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from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.
Showing 161-180 of 503
Inside Job 99 pgs +March: Book One 128 pgs +
St. Augustine's Treatise on the City of God: Abridged 132 pgs +
Alias Grace 468 pgs =
827 pages + 49, 804 = 50,631
Current Total: 50,631
I'm here t/l?
I'm back! I should be on more tonight.
I'm here
I went ahead and added Antarctica which I finished on the 3rd. (If we decide not to count it, I finished another A book, Alias Grace.)Either way it looks like we can move to the next stop. I'm thinking of reading Chocolat.
Anyone on? T/L?
Planning vs Achieving 2018Beth's Achieving Post
Books Read - 70
award winners: 18/10 read
Inside Job (Hugo Award for Best Novella 2006) 1/9/2018
Alias Grace (Scotiabank Giller Prize 1996) 1/11/2018
March: Book Two (Eisner Award - Best Reality Based Work, 2016) 1/14/2018
March: Book Three (Eisner Award - Best Reality Based Work, 2017) 1/28/2018
The Fifth Season Hugo Award for Best Novel 2016 3/20/2018
The Years of Rice and Salt (Locus Award for Best Novel) 4/8/2018
The Man in the High Castle (Hugo Award) 4/23/2018
The Lifecycle of Software Objects (Hugo Award for Best Novella) 4/28/2018
Spin (Hugo Award) 5/5/2018
The Obelisk Gate (Hugo Award) 7/24/2018
Little, Big (World Fantasy Award) 7/28/2018
The Owl Service (Carnegie Medal) 8/22/2018
The Stone Sky (Hugo Award) 9/19/2018
The Ballad of Black Tom (Shirley Jackson Award) 10/16/2018
Quicksilver (Arthur C. Clarke Award) 11/11/2018
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr 11/30/2018 (Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature)
The Snow Leopard 12/6/2018 (National Book Award for Contemporary Thought)
Her Body and Other Parties 12/7/2018
(Shirley Jackson Award for Single Author Collection)
chunksters (450+ p): 8/10
Alias Grace 1/11/2018
The Years of Rice and Salt 4/8/2018
The Moonstone 4/18/2018
One Woman's War: Da (Mother) the Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni Paperback 6/11/2018
Little, Big 7/28/2018
The Iliad 8/9/2018
The Accursed 9/28/2018
Quicksilver 11/11/2018
new to me author(s) : 28/20 http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
out of my comfort zone books: 2
One Woman's War: Da (Mother) the Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni Paperback 6/11/2018
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 11/10/2018
books that are for so long in my TBR they are covered with spider webs and dust bunnies: 19/10 so far
1. Alias Grace 1/11/2018 (since 2015)
2. Njal's Saga 2/1/2018 (since 2016)
3. Too Like the Lightning 2/9/2018 (since 2016)
4. The Story of Kullervo 2/20/2018 (since 2015)
5. Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World 2/21/2018 (since 2014)
6. The Fifth Season 3/20/2018 (since 2016)
7. The Moonstone 4/18/2018 (since 2016)
8. The World's Wife 4/28/2018 (since 2015)
9. Invisible Cities 5/28/2018 (since 2015)
10. The Aeneid 6/20/2018 (since 2013)
11. Utopia 7/6/2018 (since 2017)
12. Tao Te Ching 7/14/2018 (since 2017)
13. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler 8/21/2018 (since May 2018)
14. Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege (since Jan 2017)
15. The Accursed 9/28/2018 (since 2015)
16. Manfred (since 2017)
17. The Shadow Out of Time 1029/2018 (since 2016)
18. Orlando 11/17/2018 (on list since 2015)
19. The Snow Leopard 12/6/2018 (on list since 2017)
books from my favorite genres (sf, fantasy, horror): 32/15 so far
1. Inside Job (sf/humor) 1/9/2018
2. Chocolat (I'm counting this as fantasy) 1/14/2018
3. Radio Dramatization of Tales from the Perilous Realm (fantasy) 1/26/2018
4. The Science of Discworld (fantasy) 1/28/2018
5. Too Like the Lightning (sf) 2/9/2018
6. The Story of Kullervo (fantasy/myth) 2/20/2018
7. The Stars Are Legion (sf) 3/2/2018
8. Seven Surrenders (sf) 3/7/2018
9. The Fifth Season 3/20/2018
10. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (reread) (fantasy) 3/24/2018
11. The Warrior's Apprentice (sf) 3/29/2018
12. The Years of Rice and Salt (sf/alternate history) 4/8/2018
13. Children of God (sf) 4/21/2018
14. The Man in the High Castle (sf)/alternate history) 4/23/2018
15. The Lifecycle of Software Objects (sf) 4/23/2018
16. The Lathe of Heaven 4/29/2018 (sf)
17. Spin (sf) 5/5/2018
18. Vortex 7/8/2018
19. The Obelisk Gate (fantasy) 7/24/2018
20. Little, Big (fantasy) 7/28/2018
21. The Owl Service (reread) (fantasy) 8/24/2018
22. The House of the Wolfings (fantasy) 9/9/2018
23. The Stone Sky (sf/fantasy) 9/19/2018
24. The Red Tree (horror/fantasy) 10/7/2018
25. The Ballad of Black Tom (horror) 10/16/2018
26. The Sandman Universe #1 (fantasy) 10/28/2018
27. The Shadow Out of Time (horror) 10/29/2018
28. Tales of Moonlight and Rain (horror/fantasy) 11/3/2018 (horror)
29. Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr 11/30/2018 (fantasy)
30. Her Body and Other Parties (fantasy/horror)
31. The Red Magician (fantasy)
32. The Children of Húrin (fantasy) (reread)
books from my favorite author(s): 14/10
1. The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore by W.B. Yeats1/12/2018
2. Radio Dramatization of Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien 1/26/2018
3. The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett1/28/2018
4. The Story of Kullervo by J.R.R. Tolkien 2/20/2018
5. Henry V by William Shakespeare3/5/2018
6. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (reread) 3/24/2018
7. The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin 3/26/2018
8. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson4/8/2018
9. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin4/29/2018
10. Mort by Terry Pratchett 8/24/2018
11. Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien 8/25/2018
12. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien 9/17/2018
13. Love's Labor's Lost by William Shakespeare
14. The Sandman Universe #1 by Neil Gaiman10/28/2018
Planning vs Achieving 2018Beth's Planning Post
10 award winners
2 complete trilogies
10 chunksters (over 450 pages)
10 new to me author(s)
1 out of my comfort zone books
10 books that are for so long in my TBR they are covered with spider webs and dust bunnies
15 books from my favorite genres - science fiction/fantasy/horror
10 books from my favorite author(s) - William Shakespeare, W.B. Yeats, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kim Stanley Robinson, Terry Pratchett, Ursula K. Le Guin
Anyone on?
Starting Jan 8, 2018Level I
The Casual Traveler's Challenge:
Backpacker
Read five books from each continent. Each book has to be set in a different country (30 books in all)
books read: 10/30
update 3/24/2018 - read 5/5 for Europe!
Africa - 0/5 read
undecided
Asia - 4/5 read
One Woman's War: Da (Mother) the Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni Paperback (Syria) 6/11/2018
Tao Te Ching (China) 7/14/2018
Tales of Moonlight and Rain 11/3/2018
The Snow Leopard (Tibet) 12/6/2018
planned:
The Conference of the Birds (Iran)
Europe - 5/5 read
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore 1/12/2018 (Ireland)
Chocolat 1/14/2018 (France)
Njal's Saga 2/1/2018 (Iceland)
The Story of Kullervo 2/20/2018 (Finland)
Henry V 3/5/2018 (England)
N America - 1/5 read
Alias Grace 1/11/2018 (Canada)
something set in the United States
something set in Mexico
2 undecided
Oceania - 0/5 read
undecided
S. America - 0/5 read
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
(Argentina)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Columbia)
3 undecided
Seasonal Challenge: New Year's Extravaganza (ends 1/31)https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Seasonal Challenge: January: Time for Tea (ends 1/31) - Level 2, Tea for Two, complete with 10 books!
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I'll try this one again! Probably level 1, the level I did way back in 2014, but maybe I'll achieve level 2. 10/10 books read - 1/26/2018 - Tea for Two complete!
1st cup: water boiled, black tea, weak, 1 spoonful, soymilk
2nd cup: water boiled, green tea, 2 spoonfuls, lemon
Time for Tea
January 1–31, 2018
Step 1 - Boil the water - 2/2 read
Read books that are a bit "steamy", set in a hot climate or make you feel warm inside. Or books where the author's name or title begins with B, O, I or L.
1. Inside Job 1/9/2018 (starts with I)
2. Chocolat 1/14/2018 (makes you feel warm inside)
Step 2 - Choose your tea 2/2 read
Read books with a color on the cover to match the type of tea you choose.
1. Black: Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities 1/14/2018
2. Green: Radio Dramatization of Tales from the Perilous Realm 1/26/2018
Step 3 - Steep the tea - 2/2 read
Read books with page counts to indicate how strong you like your tea
1. Weak - under 150 pages The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore 1/12/2018 128 pages
2. Medium - 151 to 300 pages - Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen: Fairy Tales from Around the World 1/17/2018 233 pages
Step 4 - Sweet? - 2/2 read
Read books to indicate how sweet you like your tea.
One spoonful - Book one in a series
March: Book One for my first cup 1/8/2018
Two spoonfuls - March: Book Two 1/14/2018
Step 5 - Black or white? - 2/2 read
Read books to indicate what else to add to your tea
1. Soy milk - Mystery/thriller genre - Alias Grace 1/11/2018
2. Lemon - Nonfiction - St. Augustine's treatise on the city of God, abridged by F.R. Montgomery Hitchcock 1/9/2018
I'll try to remember to add all my books this year. Antarctica 1/32017 511 pages
Current total = 13,643
Zuzana wrote: "I would love to but we still don't have an A. Beth is currently reading Antarctica so let's give her more time. :)The bad news about that is... I started it back in November, so I don't think it counts, right? But I have another A book lined up to read in a few days, and it's short (The Persians) so I think I'll read it today or tomorrow...
New Year's ExtravaganzaCurrent level: Difficult (9 books read)
Goal: 12 books
Categories:
- Read one or more books that have been on your TBR (To Be Read) list for a long time. - goal of 2 for this category
1. Alias Grace 1/11/2018 (TBR since 2015)
2. ?
- Read an equal number of books from Old/Favorite authors and New/Never before read authors.
New authors: 4/5 read so far
1. March: Book One by John Lewis 1/8/2018
2. Chocolat 1/14/2018
3. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities 1/14/2018
4. Heloise, Hints For A Healthy Planet 1/27/2018
5. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel currently reading
Old authors: 5/5 read
1. Inside Job by Connie Willis 1/9/2018
2. The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore by W.B. Yeats1/12/2018
3. Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen: Fairy Tales from Around the World edited by Angela Carter (previously read: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories)
4. Radio Dramatization of Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien 1/26/2018
5. The Science of Discworld 1/28/2018
NBRC Fill in the Gaps ChallengeStart date: January 1, 2018
read so far: 6
decided to add books as I complete my list, to make things easier
1. Alias Grace 1/11/2018 owned since 2017
2. Chocolat 1/14/2018 owned since 2017
3. Heloise, Hints For A Healthy Planet1/27/2018 owned since 2017
4. Njal's Saga 2/1/2018 (owned since 2016)
5. Too Like the Lightning 2/9/2018 (library, on TBR since 2016)
6. Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World 2/21/2018 (owned since 2017, on TBR since 2014)
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Duration: January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018Level: Risk Taker level completed - (15) - I'm now in for 20, I think
update: 31 read!
1. March: Book One by John Lewis 1/8/2018
2. Chocolat by Joanne Harris 1/14/2018
3. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit1/14/2018
4. Heloise, Hints For A Healthy Planet 1/27/2018
5. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel 1/28/2018
6. Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer2/9/2018
7. Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World by Verlyn Flieger2/21/2018 (I have previously read a book edited by her - not sure that counts - but not before 2018, anyway)
8. The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley 3/2/2018
9. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin 3/20/2018
10. The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold 3/29/2018
11. A Year of Birds by Iris Murdoch 4/14/2018
12. The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy 4/28/2018
13. 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye 5/28/2018
14. One Woman's War: Da (Mother) the Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni Paperback 6/11/2018
15. The Aeneid by Virgil6/20/2018
16. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison 7/3/2018
17. Utopia by Thomas More
18. War and the Iliad by Simone Weil 8/10/2018
19. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes8/13/2018
20. Snow in Midsummer by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig 8/17/2018
21. Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege by Amira Hass8/31/2018
22. The House of the Wolfings by William Morris9/9/2018
23. On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt
24. The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan 10/7/2018
25. The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle 10/16/2018
26. Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda Akinari 11/3/2018
27. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt 11/10/2018
28. The Illustrated Book of Sacred Scriptures by Tim Freke11/23/2018
29. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen12/06/2018
30. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado 12/7/2018
31. The Red Magician by Lisa Goldstein 12/8/2018
Reserved, I will start in January I think I tried this one before and abandoned it.
