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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
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Up to 8 tasks
OoZ: books in Bahasa Indonesia
Progress: 5,629/5,400 pages as at 09/20
1. Australian Authors
🗸 320p - Under the Cold Bright Lights -Read 08/27
🗸 259p - Dead Man's Chest (Phryne Fisher #18) -Read 09/04
🗸 296p - The Sky So Heavy -Read 09/04
🗸 400p - The Harp of Kings (Warrior Bards #1) -Read 09/03
🗸 368p - Dead Man Switch (A Billie Walker Mystery #1) -Read 09/10
🗸 368p - The Doubleman -Read 09/20
sub-total: 2,011p
2. Published and/or added to TBR in 2019
🗸 307p - Mechanica (Mechanica #1) -Read 08/13
🗸 400p - Silverlegs I: Seed of Rage -Read 08/30
sub-total: 707p
3. Litcelebrasian
🗸 432p - The Girl King (The Girl King #1) -Read 08/30
🗸 353p - A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat #3) -Read 09/12
sub-total: 785p
4. Classics
🗸 252p - White Fang -Read 08/28
sub-total: 252p
5. Fits other PAS challenges
🗸 325p - The Year I Met You -Read 08/22
🗸 296p - Marina (Sept Shelf: gothic) -Read 09/06
🗸 480p - The Technologists -Read 09/10
🗸 464p - Broken Promise (Promise Falls #1) -Read 09/13
sub-total: 1,565p
6. Added in 2010
🗸 309p - Once a Witch (Witch #1) -Read 08/28
sub-total: 309p
Lusie's Stage 12: OWN TBR - completed ❑ ☑ ✅Goal: 5% - 3975 pages: Up to 8 tasks
Out of zone goal: Science Fiction
Total: 4006 pages
1. Owned books
☑ 501p Midnight on Julia Street [10-aug-19] ★★★
☑ 337p Crocodile on the Sandbank [10-sep-19] ★★
☑ 352p Sweep of the Blade (320p + 10% OOZ) [20-sep-19] ★★★★
☑ 290p The Liar's Sister [24-sep-19] ★★★
☑ 424p The Handyman [30-oct-19] ★★★
☑ 521p Genuine Lies by Nora Roberts [31-oct-19] ★★★
☑ 400p Awakening [31-oct-19] ★★
☑ 285p A Bird on a Windowsill [1-nov-19] ★★★
☑ 524p Shroud of Eternity [13-nov-19] ★★★
☑ 372p My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry [16-nov-19] ★★★
Stage 12: Own TBRGoal 2500 - 10 %
OOTZ: Pulitzer Prize Winner
5 Task limit
Task 1 Paper
220 p. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
88 p The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
62 p Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Emily Mann
109 p. Statements by Athol Fugard
112p. Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard
94 p. Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson
74 p=66+10%. 'night, Mother by Marsha Norman
172 p The Call of the Wild by Jack London
252 p White Fang by Jack London
Total 1181 p
Stage 12 - Own TBRGoal 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
4535/4456
Added in 2019 by June 30
- The Nature of the Beast. Added 5/20/19. Read 9/4/19. 376 pages.
- The Women of the Copper Country. Added 5/18/19. Read 9/4/19. 352 pages.
- The Paris Diversion. Added 5/14/19. Read 9/13/19. 384 pages
- The Passengers. Added 4/1/19. Read 9/30/19. 352 pages.
Added in 2018
- Marked in Flesh. Added 7/27/18. Read 8/19/19. 399 pages + 10% = 439.
- Choices. Added 10/25/18. Read 8/22/19. 400 pages + 10% = 440.
- Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr. Added 8/27/18. Read 9/8/19. 540 pages + 10% = 594.
Added in 2017
- Mystery Mile. Added 1/8/17. Read 8/26/19. 223 pages.
Added in 2014
- A Prayer for Owen Meany. Added 11/16/14. Read 10/1/19. 637 + 10% = 701 pages.
Added in 2013
- Who?. Added 1/6/13. Read 9/2/19. 192 pages.
Added in 2010
-The Collectors. Added 5/28/10. Read 9/13/19. 438 pages +10% = 482.
Me!!goal: 8452pgs
2) stretch goal #1 - non-fiction
2) stretch goal #2 - diversity challenge
Pages read: 6716/8452
Pages remaining: 1736/8452
Up to 11 categories
1. ARC’s I requested and need to read
Close Enough to Touch (from Edelweiss - Oct 2016) - Finished - 11/10/19 - 336pgs
When Angels Cry: A Novel (from Edelweiss - Jul 14) - Finished - 11/22/19 - 192pgs
Six Goodbyes We Never Said (from Netgalley - Apr 2019)
The Unexpected Waltz (from Netgalley Feb 2014)
2. Pre-ordered and then never read
Better Than Me (Preordered Apr 9, 2019/Delivered May 7, 2019) - Finished - 8/31/19 - 354pgs
Fluffy (preordered Feb 17, 2019/Delivered April 30, 2019) - finished - 9/10/19 - 267pgs
Parental Guidance (preordered May 3, 2019/Delivered June 17, 2019) finished - 9/15/19 - 221pgs
Hangry Girl (preordered Aug 31, 2017/Delivered Oct 24, 2017) - Finished - 9/16/19 - 392pgs
3. Purchased 2019
In Too Deep (purchased Jan 12, 2019) - Finished - 8/14/19 - 236pgs
5. Purchased long time ago (before Jan 2018)
Keeping Mr. Right Now (purchased Aug 31, 2014) - finished - 8/29/19 - 236pgs
The Girl with the Cat Tattoo (purchased Oct 8, 2014) - Finished - 9/1/19 - 166pgs
Love the Way You Lie (purchased Nov 3, 2016) - finished - 9/1/19 - 246pgs
On the Fly (purchased Oct 14, 2016) - Finished - 9/2/19 - 272pgs
Taking A Shot (purchased Oct 14, 2016) - Finished - 9/2/19 - 104pgs
Light the Lamp (purchased Oct 14, 2016) - Finished - 9/2/19 - 318pgs
All He Ever Needed (purchased Nov 26, 2013 - Finished - 9/10/19 - 384pgs
Apollo's Curse (purchased Nov 29, 2014) - Finished - 10/10/19 - 282pgs
Seducing Avery (purchased Nov 1, 2012) - Finished - 11/24/19 - 133pgs
The Price of Desire (purchased March 19, 2009) - Finished - 11/27/19 - 288pgs
A Midwife Crisis (purchased May 27, 2010) - Finished - 12/22/19 - 292pgs
Secret Daughter (purchased April 8, 2016)
Shanghai Girls (purchased June 30, 2009)
6. Ear Worms (audiobooks)
Living Dead in Dallas (purchased Apr 13, 2012) - Finished - 8/14/19 - 291pgs
Black Ice (purchased Mar 8, 2012) - Finished - 8/26/19 - 377pgs
Unholy Ghosts (purcahsed July 12, 2012) - finished - 8/29/19 - 339pgs
Club Dead(purchased 18 May, 2012) - finished - 9/9/19 - 274pgs
The Turn of the Screw(purchased 13 June, 2011) - Finished - 9/17/19 - 121pgs
Never Trust a Pirate(purchased 6 July 2014) - finished - 9/23/19 - 304pgs
Dead to the World(purchased 8 march 2011) - finished - 10/4/19 - 291pgs
PAS Monthly Shelf
The Turn of the Screw - Gothic (Sep19)
Goal: 3,500 pagesPages Read: 316
OOTZ Read 3 nonfiction books-1 book read
1) Series I need to finish
2) Books on my TBR longer than 3 years
3) Black covers
4) Favorite authors
5) Published after 2000
Anna Dressed in Bloodby Kendare Blake(316)
Completed 09/10/19
Stage 12: Own TBRGoal: 8,000 pages
Tasks: Up to 11
OoZ: POC
Completed: 0/8,000 pages
Delicate Ink (added Dec 2015)
Him (added Sep 2014) (314 pages)
Stage 12: Own TBRGoal =2,234 5% of 44,686
Reading for other Challenges
✔ A Kiss Away from Scandal by Christine Merrill 15 August 2019 ★★★★ 288
✔ How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days by Kerrelyn Sparks 28 August 2019 ★★★★★ 415
Series I'm listening to
✔ Kitty's Big Trouble by Carrie Vaughn 14 September 2019 ★★★★ 307 (Audio)
✔ Don't Hex with Texas by Shanna Swendson 16 August 2019 ★★★★★ 292 (Audio)
✔ Tricked by Kevin Hearne 5 September 2019 ★★★★ 341 (Audio)
Series to complete or catch up
✔ East of Ecstasy by Laura Kaye 31 August 2019 ★★★★★ 368
✔ Spellbinder by Thea Harrison 23 August 2019 ★★★★ 326
Mod
Goal 1225 pages, up to 5 tasks
1 - books that have been on my TBR for far too long
✔ Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, 280 pages - fin 8/20
✔ This World We Live In, 256 pages - fin 8/20
✔ Shine, 350 pages - fin 9/3
✔ Good Moon Rising, 244 pages - 9/8
2 - second or later in series
✔ [The Descent of Monsters|36430596], 160 pages - fin 8/25
pages read: 1290
COMPLETED 9/8
Mod
Stage 12: Own TBR
Goal: 2,675 pages
Up to 5 tasks
OOZ: Magical Realism
1. Bedroom bookcases
417p - Long Time Gone
402p - Mother Earth Father Sky
624p - The Second Chair
265p - Antiques Knock-Off
2. Computer room
388p - Choiring Of The Trees
384p - The Rabbi
191p - Port Eternity
74p - The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains
Total pages = 2745
Stage 12: Own TBRMy Goal: 3800 pages
Up to 8 tasks
Progress: 3817/3800 pages
100% complete
Date: Dec 16
1. TBR before 2019
336 - The Farm (10/16)
276 - Start Without Me (11/8)
496 - Magpie Murders (11/20)
307 - Ordinary Grace (11/24)
352 - A Room Full of Bones (11/26)
285 - Arrowood (11/27)
136 - You Have the Right to Remain Fat (12/10)
329 - The Widow (12/11)
368 - She's Not There (12/15)
2. Physical books I own
352 - Force of Nature (11/30)
340 - The Lost Man (12/14)
3. White Cover
240 - White Elephant (12/5)
Stage 12: Own TBR - DONE!Goal: 5,000 pages
1. Sync downloads
Total pages: 5,040
Stage 4: Own TBR Goal: 5468 p.
Tasks: up to 7
OOZ: Non fiction
Pages Completed: 3895 p.
Kindle
Tempting the Best Man 1/30/20 136p.
Naked Edge 3/13/20 361p.
Beastly 5/8/20 327p
Audible
Watchers 11/21/19 623p.
Origin 3/12/20 374p.
The Red Pyramid 5/30/20 514p.
Vendetta in Death 6/8/20 368p.
Book
Blood Truth 2/26/20 423p.
The Winter Sea 4/17/20 536p.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life 4/28/20 224 p.
Stage 12: Own TBRGoals:
2,112 pages (5% of 2018 pages) ==> up to 5 tasks
🎯Out of the Zone goal: nonfiction
1. Off My Bookshelves
Tails, You Lose by Carol J. Perry (365 pages) Read: 8/23/19
Pane and Suffering by Cheryl Hollon (320 pages) Read: 8/28/19
🎯 Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert (288 pages + 29 OotZ = 317 pages) Read: 9/2/19
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (227 pages) Read: 9/2/19
Paw Enforcement by Diane Kelly (388 pages) Read: 9/24/19
Ape House by Sara Gruen (306 pages) Read: 10/8/19
2. Kindle Books Gathering Dust
We are NOT Buying a Camper!: A Frannie Shoemaker Prequel by Karen Musser Nortman (104 pages) Read: 9/24/19
3. ARCs for Review
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (308 pages) Read: 9/8/19
Total = 2,335
Goal = 2,112
Stage 12 - Own TBR - Done!Goal - 3,500pgs
**OOtZ Goal - MPG Classics
3,956/3,500pgs
OOtZ books: 0
Paper
Lisey's Story - 656pgs - 8/28/19
I'll Steal You Away - 417pgs - 9/2/19
Fall of Giants - 942pgs - 9/12/19
Unaccustomed Earth - 352 - 9/22/19
A Marker to Measure Drift - 240pgs - 9/26/19
Audio
Black Diamond - 320pgs - 9/24/19
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World - 805pgs - 10/2/19
Kindle
Four Movements: 50 years, 4 people, 1 piano - 224pgs - 9/2/19
Stage 12: Own TBR - Finished 13 Dec 19Goals: 2500 pages
1001 list books (bonus of extra 10% of the book's pages if it qualifies)
Books read = 8
Pages read = 2691
Books owned before 10 Aug 2019
1. Paperbacks
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
read 6 Sept 19, owned since December 2018, 512 pages + 10% 1001 bonus = 563
The Unseen by Katherine Webb
read 2 Oct 19, owned since November 2012, 441 pages
The Squire by Enid Bagnold
read 26 Nov 19, owned since Nov 2013, 178 pages
Junky by William S. Burroughs
read 5 Dec 19, owned since Jan 2015, 158 + 10% 1001 bonus = 174 pages
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
read 13 Dec 19, owned since Oct 2018, 591 + 10% 1001 bonus = 650 pages
2. Kindle
Coffee, Tea, the Gypsy & Me by Caroline James
read 16 Sept 19, owned since April 2012, 283 pages
13:55 Eastern Standard Time by Nick Alexander
read 24 Nov 19, owned since Jan 2012, 162 pages
Sugar Hall by Tiffany Murray
read 8 Dec 19, owned since July 2014, 240 pages
Stage 12 Own TBRGoal 6,500
OOZ Not-a-novel
1. Paper
Double Vision 308 pages completed September 8
308 pages
308/6500
Joyce Stage 12; Own TBRGoal 2275
OOTZ: books that are not audiobooks
Tasks: up to 5
Opened: 8/19/19
000/2275
Goal: 2,500 pages (up to 5 tasks)Out of Zone: Read a book I own (and acquired before 2019)
1. Buried Treasure (found at a used book sale)
Riding the Flume (240 + 24 pages) - 10/21/2019
Good Wives (416 + 42 pages) - 12/14/2019
The Blue Roan Child (253 + 25 pages)- 12/16/2019
Gone (560 + 56 pages) - 3/22/2020
2. Shiny, New, but Collecting Dust (bought new, more than 1 year ago)
The City of Ember (270 + 27 pages) - 3/29/2020
Ruins (544 + 54 pages) - 3/7/2020
Total: 2,511/2,500 pages - Completed
Pick 'n' Mix (2019) ~~ Stage 12 ~ Own TBRJanuary - December 2019
Page Goal: 5,000 Total Pages Read: 5,359
Out of the Zone: classic or literary fiction
Task limit is 8
Stage 12 ~ Own TBR (msg 23)
I've started the series
🔹Never Surrender ~ Kaylea Cross ~ #6 Bagram Special Ops ~ 152 pp ~ 09.15 ★★★
🔹Rock the Beat ~ Michelle A. Valentine ~ #3 Black Falcon ~ 255 pp ~ 09.10 ★★★
🔹The Curse of Tenth Grave ~ #10 Charley Davidson ~ 352 pp ~ 09.17 ★★★★
🔹Just My Luck ~ Rosalind James ~ #5 Escape to New Zealand ~ 381 pp ~ 10.05 ★★★★
🔹My Men ~ Andrea Smith ~ #3.7 G-Man ~ 174 pp ~ 09.28 ★★★
🔹Light After Dark ~ Marie Force ~ #16 Gansett Island ~ 306 pp ~ 08.28 ★★★★
🔹A Very Merry Princess ~ Susan Mallery ~ #2.5 Happily Inc ~ 116 pp ~ 10.03 ★★★
🔹Every Little Thing ~ Samantha Young ~ #2 Hart's Boardwalk ~ 352 pp ~ 09.27 ★★★★
🔹Too Fast to Fall ~ Victoria Dahl ~ #1.1 Jackson Hole ~ 103 pp ~ 09.15 ★★★
🔹Kissing in Action ~ Camilla Chafer ~ #7 Lexi Graves ~ 385 pp ~ 09.30 ★★★
🔹Kill Zone ~ C.J. Lyons ~ #3 Lucy Guardino ~ 356 pp ~ 09.10 ★★★★
🔹Stars Above ~ Marissa Meyer ~ #4.5 Lunar Chronicles ~ 401 pp ~ 08.26 ★★★★
🔹Captured in Surrender ~ Liliana Hart ~ #9.5 MacKenzie Family ~ 122 pp ~ 09.17 ★★★
🔹Fireproof ~ Alex Kava ~ #10 Maggie O'Dell ~ 433 pp ~ 08.18 ★★★★
🔹Stranded ~ Alex Kava ~ #11 Maggie O'Dell ~ 337 pp ~ 09.13 ★★★
🔹The Prince ~ Tiffany Reisz ~ #3 Original Sinners ~ 416 pp ~ 09.10 ★★★★
🔹Wicked Bite ~ Rebecca Zanetti ~ #5 Realm Enforcers ~ 298 pp ~ 09.30 ★★★★
🔹Iris in Bloom ~ Nancy Warren ~ #2 Take a Chance ~ 192 pp ~ 09.19 ★★★
🔹N or M? ~ Agatha Christie ~ #3 Tommy & Tuppence ~ 228 pp ~ 08.30 ★★★
I didn't realize until I was updating this week that I hadn't posted my list at all... and that I had finished it too!!
Stage 12: Own TBR (pre 10/9/19)Goal - 2,019 pages (up to 5 tasks)
**OotZ Goal - Nobel Winner OR Women's Prize/Man Booker shortlisted
Pages Completed: 2,025
Pages Remaining: -
1. Translated:
10/9/19 “Muslim”: A Novel 145pp
30/11/19 Transfer Window 92pp
2/12/19 You Would Have Missed Me 154pp
17/1/20 I Didn't Talk 160pp
24/4/20 Dimanche and Other Stories 270pp
2. Kindle:
7/1/20 Augustown 257pp
23/2/20 The Gallows Pole 170pp
3. Classics:
31/3/20 North and South 521pp
7/6/20 The Division Bell Mystery 256pp
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Books mentioned in this topic
Dimanche and Other Stories (other topics)Transfer Window (other topics)
You Would Have Missed Me (other topics)
“Muslim”: A Novel (other topics)
The Division Bell Mystery (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Jack London (other topics)Marsha Norman (other topics)
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For this stage, read books on your TBR. The only condition is that strictly based on books you own (in whatever form) & limited to those already on TBR at time this stage is unlocked
You may wish to create tasks or just read whatever book/s are on your TBR. Below are some ideas which you may wish to use and/or adapt according to your preference.
Yellow cover (I have a number of classics for these!)
Black cover
Gifted
Absolutely dusty
I've started the series (any serial book after #1)
(etc)