2025 Reading Challenge discussion

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✓5. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

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✅ Dovne piger syer med lang tråd : delvist sandfærdige erindringer (Piger = girls) ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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✓6. Heidi Grows Up by Charles Tritten (published in 1938)

Updated to here. It looks like there's some good books being chosen for this challenge. Hope you're enjoying what you're reading :)

This looks so interesting, I've decided it'll be my first challenge here :D

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✔ 1) The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer ★★★★
2) The First Time She Drowned
3) The Madman’s Daughter
4) Educating Caroline *not sure*


- Lainey

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✅ En sag for Helen Walsh ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Finished reading The Danish Girl ★★★★☆ as the first book for this challenge. I hope to pick up my pace a bit to get through the rest of the books!

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✅ 3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 03/12/2017 ★★★★★

5/10

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1. All About Mia by Lisa Williamson ✔
2. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona ✔

2/5 complete

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1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Completed 11/3/17 Rating 4 stars

1/4

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The Time Traveler's Wife ****

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5/5 completed

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✅ 10. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray 03/14/2017 ★☆☆☆☆

6/10

Well done Lindsay for being the first to complete their challenge! Updated you all to here

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2. How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran Completed 15/3/17 Rating 4 stars

2/4

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✅ Third Girl ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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✅ 4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 03/18/2017 ★★★★☆

7/10

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I completed Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children ★★★★☆ so 2/6 done :)

I know I'm late to the challenge, but I am going to try reading 3 books.

Liselotte & Witch's Forest, Vol. 1

1/3 completed

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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War ****

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COMPLETE : Progress: (7/7)

✓7. The Queen's Lady by Barbara Kyle (read 3/21)

My review is here

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Finished Little Women ★★☆☆☆

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Finished 10/10.

1. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
2. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
3. Alanna: The First Adventure
4. Jane Eyre
5. A Girl Apart
6. The Bloom Girls
7. Dead Drop: A Girl's Guide to Homicide
8. 1 Millennial Girl: Green Beret
9. Run, Girl
10. The Case of the Vanishing Girls Book 1 Wildcat Crew

I really enjoyed most of the books I read for this challenge. Dead Drop appears to be the debut novel in a series. If so, I'm looking forward to the next installment.
I wish I wouldn't have wasted my time on 1 Millennial Girl. I believe that this is really the first issue of a serial book. All of the characters are introduced but the plot itself is really only hinted at. If the author pulls everything together in later additions than it could be a very enjoyable story.
Run, Girl has a similar format to Gone Girl. I enjoyed both books but Gone Girl has the richer plot.

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✅ 7. Mister God, This is Anna by Fynn 03/24/2017 ★★☆☆☆

8/10

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4. Anne of Green Gables ★★★★★

Challenge complete!
Goal: 5/5, 100.00%

01. A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1) - 14 Mar 2017, 2/5
02. Maid in Waiting (The Forsyte Chronicles, #7) - 18 Mar 2017, 3/5
03. A Rose for Emily - 18 Mar 2017, 4/5
04. The Croning - 21 Mar 2017, 4/5
05. Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6) - 25 Mar 2017, 3/5

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✅ 6. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 03/26/2017 ★★★☆☆

9/10

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Only one left with less than a week to go.

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2/2 Completed ✔

1. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine [Read 3/16/2017]
2. Princess Academy (Princess Academy #1) by Shannon Hale [Read 3/26/2017

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3. The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey Completed 26/3/17 Rating 4 stars

3/4

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***COMPLETE***

✅ 1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 03/03/2017 ★★★☆☆
✅ 2. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 03/07/2017 ★★☆☆☆
✅ 3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 03/12/2017 ★★★★★
✅ 4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 03/18/2017 ★★★★☆
✅ 5. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding 03/07/2017 ★☆☆☆☆
✅ 6. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 03/26/2017 ★★★☆☆
✅ 7. Mister God, This is Anna by Fynn 03/24/2017 ★★☆☆☆
✅ 8. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 03/28/2017 ★★★★★
✅ 9. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez 03/10/2017 ★★★★☆
✅ 10. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray 03/14/2017 ★☆☆☆☆

10/10

Anyone else think this month has gone fast? Updated you all to here but there's still a few days to read more books for this challenge

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Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley (03/28/17)

Progress: 3/5

It doesn't look like I'm going to be able to finish in time. I have read 12 books so far this month, but it appears that I didn't plan very well for this challenge :(

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Completed the challenge (3/3) with The French Lieutenant's Woman ****

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7/5

The Girl with a Clock for a Heart

Just finished The Girl Who Played with Fire.

1/3 :)

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4. Matilda by Roald Dahl Completed 30/3/17 Rating 4 stars

4/4

Finished book 5/6 - Carrie ★★★☆☆

I am halfway through my final book, but I know I will not be able to complete the challenge, but I was aware that I was being overly ambitious with my goal of 6 books (seeing as I have been in a bit of a reading slump). But 5 (and a half) books in a month!? That for me is an insane accomplishment and I am glad to have been apart of this challenge!

Thank you so much, I had fun! :)

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8 completed

Finished Lab Girl (2/3)

[1/1] (OM 26)

1. The Girl and the Bicycle (2017.03.31, ★★★★★).

Didn't finish the challenge. Read Liselotte & Witch's Forest, Vol. 1 and started Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family and Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time (almost finished it). I also had other books lined up for this challenge, but ran out of time. Still enjoyed the challenge.

Just finished The Lost Daughter, not in time for the challenge but 3/3 :D

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I got 5/5!

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Well done everyone! Hope you enjoyed this challenge :)

I managed 2 of my goal of 5.

1. Mrs. Hemingway
2. Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle

FINISHED!

Goal: 5/5

The Star-Touched Queen
The Painted Girls
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Hild

I managed to complete 2:

1. Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle
2. Mrs. Hemingway