 2020 Books read in July 2020 Books read in August 2020 Books read in September 2020 Books read in October 2020 Books read in November 2020 Books read in December 2020 Books abandoned/DNFed in 2020 Statistics of books read in 2020 My favourite books, series and authors Bookish Goals 2020 Previous Statistics: Books read Jun - Dec 2012: 43 Books read in 2013: 143 Books read in 2014: 254 Books read in 2015: 502 Books read in 2016: 425 Books read in 2017: 236 Books read in 2018: 262 Books read in 2019: 213 Pages read in Jun - Dec 2012: ~25000 Pages read in 2013: ~37000 Pages read in 2014: 62932 Pages read in 2015: 112787 Pages read in 2016: 95007 Pages read in 2017: 52853 Pages read in 2018: 60308 Pages read in 2019: 51572 Link to my BookTube Channel Gaia Athena

Latest reads: Justina Chen - Lovely, Dark, and Deep This is a contemporary YA novel about a teenage girl who suddenly gets extremely sensitive to sunlight, and how she has to deal with that and change her life. There is a romance plot too. I really enjoyed reading this book. Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials 1: The Golden Compass / The Northern Lights I read this book together with a friend. This is a fantasy story that takes place in a kind of alternate England. It'd be a bit difficult to try to condense the synopsis, but I really loved reading this book and look forward to read the other two books, next year. I had previously seen the movie The Golden Compass but not read the book. Daisy Bell - The Christmas Guest An adorable and emotional read about a puppy who runs away from his abusive/neglectful home, and ends up with a family of 3, named Claire, Ben and Emily. Emily is Claire's and Ben's little girl and she's ill. The book is written from the point of view of the puppy who hopes he can stay with his newfound family. C. G. Drews - The Boy Who Steals Houses 0.5: The Girl Who Steals Christmas A free short story written by the author. It is a prequel and it is not necessary to have read any of the other works by the author. I loved both of her novels (A Thousand Perfect Notes, and, The Boy Who Steals Houses). This short story is about the DeLainey family celebrating Christmas. There are a few days left in the year.. maybe I'll finish another book. We will see. I'm currently not reading any book, I just finished The Christmas Guest before dinner and then read The Girl Who Steals Christmas. May start a new book tomorrow, I'll see what I feel like doing with my (spare) time.

It's almost the end of the year (and the decade)! That means a bunch of us will be creating new reading blogs for 2020. Book Blogs / Reading Lists marked with '2019' in the title will be moved to Past Book Blogs on or around 31 December 2019. Any that are marked as 'continuous' (or 'ongoing') will be left in the main Book Blogs forum (this one). We are only humans, so if we move your blog / list by mistake or we don't move it when we should have, please let us know by posting in this thread after the other blogs/lists have been moved. When you start a new blog/list for 2020, can you please ensure you put '2020' in the topic title. Thank you! You may want to make some 'blank' posts at the beginning of your topic. We are unable to insert blank posts into a topic at a later time, so please make sure you save enough for yourself. To prevent people replying before you've finished setting up your reading blog/list, please put "please do not reply to this topic yet" or something like it, in bold in the first post and subsequent ones of your topic. When you are ready for people to reply, please make a new post telling people your topic is now ready for posting in. If you have any questions, please ask !

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I hope everyone had a wonderful time . Happy holidays!

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Welcome back ! I joined BCF in 2013, so I don't remember you, but I'm happy to get to know you .

Thanks for that! Really interesting to know . I'm making good progress in The Golden Compass / The Northern Lights book, reading 50ish pages a day. I read a lot in Lovely, Dark and Deep yesterday, I have almost finished it and should be able to finish it today.

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Two recently finished books: Scarlett Curtis & Others - It's Not OK to Feel Blue & Other Lies This is a book about mental health, with essays (about mental health) written by a variety of people. It's edited by Scarlett Curtis, the same person who edited Feminists Don't Wear Pink And Other Lies which I read earlier this month (see this post). This book about mental health was a really good read for me. Matt Haig (ill. Chris Mould) - Christmas 1: A Boy Called Christmas This was a really nice Christmassy read. I read it together with a friend. It's about a boy named Nikolas who lives in a cabin in the woods with his father. His father goes north to find evidence of the elves for the King, because he'll be paid a lot for that. Nikolas's aunt comes to live with him but she's horrible, so he runs away to try to find his father. The illustrations were nice too. This book was a nice, seasonal read to read a few weeks before Christmas .

Oh thanks, that's nice to know ! I don't like it when they change the title for UK vs. US (or such) audiences, it can be confusing and make me think it's a new book by an author (since the shops I use sometimes have UK and at other times have US editions), rather than the same book retitled.

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No, I'm reading it for the first time. I'm really liking it a lot so far ! I'm on page 150 (of the first book). I did see the movie some years ago, but I don't remember much of it other than that I liked it a lot. People said it was quite different than the book. At the rate of 50 pages per day, we (the other 2 people and I) should have it finished by Christmas. I hope both of these are good reads for you ! I've read bad things of Skipping Christmas . Though I did buy it when I found it at a library sale for €0,50 (that was before I knew of the bad reviews). Oooh I have A Painted House on my TBR, glad you both liked it a lot . I haven't actually read many Christmas/wintery books yet, but somehow I've just been more in the mood for other types of books .

I'm currently reading His Dark Materials 1: Northern Lights (my copy is called The Golden Compass though after the movie title) by Philip Pullman. I'm reading the book together with 2 others, we're reading about 50 pages each day.

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I'm glad your roof is fixed!! Yesterday and today it's felt a bit warmer than usually in this time of year. We have had some rain and wind, and lots of cloudy skies.

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My Last Blind Date by Susan Hatler

Awww . That's not good customer treatment at all!

Thank you! That's really interesting .

My Hamster Is An Astronaut by Dave Lowe (Stinky & Binks, #2)

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