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Feb 02, 2018 05:10PM

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And at the close of January I have finished the following:
1. The Other Child by Pirkko Rytkonen
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
3. Deadly by Julie Chibbaro
4. Sense and Sensibility
5. Middengard Sagas Omnibus: Books 1 to 3
6. A Broken Heart's Redemption: A Historical Regency Romance
Novel by Abby Ayles

544+544+190+281+448+368+247+545
I was close but didn't quite make it = Fail"
No failing at all you did great!

12/10
✓ 1. Conduct Unbecoming
✓ 2. Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter: The Official Guide
✓ 3. Dates: Volume 2
✓ 4. The Red Threads of Fortune
✓ 5. The Black Tides of Heaven
✓ 6. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
✓ 7. The Chronicles of Exandria, Vol. I: The Tale of Vox Machina.
✓ 8. Flame in the Mist
✓ 9. The Beast That Never Was
✓ 10. Slaughterhouse-Five
✓ 11. Devoted: A Suspense Novel
✓ 12. Alex and Eliza
Completed 1/31/2018

Anyways, I completely fell short for this challenge. Mostly because I wasn't really trying :D
Still, I read Ready Player One and The Picture of Dorian Gray for a grand total of 642 pages.

I will try to read 10 books
7/10
1 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
2 There Goes the Bride M.C. Beaton
3 Bundle of Trouble Diana Orgain
4 The Devil's Daughter Katee Robert
5 Within: Knitting Patterns to Warm the Soul Jane Richmond
6 In the Footsteps of Martin Luther Andy Kuo
7 The Clairvoyant Countess Dorothy Gilman

Anyways, I completely fell short for this challenge. Mostly because I wasn't really trying :D
Still, I..."
For some people i went to there pages to check on progress because I know people read and forget to post

1. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Completed 2/1/18 Rating 2 stars
110/302 pages read in January
2. Five Get into Trouble by Enid Blyton Completed 7/1/18 Rating 4 stars
165/190 pages read in January
3. Wonder by R. J. Palacio Completed 9/1/18 Rating 4 stars
313 pages
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Completed 22/1/18 Rating 4 stars
309 pages
5. Still Alice by Lisa Genova Completed 25/1/18 Rating 4 stars
327 pages
6. Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers by Alexander McCall Smith Completed 31/1/18 Rating 4 stars
294/319 pages read in January
1,518/2,000

Count me in for 10 books/ with 2,100 pages to be turned! Will update and list them as I go.
See you all on the flip side!
Happy Holidays, and all the best in 2019!!
Blagica, "Thank you!", for moderating this challenge. It spurred me into action early, for these past two years.

Count me in for 10 books/ with 2,100 pages to be turned! Will update and list them as I go.
See you all on the flip side!
Happy Holidays, and all the best in 2019!!
Blagica, "Thank y..."
Hi,
This is the thread for January 2018 but we are doing a Marathon this January 2019 which will be unlocked in a couple of days so please sign up there
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