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January - Marathon Challenge

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Updated to message 197 as of January 7, 2020
Please sign me up for 8 books.
12/12 completed
✅1. A Midsummer's Equation
✅2. A True Novel
✅3. Medea
✅4. The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
✅5. A Passage to India
✅6. The Aosawa Murders
✅7. The Quiche of Death
✅8. They Called Us Enemy
✅9. Things in Jars
✅10. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
✅11. Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence
✅12. Sweet Home
12/12 completed
✅1. A Midsummer's Equation
✅2. A True Novel
✅3. Medea
✅4. The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
✅5. A Passage to India
✅6. The Aosawa Murders
✅7. The Quiche of Death
✅8. They Called Us Enemy
✅9. Things in Jars
✅10. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
✅11. Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence
✅12. Sweet Home

7/7 - COMPLETE ✔️
📗 1. Genghis: Birth of an Empire
📗 2. The Hanging Valley
📗 3. yes man
📗 4. Number the Stars
📗 5. Pigen under træet
📗 6. Orphan Train
📗 7. Destination Unknown

15782/15000
1. Rush 1/1/20 Pages 304
2. April 1/1/20 Pages 122
3. Mind over Matter1/1/20 Pages 320
4. April of Enchantment 1/2/20 Pages 153
5. A Killer's Mind 1/2/20 Page 378
6. Unwrapping Hank 1/2/20 Page 138
7. Bone Cold 1/3/20 Page 270
8. A Study in Scarlet 1/3/20 Page 123
9. Awakened by the Wolf 1/3/20 Page 304
10. The Last Boyfriend 1/4/20 Page 214
11. Once Upon a Real Good Time 1/4/20 Page 298
12. Holes 1/4/20 Page 233
13. It Happened One Wedding 1/5/20 Page 305
14. A Lot like Love 1/5/20 Page 304
15. The Venus School of Sex 1/4/20 Page 272
16.Simply Scandalous 1/5/20 Page 305
17. The Substitute Millionaire 1/5/20 Page 104
18. If the Viscount Falls 1/6/20 Page 401
19. Scaling Her Dragon 1/6/20 Page 170
20. The Invisible Man 1/6/20 Page 192
21. Falling Hard 1/6/20 Page 376
22. A Wicked Kind of Husband 1/7/20 Page 386
23. Maisie Dobbs 1/7/20 Page 309
24.Blind Passion 1/7/20 Page 177
25. Advanced Physical Chemistry 1/8/20 Page 274
26. Breaking Point 1/9/20 Page 405
27. Lemon Meringue Pie Murder 1/9/20 Page 352
28. Big Bad Beast 1/10/20 Page 307
29. From Lukov with Love 1/10/20 Page 493
30. You Loved Me At My Darkest 1/10/20 Page 314
31. Crime and Punishment 1/11/20 Page 671
32. A Better Man 1/11/20 Page 437
33. Saint Christopher and the Gravedigger 1/12/20 Page 224
34. Finding Allie 1/12/20 Page 203
35. Eleventh Hour 1/13/20 Page 384
36. Stateless] 1/13/20 Page 512
38. Conceit 1/13/20 Page 186
39. The Full Legacy 1/14/20 Page 272
40. A Silent Fury 1/14/20 Page 244
41. Shattered 1/14/20 Page 401
42. Baiting the Maid of Honor 1/15/20 Page 127
43. Thought I Knew You 1/15/20 Page 278
44. You Slay Me 1/15/20 Page 474
45. Double Fudge Brownie Murder 1/16/20 Page 356
46. A Harmless Little Game 1/16/20 Page 227
47. Closer Than You Think 1/17/20 Page 704
48. The Bookshop 1/17/20 Page 163
49. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 1/17/20 Page 401
50. Naked in Death 1/17/20 Page 316
51. One True Loves 1/18/20 Page 352
52. Heist Society 1/18/20 Page 287
53. Honey 1/18/20 Page 240
Happy New Year! Signing up for 4 books -
4/4. COMPLETED! 2 EXTRA :)
1- Holly Banks Full of Angst - 1/2020 -- Page: 373
2- The Sunday Lunch Club - 1/2020 -- Page 416
3- The Library Book - 1/2020 -- Page 336
4- The Immortalists - 1/2020 -- Page 343
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5- The Imperfectionists - 1/2020 - Page 304
6- Paris for One & other stories - 1/2020 Page 174
4/4. COMPLETED! 2 EXTRA :)
1- Holly Banks Full of Angst - 1/2020 -- Page: 373
2- The Sunday Lunch Club - 1/2020 -- Page 416
3- The Library Book - 1/2020 -- Page 336
4- The Immortalists - 1/2020 -- Page 343
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5- The Imperfectionists - 1/2020 - Page 304
6- Paris for One & other stories - 1/2020 Page 174

5/5
1. John Grisham - Camino Island
2. Jacqueline Carey -Kushiel's Dart
3. Anne Tyler - Vinegar Girl
4. Liane Moriarty - The Last Anniversary
5. Hailey Lind - Brush With Death

1. Dark Matter
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
3. Daisy Jones & The Six
1,176/1000 pages
Challenge completed 11/1!

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Please sign me up for 12 books. I have a few short-ish books and a few long ones planned for January.
Progress: 20/15 books (completed 17 Jan)
1. Tigana
2. Murder is Binding
3. The Book of Chameleons
4. The Pillars of the Earth
5. A Beautiful Place to Die
6. Arabian Nights and Days
7. Catering to Nobody
8. Mating
9. Artificial Condition
10. The Midnight Witness
11. Ninefox Gambit
12. The Coroner's Lunch
13. Extracurricular Activities
14. The Sanctuary Sparrow
15. Wounded
16. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
17. The Hairdresser of Harare
18. Dog on It
19. Fingersmith
20. Code Name Verity
Link to my challenge post

9/5
1. Sins of the Fathers - 1/3/20
2. White Fang - 1/5/20
3. Born a Crime -1/6/20
4. The Devil's Punch Bowl - 1/14/20 (720+ pages)
5. The Names of the Dead - 1/15/20
6. ATime to Murder and Create - 1/18/20
7. Child's Play - 1/21/20
8. Game of Thrones - 1/25/20 (802 pages)
9. 8 Million Ways to Die - 1/27/20
Total of xx pages

Please sign me up for 1,000 pages, thank you, Blagica :)

Put me down for 6, January is usually a little crazy.
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15/15 - COMPLETED

Please sign me up for 1,000 pages.
Goal: 1,000 pages ; Progress: 493/1,000
1. Shadow Spell (96/96) Completed: 01/05/20
2. Crystal Gardens(186/186)
Completed: 01/17/20
3. Wicked Intentions (69/156)
4. Tender Rebel (85/289)
5. Empire of Sand (57/669)

1. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
2. The Late Starters Orchestra by Ari L. Goldman
3. Gray Mountain by John Grisham
4. The Dry by Jane Harper
5. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
6. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two by John Tiffany
7. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
8. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
9. The Capture by Kathryn Lasky
10. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
11. A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
13. One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
14. Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

Progress: 8/8
1. The Wanderer
2. Dear Edward
3. The Truth About Stacey
4. Bridesmaids
5. The Silent Patient
6. The Immortalists
7. The Library of Lost and Found
8. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

Finishing The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale= 118 pages
Reading Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk = 218 pages

1 The Less than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote
2 The Little Bookshop on the Seine
3 Yellow Rose
4 Almost Love
5 The Secrets of My Life
6 My Sister, the Serial Killer
7 Edward Adrift
8 The Carer
9 Britt-Marie Was Here
9/9

21/10
1. If You Tell - Gregg Olsen
2. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
3. Catcher in the Rye - j.d.salinger
4. Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
5. Horrorstor - Grady Hendrix
6. American Gods - Neil Gaimen
7. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
8. Beautiful Boy - David Sheff
9. The Soul of an Octopus - Sy Montgomery
10. Interview with the Robot -Lee Bacon
11. Holiday Greetings from Sugan & Booze - Ana Gasteyer
12. Blood of Elves - Andrezej Sapkowski
13. Not my Father's Son - Alan Cumming
14. The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown
15. Murder at Archly Manor - Sara Rosett
16. Beloved - Toni Morrison
17. Call of the Wild - Jack London
18. Midnight Son - James Dommek
19. Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
20. Inside Out- Demi Moore
21. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

Please sign me up for 5 books!
Progress 🔋
5 out of 5
1. The Henchmen's Book Club ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. The Bluest Eye ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. I Wish You All the Best ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. The Princess Diarist ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5. Concubine ⭐️⭐️
Thank you!!!

MARATHON CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2020
Total = 39/50 ✘
(view spoiler)

Updated 2/8/20
Progress: 7,688/6000
1. 2019 US-NY: Red at the Bone (208 pp.)
2. 2019 US-IA, IN In the Dream House (242 pp.)
3. 1985 US Reasons to Live (129 pp.)
4. 1994 South Africa: Long Walk to Freedom (656 pp.)
5. 2007 South Africa: Coconut (190 pp.)
6. 1998 Botswana: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (235 pp.)
7. 1980 South Africa:Waiting for the Barbarians (180 pp.)
8. 2017 South Africa: The Blessed Girl (304 pp.)
9. 2017 US-NC: The Secret, Book & Scone Society (290 pp.)
10. 1981 South Africa: July's People (160 pp.)
11. 1948 South Africa: Cry, the Beloved Country (316 pp.)
12. 2007 South Africa: Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa25] (526 pp.)
13. 2018 Canada: Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture (239 pp.)
14. 2004 South Africa: Devil's Peak translated from Afrikaans (416 pp.)
15. 2019 Eswatini/Swaziland: When the Ground Is Hard (256 pp.)
16. 2012 England: Bring Up the Bodies (412 pp.)
17. 2020 US-WA: The Vanishing (320 pp.)
18. 2019 'Gilead': The Testaments 432 pp.
19. 1995 Lesotho: Basali! Stories by and about Women in Lesotho (126 pp.)
20. 1999 Australia: The Dragon Man (239 pp.)
21. 2003 South Africa: A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid (208 pp.)
22. 2019 US-TN: Nothing to See Here (272 pp.)
23. 2006 Namibia: The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (320 pp.)
24. 2019 US-LA: We Cast a Shadow (336 pp.)
25. 2011 South Africa: Ancient Rites (160 pp.)
26. 1998 South Africa:Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa (432 pp.)

1. Una Cenerentola a Manhattan 416 pages 01/07/2020
2. Hunted
3. Rich People Problems
4. Superman: Dawnbreaker
5. China Rich Girlfriend 479 pages 01/05/2020

Progress: 2/5
1. The Corruption of Alston House. 1/12/2020
2. Daughters of the Lake. 1/20/2020
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8/5 Goal Complete :)
1. The Vacationers
2. The Bride Test
3. The Nightingale
4. Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen
5. Be Fruitful: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Fertility and Giving Birth to a Healthy Child
6. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
7. Craven Manor
8. The House We Grew Up In

MARATHON CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2020
I am going to try to reach about 4000 pages!
Progress as of 1/16/2020
4203 /4000 pages...√ Completed √
Books Read
Jane Eyre
Rebecca
One Day in December
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Giver of Stars
Bring Up the Bodies
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Naked in Death
Evvie Drake Starts Over
Verity

Making Movies and 1984 left.
Update 1 - 3/4
I am doing 4 books now Persepolis 1 and 2, Making movies and 1984.
I am doing to 2 books i.e. 1984 and Dune
I am out of reading habit and Dune seems very intimidating plus I will be quite busy with my coaching so these two would be a great start for the year!

COMPLETED: 8/6
1. The Star finished 1 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
2. The Magician's Apprentice finished 5 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
3. The Magicians' Guild finished 8 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
4. The Novice finished 13 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. The High Lord finished 17 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. The Final Empire finished 25 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. Doctor Who - Free Comic Book Day 2017 finished 26 January, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
8. The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage finished 27 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review

13/7
1. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
2. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
3. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
4. The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer
5. The Butterfly's Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe
6. All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil
7. Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
8. Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
9. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
10. Puddin' by Julie Murphy
11. Famous in a Small Town by Emma Mills
12. Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid
13. Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi

1 Not Joe’s not so short short
2 Αν μείνω
3 Ένα εκατομμύριο βρόμικα μυστικά
4 Ένα εκατομμύριο ένοχες απολαύσεις
5 Η εκλεκτή
5/5

Progress: 1/3
1. All the Light We Cannot See
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As of 1/28/20 Completed 1639/1000
Songs from the Deep - 1/1/20 - 304 pages
The Family Upstairs - 1/5/20 - 340 pages
A Constellation of Roses - 1/9/2020 - 336 pages
Winterwood - 1/11/2020 - 323 pages
The Sun Down Motel - 1/16/2020 - 336 pages

Hollow Kingdom
Passport to Death
The Haunting of Maddy Clare
Carrie
Dad Is Fat
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses
If Cats Disappeared from the World
My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
The Walking Dead, Book Two
Dragon Teeth
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
Into Bones like Oil
Into the Jungle

Progress: 5/5 CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
1. The Wendy 1/4/20
2. A Court of Wings and Ruin 1/12/20
3. Pride 1/13/20
4. The Beautiful 1/15/20
5. Sea Witch 1/17/20
Books mentioned in this topic
Nothing to See Here (other topics)Basali! Stories by and about Women in Lesotho (other topics)
A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid (other topics)
The Testaments (other topics)
The Dragon Man (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Karen Chance (other topics)Margaret Rogerson (other topics)
Diana Rowland (other topics)
Nicole Hamlett (other topics)
Kalayna Price (other topics)
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Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2020
This is such a hit every year, that we thought we would kick off the year again with a running start! How often is it our New Year's Resolution to read more books? How many of us set goals higher than we did last year? How many of us want to read that super long classic that has been sitting on our bookshelf collecting dust, or spend a winter day curled up on the couch with a pile of graphic novels? Let's start 2020 with a marathon of reading!
Pick a pile of books that you feel you could snuggle up with: a nice over-500-page book, a stack of books under 100 pages, or those books that have been on your TBR list for way too long. Anything you choose is fair game!
This is not a sprint, but a way to spend January in the pages! Pick the number of pages or books you would like to read in January and post them below. The goal is to make fast progress on your reading goals in the New Year. Who would have thought that by hurrying up and sitting with a book, that you could do a marathon?
I’ll be cheering you along and helping you get off to a running start!