okeres | 2021 Cat. Reading

2021 Personal Categories
i. ars longa, vita brevis : art, artists, writers, writing, craft, creativity
ii. ars poetica : poetry, poetics
iii. cogito ergo sum : philosophy, essays, letters, language
iv. ex libris : reading from my own shelves
v. geographia et periegesis : geography, space, place, travel, books in translation
vi. historia magistra vitae est : history, biography
vii. scientia potentia est : sciences

2021 Reading Plan
📚read 100+ books (real goal is 150 but 2021 may be somewhat crazy);
📚read at least one book (hopefully more) for each category in my personal list;
📚follow along with as many CATs and KITs as possible. And BingoDOG.
(n.b. latin because I keep trying to study it. :P)


status on PersCAT
i. ars longa, vita brevis :
ro read Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling by Philip Pullman

ii. ars poetica :

iii. cogito ergo sum :

iv. ex libris :
The Hunted by Kathryn Ptacek
A Masculine Ending - Joan Smith
reading - Dead Roses for a Blue Lady by Nancy A Collins
to read - The Thirteenth Tale by
to read - Understories by Tim Horvath
v. geographia et periegesis :

vi. historia magistra vitae est :

vii. scientia potentia est :
to read - The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

GenreCAT


January: Non Fiction
reading: Behind the Castle Gate: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance by Matthew Johnson

February: Memoirs/biography
? (A Promised Land - Barack Obama)
? (Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir by Amy Tan

March: Action & Adventure
Revenger by Alastair Reynolds - adventure in the starlanes - ancient loot and space pirates

April: Literary Fiction
Severance by Long Ma (tags on Goodreads include Literary Fiction as well as Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post-Apocalyptic...)

May: Short stories/essays

June: Historical fiction

July: Romance

August: Poetry/drama/graphic novels

September: YA/children
October: Horror/supernatural
November: SFF
December: Mysteries

HistoryCAT


January: The Middle Ages
reading - Behind the Castle Gate: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance by Matthew Johnson
want to read - A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and The Renaissance: Portrait of an Age by William Manchester

February: Modern c.1800 to now
started reading - 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart

March: Early Modern c.1500 to c. 1800
reading : The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler

April: Ancient 8th C BC to 6th AD

May: Dynasties/Civilisations/Empires

June: Military/War/Revolution

July: Social History

August: Your Own Country

September: Religion/Philosophy/Politics/The Law
October: A country/region of your choice
November: Events
December: Adventure/Exploration and Discovery

RandomCAT


📚January: LOL (w)
Network Effect by Martha Wells Murderbot FTW!

📚February: Fruits & Veggies
Murder with Lemon Tea Cakes by Karen Rose Smith
to read? Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

March: It's a Surprise
reading Understories by Tim Horvath

April: Let's go to the Library without Leaving Home
to read : Still Life by Louise Penny (waiting for !library copy)

May: Let's Play Monopoly!
A Longer Fall by Charlie Harris
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
(Railroad, Hotels;; both stories start on a train)

June: Everything Old Is New Again

July: Summertime

August:: On The Road Again

September:
October:
November:
December:

AlphaKIT


📚January: P / M (w)
The Hunted: A Novel by Kathryn Ptacek
Red Noise by John P Murphy

📚February: T / K (w)
Dogs by Nancy Kress
Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking - T Kingfisher
The Hollow Places - T Kingfisher
The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher

📚March: U / R
Revenger by Alastair Reynolds
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
Spiral Hunt by Margaret Ronald
The Unquiet Past by Kelley Armstrong
reading Unsolicited by Julie Kaewert

April: A / W
One by One by Ruth Ware
The Wonder Engine by T Kingfisher
reading : The Aliens Among Us by James White

May: I / N
reading : In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
possibly : Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

June: C / D
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

July: S / O
The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird
Cast in Conflict by Michelle Sagara

August: V / J

September: F / L
October: H / E
November: B / Y
December: G / Q
Yearlong: X and Z

GeoKIT


North America:
The Hunted by Kathryn Ptacek (US)
Dogs by Nancy Kress (US)
Whiteout by Christopher Golden (US)
reading Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexico)
reading Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Central and South America (includes the Caribbean):

Asia:
Severance by Ling Ma (US & China)

Africa:

Europe (includes Russia):
A Masculine Ending by Joan Smith (England, France)
Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth (London)
One by One by Ruth Ware (French Alps?)
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (Scotland)
reading The Dead Mountaineer's Inn by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky (Russia or Eastern Europe Soviet Union)

Oceania (includes Australia and New Zealand):

Polar (includes Antarctica and tundra regions):
Whiteout by Adriana Anders (Antarctica)
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson

KITastrophe


January - March: Technology/Industrial/Man-made

April - June: Transportation and Maritime

July - September: Weather/Geological/Fires

October - December: Riots/Uprisings/Sieges/War/Invasions

Year-Long: Epidemics and Pandemics
Contagion and Immunity by Erin Bowman (epidemic, SciFi/Horror variant)
The First Days by Rhiannon Frater (pandemic/zombie apocalypse)
Severance by Long Ma (Pandemic/Apocalypse, fungus spores: Shen Fever)
The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird
reading Plague of the Dead ZA Recht (pandemic/zombie apocalypse)

MysteryKIT


📚January: Featuring Water (w)
By Book or By Crook (Lighthouse Library Mystery #1) by Eva Gates

February: Pastiche Mysteries
started reading - Jeeves and the King of Clubs by Ben Schott

March: Locked Room Mysteries
Darkfall by Dean Kontz - horror/thriller that includes locked-room mystery of horror-based demonic sort. :D

April: Senior Citizen as Detective

May: Mysteries set in Europe
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (Scotland)
The Searcher by Tana French (Ireland)

June: Golden Age Mysteries

July: Cops 'n Robbers--Lady Style

August: Cozy Mysteries Featuring Animals

September: Mismatched Detectives
October: Minorities/Diverse
November: Historical Mysteries
December: Detectives in Ancient Greece and Rome

ScaredyKIT


📚January: YA and Graphic Novels (w)
Contagion - Erin Bowman (SciFi/Horror/YA)
Immunity - Erin Bowman (Contagion #2)

February: Creepy Nonfiction
reading Dreadful Places by Aaron Mahnke

📚March: Short Stories and Novellas (w)
Dead Roses for a Blue Lady by Nancy A. Collins (Sonja Blue Short Stories)

April: Possessed
to read? : Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcis

May: Witches and Magic

June: Diverse Perspectives

July: Ghosts and Hauntings

August: Adrift (Water and Outer Space)

September: The Dead, Their Habits and Abodes
October: Real-Life Monsters
November: Stephen King and family
December: Horror Thrillers

SFFKIT


📚January: 2020 Leftovers (w)
The Worst of All Possible Worlds - Alex White
Network Effect - Martha Wells

📚February: Sentient Things (w)
A Wizard s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher (there is a sentient gingerbread man)
The Hollow Places by T Kingfisher (sentient horrors)
The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher (sentient effigy things, aka poppets)
The Outside by Ada Hoffman (AI)

📚March: Fortune and Glory! Indiana Jones in Space (or Fairyland)
Revenger by Alastair Reynolds

📚April: Series
Octavia Gone by Jack McDevitt (Alex Benedict #8)
Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs (Alpha & Omega #6)
The Emperor''s Wolves by Michelle Sagara (Elantra)

May: Time Travel
to read : This Is How you Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

June: It's About the Journey
reading Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

July: Historical Fantasy

August: Female Authors

September: Near Future/Alternate Reality
October: Creature Feature
November: Short Stories
December: Gothic Fantasy

BingoDOG


1. A book about nature or the environment
2. Book with a title that describes you

📚3. Book with a love story in it
Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs

📚4. Book you heartily recommend
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

📚5. Impulse read!
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (how could I not read it?😆)

6. Suggested by a person from another generation
7. Time word in title or time is the subject
(?To read? This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar.

📚8. By or about a marginalized group,
The Outside by Ada Hoffman (neurodiverse character,
as is the author)

📚9. Book you share with 20 or fewer members on LT (= 5)
The Hunted by Kathryn Ptacek

📚10. Classical element in title
Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks

📚11. Set somewhere you’d like to visit
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (Scottish Highlands)

12. Dark or light in title

📚13. Read a CAT or KIT = ScaredyKIT/January
Immunity by Erin Bowman (YA Horror)

📚14. Author you haven’t read before
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

15. Arts and recreation
16. Senior citizen as the protagonist
17. Book with the name of a building in the title

📚18. Book less than 200 pages
The Silence by Don DeLillo (128 pages)

📚19. Book by two or more authors
Before It's Too Late by Sara Driscoll (pen name for Jen J. Danna and Ann Vanderlaan)

📚20. Book with a character you think you'd like to have as a friend
Clockwork Boys and The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher. Love Slate and her team, the paladin, priest, assassin, and gnole.

📚21. One-word title
Contagion by Erin Bowman

📚22. Book about history or alternate history
An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris (dystopian fantasy based in an alternative history; the history part twists in 1933 or thereabout)

📚23. A book that made you laugh
Network Effect by Martha Wells

📚24. Set in or author from the Southern Hemisphere
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson

📚25. Book with or about magic
Spiral Hunt by Margaret Ronald

Group Reading


By the Month:
January
February - Voss by Patrick White
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Quarterly Reads
Jan-Mar
Apr-Jun The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Jul-Sep Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Oct-Dec

Year-long Reads:
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
Jerusalem by Alan Moore - continuation of 2020 read
The Complete Stories: Clarice Lispector

Okay, that should cover everything - lol - I start off very ambitious anyway. :D

Good luck!

Good luck with your 2021 reading!

Welcome back and have a great reading year!

This looks like a very good mix, I'm looking forward to reading about which books you will pick!

As a Latinist, I approve of your category titles!

Hope you have a good reading year.

Enjoy your 2021 reading!

Good luck with your 2021 reading.

Hope you enjoy your 2021 reads!

I like the Latin category titles. I had Latin in school, but don't remember much of it. These sound familiar, though. :) Enjoy your reading!

Happy New Year and best wishes for your 2021 reading!

>14 majkia:, >15 Tess_W:, >21 hailelib: thank you for the good luck wishes! Good luck on your reading as well.
>16 rabbitprincess: thank you for the welcome back - and may you have a great year of reading too, thanks!
>17 MissBrangwen: my plans for more diverse reading (specifically, more nonfiction instead of mostly speculative fic) tend to fall away as the year goes along, but I do try. lol
>18 scaifea:, >23 Chrischi_HH: Yays for Latin! :D Latin wasn't offered in either of my high schools, alas; when I got to college I danced briefly with ancient Greek, then concentrated on four other languages, but never managed to take Latin. I'm dipping into it now on too rare occasion.
>19 dudes22:, >20 DeltaQueen50:, >22 thornton37814:, >24 This-n-That: thank you! I hope you have an enjoyable year of reading too!
>25 lkernagh: thank you and best wishes on your reading as well! Happy New Year!

Love the adorable kitty pictures! Enjoy your reading!

What adorable kitty pictures. I particularly like the GeoKIT one with the kitties "in school." Happy reading.

>27 MissWatson: , >28 sallylou61: Thank you! The kitty pics make me laugh whenever I see them. :D Happy reading!

Oh look! An actual progress update! (We'll see how long that trend lasts. lol)

Managed to get books read for a number of my categories, excepting GenreCAT (Nonfiction) and HistoryCAT (Middles Ages). I have several books I want to read that fit - will try to finish them this month. (Just trying to read bare minimum per for GeoKIT and Kitastrophe - see how those go; would like to at least read one book per cat.)

Also read three books for Book Bingo.