Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Congratulations, Lusie for completing Stage 8 & unlocking Stage 15.

Please note tasks below are just some ideas which you may wish to use and/or adapt according to your preference. You are free, of course, to come up with your own tailored tasks as long as it fits within the theme of "Protagonists".

elderly (definition up to participants)
young child
teen
shifters
vampires
dead
POC (person of colour)
identify as being binary/bisexual etc

(etc)

NOTES:
1. If multiple povs, then at least one of the MCs will have to fit your task
2. If it is not clear in the book description, please provide note how the book fits your task.

Limits on number of tasks as per the size of your goals are as follows;

Goal: up to 1,000 pages
Tasks: up to 3

Goal: up to 3,500 pages
Tasks: up to 5

Goal: up to 7,000 pages
Tasks: up to 8

Goal: up to 10,000 pages
Tasks: up to 11

Goal: 10,000++ pages
Tasks: up to 15

Amanda A

Amy

Angela - COMPLETED

Ashley

Bea

CassieV

Christina (AKA Babbling)

Coralie

Dee - COMPLETED

Jayme(the ghost reader)

Jen

Joyce

Kristina Simon

Laura - COMPLETED

Lauren

LaurLa

Lusie - COMPLETED

Mary - COMPLETED

Nat - COMPLETED

Rosemary

Sandy- COMPLETED

Sassafrass - COMPLETED

Stacey

Susan - COMPLETED

Tien - COMPLETED

Stage 15: Protagonists
Goal: 8,000 pages
Tasks: Up to 11
OoZ: POC

Completed: 8,472/8,000 pages


Single Parent 1,447
Getting Played (241 pages) 6/15/19 (heroine is a single parent)
If Beale Street Could Talk (208 pages + Ooz--AA author-- 21 = 229 pages) 6/11/19 (heroine becomes single parent)
Caught in the Act (370 pages) 7/6/19 (heroine is a widow/single parent)
The Offer (359 pages) 7/8/19 (heroine is single parent)
What Remains (248 pages) 7/20/19 (Rupert is a single parent)

Shifters 484
Pack Challenge (342 pages + OoZ--heroine half Native American-- 34 =376 pages ) 6/16/19
Tidal Wave (108 pages) 6/21/19

White Collar Professional/Business Professional 2,017
One Night of Trouble (234 pages) 6/22/19 (hero owns a night club)
Rebel Heir (295 pages) 6/29/19 (hero owns several businesses)
Rebel Heart (287 pages) 6/30/19 (hero owns several businesses)
Hooking Up (444 pages) 7/12/19 (hero is an executive in the family company)
The Beauty of Us (307 pages) 7/13/19 (heroine own a restaurant)
Rebel Hard (409 pages + OoZ --author and both MC of
southeast Asian descent+ 41 pages = 450 pages) 7/13/19 (heroine is an accounting executive)


Athlete 208
Playing for Keeps (208 pages) 6/10/19

Teacher 453
Darkness Dawns (353 pages) 6/13/19 (heroine is a teacher)
On His Watch (100 pages) 7/17/19 (heroine is a teacher)

Military/Veteran 1,272
Crazy Good (457 pages) 6/17/19
American Prince (330 pages) 6/26/19
American King (485 pages) 7/5/19

College Student 410
Sam's Promise (95 pages) 6/25/19 (heroine is a college student)
Smut (315 pages) 7/1/19 (both MC are in college)

Ghost Hunter 359
Dead Sky Morning (359 pages) 7/7/19


Medical Professional 684
Perfect Formation (206 pages) 6/21/19 (Richard is a pediatrician)
Afterglow (256 pages) 7/11/19
Femme (222 pages) 7/18/19 (Doug is a stress test tech)

Ex-Con 690
King (303 pages) 7/9/19
The Only Thing (352 pages + OoZ - hero is half black + 35 = 387 pages) (hero was in prison previously) 7/14/19

Fire/Police/Search & Rescue 448
Gone Too Deep (448 pages) 7/16/19

My Goal: 5,400 pages
Up to 8 tasks
OoZ: books in Bahasa Indonesia

Progress: 5,496/5,400 pages as at 07/05

1. POC
🗸 472p - We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya #1) -Read 06/30
🗸 150p - Deceit and Other Possibilities -Read 07/01
sub-total: 622p

2. Student
🗸 452p - Torment (Fallen #2) -Read 07/02
sub-total: 452p

3. "Carrots! Carrots!" ~ Gilbert Blythe
🗸 382p - Death of a River Guide (MC, Aljaz Cosini, is described as having red hair) -Read 06/14
🗸 452p - Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2) (Scarlet is red-headed) -Read 06/16
🗸 252p - Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables #2) -Read 07/01
🗸 221p - Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables #3) -Read 07/03
sub-total: 1,307p

4. “He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.” ~ Elizabeth Bennett ("of genteel birth")
🗸 291p - Kitty (The Smuggler's Wife #1) -Read 06/24
sub-total: 291p

5. military (current/former)
🗸 504p - Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves (Shane Schofield #4) -Read 06/18
🗸 436p - The Three Secret Cities (Jack West Jr #5) -Read 06/24
🗸 478p - Liquid Gold (Lachlan Fox #4) -Read 07/03
sub-total: 1,418p

6. Modern Working Women
🗸 526p - The Last Time I Was Me (advertising) -Read 06/13
🗸 237p - Vinegar Girl (teacher assistant) -Read 06/21
🗸 320p - Hit (Makedde Vanderwall #4) (PI) -Read 06/26
🗸 323p - A Most Wanted Man (civil rights lawyer) -Read 07/05
sub-total: 1,406p

Ohhhh good task!!

Dee

goal: 8452pgs
2) stretch goal #1 - non-fiction
2) stretch goal #2 - diversity challenge

Pages read: 8621/8452
Pages remaining: -169/8452

Up to 11 tasks

1. Military (current/former)
Quadruple Duty - 325pgs - Finished - 7/15/19
Quadruple Duty: All or Nothing - 286pgs - finished - 7/22/19

2. Medical Professional (doctors/nurses/paramedics)
Between Expectations: Lessons from a Pediatric Residency - 316pgs (288pgs +10% OOZ NF) - Finished - 6/17/19
Bollywood Fiancé For A Day - 211pgs (191pgs +10% OOZ Diversity) - Finished - 7/6/19
Babies in the Bargain - 220pgs - Finished - 8/3/19

3. Shifters
Outfoxed by Love - 210pgs - finished - 6/11/19
Polar Bared - 256pgs - finished - 6/11/19
Caribou's Gift - 100pgs - finished - 6/12/19
Wolf's Capture - 246pgs - Finished - 6/20/19
Grizzly Love - 228pgs - Finished - 6/22/19
Wildfire Griffin - 301pgs (274pgs + 10% OOZ diversity) - Finished - 6/23/19
Beauty and the Beast - 270pgs - Finished - 7/4/19
Wildfire Unicorn - 272pgs - finished - 7/6/19

4. Crime Solvers (Law Enforcement, Personal Detectives, accidental solvers - a la cozy mystery)
Shoot Don't Shoot - 388pgs - finished - 6/30/19
Death of a Trophy Wife - 304pgs - finished - 7/6/19
Butterface - 270gs - Finished - 7/7/19

5. Immigrant
Family Life - 240pgs (219+10% OOZ) - Finished - 6/18/19
A Tale of Two Citizens - 413pgs (376+10% OOZ) - Finished - 7/12/19

6. Athletes
The Bombshell Effect - 261pgs - Finished - 7/15/19
The Ex Effect - 238pgs - Finished - 7/15/19
Heroine - 432pgs - finished - 7/26/19

7. Sibling (where the brother/sister relationship is front/center of the storyline)
The Night Before - 320pgs - finished - 6/27/19

8. Student
With the Fire on High - 431pgs (392pgs +10% OOZ diversity) - finished - 7/2/19
On the Come Up - 491pgs (447+10% OOZ) - finished - 7/15/19

9. Globetrotter (travels to at least 2 places during course of book)
The Seven Sisters - 457pgs - Finished - 7/5/19

10. Criminal
The Lies of Locke Lamora - 505pgs - finished - 7/9/29
Red Seas Under Red Skies - 630pgs - finished - 8/3/19

Books that Fit Shelf of Month
Family Life - June - New Jersey - 2ppl
On the Come Up - July - Author of Color - 46ppl

Stage 15 - Protagonists
Goal 5% - 4,456 pages.
up to 8 tasks
Out of Zone goal: books I own as of 12/19/18 and have not read before.
4730/4456

Teens (dead or alive) - 841 pages
- The Things She's Seen. 6/10/19. 224 pages.
- When the Ground Is Hard - 6/13/19. 270 pages.
- Ever Alice - 6/27/19. 347 pages.

Businesspersons - 417 pages
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice. 6/11/19. 417 pages.

Detectives (professional or amateur) - 2568 pages
- Changes. 6/13/19. 438 pages
- Dark Sacred Night. 6/14/19. 433 pages
- Death by Water. 6/17/19. 259 pages.
- Magic for Liars. 6/18/19. 336 pages.
- When Will There Be Good News?. 6/20/19. 400 pages.
- Started Early, Took My Dog. 7/1/19. 350 pages.
- Murder in the Museum. 7/6/19. 352 pages.

Authors - 496 pages
- Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination. 6/16/19. 496 pages.

Queens - 408 pages
- The White Queen. 6/18/19. 408 pages.

Stage 15: Protagonists - Completed
Goal: 2,675 pages
up to 5 tasks
OOZ Goal: Magical Realism

1. Sisters
The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay (320p) 8/31/20
Before We Were Yours (342p) 11/1/20
Insight (218p) 7/7/19

2. Primary Caretaker of Family
The Soldier's Wife (416p) 7/19/20
Prayers the Devil Answers (341p) 6/28/19

3. Soldiers
The Road Back (352p) 10/20/19
Fives and Twenty-Fives (400p) 1/19/21

4. Detectives (Cops)
Don't Let Go (351p) 6/25/19

Total pages: 2740

Lusie's Stage 15: Protagonists - completed ❑ ☑ ✅

Goal: 5% - 3975 pages: Up to 8 tasks
Out of zone goal: Science Fiction

Total: 3981 pages

1. Person of Colour
☑ 296p The Bride Test [20-jun-19] ★★★★
☑ 320p The Wedding Date [1-jul-19] ★★★ shelf july

2. Married
☑ 328p The Breakdown [25-jun-19] ★★★★

3. Librarian
☑ 336p Close Enough to Touch [26-jun-2019] ★★★ shelf june

4. Car workshop
☑ 580p Luna and the Lie [3-jul-2019] ★★★★

5. Journalist
☑ 304p De trip [9-jul-19] ★★★

6. Witch
☑ 305p Witch Song [4-jul-2019] ★★
☑ 594p Shadow of Night [29-jul-2019] ★★★
☑ 564p The Book of Life [3-aug-2019] ★★★★

7. Underage
☑ 354p Before She Was Found [4-jul-2019] ★★★

Stage 15: Protagonists - DONE!
Goal: 5,000 pages
Total pages: 5,031

1. Teen
The Revolution of Ivy (290 pages) - Completed 8/8/19
Blink and Caution (345 pages) - Completed 11/27/19
The Young Elites (355 pages) - Completed 6/18/19
The Queen of the Tearling (464 pages) - Completed 6/13/19
The Weight of Blood (302 pages) - Completed 8/14/19
The Rose Society (398 pages) - Completed 7/6/19
A Girl Like That (378 pages) - Completed 12/31/19

2. Father
White Flag of The Dead (278 pages) - Completed 7/27/19
Run Away (384 pages) - Completed 6/22/19

3. Doctor
Always Watching (342 pages) - Completed 10/19/19
The Girl Who Was Taken (340 pages) - Completed 11/22/19

4. U.S. Marshall
Neon Prey (400 pages) - Completed 7/4/19

5. Cat
Homer's Odyssey (287 pages) - Completed 11/23/19

6. Detective
Cover Her Face (250 pages) - Completed 6/11/19

7. Park Ranger
Track of the Cat (218 pages) - Completed 11/11/19

Stage 15: Protagonists

Goals:
2,112 pages (5% of 2018 pages) ==> up to 5 tasks
🎯Out of the Zone goal: nonfiction

1. Female Detective/Sleuth
Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke (320 pages) Read: 6/19/19
The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley (365 pages) Read: 6/21/19
No Darker Place by Debra Webb (416 pages) Read: 6/27/19

2. Academic
🎯 Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom (248 pages + 25 OOTZ = 273 pages) Read: 7/17/19

3. LGBTQ
Love Happens Anyway by R.J. Scott (156 pages) Read: 6/12/19
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (359 pages) Read: 6/30/19

4. Entrepreneur
One in a Million by Jill Shalvis (368 pages) Read: 6/20/19

Total = 2,257
Goal = 2,112

Stage 15: Protagonists
Goal =2,234 5% of 44,686

Shifter
✔ Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh 22 June 2019 ★★★★★ 416
✔ Kitty's House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn 4 July 2019 ★★★ 292 (Audio)



lawyer
✔ Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham 31 December2019 ★★★ 344 (Audio)



Assassins
✔ Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas 18 August 2019 ★★★ 406 (Audio)
✔ Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers 29 October 2019 ★★★★★ 549
(audio)



detective
✔ The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie 27 June 2019 ★★★ 272

Stage 15 Protagonists
Goal: 3,500 pages
Pages Read: 480
0ut of zone : 3 nonfiction books-1 book read

20's

30's

Teen


Couples
The Rumorby Elin Hilderbrand
The Matchmakerby Elin Hilderbrand
Detective
The Perfect Coupleby Elin Hilderbrand Completed 07/1/19 (480pp)

Stage 15: Protagonists. COMPLETED

Goal 2500 - 10 %
OOTZ: Pulitzer Prize Winner

5 Task limit

Task 1: Entrepreneur
656 p. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Task 2: Mathematician
317 p. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua

Task 3: Twins
220 p. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
448 pts Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness

Task 4: British Colonial Official
278 p Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niue & Tonga by Basil Thomson

Task 5: Detective/ Investigator
240 p. The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers
307 p. The Fallen by Jassy Mackenzie
288 p. Triple Jeopardy by Anne Perry

Total 2754 p.

Stage 15 - Protagonists
Goals: 2500 pages
1001 list books (bonus of extra 10% of the book's pages if it qualifies)

Books read = 9
Pages read = 2637

PAS monthly shelf points = 3
1) The Lover's Dictionary in February https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2) The Pox Party in March https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
3) Fall On Your Knees in April https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

1) Married woman
A Lifetime Burning by Linda Gillard, 15 June 19 - 372 pages

2) LGBTQ+
From Stone Orchard by Timothy Findley, 21 June 19 - 170 pages
Dry by Augusten Burroughs, 19 July 19 - 304 pages
The Master by Colm Tóibín, 29 July 19 - 360 + 10% 1001 bonus = 396 pages
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, 30 Aug 19 - 288 + 10% 1001 bonus = 318

3) Detective
Seven Up by Janet Evanovich, 30 June 19 - 373 pages
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, 13 Aug 19 - 496 pages

4) Teen
The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor, 25 July 19 - 208 pages

Stage 15: Protagonists -- COMPLETED
Goal: 5468 p.
Tasks: up to 7
OOZ: Non fiction
Pages Completed: 5671 p.

1. Athletes
Erik 7/30/19 244p.
Legend 10/3/19 227p
Kulti 12/13/19 570p.
Outmatched 2/10/20 334p.

2. Shifter
Wolf Rain 8/2/19 416p.
Redemption of a Wolf 8/8/19 151p.
Wild Embrace 8/18/19 375p.
Nobody's Hero 9/22/19 372p.

3. Angels
Vampire's Kiss 9/27/19 242 p.
Azagoth 10/23/19 159p.
Archangel's War 11/22/19 471p.

4. Vampires
Blood Fury 10/8/19 411p.
Sweet Ruin 11/30/19 529p.

5. Law Enforcement
Leverage in Death 11/12/19 385p.
City of the Lost 12/14/19 416p.
Connections in Death 1/28/20 371p.

Stage 15 Protagonists
Goal 6,500 pages
Out of Zone - not a novel

1. POC
On a Red Station, Drifting 106 pages completed June 12
Trail of Lightning 287 pages completed June 19
Space Opera 352 pages completed July 10
Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine 156 pages completed July 13
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Crushed 112 pages completed July 15
The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver 190 pages completed July 29
Black Mamba Boy 280 pages completed August 10
The Fish Girl 110 pages completed August 19
Radiance of Tomorrow 256 pages completed August 25
An Unkindness of Ghosts 351 pages completed August 26
White is for Witching 244 pages completed September 6
Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch 144 pages completed Sept 21
The House of Shattered Wings 402 pages completed October 7
Nexus 460 pages completed October 13
Messenger’s Legacy 136 pages completed October 15
The Moor's Account 321 pages completed October 22
3907 pages

2. A long way from home
A Memory Called Empire 462 pages completed June 28
Null States 432 pages completed June 29
The Sojourn 192 pages completed July 20
The Ruin of Angels 576 pages completed October 6
1662 pages

3. Not (fully) human
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening 235 pages completed July 23
Dragonfly Falling 673 pages completed October 4
Rogue Protocol 158 pages completed October 14
1066 pages

6635/6500

Stage 15 - Protagonists - Done
Goal - 3,500pgs
**OOtZ Goal - MPG Classics

3,843/3,500pgs
OOtZ books: 3

Globetrotters - Protagonists living outside their country of birth
The Absentee (born in Dublin, lives in London) - 6/19/19 - 282pgs X 10% = 310pgs
Invitation to a Bonfire (born in Russia, lives in US) - 8/19/19 - 243pgs

Linguists - Protagonists who speak more than one language
From Sand and Ash (MC speaks Italian and German) - 6/28/19 - 372pgs
The House of Broken Angels (MC speaks English and Spanish) - 6/21/19 - 336pgs
My Soul to Take - (MC speaks Spanish and English) - 6/27/19 - 432pgs
Haiti Noir (MCs speak French and Creole) - 7/8/19 - 300pgs
The Human Body (one POV character speaks Italian and English) - 7/21/19 - 336pgs
Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Arabic and Spanish) - 7/26/19 - 118pgs X 10% = 129pgs
Altar of Bones (Russian and English) - 7/28/19 - 672pgs
Foucault's Pendulum (Italian and French) - 8/20/19 - 649pgs x 10% = 713pgs

Stage 15 - Protagonists
Goal - 2275 pages
OOTZ - Books read that are not audiobooks
Opened 6/9/19

672/2275

1) Law Enforcement

Eternity in Death 7/3/19 160 pages

2) Time-traveler
Doctor Who: The Eyeless 7/28/19 256 pages
Doctor Who: The Story of Martha 9/19/19 256 pages

Stage 15 Protagonists
Goal 1500 pages
OOZ Recommended by a friend

Progress 1627/1500

1. College Student
The Understatement of the Year 310pg ✅ 6/24
The Shameless Hour 336pg ✅ 6/26
The Fifteenth Minute 316pg ✅ 6/27

2. On or suspected to be on autism spectrum
The Rosie Project 297pg ✅ 7/11
The Rosie Effect 368pg ✅ 7/14

Stage 15: Protagonists

Goals:
5% of 2018 pages - to be calculated 1/1/19 (2,770 pages)
Out of the Zone goal: Nonfiction (+10% page numbers)

Unlocked: 6/9/19
Tasks: up to 5

TBD

Goal: 2,500 pages (up to 5 tasks)
Out of Zone: Read a book I own (and acquired before 2019)

1. Children
Liesl & Po (310 + 31 pages) - 6/29/2019
A Good Horse (256 + 26 pages) - 9/30/2019
Powerless (288 pages) - 11/19/2019

2. Shifters
Firelight (323 + 32 pages) - 7/19/2019
Escape from the Isle of the Lost (256 pages) - 7/22/2019

3. Royalty
Bitterblue (576 + 58 pages) - 8/25/2019

4. Half-Bloods
Vampire Academy (332 + 33 pages) - 9/23/2019

Total: 2,521/2,500 pages - Completed

Pick 'n' Mix (2019) ~~ Stage 15 ~ Protagonists ~~ COMPLETE
January - December 2019

Page Goal: 5,000 Total Pages Read: 5,132
Out of the Zone: classic or literary fiction

Task limit is 8

Stage 15 ~ Protagonists (msg 24)

Military ~ Current of Former

🔹Collateral Damage ~ Kaylea Cross ~ 326 pp ~ 09.13 ★★★★
🔹Crazy for Her ~ Sandra Owens ~ 306 pp ~ 07.27 ★★★
🔹Big Bad Beast ~ Shelly Laurenston ~ 368 pp ~ 06.30 ★★★★

Paranormal ~ shifter, vampire, fairy…

🔹Dreams of a Dark Warrior ~ Kresley Cole ~ 512 pp ~ 07.24 ★★★★
🔹The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf ~ Molly Harper ~ 355 pp ~ 07.25 ★★★★
🔹Iron and Magic ~ Ilona Andrews ~ 406 pp ~ 07.12 ★★★★
🔹Blood Games ~ Chloe Neill ~ 352 pp

Athlete

🔹To Tame a Wild Cowboy ~ Lori Wilde ~ 400 pp ~ 07.17 ★★★
🔹Fighting Dirty ~ Lori Foster ~ 444 pp ~ 07.26 ★★★★
🔹Sweet Victory ~ Gina Maxwell ~ 251 pp ~ 09.25 ★★★★
🔹Cage's Misconduct ~ Nikki Worrell ~ 308 pp ~ 07.17 ★★★

Person of Color

🔹Private Arrangements ~ Brenda Jackson ~ 217 pp ~ 07.07 ★★★
🔹Possessed by Passion ~ Brenda Jackson ~ 224 pp ~ 08.26 ★★★
🔹Captive ~ Kiru Taye ~ 180 pp ~ 09.09 ★★★

Singer/Musician

🔹The Duet ~ R.S. Grey ~ 326 pp ~ 08.29 ★★★★
🔹In the Mood ~ Lynne Connolly ~ 128 pp ~ 07.11 ★★★

Stage 15: Protagonists
My Goal: 3800 pages
Up to 8 tasks

Progress: 1319/3800 pages
34% complete
Date: Dec 16

***OOTZ bonus = Nonfiction***


1. Teenagers

304 - Break in Case of Emergency (10/20)
311 - The Expectations (11/6)


2. Mothers

448 - Christmas Shopaholic (12/1)
352 - 25 Days 'Til Christmas (12/9)


3. Caregivers

256 - Nothing to See Here (12/15)

Goal: 3000 pages
Tasks: up to 5
OoZ: Nonfiction

1. Knight/Knight-in-training

In the Hand of the Goddess (264 pgs) 8/10
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (284 pgs) 8/10
Lioness Rampant (384 pgs) 8/11

2. Student

Truly Devious (416 pgs) 8/18

3. Crime solvers

A Deadly Thaw (377 pgs) 7/30
The Word Is Murder (390 pgs) 7/27
Sad Cypress (336 pgs) 8/11
Appointment with Death (303 pgs) 8/122
Sparkling Cyanide (336 pgs) 8/14

4. Murderbot

Rogue Protocol (158 pgs) 8/18

= 3248

Completed: 3248/3248

DONE!!!

Are biographies and autobiographies eligible here? Considering the person the book is about to be the protagonist? Or should books for this section be strictly fiction?

Stage 15: Protagonists , opened Jun 9

Goal 1225 pages, up to 5 tasks

1 - adult white male
✔ Eastern Standard Tribe, 223 pages - fin 6/15
✔ Radicalized, 304 pages - fin 7/6

2 - young woman
✔ Crown of Embers (Fire and Thorns #2), 410 pages - fin 7/2
✔ The Traveler (Fourth Realm #1), 464 pages - fin 7/8

pages read: 1398

COMPLETED 7/8/19

Susan wrote: "Are biographies and autobiographies eligible here? Considering the person the book is about to be the protagonist? Or should books for this section be strictly fiction?"

I’ve def used a few biographies for mine

Susan wrote: "Are biographies and autobiographies eligible here? Considering the person the book is about to be the protagonist? Or should books for this section be strictly fiction?"

Bios are fine, Susan

Stage 15 ~ Goal: 9,199 pages
'Out of the Zone' goal: POC authors

Tasks: up to 11

Stage 15: Protagonists
Goal: 5500 pages
OoZ: Science Fiction
17/17

1. Police Officer
✔︎ Crime Scene At Cardwell Ranch by B. J. Daniels (250) - August 18, 2019
✔︎ Thankless in Death by J. D. Robb [(415)+42] - October 5, 2019
✔︎ Down a Dark Road by Linda Castillo (400) - October 20, 2019
✔︎ Whispering Rock by Robyn Carr (369) - October 21, 2019
✔︎ Taken in Death by J.D. Robb [(160) +16] - November 12, 2019
✔︎ The Dry by Jane Harper (401) - November 17, 2019


2. Military
✔︎ A SEAL's Secret by Tawny Weber (244) - August 28, 2019
✔︎ Free Fall by Karen Foley (244) - October 16, 2019

3. White Collar
✔︎ When A Stranger Calls by Kathleen Long (249) - August 19, 2019
✔︎ Son of Scandal by Dani Wade (224) - August 24, 2019
✔︎ Who's the Boss? by Jill Shalvis (224) - October 9, 2019
✔︎ The Billionaire Bachelor by Jessica Lemmon (384) - November 23, 2019
✔︎ Unmasked by Stefanie London (224) - November 2, 2019


4. CIA Agent
✔︎ Diamond Bay by Linda Howard (367) - September 14, 2019
✔︎ Cold in the Shadows by Toni Anderson (377) - October 15, 2019

5. Journalist
✔︎ Tangled Up in Love by Heidi Betts (320) - October 12, 2019

Total pages: 4890

COMPLETED

My goals:
1: 1,500 pages (about 8% of my 2018 pages)
2. Translated book

Child
The Passage by Justin Cronin 963 pages

Magician
The Bullet Trick by Louise Welsh 363 pages

Musician
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 530 pages

pages read so far: 1856
OOZ bonus:
Pages with OOZ bonus:

Stage 15: Protagonists
Goal - 2,019 pages (up to 5 tasks)

**OotZ Goal - Nobel Winner OR Women's Prize/Man Booker shortlisted

Pages Completed: 2,049
Pages Remaining: -

1. Sleuth:
28/6/19 Mystery Mile 248pp
8/10/19 The Valley of Fear 240pp
23/10/19 The Man with the Dark Beard 226pp
13/11/19 The Maltese Falcon 213pp

2. Child:
27/6/19 Lanny 210pp

3. Dual Protagonists:
9/9/29 Midwinter Break 242pp
4/12/19 Parrot and Olivier in America 464pp + 10% (Booker shortlist 2010) = 510pp

4. Real Person:
14/11/19 Humphrey Repton's Memoirs 160pp

Congrats!