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January - Marathon Challenge
New for 2019! Monthly and quarterly challenges will be posted one month earlier to assist you with planning for the challenges. They will be locked for comments until approximately the 25th day of the prior month.Participants List
Rachael - 8 / 8
Anna - 0 / 10
SarahKat - 13 / 12
Megan - 11 / 10
Vanessa - 5 / 7
oshizu - 15 / 12
Brittany - 7 / 6
Hope - 7 / 7
Brittany - 12 / 12
Crystal - 8 / 7
Blagica - 14 / 20
Kelly - 7 / 4
Lena - 6 / 10
Mie - 7 / 7
Jessica - 15 / 15
Tula - 3 / 6
Becky - 0 / 8
Ran - 25 / 25
Stephanie - 4 / 4
Ashleigh - 5 / 3
Amanda - 3 / 3
Kim - 0 / 8
Jordynn - 5 / 5
Consuelo - 7 / 8
Winter - 10 / 10
Bmarieb27 - 0 / 7
Lindsay - 17 / 10
Nina - 1 / 6
Gwen S. - 6 / 10
Ashley - 6 / 6
June - 11 / 12
Abin - 0 / 4
Fatima - 4 / 7
LaTasha - 0 / 4
Stephanie - 0 / 3
Elina - 17 / 15
Katia - 14 / 14
Luisa - 5 / 6
Cindee - 3 / 25
Jennifer - 4 / 4
Samantha - 3 / 10
Gretchen - 4 / 4
Breonna - 0 / 20
Nicole - 27 / 7
Lamia - 2 / 3.5
Robyn - 0 / 6
Katerina - 2 / 4
Maida - 0 / 4
Jamie - 0 / 2
Ronda - 7 / 9
Kelli - 7 / 8
Kristin - 13 / 10
Susan C - 10 / 10
Shala - 4 / 4
Margie - 6 / 10
Amanda - 1 / 10
Grace - 22 / 20
Meghan L - 7 / 7
Ashley - 0 / 12
Meaghan - 0 / 15
Tina - 12 / 12
Charity - 11 / 7
Michele - 0 / 5
Jayden - 1 / 15
Tulika - 7 / 8
Akshey - 2 / 4
Siren - 5 / 10
Ashly - 5 / 4
Lynnette - 2 / 5
Shilpa - 0 / 10
Tammy - 0 / 5
Steph - 8 / 8
Greg - 9 / 9
Lady - 0 / 15
Britain - 0 / 12
Cindy III - 3 / 3
Ash - 13 / 10
Amy - 4 / 4
Monica - 1 / 10
Rebecca - 3 / 5
Carrie - 0 / 10
Cassie - 6 / 6
Alex - 9 / 10
Samantha - 0 / 5
Tera - 0 / 5
Carmen - 37 / 37
Susan - 7 / 7
Samantha - 0 / 5
Tera - 0 / 5
Nithin - 0 / 1
Clbrend - 5 / 5
Satin - 1 / 3
Purnima - 54 / 54
Phillip - 14 / 15
Alicja - 12 / 12
Total 457.5
Total Read 628
Participants Reading Pages
Kate - 244 / 1000
matilde - 1462 / 1000
Kelly - 2673 / 1200
Diane - 3642 / 6000
Keturah - 2153 / 1000
Lisa - 1850 / 1000
Ziggy - 3496 / 3333
Kristina - 2559 / 2500
SANDYE - 1512 / 1500
Gwen S. - 1665 / 2100
Nikki - 2044 / 1000
Anissa - 698 / 800
Anchita - 0 / 1000
Wayne - 4352 / 5500
Luisa - 1690 / 1500
Rebecca - 6721 / 5000
Ronnie - 2613 / 2000
Shaelyn - 1577 / 1500
Janine - 4476 / 3500
Jess - 1002 / 800
Savannah - 954 / 1667
Sarah - 4529 / 4500
Megan - 1049 / 2325
Greg - 2563 / 3200
Claire - 1619 / 2500
Emma - 1104 / 2500
Patricia - 0 / 550
Jessica - 0 / 5000
Jakob - 1800 / 1750
Daniela - 699 / 1000
Nicoletta - 850 / 900
Total 61596 38542
Total Read
This is one of my favourite monthly challenges and always a great way to start the new year!Blagica, please sign me up for
COMPLETED: 8/8
1. Just One Damned Thing After Another finished 3 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
2. The Winter's Tale finished 6 January, ⭐⭐⭐
3. Liar Liar finished 12 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. The Seagull finished 17 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
5. White Cat finished 18 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
6. The Girl of Ink and Stars finished 22 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon finished 24 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
8. Order of Darkness Volumes I-III: Changeling; Stormbringers; Fools' Gold finished 31 January, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
In order to hit my goal of 119 books, I need to aim for 10 books a month. Please sign me up for 10.
Completed: 0/10
Completed: 0/10
I'm in for 10 books!1. Beartown by Fredrik Backman - completed
2. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn - completed
3. The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne - completed
4. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman - completed
5. Crimes Against a Book Club by Kathy Cooperman - completed
6. Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley - completed
7. Beastly by Alex Finn - completed
8. Educated by Tara Westover - completed
9. Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler - completed
10. Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life by Radha Agrawal - completed
11. Us Against You by Fredrik Backman - completed
11/10 - challenge completed!
Let's do lucky seven! I want to work on some of the books on my Kindle!Finished: 5/7
The Chamber of Doctor Z: The Amazing Adventures of Hunter Caine by J.P. Vile 1/1/19
Specimen 313 by Jeff Strand 1/1/19
Three Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens 1/8/19
The Tomb by H.P. Lovecraft 1/14/19
Love Thy Neighbor by Virginia Aird 1/24/19
What a fantastic challenge for starting a new year!Please sign me up for 12 books.
Progress: 15/12
✔️1. The Sense of an Ending (1 Jan)
✔️2. Doomsday Book (1 Jan)
✔️3. The Gunslinger (2 Jan)
✔️4. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (3 Jan)
✔️5. Ready Player One (3 Jan)
✔️6. Down and Out in Paris and London (4 Jan)
✔️7. Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (9 Jan)
✔️8. Interpreter of Maladies (14 Jan)
✔️9. Warcross
✔️10. Home
✔️11. Parable of the Talents
✔️12. Testing Pandora
✔️13. Wildcard
✔️14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
✔️15. The Time Traveler's Wife
Book list:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Great challenge to start the year with!I'm in for 6
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I need about 10 a month to meet my goal so I'll go for 12 in January. Give myself a little cushion for later in the year.12/12
1. Battle Angel Alita Vol. 1 finished 1/1/2019
2. American Panda finished 1/2/2019
3. Homicide: The View from Inside the Yellow Tape finished 1/4/2019
4. The Astonishing Color of After finished
1/6/2019
5.My Friend Dahmer
6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone finished 1/9/2019
7. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal finished 1/10/2019
8. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why finished 1/12/2019
9. A Caribbean Mystery finished 1/14/2019
10. The Mysterious Howling finished 1/20/2019
11. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch finished 1/21/2019
12. Whiskey Words & a Shovel II finished 1/22/2019
I´m in1000 pages.
1462/1000 pages
Books:
- Saras seier (156 pages)
- Sara og Jonte (158 pages)
- Sara hopper i det (160 pages)
- Summer of Salt (272 pages)
- The Lost Boy (190 pages)
- Falling Kingdoms (412 pages)
- Empress of All Seasons ( 64 pages)
- The Seven Sisters ( 46 pages)
8/71. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
2. What Have You Done
3. Girl at the Grave
4. Stalking Jack the Ripper
5: The Bell Jar
6. And Then There Were None
7. Adulthood Is a Myth
8. Herding Cats
Rachael wrote: "This is one of my favourite monthly challenges and always a great way to start the new year!Blagica, please sign me up for 6 books.
COMPLETED: 0/6"
welcome!
Anna wrote: "In order to hit my goal of 119 books, I need to aim for 10 books a month. Please sign me up for 10.Completed: 0/10"
Welcome best of luck
I am in for my standard 20 good luck everyone!
Kate wrote: "Love this challenge. Going for 1,000 pages to start the year.0/1,000"
So glad to see you back again this year!
SarahKat wrote: "I will sign up for 12 please!0/12
Full List "
Welcome to the challenge looking forward to seeing what you read this year.
Megan wrote: "I'm in for 10 books!0/10"
Best of luck with the 10 books you have chosen
Vanessa wrote: "Let's do lucky seven! I want to work on some of the books on my Kindle!0/7"
LUCKY 7! Good luck.
oshizu wrote: "What a fantastic challenge for starting a new year!Please sign me up for 12 books.
Detailed book list:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"
This is my favorite challenge glad to see you here
Hope wrote: "This sounds fun! I'm in for 7 books.0/7"
Happy to have you join us!
Brittany wrote: "Great challenge to start the year with!
I'm in for 6
Good Luck!
0/6"
Crystal wrote: "I'm in for 7.0/7"
Welcome!
matilde wrote: "I´m in
1000 pages.
0/1000 pages
Happy page turning!
Books:"
Blagica wrote: "I am in for my standard 20 good luck everyone!"Wow, Blagica! Your standard reading pace is 20 books a month!?
Way to read! :)
I am in for 4 titles for January, 1200 pages
Starting out with 10!6/10
1. The Handmaid's Tale
2. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
3. The Martian Chronicles
4. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
5. Every Heart a Doorway
6. If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?
I’ll sign up for 5 books, please 😊 Changed goal to 7 books.
7/7 - COMPLETE ✔️
📗 1. Morning Star
📗 2. Lethal White
📗 3. The Seven Dials Mystery
📗 4. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
📗 5. Losing It
📗 6. The Haunted Monastery
📗 7. A Confederacy of Dunces
Please put me down for 15 :)Updated 1/29/2019:
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I'm in for 25 books!COMPLETED 25/25 (6537 pp.)
✓1. A Room of One's Own ★★★★ 1/2; 112 pp.
✓2. Dear Sister ★★★★ 1/2; 192 pp.
✓3. The Forever War ★★★ 1/3; 278 pp.
✓4. Julián is a Mermaid ★★★★★ 1/3; 40 pp.
✓5. Null States ★★★ 1/5; 432 pp.
✓6. Black Panther & the Crew ★★★★ 1/5; 136 pp.
✓7. How to Live Safely in a SFU ★★★ 1/6; 233 pp.
✓8. Two Old Women ★★★★ 1/6; 160 pp.
✓9. Batman: White Knight ★★★★ 1/6; 232 pp.
✓10. What If It's Us ★★ 1/7; 437 pp.
✓11. Why I'm No Longer Talking ... ★★★★ 1/9; 249 pp.
✓12. Heart of Darkness ★★ 1/10; 188 pp.
✓13. Girl Made of Stars ★★★★ 1/11; 304 pp.
✓14. Flow ★★ 1/12; 303 pp.
✓15. Benito Cereno ★★★ 1/13; 160 pp.
✓16. Freshwater ★★★★★ 1/14; 229 pp.
✓17. Shadow Captain ★★★★ 1/17; 488 pp.
✓18. State Tectonics ★★★ 1/18; 432 pp.
✓19. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia ★★★★★ 1/20; 150 pp.
✓20. Dread Nation ★★★ 1/21; 455 pp.
✓21. Pride ★★ 1/21; 304 pp.
✓22. The Kiss Quotient ★ 1/24; 336 pp.
✓23. A Bride's Story ★★ 1/27; 191 pp.
✓24. Wade in the Water ★★★★ 1/27; 96 pp.
✓25. So, Anyway ★★★ 1/27; 400 pp.
This is a great way to start out the year. I'm in for 6,000 pages!Goal (pages): 3,642/6,000
1. The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding (400 pp)
2. These Happy Golden Years (289 pp)
3. The Black Echo (375 pp)
4. The First Four Years (172 pp)
5. On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894 (101 pp)
6. The Woman in the Window (431 pp)
7. Circe (393 pp)
8. The Passage (766 pp)
9. All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir (240 pp)
10. The Circle (504 pp)
I think I am going to try this for 1,000 pages. I want to do more challenges this year, but I am going to go small. XD I might adjust it, depending what book I manage to pick up first in JanuaryGoal: 2,153/1,000
Wormwood by D.H. Nevins - 341 pages
Part of Your World by Liz Braswell - 475 pages
Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly - 340 pages
Rogue Wave by Jennifer Donnelly - 313 pages
Dark Tide by Jennifer Donnelly - 316 pages
Sea Spell by Jennifer Donnelly - 368 pages
I would like to go for 3 books please.January Marathon
January 1 - 31, 2019
1. The Forgotten Affairs of Youth Isabel Dalhousie #8 by Alexander McCall Smith
5/1/19
2. The Miserable Mill A Series of Unfortunate Events #4 by Lemony Snicket
6/1/19
3. Black And Blue Inspector Rebus #8 by Ian Rankin
29/1/19
3/3
Challenge completed
I'm joining for my usual 1,000 page goal, ty :)
This sounds like a great way to begin 2019! I will try for 8 books. Thank you!
I'm in for 5 books1.The 6th Target-Finished 1/2
2. Duty to Protect-Finished 1/4
3.Every Wicked Man-Finished 1/16
4.In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership- Finished 1/18
5.Primary Suspect-Finished 1/19
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I'm in for 8 books1. Snow Crash
2. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
3. Welcome to the Ballroom, Vol. 8
4. Dorohedoro Tome 10
5. March comes in like a lion, tome 10
6. Fahrenheit 451
7. Stories of Your Life and Others
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MARATHON CHALLENGEDuration: January 1 - January 31, 2019
Goal: 10 Books
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Marathon
I'm in for 10 books.17/10
5431 pages
I Want Your Love
Wonder
To Be With You
Just For You
The Winter Over
3,096 Days
Warcross
Forever Is Not Enough
Eleanor & Park
Purge
To All The Boys I've Loved Before
P.S. I Still Love You
Hold Me Close
The Fall of Five
Lily's House
Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Great Expectations
CHALLENGE COMPLETED 1/8/19 I'm aiming to read at least 1500 pages in January 2019!! Goal edited on 1/7/19
1512 / 1500 Pages read
1. Flight of the Cuckoo by K.L. Smith -- 301 pages -- Finished 1/1/19
2. All for You by Laura Florand -- 302 pages -- Finished 1/4/19
3. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 270 pages - Finished 1/6/19
4. Ernie: The Autobiography by Ernest Borgnine - 272 pages - Finished 1/7/19
5. Baking is Murder by Kathy Cranston - 159 pages - Finished 1/8/19
6. Picture Perfect Murder (Ryli Sinclair 1) by Jenna St. James - 208 pgs. - 1/8/19
Looking at my Challenges for 2019, I should at least read 5 books to stay on top. In order to get a little bit ahead at the beginning I'll try to do 6 books.1. Houses of Stone
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Love starting off the year with this monthly challenge!I'm in for 10 novels/ 2,100 pages to be turned.
January 2019 Reading Marathon Goal: 10/2100
I'm in for 6 books.6/6
January 2019- MarathonAim 12 books
Read: 11/12
1. The Word Is Murder- jan 5
2. The Star Side of Bird Hill- jan 5
3. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream- Jan 13
4. Life After Life- Jan 19
5. Descender, Vol. 1: Tin Stars- jan 20
6. The Hidden Queen- jan 21
7. Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon- jan 21
8.Descender, Vol. 3: Singularities jan 21
9. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat- jan 26
10. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption- January 28
11. Restoration- january 31
I will join for 1,000 pages please. Should get about 3ish books in or so.1. Legendary - 451 pages
2. Gold Shadow - 418 pages
3. The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein - 304 pages
4. The Kiss Quotient - 336 pages
5. The Chocolate War - 267 pages
6. Sold - 268 pages
2,044/1,000 --- CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
I am in for 400 pages! I haven’t decided the total number of pages I would like to read for the year yet but I just want to jump right in! Happy reading everyone!Marathon Challenge
Duration: January 1-31, 2019
*01/24/19-Updated my goal from 400 pages to 800 pages
Progress: 698/800*
1. The Dancing Master-Julie Klassen: 331/331 (Completed: 01/21/19)
2. Falling Kingdoms (Falling Kingdoms, #1)-Morgan Rhodes: 287/412
3. Married by Morning (The Hathaways, #4)-Lisa Kleypas: 48/414
4. The She Was Gone-Lisa Jewell:32/311
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2025 Reading Challenge
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Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2019
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 2019 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!