2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Updated message 13 - completed 4/5 books

Mie wrote: "Hi Blagica, please sign me up for 7 books 📚

7/7 - COMPLETE ✔️

📗 1. Genghis: Birth of an Empire
📗 2. The Hanging Valley
📗 3. yes man
📗 4. [book:Number ..."

Way to go Mie!

Thanks, Blagica 😄

oshizu wrote: "Thank you for cheering us on at the start of 2020, Blagica!
Please sign me up for 12 books. I have a few short-ish books and a few long ones planned for January.


Progress: 5/12 books

1. [book:Ti..."

Look at YOU go!

Update msg 25

The Less than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote

1/9

Message 109 Updated...4 of 6
1. The Hound of the Baskervilles
2. Geocaching Challenges
3. Long Road to Mercy
4. Answering Why

I did have three of these books partially started before the new year began. It will be slow going from here.

Amar wrote: "I'll be reading the whole Witcher series this January, soooo 7 books!

Already completed The Last Wish;

Currently reading Sword of Destiny;

so sign me up for:
Welcome

1..."

Marythios (AkaSusanne ) wrote: "Update to message #7
2112/15000 Pages

I also want to increase my pages to 15,000 this month I am moving along quicker than I thought."

updated for you!

Keir wrote: "Message #115 updated

1/3 books completed

1. It by Stephen King (1169/1169)"

how did you enjoy that read?

Update to message #55

PROGRESS: 7/26

Welcome to all the newcomers,
Amar,Stephanie,Tanna,Shilpa,MaryAnn,Amber,TCampbell,MichaelaWolf(Alpha),Yvette,Walaa,Elisa,Amartya,Hidaya, Diane, Mary Ellen We have had 100 of 841 books pledged. and 8,390 pages read out of 75,198! The spreadsheet is now alphabetized to make life easier.

update to message #115

2/3 books completed.

2. Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma (454/454)

total pages: 1623

Hi Blagica, I would like to join this January 2020 Marathon Challenge.

2/10

Ninth House - 1/1/20
Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation - 1/2/20

If I'm not late I want to join, for 2 books.

1. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
2. The Minority Report

please sign me up for 1000 pages. I don't know how much time I will have to finish entire books since I tend to read a couple at a time but I would like to push myself. want to start the year off right :)

1. capturing the devil 189/483

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 108 pages.

3/8 books 1058/3000 pages

Blagica wrote: "Keir wrote: "Message #115 updated

1/3 books completed

1. It by Stephen King (1169/1169)"

how did you enjoy that read?"

it was actually incredible! i already wanna reread it haha, if only it wasn't so massive. i highly recommend to anyone who has the time!

Updated #16; 2/5

I'm in for 6.

1.) War of the Wolf
2.) Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
3.) To Dance with Kings
4.) The Crocodile's Last Embrace
5.) Death Ex Machina
6.) In a Treacherous Court
7.) Ruddy Gore
8.) The Singer from Memphis
9.) Sword of Kings
10.) Death on Delos

CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

I would like to join this challenge. I want to get a head start on my yearly serial reader challenge. So I'd like to try to read at least 4 Percy Jackson books (1,542 pages), if not more.

January Challenge
MARATHON CHALLENGE (#177)
Progress: 7/4 books, 2,148/1,542 pages COMPLETE 1/14/20
Read at least 4 Percy Jackson books (1,542 pages)

The Titan's Curse (320 pages)
The Battle of the Labyrinth (396 pages)
The Last Olympian (422 pages)
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods (404 pages)

Other Percy Jackson books
Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo (26 pages)
The Demigod Files (3 short stories) (151 pages)
Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

For January I would like to read 4 books!

2/4

Read:

A Stranger in the House
No Good Deed

Updated message 122

5/20

update to message 169

3/10

Ninth House - 1/1/20
Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation - 1/2/20
The Beautiful - 1/6/20

Update to message 23
Goal: 8 books
Complete: 3 books

I would like to join with 1000 pages.

1092/1000

1. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
2. American Gods
3. The Rosie Project

I would like to read 2500 pages from books that have been on my TBR for over a year.

All In by Joel Goldman 274 pages (1/4/19)
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North 416 pages (1/8/20)
Something Big Has Been Here by Jack Prelutsky 159 pages (1/10/20)
Blind Alley by Iris Johansen 370 pages (1/15/20)
Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas 704 pages
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny 311 pages
Vital Friends: The People...Without by Tom Rath 240 pages
Jack & Jill by James Patterson 446 pages

= 2,920 pages

Running total: 1219 pages

Update to message #55

PROGRESS: 9/26

Update Message # 27

Completed!!! 5 out of 5!!!

Update message #83
2/5

Update to message #7
5,192/15000 Pages

Update to Message #137

Adding to read 400 pages this months as well.

Updated message #10

2/3 books
821/1000 pages

Update to msg 23
4 out 8 books read!
Already halfway to my goal and only the beginning of the month...🙌

Update to message:169

5/10

Ninth House - 1/1/20 - 458 pgs
Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation - 1/2/20 - 384 pgs
Wait Until Midnight - 1/5/20 - 368 pgs
The Beautiful - 1/6/20 - 448 pgs
A Wizard of Earthsea - 1/7/20 - 183 pgs

Update message #177
Read 3/4 books, 867/1,555 pages

Updated books being read. I found a collection of the short stories needed to complete the series.

update to msg #92, 10/20

Update to message # 135:
13/60

I forgot to sign up for this one but will go with 15 books
1.Specials 1/1
2.Dark Ride 1/2
3.Spare Dick 1/3
4.A Faint Cold Fear 1/5
5.Dark Paradise 1/5
6.The Cold Hard Truth1/10
7.Bound1/11
8.Horns 1/14
9.The Book of Three 1/15
10.The Black Cauldron 1/17
11.Caraval 1/18
12.The Night Visitors 1/19
13.Arrival1/22
14.Girl on a Bicycle: A Detective Mystery 1/23
15.The Trophy Child 1/26

Jai wrote: "Hi Blagica, I would like to join this January 2020 Marathon Challenge.

2/10

Ninth House - 1/1/20
Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation - 1/2/20"
Welcome! off to a great start!

Keir wrote: "Blagica wrote: "Keir wrote: "Message #115 updated

1/3 books completed

1. It by Stephen King (1169/1169)"

how did you enjoy that read?"

it was actually incredible! i already wanna reread it haha..."

I read it once a year I am glad you like it!

Welcome to Jai, Achmet, Rebecca, Gretchen, Aubrey, Amanda, Anne, Kristin, Katharine, Debra.
New Totals 163 books
16,429 pages!

Msg 122 update: 6/20

Siren: A Dark Retelling (Sinister Collection) 1-8

4/10 - Message 22

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

Update to msg # 38 2/10

1.) The Diviner's - Libba Bray
2.) Of Blood and Bone - Nora Roberts

Updating msg 4.
Progress: 4/8 completed.

Halfway there!

✅1. A Midsummer's Equation
✅2. Medea
✅3. The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
✅4. A Passage to India

Updated message 39: 3/6!

Update to message 139
1/4
Idiot's Guides: Speed Math

Update to message #7
6432/15000 Pages

Update to msg #15

Progress: 7/15
Blagica, please increase my challenge goal to 15. Thank you!

Marythios (AkaSusanne ) wrote: "Update to message #7
6432/15000 Pages"

@Marythios
Wow!!!!!