2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Update to message #55

PROGRESS: 23/26

I would like to join even if I'm very late on board.
My goal is to read 40 books in january and 13000 pages.

Finished!
Books read in January: 46/40
Pages read in January: 14911/13000

Books read in January

Updated message #14:

3,135/3,000 pages - challenge complete!

Grave Peril, 378 pages

7/8 books 2605/3000 pages

Update to message #9

3/5

Updated message 39: 6/6. Challenge completed.

Msg 23 update
All 8 books completed!

Update to message #55

PROGRESS: 24/26

Updated #16; 8/5

finished 2/6

Angle of Investigation, 92 pages. This gives me 8 of 8 books but I am still short on the page count.

8/8 books 2697/3000 pages.

Update to message 69
Goal 4 books
Read 9 books.
Thank you for the motivation.

Sorry that I’m so late to this!!! I’ve read 3/6 books. Would love to see this challenge on another month.

Update to message 44: completed 1/3

Updated post 18

7/6

Doing a lap of honour as I've managed to complete an additional book for this challenge 😉 7/6 (message 39 updated)

Update message 316.

Progress books: 38/40
Progress pages: 12821/13000

Updated message 42.

11/7

COMPLETED

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

Finished msg 104

Update message 183:
797/1000 pages

Updated #16; 9/5

Update to message #55

PROGRESS: 26/26

Challenge completed!

I completed my personal challenge of reading 5 books in the month of January:
1. The Neverending Story
2. Delirium
3. Divergent
4. Insurgent
5. The Trench

Yay! I'm so excited. So I have started 2 other books this weekend: The Proposal and Revenge Wears Prada. I really needed something lighthearted after all those distopian books.

update to #171

I have finished my challenge :)

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Minority Report

2/2

Rachael wrote: "Doing a lap of honour as I've managed to complete an additional book for this challenge 😉 7/6 (message 39 updated)"

And another one finished! 8/6

Update to message 139
3/4

Update to message #88.

Progress: 5/3

Update message 316

Progress books: 41/40
Progress pages: 13883/13000

Update message 36
3/6

Update to message 22: 14/10

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
5. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
6. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two by John Tiffany
7. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
8. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
9. The Capture by Kathryn Lasky
10. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Complete
11. A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
13. One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
14. Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

Update message #177
Read 7/4 books; 2,148/1,542 pages

Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes (580 pages)

I completed the series!

Update message #47
Finished my goal and than some.
1639/1000

I didn't pledge any books for January but I have finished 11 so far.

update to message #74

Completed 8/10

Pride and Prejudice
Heads You Win
The Spy
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Other Side of Midnight
The Last Don
It's first love...Just like the last one!
A Leap in a Blue Moon


Left with 2 books. Gonna be on a 3 day marathon. Good luck to me :)

Updated message 122
23/20

Msg 4 update

12/12 completed!

My gran bought me the earths children series about 10 years ago now, well the first 4 books, i read clan of the cave bear and then was so busy with uni and then becoming a mum that i neuer read anymore. my goal for january is to reread cotcb and then the next three in the series. i will buy the last two books in february. i have such a long toread list that i thought this was the best place to start. I am currently at 2.5\4

Update to message 50

2/2. Challenge complete.

Coming in late but ideal goal would have been 2-3 books but I've read 9 (rereading one book).

1. Financial Intelligence: How to To Be Smart with Your Money and Your Life by Kevin D. Peterson (x2)
2. Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy
3. Confidence In You by Paul G. Bailey
4. Born Creative: Free Your Mind, Free Yourself by Harry Hoover
5. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Guide To Managing Depression, Anxiety and Intrusive Thoughts With Highly Effective Tips and Tricks for Rewiring Your Brain and Overcoming Phobias by Adam Brown
6. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
7. You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero
8. Visualization: Directing the Movies of Your Mind by Adelaide Bry

Update to message #55

PROGRESS: 28/26

Update to Message #21

Progress: 493/1,000 pages

1. Shadow Spell (96/96) Completed: 01/05/20

2. Crystal Gardens(186/186)
Completed: 01/17/20

3. Wicked Intentions (69/156)

4. Tender Rebel (85/289)

5. Empire of Sand (57/669)

(original msg #45)
I've surpassed my pages goal. Currently at 3010/2600 pages.

195 Diary of a Murder: And Other Stories 1/4/2020
349 Blindness 1/12/2020
1234 Saga Vol. 1 - 8 1/14 - 1/29/2020
313 The Power of Habit 1/20/2020
368 The Authenticity Project 1/25/2020
336 Every Thing You Are 1/26/2020
251 Things in Jars (still reading)

I'll do a final update tomorrow based on how much farther I get in Things in Jars.

update msg 49: 14/10

Update msg 25

9/9 completed

Updated message 61

Updated message 183

1092/1000 - Completed!

Update to message 28

End of month. Didn't reach my goal, but I really enjoyed the stretch! :)

Total = 39/50 ✘

Just about made it to my goal for the month!

Update: 4029/4000 pages

Updated message 122

26/20 COMPLETED!