The End of the Year Book Tag | Lauren and the Books

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The End of the Year Book Tag, hurrah!

Questions:
1. Are there any books you started this year that you need to finish?
2. Do you have any autumnal books to transition you into the end of the year?
3. Is there a new release you are still waiting for?
4. What three books do you want to read before the end of the year?
5. Is there a book you think could still shock you and become your favourite book of the year?
6. Have you already started making reading plans for next year?

Books mentioned:
Casting Off
The Break
Call the Midwife: A Labour of Love
Anne of Green Gables
Weirdo
North and South
A Poem for Every Autumn Day
A Poem for Every Winter Day
Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland
The Raven's Nest
All Change
The Christmas Appeal
The Ultimate Reading Challenge

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[marthacampbell]

Aww Jen's reading challenge basket made me go out loud and wiggle my toes in excitement. Talk about living vicariously through youtube! Such a lovely gift 🥰

[ikosh]

love the question mark on the age. 🤣🤣🤣

[jacquelinemcmenamin]

1. Books I’m reading at the moment. Some are big books started ages ago but not finished.
The Stone Diaries
March
Kavalier & Clay
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
2. Just the big books above
3. Nothing I can think of.
4. The Sleeping Car Porter
The Golden State
Self Portrait with Boy
5. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. It’s very cinematic.
6. Reading plans? Just getting my backlist TBR down.

[bethmw]

I just need to add to the North & South hype...it has some slightly long-winded bits as a lot of classics do but it's worth any little pushes needed! The TV adaptation is one of the best to have ever existed 👌👌

[katieha]

I am so glad Between the Covers is back, I have been desperate for it - it felt like it was away so long this time! Can you believe that my boyfriend didn’t know who Richard Armitage was?? I kept showing him pics of when he was younger and listing things he had been in and nothing was ringing a bell!

[kathleenwalsh]

Hi Lauren Like you, loved the Cazalet series. Recommend Slipstream Elizabeth Jane Howard's autiobiography. Just read Anne of Green Gables for the first time and can see why it's a classic. Enjoyed it but perhaps better read in childhood and revisited as adult. Reading - on you recommend - Slug soon and have Abigail Dean's (of Girl A fame) 2024 release here, a reading copy from work.

[LouiseBallantine-yo]

Elizabeth Jane Howard originally wrote the series as a quartet, the fifth was added some years later x

[barbaraschmitt]

1. Books I want to finish (and even start 😂)
Bookshops and Bonedust (the prequel of Legends & lattes), Making it so by Sir Patrick Stewart and either City of Brass or the Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty.
2. Releases: heartstopper Vol 5, otherwise nothing really on my list either.

[rdculb]

Haha I worked at costcutter in my small Welsh village and many a time rocked up after no sleep - alternatively I sometimes rocked up after ‘teenage’ sleep (hours and hours and hoursof it 😂)

[sarahlopinot]

If you're looking for a book series for next year, may I suggest the Anne of Green Gables series? You loved the first one and have them all...just saying. Would love to see you review the rest. 😊

[PageTurnersWithKatja]

Love this tag. I have a few new releases I'm looking forward to this month. Three of which dropped on the 7th and today: The Vulnerables, Bookshops and Bonedust, and Starter Villain.

[evadedenbach]

Anne of Green Gables is my favorite book!

[johannasreadinglist]

Books I need to finish: all the nominated books for Augustpriset (a Swedish book award)

Autumnal books to transition into the season:
No particular autumnal book, but a cozy read that fits the season is Richard Osmans new book in the Thursday muted club-series.

A new release you are still waiting for:
Heartstopper 5, for sure!

What three books you want to read before the end of the year:
Anne of Green Gables, The Handmaid’s tale and Boy parts.

A book that could shock you and be your favourite of the year:
Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s new book Systrana (the sisters)

Have you stared making reading plans for 2024:
Not really… would love to reread some books I have loved, but not read in MANY years, like: Little woman, Wuthering heights, Never let me go, The bell jar, Conversations with friends, Atonement, Easter Parade, and Dorian Grays portrait.

[dawnlizreads]

Back in the day, I used to carry my school rucksack on one shoulder (even someone as geeky as me knew you absolutely didn't carry it on both). But, thanks to age and hypermobility, I can't get away with that now - I would put both my shoulder and my back out!

[susprime]

I need to finish Coraline and lots of others. I hated The Pearl in high school, not going to read it again. Books in college I hated, Ulysses, loved the Odyssey in high school, Ulysses, he was just showing off.

[pia]

I read the seven sisters series by Lucinda Riley over the summer holidays because a woman in my old gym class recommended the books and I was looking for a reading project for the summer. Maybe it could be a project for you? There are 8 books in the series and each follows an adopted sister on the search for her family history. I didn't read them in the correct order as they were in high demand at my local library but you should finish with the last two ones as they explain quite a bit about the series. The eigth books is the story is about the adoptive father and how he happened to decide on adopting each child.

I plan on reading two books in a German trilogy about a shopping mall. I read the first one which was set in the 1910s and got the second and third one out from the library. I also plan to finish "The Rebels of Ireland" by Edward Rutherford. It has almost 1000 pages, so it's massive, and I've got roughly 200 pages left (I read quite a bit last week when I had to stay at home due to covid). I seem to read a bit historical fiction which is not always the case...

[abiwk]

The Christmas Appeal is just as good as The Appeal, don't worry and i'm a massive fan of the appeal. I read the Alperton Angels and was loving it until I had to put it down for the night and then when I got back to it the next day it didn't feel as good. I don't know if it was me or the book.

[megmeg]

We’ve still got Heartstopper volume 5 to come this year!!

[wooshell]

3 books I need to finish before the end of the year: The Family Remains, Daisy Jones and the Six & Michelle Obama's autobiography. I started them months and months ago but life got in the way and I never went back to them. I would likw to tick them off my TBR before the end of the year though.
I am really looking forward ro The Christmas Appeal too.

[deborahph]

I think you might like The Girl From Norway by Emma Pass 😊