One Million Pages Per Lifetime discussion

Mad Scientist wrote: "I'm going to read water for elephants for my W. Lucky to Hve that letter figured out.

7 Y's... Why? ;)

Because I said so. At least that is what comes to mind."

Because the challenge is called "Days of the Week" challenge which is a spell it out challenge too. Don't ask me how came up with it because I forgot.

In that case then .....finished tonight

Evil Twin One (Ange) wrote: "I'm going all out with Hard. :)
0 of 34 Completed

O: One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost
N: Night Play by Sherrilyn Kenyon
E: Embrace The Darkness by A..."


Love the organization of your list. Enjoy your reads. And what other challenges are you doing? Just curious (I'm new to all this)

Evil Twin One (Ange) wrote: "Thanks. Well, I'm doing the 12x12 challenge also. Not sure what other ones in this group. I do a lot of challenges with other groups also so I tend to confuse myself sometimes. :)"

That's why I have all the challenges I'm currently doing in one spot posted in another group with the link to it or I will get confused or forget about it.

Lori wrote: "Evil Twin One (Ange) wrote: "I'm going all out with Hard. :)
0 of 34 Completed

O: One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost
N: Night Play by Sherrilyn Kenyon
E: [book:Embra..."

I second that motion! ;)

Amy, the Days of the Week challenge?? Yeah, I'm freaking out about that one. Still haven't found any Y's!

Heather wrote: "I'm in!



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E-ENTWINED finished early 1/1/12 480

Buried in Books(Heather)"

How was it? Looking at this one for this year.

How many book for that challenge? Spelling out all seven days of the week?

Yep! Someone did it in Italian, just to avoid the Y's. If I didn't have so many letters already filled in, I'd go back and do mine in Spanish.

Hello to all challenge lovers!

By popular request I have created a folder for you, if you would like, to put all of your challenges into one thread.

Hopefully this will be useful.

Located between the monthly and yearly challenges.

That is too funny. Sounds like a fun challenge though. We could do a monthly one. May is pretty easy. LOL!

@Ange: You're welcome!

@Zakiya: I already completed 2 of the 7 Y's for that challenge and currently working on the 3rd Y.
The ones I already did are All You Desire by Kirsten Miller and Hushed by Kelley York. Right now, I'm reading You Against Me by Jenny Downham.

@Mad: It's 50 plus a bonus so it's 51

Not that many when you think of the 12x12 challenge.

Why not go for hard? See what gets filled out as I read throughout the year.

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M -
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L -Leviathan
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So this has nothing to do with literaly reading a million pages?!

Desert Rose wrote: "So this has nothing to do with literaly reading a million pages?!"

Nope just some challenges to get people motivated for the upcoming year. If you look a little further down the home page though you can see that there are individual threads within letters for people to post their own thread to keep track of their page counts.

Desert Rose wrote: "So this has nothing to do with literaly reading a million pages?!"

The idea is that if a challenge motivates you, you will read more and therefor have more pages. It's a way to perhaps cheer u on and give you more book ideas to increase your reading. Everyone here is a bookish cheerleader of sorts. :)

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How is room?

It was okay, wasn't what I expected to be honest. As it's from the perspective of a child, the style of writing was childish, which was okay at the beginning but I don't think I liked it towards the end.

I've put it off bc I heard it was childish.

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O -
N -
E - Eclipse

M - Mistletoe Murder
I -
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S - Sprinkle with Murder

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C - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
K -
S - The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

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D - Daughter of Smoke and Bone
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Added for G

Have a question...Would the L in "C.L. Bevill" be considered a letter that I could use?

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Added for I

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Added for O (re-read)

I cave! I'm so addictive to challenges!! I'm taking this one on as well and am aiming for all 34 and limiting myself to author names. Will post the books as I read along.

28/34 READ; Updated 11.15.12

O= Mark Obmascik the book The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession (9.19)
N= Nora Roberts the book Skin Deep (O'Hurley's Return) (O'Hurleys #3) (2.15)
E= Elizabeth Watson the book Guests Of My Life (1.27)

M= Barbara Michaelsthe book The Crying Child (2.10)
I= Liz Ireland the book The Pink Ghetto (3.19)
L= Lisa Tawn Bergren the book The Captain's Bride (1.1)
L= Lorna Landvik the book Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons (2.4)
I=
O= Daniel O'Malley the book The Rook (11.15)
N= Nina Sankovitch the book Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading (4.14)

P= Joanne Pencethe book Red Hot Murder (9.30)
A= Sarah Andrews the book Tensleep: An Em Hansen Mystery (3.1)
G= Robin Gunn Jones the bookSisterchicks on the Loose (6.12)
E= Cassie Edwards the book Touch the Wild Wind (1.28)
S= Lisa See the book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (3.3)

G= Robin Jones Gunn the book Sisterchicks Down Under (7.25)
R= Roald Dahl the book Matilda (PMC) (1.2)
O=
U=
P= Ann Patchett the book State of Wonder (10.22)

R= Robyn Carr the book Forbidden Falls (1.31)
O=
C= Jennifer Chiaverini the book The Wedding Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel (1.7)
K= Katie Couric the book The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives (1.5)
S= Out on a Limb by Shirley Maclaine (3.10)

G= Jane Green the book Second Chance(1.9)
O=
O=
D= Dave Eggers the book Zeitoun (4.12)
R= Rick Hanson the book Just One Thing: Developing A Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time (3.7)
E= Janet Evanovich the book Explosive Eighteen (2.11)
A= Tasha Alexander the book A Fatal Waltz (1.13)
D= Debbie Macomber the book Christmas in Cedar Cove (1.6)
S= Susan Conant the book The Barker Street Regulars (3.23)

Only 8 to go....and 2 of them I'm reading :-)

Nearly there....5 more books to go :-)

I'm in - Hard 34/34



O - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey finished(6/1/12)
N - No Regrets - Ace Frehley(1/1/12)
E - Emma Donoghue - Room(4/1/12)

M - Mitch Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie(1/1/12)
I - If I stay - Gayle Forman(5/2/12)
L - Linwood Barclay - Clouded Vision(22/1/12)
L - Lesley Pearse - Hope(9/2/12)
I - Invisible Boy - Cornelia Read(12/2/12)
O - Oliver, Lauren - Before I Fall(19/2/12)
N - Nikki Sixx - The Heroin Diaries(16/2/12)

P - Postmortem - Patricia Cornwell(23/1/12)
A - Andy McNab - Exit Wound(1/3/12)
G - Gayle Forman - Where She Went(06/03/12)
E - Eleanor Brown - The Weird Sisters(17/4/12)
S - Sophie Hannah - Lasting Damage(2/1/12)

G - Goodbye Pert Breasts: The Diary of a New Born Dad - Ben Wakeling(14/5/12)
R - Robert Sellers - Little Ern!(20/5/12)
O - Only Time Will Tell - Jeffrey Archer(24/2/12)
U - Ugly Sister, The - Jane Fallon(20/4/12)
P - Patterson, James - Bloody Valentine(13/2/12)

R - Remember Me - Sophie Kinsella(7/5/12)
O - One for the money - Janet Evanovich(25/4/12)
C - Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins(19/1/12)
K - Karen Rose - No one left to tell(29/1/12)
S - Steel, Danielle - Happy Birthday(3/2/12)

G - Ghost in the Wires - Kevin Mitnick(14/1/12)
O - Osbourne, Sharon - Revenge(3/2/12)
O - O'Brien, Kathleen - Quiet as the Grave(1/5/12)
D - David Baldacci - Zero Day(10/1/12)
R - Remember Me - Lesley Pearse(13/5/12)
E - Enid Blyton - The Twins at St Clares(13/4/12)
A - Affair, The - Lee Child(17/1/12)
D - Diplomatic Corpse - Anne Marshall Zwack(15/1/12)
S - Seige - Simon Kernick(10/03/12)

FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

amazing results. I'm trying to get books read here in China. But it is slow going. And not many english books available. My Kindle broke and I can't download new books onto my Nook. I'm stuck with what I came with. But I'm getting some good books in.

1 left to go!!!

FINISHED......FINISHED......FINISHED!!!!!!! Great challenge, enjoyed that!!

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All I need is an O and I'm finished!! (And I'm reading it as we speak!!)

Woohoo!!! Great reading, Sharon & Stacie!

Ooh, this looks fun! I'm only going to do book titles, because I like to be consistent :)

O - Oryx and Crake
N - Naked Heat
E - Ender's Game

M - Mockingjay
I - I See You Everywhere
L - Little Bee
L - The Lover's Dictionary
I - If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
O - Outlander
N - Never Let Me Go

P - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A - American Psycho
G - The Glass Castle
E - Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
S - Serial

G - Genesis
R - The Robber Bride
O
U - Unveiled
P - The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

R - Ready Player One
O
C - Catching Fire
K - The Kite Runner
S - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

G - The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
O
O
D - Divergent
R - Rebel Heart
E - Eight Days To Live
A - Annabel
D - Dear John
S - The Sworn Sword

Edit: 4

:) Good luck, Kels!!

Some O books are

I'm definitely going to have to hunt down some Os, thank you for the recommendations! :D

No problem! That's the letter that I think everyone has trouble with during any kind of challenge.

I pretty much just have O, U, and maybe another vowel or so left.

Stinking vowels =)

*hops on this bandwagon* I can't believe I didn't see this sooner! XD I'm going to have to go back through my list and see what I've already read this year.

Going to do the hard option because it would be silly for me not to at the rate I read.

30/34

O On Writing
N Notturno
E Exposed

M Mongrel
I Immortal City
L Life Lessons
L The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves
I Ink
O Oleander House
N Natural Instincts

P The Pregnancy Project
A The Alchemist of Souls
G GhosTV
E
S Shadow of Night

G Grave Mercy
R Royal Street
O Once Burned
U
P Prey
S Starters

R Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
O Out of the Dust
C Cinder
K The Killing Dance
S The Selection

G Guilty Pleasures
O One Small Thing
O
D A Discovery of Witches
R
E Eternal Hunger
A Among the Living
D Drowning Instinct

LOL I agree, Stephanie!

Good luck, Tati :)