Keys & Humanity
March 16^th 2016
Something Different, again

There are things that we connect with “power” of some sorts. Now, what do you think when you think the words elevator and rich? See, I imagine a penthouse, like in movies if you will, where you need a key or keycard to access certain areas. And I had never thought that I wanted to access a floor like that, until I got the chance that is.

            So there I was in the elevator, taking the trash out from a café – fancy right - , and they gave me a key and told me what to do. The feeling though, of seeing an ordinary row of buttons and a keyhole in an elevator, knowing I had the key! It made me feel so good, for a reason or another. It’s not like it was a penthouse or anything, it was the garage where I could sort the trash, but still!

            So it got me thinking, what other ordinary things do I associate with power and/or fancy living. And well, I haven’t come up with anything, yet, but I still find it peculiar. I mean a key and lock is quite a simple thing, and yet I found it to be this magnificent thing. So what does this tell about humanity, or maybe it’s just me…

Any ideas or comments? Do tell. My Tumblr

Wishing you the best,

Sally

TBR

Trying to get those TBR piles down :) So these are books I own but haven't read yet...
(This was the list for 2016, and I have a new one for 2017!)

Start of the year: 26+5 + 27 classics + 13 from siblings
                > Classicy/award winner
                 Got before this year (the ones I want to get to zero by the end of the year)

End of the year: 2 + 5 classics + 2 from siblings

TBR:

   29. My True Love Gave to Me
   48. Frost Like Night

1. Fire Spell

(2.   Sisters Red 1-3)

5.    Heir of Fire

6.    Days of Blood and Starlight
7.   Pennyroyal

8.   Teemestarin kirja

9.   A Curse Dark as Gold
10. Magic Study
11.Fire Study

12.  All the Bright Places

13. River Secrets
 14. Forest Born

(15. False)

17.  The Heir
18. Miss Mayhem

19.  Snow Like Ashes
20. An Ember in the Ashes

(21.  The Books of Ember 1-4

25. In the Afterlight

26. The Knife of Never Letting Go

27. Lips Touch

(28. Emma)
30. Zombie Hearts
31. Winter

32.  All In

33.  Manners and Mutiny

34.  The Revolution of Ivy
35. See How They Run
36. My Life with the Walter Boys
37. Heartbreakers
38. Thorn
39. Two Way Street
40. The Isle of the Lost
41. Dreams of Gods & Monsters
42. Half Lost
43. Wanderlost
44. Just Ella
45. Perfect Cover
46. Killer Spirit
47. Ice Like Fire

CLASSICS:

>8. Jane Austen 2-3

>12. Charles Dickens 2-3

>21. Poe - Nantucket

   >23. Wilde 1/9

   >24. Shakespeare 2/37

   >25. Poe 3/71

   >26. Andersen 7/99
>1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other stories

>2. Oz 2-3

>4. Going Solo

>5. Catcher in the Rye

>6. Tom Sawyer
>7. Huckleberry Finn
>10. Sense and Sensibility
>11. Oliver Twist

>14. Wuthering Heights

>15. The Prince and the Pauper

>16. Sherlock Holmes 2,3,4,6

>19. Agatha Christie

>20. Agatha Christie

>22. Dorian Grey

>27. Grimm 200/200

>28. Agatha Christie

BROS BOOKS:

>9. Animal Farm

>10. To Kill a Mockingbird

11. Ask and the Answer 2-3

13. Safe Haven

3. Eleanor and Park

5. School Spirits

1. Geek Girl

4. Book Thief

8. Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks

>12. Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

2. Howl's Moving Castle

6. Graveyard Book

7. Stardust

Read This Month

February

1. Confess, audiobook
2. Eleanor and Park, audiobook
3. Marvelous Land of Oz (CftM)
4. Ozma of Oz (CftM)
5. Ms Marvel vol. 1, graphic novel
6. Ms Marvel vol. 2, graphic novel
7. Ms Marvel vol. 3, graphic novel
8. The Revolution of Ivy (TBR)
9. The Distance Between Us
10. Manners & Mutiny
11. Life of Pi
12. Snow Like Ashes
13. Me Before You, audiobook

Around the Year in 52 Books

Like the challenge that I did last year (Link here), I decided to do this one for the year 2016.
I'll be updating this post with every book I read. And ideas for some books that I could read for each are also listed here.

52/52

      -1. A book you meant to read in 2015, but didn't River Secrets
      -2. A book set in a different continent Me Before You
3. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2015 (winner or nominated) Everything, Everything
4. A book by an author you discovered in 2015 Revolution of Ivy
5. A book with a title beginning with the 1st letter of your name Snow Like Ashes
6. The highest rated on your TBR Heir of Fire
7. A book about books Book Thief
8. A classic book with less than 200 pages Ozma of Oz
9. A book that was mentioned in another book Oliver Twist
     -10. A book by an author you feel you should have read by now Pennyroyal Academy
11. A book from the Rory Gilmore challenge Huckleberry Finn
12. A childhood classic Prince and the Pauper
     -13. Reader’s Choice Days of Blood and Starlight
14. A book with one of the five W’s -or H in the title (Who/What/Where/When/Why/How) See How They Run
15. A book set in the past (more than 100 years ago) Fire Spell
16. A book from the top 100 mystery novels Murder on the Orient Express
    -17. A book with a beautiful cover Winter
18. A book on a summer/beach reading list Someone Else's Fairytale
19. A non-fiction book Stuff Matters
20. A book with a first name in the title My Life With the Walter Boys
    -21. A book from the Goodreads Recommendations page Wrath and the Dawn
22. The first book in a new to you series Bat Girl
23. The next book in a series you are reading  The Heir
24. A "between the numbers" book of a series (0.5, 1,5, 2.5, etc.) Stars Above
25. A book whose main character is in a profession that interests you  Manners and Mutiny (assassin/spy/intelligencer)
26. A book everyone is talking about In the Afterlight
27. A book with a beautiful title (in your own opinion) The Distance Between Us
28. A biography, autobiography, or memoir Hyperbole and a Half 
29. A book by an author who writes under more than one name Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
30. A fairytale from a culture other than your own Thorn
       -31. A work of young adult fiction Magic Study
32. A historical fiction book A Curse Dark as Gold
33. The 16th book on your TBR An Ember in the Ashes
34. A book about mental illness All the Bright Places
35. An award winning book  Eleanor and Park
36. An identity book - a book about a different culture, religion or sexual orientation Ms Marvel
37. A book that you've seen the movie of but haven't read The City of Ember
38. A book about an anti hero Tom Sawyer
-39. A previous suggestion that did not make it into the list: Book you can finish in a day, that starts with the word "The" The Marvelous Land of Oz
40. A novella from your favorite genre Lips Touch (fantasy)
41. A book about a major world event (fiction or non-fiction) Going Solo (WWII)
42. A top 100 fantasy novel Dreams of Gods and Monsters (nr. 70)
       -43. A book about a thing that goes bump in the night Merry Men and other Stories and Fables
       -44. A book you're embarrassed to read in public  Safe Haven (movie cover)
45. A book related to a hobby or passion you have Confess (paint)
46. A crime story All In
47. A book with a type of food/drink in the title Teemestarin kirja
48. A dystopia The Knife of Never Letting Go
      -49. A book with a great opening line Prince and the Pauper
50. A book originally written in a language other than English/the one you read it in Life of Pi (I read it in Finnish)
51. A short story from a well-known author My True Love Gave to Me
      -52. A book published in 2016 Half Lost

Read This Month

January

1. All In
2. In the Afterlight (TBR)
3. The Heir
4. The Knife of Never Letting Go
5. Batgirl, vol. 1, graphic novel
6. Lips Touch. short stories
7. Someone Else's Fairytale, ebook

Books I want to get to

2016

Last year I had a goal to read every book that I have bought before the year 2015 and not read yet. And I kinda succeeded. In December I had a book slump and changed it so that I wouldn't need to read 5 of them.

So for this year I have that same thing:
read all the books I have not read but bought before the year 2016
            >meaning since I did this last year as well: all the books I bought in 2015 and haven't read yet (22 now in the beginning of the year)
+ the 5 books I didn't get to for last years goal.

But here are some that I would really love to get to:

10 SERIES I WANT TO FINISH:

>Goose Girl (2)

>Poison Study (2)
False Memory (2)
>A Mad Zombie Party (1)
>Lunar Chronicles (1)
-The Books of Ember (4)
>Manners and Mutiny (1)
>Oz (2)

Sisters Red (3)

<Knife of Never Letting Go (2)
<Dreams of Gods and Monsters (2)

(A book by: Austen
A Sherlock book)

I will also be continuing my "a classic a month" and a "TBR-jar pick every month".
And maybe I'll add "finish one series from this list every month"...

- - -
But the thing I will be doing differently this year: no pressure to get to all of these! I read for fun, and it should stay as that.
         This is also because this year I will start my finals for high school and I want to focus on those when the time comes.

Read This Month

November & December

1. Embatteled Hearts
2. Promise to Marry
3. Meant for Her
4. Whiskey Kisses
5. The Cowboy Inherits a Bride
7. Altered Engagement
7. The Leaning Tower (CftM)
8. Zel (TBR)