2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Update to #107

Our souls at night (179p)
Daughter of Fortune (419 p)

11831/13000

16,465 pages/15000 pages (109.7%)

Update to post 576:

20,497/16,000 (128.11%)

updated message 58. Almost there!

Updated message 164!! :D

Please Update November 2018:
1) A Bone to Pick (Widow's Island #2) by Melinda Leigh (2018)-101 pgs
2) Close to the Bone (WI#1) " " (2018)- 83 pgs
3) A Very Dragon Christmas(Darkness #8.5) by Katie Reus (2018)- 76 pgs
4) Guardian of Darkness (Darkness #7) by Katie Reus(2018)- 205 pgs
5) the Awful Mess by Sandra Hutchison(2013)- 297 pgs
6) Hidden Secrets by Carolyn Brown(2012)- 256 pgs
7) Forgotten Sins(Sin Brothers #1) by Rebecca Zanetti(2013) -401 pgs

Total pages turned in November 2018: 1419pgs

Please update October 2018:

1) Between Now And Forever(Callaways #4) by Barbara Freethy (2014)- 303 pgs
2) Moonlight Over Manhattan by Sarah Morgan- 384 pgs
3) Why Not Tonight( Happily inc #3) by Susan Mallery(2018)- 384 pgs
4) Secrets We Keep by Barbara Freethy(2018)- 125 pgs
5) Becoming Alpha(Alpha Girl #1) by Aileen Erin (2013)-267 pgs
6) Darkness Awakened (Darkness #1) by Katie Reus(2013)- 161 pgs
7) Taste of Darkness (Darkness #2) by Katie Reus(2014)- 265 pgs
8) Sentinel of Darkness(Darkness #8) by Katie Reus (2018)-99 pgs
9) Beyond the Darkness by Katie Reus(2015)- 345 pgs
10) Not Quite Over You (Happily Inc #4) by Susan Mallery(2018)- 352 pgs
11) Hunting Danger(Redemption Harbor #5) by Katie Reus(2018)- 251 pgs

Total pages turned in October was 2936 pgs!

Please update September 2018:

1) The Cold Moon(Lincoln Rhyme #7) by Jeffery Deaver(2006)- 416 pgs
2) Once Bitten, Twice Burned (Phoenix Fire #2) by Cynthia Eden(2014)- 352 pgs
3) Burn for Me (Phoenix Fire #1) by Cynthia Eden (2014)- 368 pgs
4) Night (The Night Trilogy #1) by Elie Wiesel(2006)- 120 pgs
5) Season of Wonder ( Haven Point #9) by RaeAnne Thayne (2018)- 384 pgs

Total pages turned in September was: 1640 pages!

Please update for August 2018:

1) Crazy Rich Asians (CRA #1) by Kevin Kwan(2013)- 403 pgs
2) All a Heart Needs ( Callaways #5) by Barbara Freethy (2014)- 200 pgs
3)The Lottery by Shirley Jackson(2007)- 30 pgs.

Total pages turned for August was: 633!

Update to message 2068

The Rain Watcher
The Notebook
Brian's Hunt
Silver Borne

15782/15000

Challenge completed!

ॐ Let's Turn Pages - Goal 14,000 pages

12,670/14,000 pages [91%]

#1 The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto pp. 496 4/5
#2 Coming Home pp. 785 4/5
#3 First Frost pp. 314 5/5
#4 Rocket Science for Babies pp. 24 3/5
#5 Night Film pp. 637 4/5
#6 Doctor Sleep pp. 485 3/5
#7 The Miniaturist pp. 433 4/5
#8 Starseeker pp. 323 5/5
#9 The Rules of Magic pp. 367 5/5
#10 I See You pp. 372 4/5
#11 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake pp. 325 3/5
#12 The Shipping News pp. 337 4/5
#13 Dark Matter pp. 401 4/5
#14 A Mislaid Magic pp. 236 4/5 (re-read)
#15 After the Unicorn pp. 252 4/5
#16 Arriving in Snowy Weather pp. 239 3/5
#17 Book of Pages pp. 64 5/5
#18 Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog pp. 215 2/5
#19 Into the Water pp. 428 4/5
#20 Mr Mercedes pp. 405 4/5
#21 Finders Keepers pp. 371 3/5
#22 End of Watch pp. 368 3/5
#23 How to Find Love in a Bookshop pp. 375 4/5
#24 The Couple Next Door pp. 362 3/5
#25 Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops pp. 119 4/5
#26 The Mother Garden pp. 191 3/5
#27 Uncanny Valley pp. 32 3/5
#28 The Martian Obelisk pp. 32 4/5
#29 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture pp. 211 3/5
#30 Zapped pp. 32 2/5
#31 Jack of Coins pp. 32 4/5
#32 Five Quarters of the Orange pp. 363 4/5
#33 We Were Liars pp. 225 5/5
#34 The Small Hand pp. 167 2/5
#35 Nine Last Days on Planet Earth pp. 32 5/5
#36 Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land pp. 32 5/5
#37 AI and the Trolley Problem pp. 32 4/5
#38 The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method pp. 147 5/5
#39 The Nearest pp. 32 4/5
#40 Animaculture pp. 72 3/5
#41 Haunted pp. 412 4/5
#42 The Fox on the Roundabout pp. 100 3/5
#43 The Man Who Planted Trees pp. 46 5/5
#44 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine pp. 390 5/5
#45 Black Dogs pp. 174 4/5
#46 The Witch's Daughter pp. 160 3/5
#47 Footsteps in the Dark pp. 328 3/5
#48 Elizabeth Is Missing pp. 275 5/5
#49 Rose Madder pp. 420 3/5

Update to message 966

Current total: 16,123 / 20,000

Updated message 265

Edited post #27.
Challenge completed.
32,339/30,000

Dragonstar, 328 pages.

34757/37500

Update Message 1944
12,721/9,000

Message #12 update.

61. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson - 329 pages
62. Вьюга by Mikhail Bulgakov - 12 pages
63. ЭмоБой by Антон Соя - 288 pages
64. Полотенце с петухом by Mikhail Bulgakov - 13 pages
65. Тьма египетская by Mikhail Bulgakov - 10 pages
66. Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov - 80 pages
67. Я убил by Mikhail Bulgakov - 11 pages
68. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry - 32 pages
69. The Last Leaf by O. Henry - 35 pages
70. A Madison Square Arabian Night by O. Henry - 14 pages
71. A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry - 54 pages
72. Transients in Arcadia by O. Henry - 14 pages
73. The Third Ingredient by O. Henry - 27 pages
74. Jeff Peters As A Personal Magnet by O. Henry - 15 pages
75. Witches' Loaves by O. Henry - 9 pages
76. Громила и Томми by O. Henry - 12 pages
77. Roads of Destiny by O. Henry - 10 pages
78. Quality by John Galsworthy - 8 pages
79. A Man of Devon by John Galsworthy - 43 pages
80. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - 213 pages
81. The First and the Last by John Galsworthy - 144 pages
82. The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda - 144 pages
83. A Stoic by John Galsworthy - 84 pages
84. Путь к Замку, или курс лекций о Франце Кафке by Максим Жук - 220 pages
85. The Juryman by John Galsworthy - 23 pages
86. Nevsky Prospect by Nikolai Gogol - 96 pages
87. The Carriage by Nikolai Gogol - 18 pages
88. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol - 53 pages
89. The Mysterious Portrait by Nikolai Gogol - 48 pages
90. The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol - 52 pages
91. Longbourn by Jo Baker - 50 pages
92. Тибетское Евангелие by Елена Крюкова - 164 pages
93. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol - 84 pages
94. Переход на летнее время by Михаил Айзенберг - 30 pages
95. Spindleberries by John Galsworthy - 9 pages
96. A Hedonist by John Galsworthy - 8 pages
97. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - 160 pages
98. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov - 176 pages
99. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff - 608 pages
100. The Stranger by Albert Camus - 123 pages

29,927/35,000

It's been a long time since I last updated, so here we go:

The Titan's Curse - 320 pages
The Last Olympian - 380 pages
Spider-Gwen, Vol. 0: Most Wanted? - 112 pages
Spider-Gwen (2015) #1 - 112 pages
Spider-Gwen (2015) #2 - 136 pages
Spider-Gwen (2015) #3 - 122 pages
Spider-Gwen (2015) #4 - 112 pages
Spider-Gwen, Vol. 5: Gwenom - 121 pages
Superman: Red Son - 160 pages
God Country - 168 pages
'Salem's Lot - 653 pages
Emergency Contact - 394 pages
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl - 296 pages
The Awakening of Sunshine Girl - 296 pages
The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl - 322 pages
Frankenstein - 273 pages
Night - 120 pages


Total so far: 13,789/25,000

update

29,000 pages so far

6489/8000 + 362 (Sugar and Spice)= 6851/8000

Updated #172

3906/8000

Message #12 update

101. Grey by E.L. James - 576 pages
102. Darker by E.L. James - 546 pages
103. Richard III by William Shakespeare - 369 pages

31,418/35,000

ॐ Let's Turn Pages - Goal 14,000 pages

13,000/14,000 pages [93%]

#1 The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto pp. 496 4/5
#2 Coming Home pp. 785 4/5
#3 First Frost pp. 314 5/5
#4 Rocket Science for Babies pp. 24 3/5
#5 Night Film pp. 637 4/5
#6 Doctor Sleep pp. 485 3/5
#7 The Miniaturist pp. 433 4/5
#8 Starseeker pp. 323 5/5
#9 The Rules of Magic pp. 367 5/5
#10 I See You pp. 372 4/5
#11 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake pp. 325 3/5
#12 The Shipping News pp. 337 4/5
#13 Dark Matter pp. 401 4/5
#14 A Mislaid Magic pp. 236 4/5 (re-read)
#15 After the Unicorn pp. 252 4/5
#16 Arriving in Snowy Weather pp. 239 3/5
#17 Book of Pages pp. 64 5/5
#18 Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog pp. 215 2/5
#19 Into the Water pp. 428 4/5
#20 Mr Mercedes pp. 405 4/5
#21 Finders Keepers pp. 371 3/5
#22 End of Watch pp. 368 3/5
#23 How to Find Love in a Bookshop pp. 375 4/5
#24 The Couple Next Door pp. 362 3/5
#25 Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops pp. 119 4/5
#26 The Mother Garden pp. 191 3/5
#27 Uncanny Valley pp. 32 3/5
#28 The Martian Obelisk pp. 32 4/5
#29 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture pp. 211 3/5
#30 Zapped pp. 32 2/5
#31 Jack of Coins pp. 32 4/5
#32 Five Quarters of the Orange pp. 363 4/5
#33 We Were Liars pp. 225 5/5
#34 The Small Hand pp. 167 2/5
#35 Nine Last Days on Planet Earth pp. 32 5/5
#36 Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land pp. 32 5/5
#37 AI and the Trolley Problem pp. 32 4/5
#38 The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method pp. 147 5/5
#39 The Nearest pp. 32 4/5
#40 Animaculture pp. 72 3/5
#41 Haunted pp. 412 4/5
#42 The Fox on the Roundabout pp. 100 3/5
#43 The Man Who Planted Trees pp. 46 5/5
#44 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine pp. 390 5/5
#45 Black Dogs pp. 174 4/5
#46 The Witch's Daughter pp. 160 3/5
#47 Footsteps in the Dark pp. 328 3/5
#48 Elizabeth Is Missing pp. 275 5/5
#49 Rose Madder pp. 420 3/5
#50 Buddha Da pp. 330 4/5

Message #12 update!

104. Pericles by William Shakespeare - 245 pages

31,663/35,000

Updated message 41

84,649/75,000

Updated Post #379

23 Sulfur Springs by William Kent Kreuger - 306 pages

Total = 9,295/12,500

Year Total: 24,799/20,000
Goal Met! Still counting pages until the end of the year!

November: 2,803
Cross the Line, 400 pages, audio
Bound to Darkness, 314 pages
Quick Trick, 213 pages
Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot, 208 pages, read w/ B
Cross Kill, 113 pages, audio
The End Game, 464 pages
The President Is Missing, 513 pages, audio
Detective Cross, 160 pages, audio
I've Got My Eyes on You, 256 pages, audio
Xylophone, 162 pages

October: 1,862 pages
Alex Cross, Run, 416 pages, audio
Cross My Heart, 544 pages, audio
Hope to Die, 374 pages, audio
Cross Justice, 528 pages, audio


September: 2,345 pages
Vanilla Beaned, 281 pages
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories, 368 pages
The Lost Key, 464 pages
I, Alex Cross, 400 pages, audio
Cross Fire, 356 pages, audio
Kill Alex Cross, 375, audio
Merry Christmas, Alex Cross, 101 pages, audio

Update msg 8

30,983/25,000 to end November

Update 228: 14,683/20,000

Message #12 update

105. Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare - 320 pages

31,983/35,000

Update to Message 174:

Finished reading:

The Book Thief- 552 pages
The Kiss Quotient- 336 pages
Dumplin'- 375 pages

29,698 pages read

Message #12 update

106. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski - 400 pages

32,383/35,000

Message #12 update

107. Measure for Measure byWilliam Shakespeare - 336 pages

32,719/35,000

Pages turned from April 2018 to July 2018 were 2,345!

Please update July 2018:

1) The Interpreter by RaeAnne Thayne(2005)-249 pgs.
2) Hiding in Park City by RaeAnne Thayne(2018)- 256 pgs

Total pages turned in July were 505 pages!

Please update June 2018:

1) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare(2003)- 287 pgs
2) Innocent Target by Katie Reus (2018)- 250 pgs.

Total pages turned June were 537!

Please update May 2018:
1) Dreadful by Jana Deleon (2018)- 364 pgs.

Total pages turned were 364! The best novel read so far!!

Please update April 2018:

1) The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain (2014)- 352 pgs.
2) A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle(1962)- 203 pgs.
3) Twice Bitten by Lynsay Sands(2018)- 384 pgs.

Total pages turned in April were 939!

Please update February 2018:

1) Somewhere Only We Know by Barbara Freethy (2015)- 275 pgs.
2) If I didn't Know Better by Barbara Freethy (2015)- 323 pgs.
3) Falling For A Stranger by Barbara Freethy (2013)- 293 pgs.
4) So This Is Love by Barbara Freethy (2013)- 293 pgs.
5) Tender is the Night by Barbara Freethy (2016)- 325 pgs.
6) Red Clocks by Leni Zumas(2018)- 356 pgs.
7) Wired Dawn by Toby Neal (2017)- 384 pgs.

Total pages turned in February were 2,249!

Please update March 2018:

1) On A Night Like This by Barbara Freethy (2015)- 296 pgs
2) Reckless Whisper by Barbara Freethy (2018)-291 pgs.

Total pages turned in March were 587 pages!

Total turned from January 2018- March 2018: 5,764 pages/10,000 at 57.64% complete.

So far I have met my annual goal and read 14,737 pages/10,000 pgs! 147.4%, and I still have to add December's pages turned.

King of Ashes, 499 pages.

35256/37500

Update to #107

American gods (576p)


12407/13000

Update to msg #1950


Progress: 28,602/25,000 pages (as of 30 Dec)
Challenge completed on 16 December.

Update to Message 174:

What Janie Found (Janie Johnson #4)- 181 pages

29,879 pages read

Updated message 5.

31992/20000

Haven't updated since July. Haven't read much either.
I finished:

Release
Life, the Universe and Everything
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Milk and Honey
Doctor Who: Twelve Doctors of Christmas

Making me:
10.546/12.000

(MSG 60) 6851/8000 + 315 (CANDY CANE MURDER)= 7166/8000

Please update my totals:

16783/15000 pages, 44 books

I’m so glad I found Goodreads!

Doe

Update to message 966

Current total: 19,529 pages
Goal: 20,000 pages

Message #12 update

108. As You Like It by William Shakespeare - 263 pages

32,982/35,000

Update to Message 174:

Just finished reading An Unwanted Guest- 290 pages

30,169 pages read

Finished The Pirate Round, 384 pages.

35640/37500

Updated #131