Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Prompt 3: Owned Books - Finished

√1. Flower Net - Read 8/28/20
√2. Choiring Of The Trees - Read 5/3/20
√3. Stones for Ibarra - Read 5/30/20
√4. As a Driven Leaf - Read 6/29/20
√5. Murder for the Halibut- Read 5/9/20

Only one more prompt to go....!

Progress: 15,160 /15,000 pages as at 08/29

🗸 304p - The Dark In-Between -Read 05/07
🗸 390p - The Word Is Murder (Hawthorne #1) -Read 05/09
🗸 275p - The Silver Brumby (Silver Brumby #1) -Read 05/09
🗸 400p - Whiskey When We're Dry -Read 05/09
🗸 336p - Looking Good Dead (Roy Grace #2) -Read 05/11
🗸 60p - Flesh Series: Shorts -Read 05/11
🗸 150p - The Swan Maiden: An Australian Faery Tale -Read 05/14
🗸 496p - Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace #3) -Read 05/17
🗸 128p - Checkers -Read 05/19
🗸 191p - The Body in the Library (Miss Marple #2) -Read 05/20
🗸 232p - Just Visiting (Crocodile Spirit Dreaming #1) -Read 05/22
🗸 354p - Ghost of a Chance (Chintz 'n China Mystery #1) -Read 05/25
🗸 224p - Rocky Mountain Heat (Six Pack Ranch #1) -Read 05/29
🗸 290p - Dog Boy -Read 06/01
🗸 336p - When We Were Vikings -Read 06/03
🗸 353p - Quantum (Captain Chase #1) -Read 06/03
🗸 176p - Songbird -Read 06/04
🗸 162p - The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) -Read 06/04
🗸 304p - Going Off Script -Read 06/05
🗸 496p - Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls #1) -Read 06/11
🗸 304p - While I Live (The Ellie Chronicles #1) -Read 06/17
🗸 304p - Deadly Curious -Read 06/20
🗸 459p - Russian Winter -Read 06/22
🗸 350p - Dragonquest (Dragonriders of Pern #2) -Read 06/28
🗸 384p - Mulan: Before the Sword -Read 06/30
🗸 384p - Get Shorty (Chili Palmer #1) -Read 07/02
🗸 436p - Pillars Of The World (Tir Alainn #1) -Read 07/06
🗸 202p - Catching Teller Crow -Read 07/09
🗸 370p - The Boy in the Snow (Edie Kiglatuk #2) -Read 07/11
🗸 400p - The Harp of Kings (Warrior Bards #1) -Read 07/17
🗸 513p - Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove #1) -Read 07/21
🗸 420p - A Dance With Fate (Warrior Bards #2) -Read 07/21
🗸 160p - Blossoms on the Roof (Amish Frontier #1) -Read 07/21
🗸 192p - Plain Jeopardy (Apple Creek #7) -Read 07/24
🗸 368p - Plain Peril (Apple Creek #2) -Read 07/25
🗸 368p - Stranded (Military Investigations #7) -Read 07/26
🗸 250p - Midnight Rainbow (Rescues #1) -Read 07/27
🗸 160p - The Treasure Hunt (Amish Frontier #2) -Read 07/27
🗸 381p - An Amish Heirloom -Read 07/28
🗸 160p - Silver Brumby's Daughter (Silver Brumby #2) -Read 07/31
🗸 328p - Assaulted Caramel (Amish Candy Shop Mystery #1) -Read 08/02
🗸 384p - In The Groove (NASCAR #2) -Read 08/14
🗸 384p - On The Edge (NASCAR #3) -Read 08/15
🗸 322p - Leaving (Bailey Flanigan #1) -Read 08/19
🗸 272p - Her Secret (The Amish of Hart County #1) -Read 08/20
🗸 336p - Curses and Smoke -Read 08/21
🗸 304p - His Guilt (The Amish of Hart County #2) -Read 08/26
🗸 288p - They Came on Viking Ships -Read 08/27
🗸 320p - God of Vengeance (The Rise of Sigurd #1) -Read 08/29

Prompt 6: DIY
Goal: 5 books

Commentary: Going for that TBR list. And hoping to seriously weed it along the way. I am taking a machete to that darn thing.

1. The Murders of Molly Southbourne
2. Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad
3. The Complete Persepolis
4. Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
5. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Finishes:
6/21 6/23 7/28 8/13 8/30

My Goal: 15,000 pages
Progress: 15,164/15,000 pages as at 08/31

🗸 1. Burned by Ellen Hopkins
🗸  560p - Smoke (Burned #2) -Read 04/02

🗸 2. Aidy Westlake by Simon Wood
🗸 280p - Hot Seat (Aidy Westlake #2) -Read 04/06

🗸 3. Seeds of America by Laurie Halse Anderson
🗸 304p - Forge (Seeds of America #2) -Read 04/02
🗸 298p - Ashes (Seeds of America #3) -Read 04/04
sub-total: 602p

🗸 4. The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
🗸  439p - The Raven King (The Raven Cycle #4) -Read 04/11

🗸 5. Detective Harriet BlueSeries by James Patterson & Candice Fox
🗸 370p - Hush Hush (Detective Harriet Blue #4) -Read 04/13
sub-total: 370p

6. Rei Shimura series by Sujata Massey
🗸 336p - Zen Attitude (Rei Shimura #2) -Read 04/18
sub-total: 336p

🗸 7. Perveen Mistry series by Sujata Massey
🗸 360p - The Satapur Moonstone (Perveen Mistry #2) -Read 04/20
sub-total: 360p

8. Talon and Chantry series by Louis L'Amour
🗸 368p - Fair Blows the Wind (Talon and Chantry #2) -Read 04/17
sub-total: 368p

9. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
🗸 368p - In This Grave Hour (Maisie Dobbs #13) -Read 04/21
🗸 352p - To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs #14) -Read 05/12
384p - The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs #15)
sub-total: 720p

10. Temeraire series by Naomi Novik
🗸 398p - Throne of Jade (Temeraire #2) -Read 04/25
🗸 365p - Black Powder War (Temeraire #3) -Read 08/31
sub-total: 763p

11. Unwind Dystology series by Neal Shusterman
🗸 352p - UnWholly (Unwind Dystology #2) -Read 04/26
404p - UnSouled (Unwind Dystology #3)
372p - UnDivided (Unwind Dystology #4)
sub-total: 352p

🗸 12. Bustlepunk Chronicles by Jenny Schwartz
🗸 106p - Courting Trouble (Bustlepunk Chronicles #2) -Read 04/26
🗸 120p - Curses and Confetti (Bustlepunk Chronicles #3) -Read 04/28
sub-total: 226p

13. Commissario Montalbano Series by Andrea Camilleri
🗸 249p - Voice of the Violin (Commissario Montalbano #4) -Read 05/01
🗸 304p - Excursion to Tindari (Inspector Montalbano #5) -Read 05/06
🗸 229p - The Smell of the Night (Commissario Montalbano #6) -Read 06/19
sub-total: 782p

14. A Noodle Shop Mystery Series by Vivien Chien
🗸 304p - Murder Lo Mein (A Noodle Shop Mystery #3) -Read 05/18
sub-total: 304p

🗸 15. Leo Demidov Series by Tom Rob Smith
🗸 469p - Agent 6 (Leo Demidov #3) -Read 05/24
sub-total: 469p

🗸 16. Poppy Sinclair Series by Sharon Jones
🗸 336p - Dead Silent (Poppy Sinclair #2) -Read 05/25
sub-total: 336p

🗸 17. Oxford Tearoom Mysteries by H.Y. Hanna
🗸 321p - Tea with Milk and Murder (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #2) -Read 05/25
🗸 352p - Two Down, Bun to Go (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #3) -Read 05/26
🗸 376p - Till Death Do Us Tart (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #4) -Read 05/27
🗸 362p - Muffins and Mourning Tea (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #5) -Read 05/30
🗸 346p - Four Puddings and a Funeral (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #6) -Read 05/30
🗸 323p - Another One Bites the Crust (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #7) -Read 05/31
🗸 319p - Apple Strudel Alibi (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #8) -Read 06/08
🗸 256p - The Dough Must Go On (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #9) -Read 06/09
🗸 247p - The Mousse Wonderful Time of Year (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #10) -Read 06/16
sub-total: 2,902p

🗸 18. Tamara Moss
🗸 336p - Lintang and the Forbidden Island (Lintang #2) -Read 06/17
🗸 336p - Lintang and the Brightest Star (Lintang #3) -Read 06/18
sub-total: 624p

19. Jack Reacher by Lee Child
🗸 512p - Running Blind (Jack Reacher #4) -Read 06/19
sub-total: 512p

🗸 20. Serenity's Plain Secrets by Karen Ann Hopkins
🗸 181p - Unholy Ground (Serenity's Plain Secrets #7) -Read 06/21
sub-total: 181p

🗸 21. International Sensory Assassin Network Series by Mary Ting
🗸 352p - Genes (International Sensory Assassin Network #3) -Read 07/01
sub-total: 352p

22. A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
🗸 192p - The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events #2) -Read 07/16
sub-total: 192p

23. Revenants by Amy Plum
🗸 357p - Until I Die (Revenants #2) -Read 07/30
sub-total: 357p

🗸 24. The Diviners by Libba Bray
🗸 613p - Lair of Dreams (The Diviners #2) -Read 08/09
🗸 560p - Before the Devil Breaks You (The Diviners #3) -Read 08/17
🗸 547p - The King of Crows (The Diviners #4) -Read 08/18
sub-total: 1,720p

🗸 25. Newport City by Alison Croggon & Daniel Keene
🗸 411p - Pinkers (Newport City #2) -Read 08/16
sub-total: 411p

26. The Parasol Protectorate Manga
🗸 240p - Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 2 -Read 08/10
sub-total: 240p

🗸 27. Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore
🗸 406p - The Power of Six (Lorien Legacies #2)
sub-total: 406p

I've finished my first prompt - 3 - owned books - 5000 pages
*beside my favourites


Earthly Joys
Gillespie and I
Persuasion
Holy Fools
Murder Most Royal
*Akin
*Normal People
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047
The Chrysalids
*Spring
All My Puny Sorrows
*Weather
The Planets
Song of Solomon
*Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Progress: 15,364 / 15,000 pages as at 09/01

🗸 547p - The River of No Return (River of No Return #1) -Read 02/24
🗸 561p - The Son -Read 03/24
🗸 500p - Tyrant's Blood (Valisar Trilogy #2) -Read 03/31
🗸 864p - Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1) -Read 04/04
🗸 565p - The Tower of Ravens (Rhiannon's Ride #1) -Read 04/23
🗸 552p - Cress (The Lunar Chronicles #3) -Read 04/30
🗸 556p - The Bridge to Holy Cross (The Bronze Horseman #2) -Read 05/11
🗸 796p - The Brothers Karamazov -Read 05/13
🗸 503p - Patriot Games (Jack Ryan #1) -Read 05/15
🗸 827p - Winter (The Lunar Chronicles #4) -Read 05/16
🗸 643p - Riders in the Chariot -Read 06/01
🗸 515p - Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe #2) -Read 06/08
🗸 711p - The Persimmon Tree (The Persimmon Tree #1) -Read 06/11
🗸 513p - Without Warning (The Disappearance #1) -Read 06/26
🗸 613p - Mutiny on the Bounty A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds -Read 06/28
🗸 530p - A Fraction of the Whole -Read 06/29
🗸 531p - The Night Watch -Read 06/29
🗸 928p - Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan #2) -Read 07/12
🗸 576p - The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds #1) -Read 07/20
🗸 672p - Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell Trilogy #1) -Read 07/22
🗸 566p - Where Rainbows End -Read 07/24
🗸 625p - The Three Musketeers (The d'Artagnan Romances #1) -Read 08/10
🗸 608p - Oliver Twist -Read 08/12
🗸 502p - Prince of Fools (The Red Queen's War #1) -Read 08/28
🗸 560p - The Liberation -Read 09/01

Completed ~ Prompt 2

Goal 10 ~ Completed 11

Link is here

Prompt 5: comfort reads ✔ ❑ ☑

Read: 20 / 20 books

Romance
☑ I Believe in a Thing Called Love [9-may-2020] ★★★★
☑ Written in the Stars [17-may-20] ★★★★
☑ Infinite Us [28-may-20] ★★★
☑ Who Rescued Who [1-jun-20] ★★★★
☑ Amy & Roger's Epic Detour (Prompt 5) [15-jun-20] ★★★
☑ Saving Juliet [22-jun-20] ★★★
☑ Starry Eyes [23-jun-20] ★★★
☑ Beach Read [29-jun-20] ★★★★ (prompt 5)
☑ One Perfect Summer [26-jul-20] ★★★★
☑ Four Weddings and a Sixpence: An Anthology [28-jul-20] ★★★
☑ True Colors [23-aug-2020] ★★
☑ Life on the Leash [27-aug-2020] ★★
☑ The Secret Cove in Croatia [2-sep-2020] ★★★

Thriller/Mystery
☑ Seeking Glory [17-may-20] ★★★★
☑ Homicide: Party of Twelve [1-sep-2020] ★★★

Fantasy
☑ The Glass Magician [2-jun-20] ★★
☑ The Black Tides of Heaven [14-jun-20] ★★★
☑ Mermaid Moon [19-jul-20] ★
☑ To Kill a Kingdom [27-jul-20] ★★
☑ Once Upon an Autumn Eve [29-aug-2020] ★★

Prompt 5: comfort reads ✔ ❑ ☑

Read: 20 / 20 books

Romance
☑ I Believe in a Thing Called Love [9-may-2020] ★★★★
☑ Written in the Stars [17-may-20] ★★★★
☑ Infinite Us [28-may-20] ★★★
☑ Who Rescued Who [1-jun-20] ★★★★
☑ Amy & Roger's Epic Detour (Prompt 5) [15-jun-20] ★★★
☑ Saving Juliet [22-jun-20] ★★★
☑ Starry Eyes [23-jun-20] ★★★
☑ Beach Read [29-jun-20] ★★★★ (prompt 5)
☑ One Perfect Summer [26-jul-20] ★★★★
☑ Four Weddings and a Sixpence: An Anthology [28-jul-20] ★★★
☑ True Colors [23-aug-2020] ★★
☑ Life on the Leash [27-aug-2020] ★★
☑ The Secret Cove in Croatia [2-sep-2020] ★★★

Thriller/Mystery
☑ Seeking Glory [17-may-20] ★★★★
☑ Homicide: Party of Twelve [1-sep-2020] ★★★

Fantasy
☑ The Glass Magician [2-jun-20] ★★
☑ The Black Tides of Heaven [14-jun-20] ★★★
☑ Mermaid Moon [19-jul-20] ★
☑ To Kill a Kingdom [27-jul-20] ★★
☑ Once Upon an Autumn Eve [29-aug-2020] ★★

Prompt 5: Comfort Reads

Finished: 9/3/20
Goal: 6000 pages

1. Books from childhood

The Witch of Blackbird Pond (256 pgs) -- 6/5
Misty of Chincoteague (176 pgs) -- 6/13
Dragonsdale (278 pgs) -- 8/23
Walk Two Moons (280 pgs) -- 9/3

2. Mysteries

The Chalk Man (280 pgs) -- 5/27
Death in the Family (307 pgs) -- 5/28
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (252 pgs) -- 6/2
One Night Gone (352 pgs) -- 6/6
The Likeness (492 pgs) -- 6/10
Eight Perfect Murders (270 pgs) -- 6/30
All Your Twisted Secrets (400 pgs) -- 7/3
The Herd (336 pgs) -- 7/5
How the Light Gets In (405 pgs) -- 7/16
The Silent Patient (325 pgs) -- 7/18
Faithful Place (400 pgs) -- 7/31
The Bone Collector (528 pgs) -- 8/1

3. Rereads

Trickster's Choice (453 pgs) -- 5/25
Trickster's Queen (469 pgs) -- 5/25

Completed = 6259/6259

Prompt 5: Comfort Reads
Goal: 5238/5000 pp - Completed

✔Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk - 287pp - 4/29/20
✔The City We Became - 437pp - 5/3/20
✔Scythe - 445pp - 5/3/20
✔Because I Said So! : The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids - 237pp - 5/7/20
✔Daisy Jones & The Six - 5/15/20
✔The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World - 273pp - 5/18/20
✔Island of Silence - 416pp - 5/23/20
✔Island of Fire - 464pp - 6/17/20
✔The Toll - 625pp - 7/8/20
✔Island of Legends - 377pp - 7/21/20
✔Island of Shipwrecks - 480 - 8/20/20
✔The Siren - 432pp - 9/2/20
✔The Angel - 410pp - 9/8/20

Just Read It! (2020)
January - December 2020

Prompt #5: Comfort Reads

Prompt Goal: 10 books | Total Read: 10

May Prompt (msg 30)

Authors I trust, series I love, guilty pleasure



✔🍬Your Love Is Mine ~ 05.02 ★★★★
✔🍬On Hart’s Boardwalk ~ 05.02 ★★★★
✔🍬Fast Lane ~ 05.25 ★★★★
✔🍬Summoned to Thirteenth Grave ~ 05.07 ★★★★
✔🍬Defiance ~ 05.14 ★★★★
✔🍬Xander's Mate ~ 07.05 ★★★
✔🍬Any Duchess Will Do ~ 07.03 ★★★★
✔🍬Perfect for the Beach ~ 05.15 ★★★
✔🍬Victoria & Shannon ~ 08.01 ★★★★
✔🍬About That Kiss ~ 06.21 ★★★★

Prompt 4: Finish that Series
Goal: 5096/5000 pages - Completed!

Some possible series:
✔Come Tumbling Down - 206pp -current book - 4/5/20
✔Record of a Spaceborn Few - 359pp - current book - 6/30/20
✔The Crossing - 426pp - 2nd in trilogy - 4/25/20
✔Loyalty in Death - 355pp - no hope of catching up - 4/10/20
✔Witness in Death - 339pp - 6/15/20
✔Broken Homes - 357pp - 8/10/20
✔Strip Jack - 269pp - 7/20/20
✔The Rosewater Insurrection - 374pp - #2 - 7/2/20
✔The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma - 391pp - #3 - 5/25/20
✔Time's Convert - 448pp - #4 (current book) - 5/23/20
✔Hollow City - 428pp - #2 - 7/18/20
✔Appointment with Death (Poirot #19) - 303pp - 8/27/20
✔Ptolemy's Gate - 501pp - 9/1/20
✔Peace Talks - 340pp - 9/13/20

Prompt 6: DIY

Read: 20 / 20 books

Review books
The House on Firefly Beach [4-jun-20] ★★★
The Dilemma [5-jul-20] ★★★★
The Secrets of Saffron Hall [16-jun-20] ★★★★
Somewhere in the Dark [12-jun-20] ★★
Summer at Hope Haven [9-aug-20] ★★★
You and Me [31-aug-20] ★★★
The Cul-de-Sac War [20-aug-20] ★★★
Truth, Lies, and Second Dates [7-sep-20] ★★
The Princess and the Rogue [21-aug-2020] ★★★
Flowers of Darkness [6-sep-20] ★★
Every Last Fear [9-sep-2020] ★★★★
Float Plan [4-sep-2020] ★★★★
The Little French Bridal Shop
Maggie Finds Her Muse [11-sep-2020] ★★★★

New Series (Started after April 1 )
Never Kiss a Duke (Hazards of Dukes #1) [13-jun-20] ★★★
When Strangers Marry (Vallerands #1) [17-jun-20] ★★
Only With Your Love (Vallerands #2) [17-jun-20] ★★★
When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr #2) [1-aug-20] ★★★
The Ugly Stepsister (Unfinished Fairy Tales, #1) [20-aug-20] ★★
Pretty Little Liars [2-sep-20] ★★
Falling Kingdoms [15-sep-2020] ★★

I don't see myself listed as having completed prompt #1 either in this thread or in the prompt 1 thread. My completion post was message #35 in completed prompts, 6/4.

In preparation for my upcoming move, I've actually either read or gotten rid of every physical non-read book I owned. So for this one I'll be concentrating on ebooks or audiobooks I've saved. I'll come back with a list soon.

Prompt #3 - March: Read Owned Books

Goal: 10 books

✔1 All Systems Red (Murderbot #1), sci fi - fin 5/10
✔2 The Lost Prince - fin 5/21
✔3 Footsteps in the Dark - fin 5/30
✔4 The Ylem (The Ylem Trilogy # 1)
✔ 5 Limits - fin 7/12
✔6 The Story of a Stuffed Elephant (The Make-Believe Stories #11) - fin 8/5
✔7 The Gray and Guilty Sea (Garrison Gage #1) - fin 7/30
✔8 Artifical Conditon (Murderbot #2) fin 8/9
✔9 Rogue Protocol (Murderbot #3) - fin 8/20
✔10 Exit Strategy (Murderbot #4) - fin 8/24

COMPLETED 8/24

Prompt #5 - May: Comfort Reads

Goal: 10 books

mysteries, science fiction, ya

✔1 All the Birds in the Sky, sci fi - fin 5/4
✔2 All Systems Red (Murderbot #1), sci fi - fin 5/10
✔3 Wish You Well, favorite author - fin 5/13
✔4 The Long Earth, sci fi - fin 5/23
✔5 They Both Die at the End. YA - fin 6/14
✔6 Every You, Every Me, YA - fin 6/17
✔7 Odd One Out, YA - finished 6/25
✔8 You Know Me Well, YA -fin 7/17
✔9 Only Time Will Tell , mystery - fin 8/11
✔10 Sea Change, favorite author - fin 8/28

COMPLETED 8/28

Susan wrote: "I don't see myself listed as having completed prompt #1 either in this thread or in the prompt 1 thread. My completion post was message #35 in completed prompts, 6/4."

I think it's been a while since this thread was updated
None of my completed prompt are on the list (and I completed all)

Prompt 2: Big or Intimidating Books
Completed: 5489/5000 pages - Completed!

Matches a monthly shelf:
February: speculative fiction
✔Gnomon - 704pp - 2/10/20
✔A Discovery of Witches - 579pp - 2/15/20
✔Shadow of Night - 584pp - 2/29/20

March: mystery
✔The Book of Life - 564pp - 3/18/20

Other big books:
✔Fall of Giants - 985pp - 3/14/20
✔My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales - 576pp - 6/3/20
✔2666 - 898pp - 8/3/20
✔Feed - 599pp - 9/21/20

Prompt #2: Read big and/or intimidating books completed!

Goal: 10 books

✔1 Fall, or Dodge in Hell, 896 pages - fin 4/17
✔2 Wish You Well, 432 pages - fin 5/13
✔3 Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy #3), 765 pages - fin 6/3
✔4 Cress (The Lunar Chronicles #3), 552 pages - fin 6/16
✔5 For the Win, 477 pages - fin 6/24
✔6 First Family, 449 pages - fin 7/3
✔7 Wonderstruck, 640 pages - fin 7/27
✔8 The Secret Place, 453 pages - fin 8/5
✔9 Children of Blood and Bone - 9/8 - fin 9/8
✔10 The Diamond Age, 499 pages- fin 9/21

COMPLETED 9/21

Prompt 1: Read Outside Comfort Zone
Read: 5186/5000 - Completed - 9/24/20

Matches a monthly shelf:
✔ latin-america: The House of the Spirits - 448pp - 1/9/20
✔New York: Let the Great World Spin - 351pp - 4/26/20

Other "hard" books I already own:
✔Death Comes for the Archbishop - 297pp - 1/18/20
✔Moon Tiger - 224pp - 1/15/20
✔Intrusions - 288pp - 2/2/20
✔Under the Net - 252pp - 3/12/20
✔NW - 401pp - 4/14/20
✔Slaves in the Family - 505pp - 3/28/20
✔The Maltese Falcon - 217pp - 4/4/20
✔The Souls of Black Folk - 288pp - 5/10/20
✔The Corner That Held Them - 432pp - 6/28/20

Library books:
✔Marta Oulie - 128pp - 1/16/20
✔Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - 411pp - 4/19/20
✔Train Dreams - 112pp - 8/3/20
✔The Ponder Heart - 156pp - 9/5/20
✔Loitering with Intent - 224pp - 9/7/20
✔The Cost of Lunch, Etc.: Short Stories - 224pp - 9/15/20
✔Mr. Fox - 278pp - 9/24/20

Prompt 4: Finish That Series

Goal: 5 books

1: Queen of Sorcery
2: Magician's Gambit
3: Castle of Wizardry
4: Enchanters' End Game
5: The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!

Finishes:
5/16 5/25 5/31 7/12 9/24

PROMPT 2: Big books

5226/5000 pages

Shantaram 936pp
David Copperfield 912pp
Kushiel's Justice 880pp
4 3 2 1 866pp
Written in My Own Heart's Blood 825pp
Passage 780pp

The only two I really liked were Passage and 4321

Prompt 3: Owned Books

Goal: 5 books

1. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
2. In the Dream House
3. Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
4. Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
5. The Twisted Ones

Finishes:
4/5 5/17 5/30 6/9 9/26

PROMPT 4 COMPLETED

5467/5000 pages

The Magician King
The Book of Life
Parable of the Talents
Now
Maybe
Xenocide
Maskerade
Exit Strategy
Messenger
Son
Foxglove Summer
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Rogue
The Mirror & the Light

PROMPT 6 COMPLETE!
goal 5000 pages

New-ish releases by Australian women and Indigenous authors:
The Animals in That Country★★★★★
The Bass Rock★★★★★
Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding ★★★★
Bruny★★★★
The Weekend★★★★
How to Grow a Family Tree ★★★★★
The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling ★★★★
Below Deck ★★★★★
On a Barbarous Coast ★★★★
Terra Nullius ★★★★
The Dictionary of Lost Words★★★★
The Yield ★★★★★
The White Girl★★★★
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence★★★★
The Morbids★★★★

This was my favourite prompt - all were 4 or 5 star reads!

Prompt 4 - Finish That Series - COMPLETED
Goal 10,000 pages.
10,080/10,000

The Last Passenger - #13 in the Charles Lenox series. - 4/8/20. 304 pages.

Victim 2117 - #8 in the Department Q series. 4/9/20. 480 pages.

The Kingmaker's Daughter - #4 in the Plantagenet and Tudor Novels. 4/13/20. 417 pages.
The White Princess #5 in the Plantagenet and Tudor Novels. 4/26/20. 544 pages.
The Constant Princess #6 in the Plantagenet and Tudor Novels. 6/11/20. 390 pages

A Better Man - #15 in the Gamache series. 4/16/20. 437 pages.
All the Devils Are Here - #16 in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. 9/4/20. 448 pages.

Deathless Divide - #2 in the Dread Nation series. 4/17/20. 551 pages.

The Last Emperox - #3 in the Interdependency series. 4/19/20. 320 pages.

Robert B. Parker's Grudge Match - #8 in the Sunny Randall series. 4/29/20. 320 pages.

Walk the Wire - #6 in the Amos Decker series. 4/29/20. 432 pages.

A Family Affair - #46 in the Nero Wolfe series. 4/30/20. 192 pages.

Night and Silence - #12 in the October Daye series. 5/3/20. 510 pages.
The Unkindest Tide - #13 in the October Daye series. 7/12/20. 368 pages.
A Killing Frost - #14 in the October Daye series. 8/19/20. 362 pages.

Hope for the Best - #10 in the Chronicles of St. Mary's. 7/16/20. 430 pages.
Why Is Nothing Ever Simple? - #10.6 in the Chronicles of St. Mary's. 5/26/20. 116 pages.

Telling Tales - #2 in the Vera Stanhope series. 6/12/20. 415 pages.
Hidden Depths - #3 in the Vera Stanhope series. 6/23/20. 320 pages.
Silent Voices - #4 in the Vera Stanhope series. 7/4/20. 321 pages.
The Glass Room - #5 in the Vera Stanhope series. 7/9/20. 401 pages.
Harbour Street - #6 in the Vera Stanhope series. 7/16/20. 384 pages.
The Moth Catcher - #7 in the Vera Stanhope series. 7/18/20. 400 pages.
The Seagull - #8 in the Vera Stanhope series. 7/20/20. 400 pages.

Gone by Midnight - #3 in the Crimson Lake Series. 352 pages.

Spy, Spy Again - #3 in the Valdemar Family Spies series. 336 pages.

An Amateur Corpse - #4 in the Charles Paris series. 9/17/20. 130 pages.

I've completed Prompt 4!

Prompt 4: Finish that series - 5 books ~ ~ ~ (5/5 read)

- Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle #2) ✔ (finished April 29, 2020)
- Wayward (Wayward Pines #2) ✔ (finished July 4, 2020)
- The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1) * ✔ (finished August 27, 2020)
- Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse #5) ✔ (finished September 20, 2020)
- Dead Beat (The Dresden Files #7) ✔ (finished October 5, 2020)


* From Miss Marple, I had read #2, #5.5, #11 & #12.

Prompt #6: DIY (Crossover with other challenges)

Goal: 5206/5000pp - Completed 10/12/20

Lost 2020:
✔Peace Like a River - 312pp - 7/15/20
✔The Abstinence Teacher - 415pp

Moving Mountains 2020:
✔Lisey's Story - 513pp
✔Little Voices - 325pp - 8/7/20
✔The Tattoo Artist - 207pp - 7/21/20
✔The Dressmaker's Gift - 286pp - 6/21/20

Bookopoly:
✔South of the Border, West of the Sun - 190pp - 6/3/20
✔Thunderhead - 504pp - 6/11/20
✔Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist - 240pp - 6/19/20
✔Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago - 160pp - 6/23/20
✔Foundation - 255pp - 8/3/20
✔Monday's Not Coming - 448pp - 8/18/20
✔Red at the Bone - 196pp - 10/4/20
✔Outlander - 850pp - 10/4/20
✔How to Be an Antiracist - 305pp - 10/12/20

PROMPT 5
Comfort reads
(rereads, favourite authors, light and fluffy)

Goal 5000 pages : Progress 5458
REREADS
The Kite Runner 371 - DONE
The Poisonwood Bible - 616 - DONE

FAVOURITE AUTHORS
Tipping the Velvet 472 - DONE
Wayward Son 356 - DONE
Public Library and Other Stories 220 - DONE
The Pull of the Stars - 295 - DONE
The Glass Hotel -302 - DONE
Yes No Maybe So - 448 - DONE
Kindred Spirits 96 - DONE

LIGHT AND FLUFFY
Rachel's Holiday 578 - DONE
The Undomestic Goddess 404 - DONE
Precious and Grace 227 - DONE
Beautiful Ruins 337 - DONE
The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton 352 - DONE
The Cactus - 384- DONE

Prompt 3 - Owned BooksCOMPLETED
Goal 10,000 pages
10,016/10,000

1. Paul Simon: The Life - 3/11/20. 448 pages
2. The God Game - 3/17/20. 452 pages.
3. Magpie Murders - 3/17/20. 498 pages.
4. The Consuming Fire - 3/24/20. 336 pages.
5. Trace Elements - 3/25/20. 320 pages.
448+452+498+336+320=2054

6. Dreamer's Pool - 3/27/20. 448 pages.
7. A Free Man of Color - 3/31/20. 432 pages.
8. Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace 4/3/20. 224 pages.
9. Petty: The Biography. 4/4/20. 323 pages.
10. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. 4/8/20. 322 pages.
448+432+224+323+322=1749

11. Shadow Unit 2. 4/13/20. 228 pages.
12. The Escape Artist - 4/22/20. 416 pages.
13. The Night Swim - 4/27/20. 427 pages.
14. A Study in Scarlet Women - 5/9/20. 323 pages.
15. The Metamorphosis - 5/12/20. 201 pages
228+416+427+323+201=1595

16. Unexpected Stories - 5/13/20. 97 pages.
17. Medicine Show - 8/8/20. 261 pages.
18. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens - 8/8/20. 348 pages
19. One Good Deed. 8/12/20. 416 pages.
20/ A People's Future of the United States: Thirty Visionary Stories - 8/13/20. 288 pages.
97+261+348+416+288=1410

21. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - 8/19/20. 397 pages.
22. Our Souls at Night - 8/20/20. 192 pages
23. The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin - 8/23/20. 495 pages.
24. Beartown - 8/24/20. 432 pages.
25. We Killed: The Rise of Women in American
Comedy - 8/25/20. 337 pages.

397+192+495+432+337=1853

26. Such a Fun Age - 8/25/20. 320 pages
27. The Sword of Summer - 8/27/20. 491 pages
28. The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life - 10/6/20. 304 pages.
29. Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA - 10/9/20. 240 pages.
320+491+304+240= 1355

2054+1749+1595+1410+1853+1355=10,016

Prompt 6: DIY -- Finish Those Challenges!
Goal: 5,000 pages
Progress: 5,015/5,000 pages

1. Hard to come by Spell-It-Out letters
Xs, Zs, Us, Os, and for some reason Ns.... SO many Ns....
✔︎ Geekerella by Ashley Poston series name: Once Upon a Con (320 pages) Read: 7/3/20
✔︎ Dear Martin by Nic Stone author's name: Nic (210 pages) Read: 7/18/20
✔︎ All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney author's name: Nadine (415 pages) Read: 7/24/20
✔︎ Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire series name: October Daye (346 pages) Read: 8/2/20
✔︎ Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel author's name: Neuve (336 pages) Read: 8/6/20

2. Books for Team challenges
✔︎ The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux Wheelathon V (342 pages) Read: 6/19/20
✔︎ Moonlight Over Manhattan by Sarah Morgan Wheelathon V (384 pages) Read: 6/22/20
✔︎ The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery Wheelathon V (261 pages) Read: 7/21/20
✔︎ Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant Wheelathon V (440 pages) Read: 7/11/20

3. Finish the challenge, already! books
Challenges that only need 1-2 books for completion
✔︎ The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman Moving Mountains (306 pages) Read: 9/6/20
✔︎ Nightmare in Pink by John D. MacDonald Moving Mountains (224 pages) Read: 10/12/20
✔︎ Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison Lost (416 pages) Read: 7/28/20
✔︎ The Ocean Between Us by Susan Wiggs Lost (416 pages) Read: 8/19/20
✔︎ Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan 2019-2020 Sub-Genre Challenge (294 pages) Read: 6/8/20

4. Books that fit Bookopoly & Short Order Zombies challenges
✔︎ Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot SOZ (143 pages) Read: 6/7/20
✔︎ Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman SOZ (162 pages) Read: 7/14/20

Great job everyone!

Prompt #6 - June: DIY
non-fiction and/or deal with issues of social justice (e.g., racism, refugees)

Goal: 10 books

✔1 Run - fin 7/16
✔2 Dear Martin - fin 7/18
✔3 Turning Angel, 672 pages - fin 7/23
✔4 Anti-Racism - fin 7/31
✔5 Red at the Bone - fin 8/8
✔6 The Rule of Saint Benedict - fin 8/20
✔7 Our Wayward Fate - fin 8/22
✔8 Stamped - fin 9/8
✔9 Tears We Cannot Stop - fin 9/28
✔10 Little Bee - fin 10/10

COMPLETED 10/10

Prompt 1: Outside my comfort zone - COMPLETED
I'm interpreting this as types of books that I rarely read as well as books about/set in places or subjects I don't know much about and want to know more about.
Goal: 10,000 pages

10,066/10,000

1. Graphic novels/sequential art - 420 pages
- Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? - 1/5/20 - 228 pages.
- March: Book Two - 9/8/20. 192 pages.

2. Horror - 2885
- Dread Nation - 2/8/20 - 455 pages.
- In the Shadow of Spindrift House - 7/12/20 - 125 pages.
- Burn Our Bodies Down - 7/29/20 - 352 pages.
- The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - 8/6/20. 400 pages.
- Hollowland - 8/20/20. 306 pages.
- Mexican Gothic - 9/8/20. 301 pages.
- The Nesting - 9/26/20. 416 pages.
- Hollowmen - 10/4/20. 194 pages.
- A Deadly Education - 10/10/200. 336 pages.

3. Romance - 2722
- The Kiss Quotient - 1/19/20 - 333 pages
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - 1/23/20 - 391 pages
- Red, White & Royal Blue - 2/13/20 - 425 pages
- Gods of Jade and Shadow (Romance - 80 users). 7/5/20. 338 pages.
- This Is How You Lose the Time War - 8/9/20. 209 pages.
- The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy - 9/7/20. 352 pages.
- Just Like You - 10/2/20. 368 pages.
- Tooth and Claw - 10/16/20. 304 pages.


4. Poetry = 427
- Selected Poems - 1/22/20 - 297 pages
Selected Poems - 4/28/20. 130 pages.

5. Books set in/about Southeast Asia or Southeast Asian refugees - 3612
-The Refugees. - 209 pages - 1/24/20
-The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures - 1/28/20 - 341 pages.
- The Singapore School of Villainy: Inspector Singh Investigates - 1/31/20 - 322 pages.
- Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam - 2/5/2020 - 353 pages.
- Temples, Tuk-tuks and Fried Fish Lips: Travels Around Asia - 2/6/20 - 186 pages
- A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree - 2/10/20 - 317 pages.
- The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir - 2/11/20 - 277 pages.
- Aunty Lee's Delights - 2/11/20 - 288 pages.
- The Art of Hearing Heartbeats - 4/10/20 - 325 pages.
- The Mountains Sing - 5/12/20. 352 pages
- The Red Lotus - 7/5/20. 372 pages. (double outside comfort zone - partially set in Vietnam, and partially about science/biotechnology, plagues - difficult subject for me!)
- Paradise of the Blind - 8/14/20. 270 pages.

COMPLETED
Prompt 2: Read big books
My goal: 3500 pages

Read: 6 books, 4038 pages

1. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates, 2 Apr 20 - 939 pages
2. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, 3 May 20 - 589 pages
3. The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge, 29 May 20 - 490 pages
4. Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18 June 20 - 428 pages
5. Weaveworld by Clive Barker, 26 Sept 20 - 648 pages
6. Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith, 16 Oct 20 - 944 pages

This is my last prompt to be completed, so I've finished Just Read It. Now, to concentrate on my LOST books and Seriously Serial.

Prompt #4 - April: Finish That Series [must've read at least 1 book prior to Apr 1]

Goal: 10 books

✔1 Cave of Bones (Leaphorn & Chee # 12) - fin 6/22
✔2 First Family (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell #4) - fin 7/3
✔3 Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles #3.5) - fin 7/26
✔4 The Red Threads of Fortune (Tensorate #s) - fin 8/14
✔5 The Descent of Monsters (Tensorate # 3) - fin 8/20
✔6 The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate # 4) - fin 8/27
✔7 Deception (Alex Delaware # ? - fin 9/28
✔8 The Toll (Arc of a Scythe #3) - fin 10/2
✔9 Island of Glass (The Age of Magic: Glassmakers book #1)] - fin 10/6
✔10 Ruins (Pathfinder #2) - fin 10/16

COMPLETED 10/6

Prompt 4: Finish that series
Goal: 8 books

1. Baptism of Fire 8/15 #3
2. Royal Holiday 8/25 #4
3. The Glamourist 8/30 #2
4. The Bollywood Bride 9/15 #2
5. A Rule Against Murder 9/17 #4
6. The Silent Girl 9/17 #9
7. Something Wicked This Way Comes 10/17 #2
8. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag 10/24 #2

Prompt 6: DIY - COMPLETED 10/27
Goal - 10,000 pages
10,230/10,000

Netgalley books to read- 5932
The Lantern Men - 7/6/20. 384 pages
The Obsidian Tower - 7/7/20. 448 pages
Sea Change - 7/10/20. 192 pages.
Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery - 7/11/20. 320 pages.
Attack Surface - 7/18/20. 384 pages.
Bronte's Mistress: A Novel - 7/21/20. 320 pages.
Vintage Crime: from the Crime Writers' Association - 7/27/20. 320 pages.
The Darkest Evening - 7/31/20. 336 pages.
The Orphan Collector - 8/5/20. 304 pages
Ink & Sigil - 8/7/20. 336 pages.
Providence - 8/9/20. 320 pages.
Robert B. Parker's Fool's Paradise - 9/19/20. 347 pages.
Three Perfect Liars: One Deadly Secret - 9/21/20. 400 pages.
Murder in Old Bombay - 10/3/20. 400 pages.
Still Life - 10/8/20. 448 pages.
And the Last Trump Shall Sound. 10/12/20. 257 pages.
The Kitchen Front: A Novel - 10/27/20. 416 pages.

Nonfiction politics and history - 4298
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir - 6/30/20. 384 pages.
Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump - 7/7/20. 320 pages.
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America - 8/2/20. 272 pages.
True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump - 8/18/20. 456 pages.
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism - 8/23/20. 224 pages
The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It - 9/2/20. 224 pages.
The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism - 9/7/20. 320 pages
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey - 9/13/20. 336 pages.
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man - 9/23/20. 236 pages.
Rage - 9/27/20. 475 pages.
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders - 10/4/20. 208 pages.
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir - 10/18/20. 263 pages
The Witches Are Coming - 10/19/20. 260 pages.
How to Be an Antiracist - 10/26/20. 320 pages.

I've completed Prompt 5!

Prompt 5: Comfort Reads - 5 books ~ ~ ~ (5/5 read)

- Hablaré cuando esté muerto [I'll speak when I'm dead] (Mystery) ✔ (finished July 22, 2020)
- Silence of the Grave (Mystery) ✔ (finished July 6, 2020)
- The Book of the Dead (Non-fiction) ✔ (finished August 9, 2020)
- A Talent for War (Science Fiction) ✔ (finished July 21, 2020)
- Nine Coaches Waiting (Gothic Mystery) ✔ (finished October 27, 2020)

Seems hard to believe, but I've finally completed one prompt 😱

My post in the thread

Prompt 1: Read outside of your comfort zone - 5,000 pages

1. Non-Fiction

La camicia di Hanta - 12/01/2020 - 169 p.
Out of Egypt: A Memoir - 31/03/2020 - 340 p.
L'arte di essere felici. Esposta in 50 massime - 17/05/2020 - 113 p.
Svuota il carrello: Il marketing spiegato benissimo - 29/10/2020 - 266 p.

2. Poetry

Spade come labbra - 23/02/2020 - 129 p.
Antonio e Cleopatra - 08/04/2020 - 301 p.
Poesie dell'Africa - 14/09/2020 - 64 p.

3. African Literature

Tears of the Giraffe - 07/04/2020 - 217 p.
Quella cosa intorno al collo - 17/05/2020 - 224 p.

4. Asian Literature

Six Suspects - 16/03/2020 - 470 p.
L'isola dei senza memoria - 08/06/2020 - 302 p.
The Crow Eaters - 06/08/2020 - 267 p.

5. Romance

Agnes Grey - 06/01/2020 - 251 p.
Stardust - 03/04/2020 - 250 p.
Silent in the Sanctuary - 19/04/2020 - 494 p.
Il postino di Neruda - 24/04/2020 - 104 p.
La tregua - 05/06/2020 - 145 p.
Silent on the Moor - 23/06/2020 - 465 p.
Naked in Death - 09/09/2020 - 384 p.
Glory in Death - 11/10/2020 - 296 p.

Total: 5,251/5,000 pages - COMPLETED 29/10/2020

Prompt 5 - Comfort Reads - COMPLETED 10/29/20
10,171/10,000 pages

Rereads - 4806
Old Man's War - 5/5/20. 355 pages.
The Hunger Games - 5/19/20. 374 pages.
Catching Fire 5/23/20. 391 pages
Mockingjay 5/25/20. 390 pages.
The Hills Have Spies. 5/30/20. 366 pages.
Eye Spy. 5/31/20. 368 pages.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - 6/25/20. 290 pages.
Modesty Blaise - 7/26/20. 224 pages.
All the Birds in the Sky - 7/20/20. 313 pages.
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang - 8/2/20. 255 pages.
Homeland - 8/14/20. 396 pages.
A Gentleman in Moscow - 9/17/20. 462 pages.
At the Seventh Level - 10/111/20. 142 pages.
Doing Time - 10/14/20. 480 pages.

Golden Age mystery writers - 2567
The Golden Ball and Other Stories by Agatha Christie - 5/7/20. 288 pages.
Singing in the Shrouds by Ngaio Marsh - 5/12/20. 235 pages.
Killer Dolphin by Ngaio Marsh - 5/13/20. 288 pages.
The Moving Finger. 6/10/20. 299 pages.
Curtain by Agatha Christie. 7/1/20. 215 pages.
A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie. 7/8/20. 220 pages.
Dead Water by Ngaio Marsh. 7/23/20. 198 pages.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. 8/25/20. 264 pages.
The Big Four. 9/2/20. 272 pages
The Pale Horse - 9/7/20. 288 pages.

Humor - 2798
I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood - 7/31/20. 254 pages.
Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why - 9/14/20. 240 pages.
The Uncollected David Rakoff: Including the entire text of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish - 9/25/20. 352 pages.
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems - 9/29/20. 240 pages.
Anxious People - 10/5/20. 352 pages.
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride - 10/6/20. 259 pages.
Life Among the Savages - 10/18/20. 240 pages
The Snake Has All the Lines - 10/23/20. 128 pages.
Plan for the Worst - 10/27/20. 413 pages.
Raising Demons - 10/29/20. 320 pages.

This is the last prompt for me!!

Prompt 3: Owned Books
Read: 5015/5000 - finished 10/28/20

Matches a monthly shelf:
March: mystery
✔The Man in My Basement - 272pp - 3/15/20
✔The Woman Who Died a Lot - 384pp - 3/20/20
✔Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - 352pp - 3/29/20

Lost books:
✔Two Girls, Fat and Thin - 320pp - 10/28/20
✔Apex Hides the Hurt - 224pp - 4/22/20
✔The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller - 208pp - 5/7/20
✔Perfect Circle - 243pp - 7/26/20

Moving Mountains:
✔The Cat - 256pp - 8/17/20
✔Herzog - 341pp - 8/24/20

Other books:
✔Who Fears Death - 386pp - 3/23/20
✔The Name of the World - 129pp - 4/12/20
✔Men Without Women - 267pp - 5/7/20
✔The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - 297pp - 5/11/20
✔Bodily Harm - 338pp - 5/22/20
✔The Vegetarian - 183pp - 6/14/20
✔Between the World and Me - 152pp - 9/13/20
✔Little Birds - 148pp - 10/1/20
✔Oscar and Lucinda - 515pp - 10/21/20

prompt 3
Goal: 12000pgs
Progress: 7334/12000

Books Read:
Going Down - Purchased 16 September 2016 - finished - 4/20/20 - 248pgs
Fire and Water - Purchased 7 June 2017 - Finished - 5/27/20 - 200pgs
The Good Fight - Purchased 12 October 2015 - Finished - 5/29/20 - 200pgs
Crave - purchased 5 October 2010 - Finished - 5/30/30 - 454pgs
Cost of Repairs - purchase 13 November 2013 - finished - 5/31/20 - 272pgs
Obsidian - purchased 18 August 2014 - Finished - 6/2/20 - 335pgs
I say Who What and Where - purchased 6 July 2012 - Finished - 6/3/20 - 302pgs
Love on a Spring Morning - purchased 18 July 2017 - Finished - 6/3/20 - 284pgs
Dating The Undead - purchased 5 august 2017 - finished - 6/21/20 - 320pgs
The File on H. - purchased 5 June 2012 - finished - 6/22/20 - 202pgs
Diary of a Small Fish - purchased 15 June 2012 - Finished - 7/2/20 - 324pgs
The Virgin Suicides - purchased 29 Aug 2011 - Finished - 7/20/20 - 250pgs
Married to a Perfect Stranger - purchased 13 Nov 2015 - Finished - 7/21/20 - 384pgs
Show No Mercy - purchased 23 Jul 2009 - Finished - 7/27/20 - 359pgs
The Long Walk - purchased 20 Aug 2012 - finished - 7/29/20 - 370pgs
Head Over Heels - purchased 28 Apr 2013 - finished - 8/1/20 - 328pgs
The Stranger I Married - purchased 12 Jan 2010 - Finished - 8/13/20 - 320pgs
Hard as You Can - purchased 23 Jul 2014 - Finished - 8/13/20 - 384pgs
A Reliable Wife - purchased 3 Jun 2009 - Finished - 8/13/20 - 291pgs
The Girl Most Likely To... - purchased 3 August 2009 - finished - 8/20/20 - 340pgs
Protecting Phoebe - purchased 13 November 2009 - finished - 8/24/20 - 111pgs
A Carnal Agreement - purchased 10 July 2009 - finished - 8/26/20 - 276pgs
North Pole Anthology 1: Books 1-3 - purchased 3 November 2016 - finished – 8/27/20 - 420pgs
The Husband Trap - purchased 31 December 2009 - finished – 8/30/20 - 358pgs
April & Oliver - purchased 30 June 2009 - finished – 9/2/20 - 336pgs
Clara's Soldier: A Retelling of the Nutcracker - purchased 22 Nov 2019 - finished – 9/3/20 - 164pgs
Ask For It - purchased 3 August 2009 - finished – 9/6/20 - 320pgs
Surrender of a Siren - purchased 27 Dec 2009 - finished – 9/6/20 - 384pgs
Surrender to the Cyborgs - purchased 13 August 2017 - finished – 9/7/20 - 264pgs
Running Wild - purchased 3 Dec 2009 - finished – 9/8/20 - 361pgs
Taken By Her Mates - purchased 25 Jan 2017 - finished – 9/8/20 - 173pgs
Wild Justice - purchased 26 July 2009 - finished – 9/9/20 - 416pgs
On a Tuesday - purchased 27 November 2019 - finished – 10/2/20 - 216pgs
A Hearing Heart - purchased 7 Dec 2009 - finished – 10/4/20 - 258pgs
The Raven's Revenge -purchased 19 Dec 2009 - finished – 10/7/20 - 282pgs
High Noon - purchased 8 Mar 2011 - finished – 10/8/20 - 480pgs
Skin Game - purchased 3 July 2010 - finished 10/11/20 - 320pgs
The Diplomat's Wife - purchased 4 August 2014 - finished – 10/18/20 360pgs
Last Chance Motel - purchased 25 November 2015 - finished – 10/27/20 - 242pgs
Flood - purchased 14 May 2009 - finished – 10/28/20 - 341pgs

prompt 5

12886/12000

Historical Romance
Stages of the Heart - finished - 5/7/2020 - 416pgs
Texas Mail Order Bride - finished - 5/21/2020 - 352ogs
Marry in Scarlet - finished - 6/5/20 - 336pgs
Captive Bride - finished - 7/19/20 - 384pgs
Brave the Wild Wind - finished - 8/15/20 - 344pgs

Sports Romance
Kat & Mouse: a Crosscannon Roller Derby romance - finished- 5/25/2020 - 406pgs
Squeeze Play - finished - 5/31/20 - 366pgs
Swing and a Miss - finished - 7/6/20 - 310pgs
A Complete Game - finished - 7/14/20 - 370pgs

Alien Romance
Mastered By Her Mates - finished - 5/22/2020 - 208pgs
Surrender to the Cyborgs - finished - 9/7/20 - 222pgs
Alien Mischief - finished - 10/10/20 - 177pgs

Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
Justice Calling - Finished - 5/31/20 - 154pgs
Archangel's Heart - finished - 7/1/20 - 381pgs
Bound to the Bear- finished - 7/26/20 - 304pgs
Baby for the Soldier Cougar - finished - 8/22/20 - 151pgs
Loving Their Vixen Mate - finished - 9/20/20 - 288pgs
Rescued By The Soldier Bear - finished - 9/26/20 - 145pgs
Dragon's Surrogate MatchMate - finished - 9/26/20 - 152pgs

Contemporary Romance
Hollie Porter Builds a Raft - finished - 6/14/20 - 394pgs
F-Stop - Finished - 6/17/20 - 312pgs
Just Jilted - finished - 8/28/20 - 259pgs
Flirtasaurus - finished - 8/29/20 - 213pgs
The Marriage Game - finished - 9/25/20 - 338pgs

Erotic Romance/Erotica
Claiming Fifi - finished - 5/17/20 - 266pgs
Taming Avery - finished - 6/19/20 - 242pgs
Keeping Kiera - finished - 6/22/20 - 263pgs
Bombshell - finished - 6/24/20 - 366pgs
Big Sky - finished - 6/24/20 - 188pgs
At Her Command - finished - 7/26/20 - 503pgs
Playing with Her Doctors -finished - 8/22/20- 198pgs
Playing with the Criminals - finished - 8/22/20 - 198pgs
Claimed By The Cowboys - finished - 8/23/20 - 266pgs
Four Ranchers' Bride - finished - 8/24/20 - 135pgs
Three Irish Brothers - finished - 8/29/20 - 192pgs
Fifty Shades of Alice in Wonderland - finished - 9/26/20 - 115pgs

Books by Nordic authors (Norway/Sweden etc)
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry - finished - 6/29/20 - 372pgs

True Crime
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter - finished - 8/29/20 - 352pgs
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia - finished - 9/6/20 - 336pgs
Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls - finished - 10/6/20 - 320pgs
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes - finished - 10/6/20 - 432pgs

WW2 Historical Fiction
The Book of Lost Names - finished - 9/23/20 - 400pgs
The Light Over London - finished - 10/25/20 - 336pgs
The Librarian of Auschwitz - finished - 10/25/20 - 424pgs

FINSISHED Prompt #1 FINALLY!!!


Prompt #1: Read outside of comfort zone

Prompt Goal: 10 books | Total Read: 10

Classic ~ Fantasy ~ Sci Fi ~ Thriller/Horror ~ YA/LGBT

✔🍬Fantasy ~ Like Water for Chocolate ~ Pas Monthly Jan ~ 01.06 ★★★
✔🍬Sci Fi ~ Super Extra Grande ~ Pas Monthly Jan ~ 01.11 ★★★
✔🍬Classics ~ Pride and Prejudice ~ Pas Monthly Oct ~ 10.01 ★★★★
✔🍬Fantasy ~ Anansi Boys ~ Pas Monthly - Aug ~ 08.16 ★★★
✔🍬Thriller/Horror ~ The List ~ Pas Monthly Feb ~ 02.11 ★★★
✔🍬Thriller/Horror ~ The Shimmering Road ~ Mar ~ 04.21 ★★★
✔🍬Thriller/Horror ~ 2nd Chance ~ 02.08 ★★★★
✔🍬YA/LGBT ~ Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda ~ 04.21 ★★★
✔🍬Fantasy/Sci Fi ~ Time Trap ~ 09.08 ★★★
✔🍬Fantasy ~ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ~ Pas Monthly Feb ~ 02.26 ★★★★

I can't believe it, I've completed another prompt!

Original post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Prompt 5: Comfort Reads - 5,000 pages

Death's Golden Whisper: A Meg Harris Mystery - 16/05/2020 - 344 p.
Unnatural Death - 20/05/2020 - 308 p.
I delitti di Mangle Street - 25/05/2020 - 288 p.
The Hobbit - 01/06/2020 - 305 p.
La bellezza non ti salverà - 03/06/2020 - 242 p.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - 06/06/2020 - 154 p.
Murder is Binding - 15/06/2020 - 281 p.
The Datchet Diamonds - 17/06/2020 - 148 p.
The Fellowship of the Ring - 12/07/2020 - 398 p.
The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen - 18/07/2020 - 299 p.
A Cold Day For Murder - 21/07/2020 - 212 p.
The Two Towers - 31/07/2020 - 329 p.
The Return of the King - 14/08/2020 - 464 p.
The Crime at Black Dudley - 15/08/2020 - 208 p.
Lupo mannaro - 19/08/2020 - 86 p.
Mexican Gothic - 20/09/2020 - 336 p.
Winnie-the-Pooh - 29/09/2020 - 145 p.
La donna di picche - 07/10/2020 - 208 p.
Less - 03/11/2020 - 273 p.

Total: 5,028/5,000 - COMPLETED 03/11/2020

Great job everyone!

Finished my last prompt - Finished JRI!
Out of comfort zone - Prompt 1 - Books in translation
GOAL 5000pp


Spanish
📖The Murmur of Bees 471pp
📖Tentacle 160pp
📖Fever Dream 183pp
📖Chronicle of a Death Foretold 121 pp

Japanese
📖Convenience Store Woman 176pp
📖The Memory Police 274pp
📖Revenge 162pp

Korean
📖The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly 134pp

Norweigan
📖Macbeth 512pp

Persian
📖Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood 153pp
📖Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return 187pp
📖No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison 416pp

Chinese
📖The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 230pp
📖Supernova Era 352pp
📖Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation 480pp

Italian
📖The Name of the Rose 536pp

German
📖Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ 273pp

Portuguese
📖Blindness 326pp

At least I have finished one prompt for the year!

Prompt 3: Read Owned Books

Goal: 10 books
Completed: 10/10

1. The Girl With All the Gifts - Completed 31/07/2020
2. The Exhibition of Persephone Q - Completed 08/08/2020
3. The Dilemma - Completed 10/08/2020
4. Abducted - Completed 03/09/2020
5. Peril at End House - Completed 06/09/2020
6. The Other People- Completed 30/09/2020
7. Summer at Willow Lake - Completed 07/10/2020
8. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes- Completed 17/10/2020
9. Scritch Scratch - Completed 27/10/2020
10. Holding Up the Universe - Completed 30/10/2020