The Reading Challenge Group discussion

Need a break from those long books? This challenge is for books 280 or fewer pages, so relax with some easy to lift books!

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Level 2 Flapping Wings
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Level 3 Taking Flight
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Finished: 2024/06/08

280 or fewer pages, no mangas

Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1 2 by Yokoyama Hideo (152) ✓ 01/21
2 Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen. by Franz Kafka (94) ✓ 01/25
3 TIPTOE - Auf Zehenspitzen ins Glück by Kay Monroe (233) ✓ 02/13
4 BENNI - Pink geht immer by Kay Monroe (213) ✓ 02/14
5 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (67) ✓ 02/19

Level 2 Flapping Wings
6 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (188) ✓ 03/03
7 Comandante: Roman by Edoardo De Angelis & Sandro Veronesi (157) ✓ 03/15
8 Franny und Zooey by J.D. Salinger (124) ✓ 04/05
9 Eine Fingerkuppe Freiheit: Historischer Roman Aus dem Leben des Louis Braille Über den Erfinder der Blindenschrift by Thomas Zwerina (193) ✓ 04/08
10 Buffy, Im Bann der Dämonen, Spike & Dru, Dämonische Liebe by Christopher Golden (273) ✓ 04/21

Level 3 Taking Flight
11 Alan Turing: Enigma by Anna Revell (115) ✓ 05/19
12 Alan Turing: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History (40) ✓ 05/20
13 Pride! Eine kurze Geschichte der LGBTQ+ Bewegung (126) ✓ 06/06
14 Oscar Wilde: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History (44) ✓ 06/08
15 Und dann verschwinde ich in die Nacht: Der Golden-State-Killer (True Crime) by William Thorp (113) ✓ 06/08

Books Read 10/15

🐣 Level 1 - Ruffled Feathers 🐣
✔️ 1. I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls by Ben Farthing
(160p) 11.Jan - 3 ✪'s
✔️ 2. The Potted Plant by Thomas Gloom (86p) 5.Feb - 2 ✪'s
✔️ 3. A Large Measure of Snow: A Tale from Kinloch by Denzil Meyrick
(133p) 20.Feb - 3 ✪'s
✔️ 4. The Drowned World by Shelley Parker-Chan (194p) 4.Mar - 3 ✪'s
✔️ 5. The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico (48p) 2.Mar - 3 ✪'s



🐤 Level 2 - Flapping Wings 🐤
✔️ 6. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (213p) 12.Mar - 3 ✪'s
✔️ 7. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire (146p) 26.Mar - 4 ✪'s
✔️ 8. The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe (158p) 24.Apr - 3 ✪'s
✔️ 9. The Ladies Rewrite the Rules by Suzanne Allain (272p) 29.Apr - 3 ✪'s
✔️ 10. Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji (135p) 4.June - 4 ✪'s



🦅 Level 3 - Taking Flight 🦅
✔️ 11. Rizzio by Denise Mina (118p) 3.Jun - 3 ✪'s
✔️ 12. Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather (160p) 10.Jun - 4 ✪'s
✔️ 13. Fog a Dox by Bruce Pascoe (112p) 19.Jun - 4 ✪'s
✔️ 14. Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma (176p) 25.Jun - 3 ✪'s
✔️ 15. Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir (146p) 29.June - 4 ✪'s

280 or fewer pages...

Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1 - The Joy and Light Bus Company
2 - Now Is Not the Time to Panic
3 - The Deal of a Lifetime
4 - Books for Living
5 - Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Level 2 Flapping Wings
6 -Pucks and Books
7 - The Bondwoman's Narrative (the book itself is 239 pages - if you don't count the introduction / annotations / other appendices)
8 - A Friend in the Dark
9 - Rescued by the Buccaneer
10 - Evenings at Five

Level 3 Taking Flight
11 - Pucks and Coffee
12 - Their Last Resort
13 - Sing, Wild Bird, Sing
14 - Medicine of ER: How We Almost Die
15 - In Our Likeness

ok, this sounds good, breaking the main goal down into smaller pieces should help achieve it, thanks for the suggestion

Thea StiltonLevel 1 Ruffled Feathers
1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 88 pages
2. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare 98 pages
3. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 250 pages
4. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May 241 pages
5. Magic Below Stairs by Caroline Stevermer 199 pages

Level 2 Flapping Wings
6. Daring To Take Up Space by Daniell Koepke 96 pages
7. Thea Stilton and the Legend of the Fire Flowers by Thea Stilton 176 pages
8. Floors by Patrick Carman 261 pages
9. The Freaks of Mayfair by E.F. Benson 181 pages
10. Thea Stilton and the Roman Holiday by Thea Stilton 176 pages

Level 3 Taking Flight
11. Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin 256 pages
12. The Canary Caper by Ron Roy 86 pages
13. The Case of the Spooky Sleepover by James Preller 80 pages
14. Thea Stilton and the Spanish Dance Mission 176 pages
15. The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead 215 pages

Featherweight 2024

FINISHED!

Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
✔️ 1. Twittering from the Circus of the Dead by Joe Hill 1/03/2024 160 pages
✔️ 2. The Curse of Mabb's Farm by Matthew Costello 1/6/24 110 pages
✔️ 3. A Fire Story by Brian Fies 1/14/24 154 pages
✔️ 4. The Body in the Lake by Matthew Costello 1/15/24 154 pages
✔️ 5. A Shot in the Dark by Neil Richards 1/21/24 142 pages

Level 2 Flapping Wings
✔️ 6. Tales to Keep You Up at Night by Ben H. Winters 1/26/24 64 pages
✔️ 7. May by Marietta Miles 1/28/24 176 pages
✔️ 8. Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt 1/29/24 183 pages
✔️ 9. Brownies & Betrayal by MJ Greenway 2/1/24 59 pages
✔️ 10. Cupcakes & Contempt by MJ Greenway 2/1/24 48 pages

Level 3 Taking Flight
✔️ 11. The Box: Uncanny Stories by Richard Matheson 2/2/24 272 pages
✔️ 12. This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau 2/3/24 112 pages
✔️ 13. Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley 2/3/24 224 pages
✔️ 14. Snowblind by Matthew Costello 2/7/24 152 pages
✔️ 15. Dear Laura by Gemma Amor 2/10/24 111 pages

Elizabeth Sofia
Featherweight 2024
Duration: 1/1/24-12/31/24
Goal: 0/15
Note: Books chosen must have 280 or fewer pages to count towards challenge

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I'll add this one to my list... Need a break from those long books? This challenge is for books 280 or fewer pages, so relax with some easy to lift books!

Date completed: 7/2/2024
Last updated: 12/26/2024 (continuing to update with small books!)

Level 1 Ruffled Feathers (DONE)
1 Sing a Song to the Lord: Reflections on the Psalms of Advent 2023 100 pages, 1/7/2024
2 Now Is Not the Time to Panic 246 pages, 1/1/2024
3 Passing 171 pages, 1/27/2024
4 The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age 256 pages, 2/10/2024
5 The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson 208 pages, 2/14/2024

Level 2 Flapping Wings (DONE)
6 Small Things Like These 128 pages, 2/15/2024
7 Julius Caesar 175 pages, 2/24/2024
8 Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me 272 pages, 2/25/2024
9 The Light of the World 209 pages, 2/29/2024
10 Signal Fires 229 pages, 3/26/2024

Level 3 Taking Flight (DONE)
11 The Giver 208 pages, 4/10/2024
12 Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog 240 pages, 4/30/2024
13 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 235 pages, 5/29/2024
14 Somehow: Thoughts on Love 204 pages, 6/30/2024
15 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 180 pages, 6/30/2024

MORE!
16 A Grief Observed 89 pages, 7/17/2024
17 Gilgamesh: A New English Version 213 pages, 8/23/2024
18 A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 173 pages, 8/26/2024
19 The Queen's Gambit 243 pages, 10/22/2024
20 The Secret Lives of Church Ladies 179 pages (4 hours of audio), 11/2/2024
21 What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia 150 pages, 11/5/2024
22 The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World 273 pages, 11/30/2024
23 Advent for Exiles: 25 Devotions to Awaken Gospel Hope in Every Longing Heart 240 pages, 12/25/2024
24 Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake 182 pages, 12/26/2024

Featherweight 2024

Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1. The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene (280 pgs) - Done 6 March
2. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (144 pgs) - Done 12 March
3. And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon by Nikolai Gogol (255 pgs) - Done 14 March
4. Lent and Easter Wisdom by Fulton J Sheen (128 pgs) - Done 4 April
5. The Illustrated Letters of the Brontës by Juliet Gardiner (160 pgs) - Done 11 April

Level 2 Flapping Wings
1. The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim (267 pgs) - Done 4 July
2. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (256 pgs) - Done 19 July
3. A Biblical Walk Through The Mass by Edward Sri (195 pgs) Done 31 July
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Finished - see message 4 for list

Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1: Murder on the Orient Express
2: Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
3: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
4: The Nickel Boys
5: X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
Level 2 Flapping Wings
6: The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
7: The Secret Adversary
8: Around the World in Eighty Days
9: The Sun Also Rises
10: I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

Level 3 Taking Flight
11: Flowers for Algernon
12: If Cats Disappeared from the World
13: Fahrenheit 451
14: The Cat Who Saved Books
15: El Deafo

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Round 2:

Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1: Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Continued
2: Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
3: Peter Pan
4: I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
5: From A Cat's View: An Anthology of Stories Told By Cats
Level 2 Flapping Wings
6: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
7: Identity
8: Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith
9: Erasure
10: The Catcher in the Rye

Level 3 Taking Flight
11: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
12: Women Talking
13: The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays
14:What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
15: Wide Sargasso Sea

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Round 3......hmmm, I usually read more doorstoppers than featherweights. Have to fix that next year

Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
2: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
3: Men Without Women
4: The Kamogawa Food Detectives
5: The Remains of the Day
Level 2 Flapping Wings
6:An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
7: Brooklyn
8: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Little Women
9: The Only Way Is the Steady Way
10: Under the Maui Sky

Level 3 Taking Flight
11: Life, the Universe and Everything
12: The Little Prince
13: Just Kids
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Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1. The Cricket on the Hearth - 86 pages - 1/16
2. A Fall from Grace - 236 pages - 2/22
3. The Mother Hunt - 208 pages - 3/2
4. One Perfect Grave - 272 pages - 3/9
5. Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets and Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic - 246 pages - 3/15

Level 2 Flapping Wings
6. The Adventures of Pinocchio - 95 pages - 4/7
7. The Palace of Lost Memories - 222 pages - 4/20
8. My Story - 208 pages - 8/7
9. The Doorbell Rang - 150 pages - 8/11
10. Secrets & Chance - 156 pages - 8/25

Level 3 Taking Flight
11. Nobody's Angel - 260 pages - 9/5
12. Impact Winter Season 2 - 9/8
13. Love Bites - 235 pages - 9/14
14. Death of a Dude - 208 pages - 9/26
15. Footsteps in the Dark - 267 pages - 10/15