2025 Reading Challenge discussion

In 2017, I aimed for 12 books and read 13.

Now it's time to up the ante:

2018 goals:

at least THIRTY BOOKS
at least THIRTEEN THOUSAND PAGES



LET'S DO THIS!

Smasher wrote: "In 2017, I aimed for 12 books and read 13.

Now it's time to up the ante:

2018 goals:

at least THIRTY BOOKS
at least THIRTEEN THOUSAND PAGES



LET'S DO THIS!"

That's an impressive increase of your goal Smasher!
Wishing you the best of luck smashing through your 30 books! May you find some amazing reads along the way!
Happy reading!

I will start with the following books that I already own but have not read yet. I'm forbidding myself from purchasing any more books - or even borrowing anything for the library - until I have drastically reduced my unread stockpile at home.

These will account for my first eleven books and first 4075 pages. I will aim to complete this list by the end of April 2018.


1. The Crossroads - Ammaniti, Niccolò - 406 pp

2. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Pappé, Ilan - 320 pp

3. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) - Satrapi, Marjane - 153 pp

4. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - Doidge, Norman - 427 pp

5. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World - Shlaim, Avi - 704 pp

6. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality - Fausto-Sterling, Anne - 496 pp

7. Jandamarra & the Bunuba Resistance: A True Australian Hero -
Pedersen, Howard - 228 pp

8. Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men - Fausto-Sterling, Anne - 320 pp

9. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction - Foucault, Michel - 176 pp

10. Middlesex - Eugenides, Jeffrey - 529 pp

11. Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste? - McGee-Sippel, Lorraine - 316 pp

Good Luck with your goal in 2018!

Susy, Blagica,

Thank you both so much for your encouragement! :-)

you are welcome!

Hoping your first month was a success!

Two months down 10 to go! I hope March is a success for you.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. I hope that April brings you many more five star reads.

“Reading brings us unknown friends” While the warm weather is coming I hope you make some new friends in May! You are doing great keep it up!