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January - Marathon Challenge
How do I know which number my original post is (the one that I am updating)? Here is a link to it anyway: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...Also, I have included some pages from a book that I started in Dec, but finished on 1/1. Do the pages that I read on 1/1 count, if I am going for 3000 pages?
Thanks! This has been really motivating :)
I will go for 8 books for January! :) (8/8 books read)1. The Player King
2. Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis
3. Gertie Milk and the Keeper of Lost Things
4. The Exact Location of Home
5. The War I Finally Won
6. Out of the Dust
7. The Sound of Freedom
8. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
ReadingByTheSea wrote: "How do I know which number my original post is (the one that I am updating)? Here is a link to it anyway: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"Thank you for the link to your original post. to answer your question yes the pages read 1/1/18 count. I have updated your progress way to go.
Leah wrote: "I will go for 8 books for January! :) 1. The Player King
2. Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis
3. [book:Gertie Milk and the Keeper of Lost T..."
Welcome to the challenge!
Updated until message 273! Please let me know if I have made any errors I check back on this thread after work.
I think that I will aim for 20 this January. 1) The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
2) Gable
3) White Fur
4) Loch
5) Zeke
6) The Enchantment of Emma Fletcher
7)Breath of Fire
8) Born on a Tuesday
9) Spider's Bite
10) The Child Finder
11) Walk on Earth a Stranger
12) The Agony of Bun O'Keefe
13) Far from the Madding Crowd
14) My Sister Rosa
15) Cold Burn of Magic
Susy's Marathon Challenge1. The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
2. Aarsrivalen, scheldkarbonades en terminale baden by Ewoud Sanders
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Books read: 3/8
Kristin wrote: "Mikayla wrote: "Question: What if I'm not sure if I can reach my goal?"Hi Mikayla, we always encourage everyone to give their best try, but at the end of the day, the challenges are to help you r..."
Thank you for the help!
Mikayla would you like me to adjust your goal?
I'm in! I'll track by pages. I have to read about 2,000 pages per month to stay on track for Let's Turn Pages, so I'll try for 2.5k, hopefully more.
607/2,500
Mikayla wrote: "book 3 completed:The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko"
Mikayla wrote: "Blagica wrote: "Kristin wrote: "Mikayla wrote: "Question: What if I'm not sure if I can reach my goal?"
Hi Mikayla, we always encourage everyone to give their best try, but at the end of the day, ..."
Adjusted to 15 congrats on finishing your 3rd book!
Cassandra wrote: "I'm in! I'll track by pages. I have to read about 2,000 pages per month to stay on track for Let's Turn Pages, so I'll try for 2.5k, hopefully more.
607/2,500"
Welcome to the challenge Cassandra!
I think I got everyone if I missed your update please let me know. Mikayla you have your page set up to an author page I would like to update your total pages but I can't get the stats pulled up can you please let me know where you are with pages?
Thanks
I will try for 101 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
2 There Goes the Bride M.C. Beaton
3 Bundle of Trouble Diana Orgain
I would like to join monthly challenge as well. Maybe that will help me to achieve the yearly goal, let's see. My plan is to read 5 books this month.
Completed: 7/5
1 Murder on the Orient Express 4/1/2018
2 Never Let Me Go 8/1/2018
3 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 13/1/2018
4 Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race 17/1/2018
5 The Picture of Dorian Gray 25/1/2018
6 The Joy Luck Club 28/1/2018
7 Carrie 31/1/2018
I will always update this original message :) with my progress
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The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson - 492 pages, 4/5 starsCompleted: 3/10
Final total of pages:
I finished already! I will update at the end of the month to see how many more I got read.1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
3. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
4. Batman and Robin, Volume 2: Pearl by Peter J. Tomasi
5. Batman, Incorporated: The Deluxe Edition by Grant Morrison
6. Batman Incorporated, Volume 2: Gotham's Most Wanted by Grant Morrison
7. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
8. Solar by Ian McEwan
Complete!
9. The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
Martina wrote: "I would like to join monthly challenge as well. Maybe that will help me to achieve the yearly goal, let's see. My plan is to read 5 books this month.
Completed: 2/5
1[book:Murder on the Orient ..."
welcome!
SarahKat wrote: "I finished already! I will update at the end of the month to see how many more I got read.1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray by ..."
*Hands her a water bottle congrats*
Laura wrote: "I just finished book 5/8: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis"updated awesome progress!
Mikayla wrote: "book 4 completed: The Borrower679/2000 pages"<
updated thanks so much for the page count
I go for 35 books and 25.000 pages16/35
5930 p.
*The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings Charlotte Perkins Gilman Pages: 384 p. Date red:1/1/2018
*Identical Ellen Hopkins
Pages: 583 p. day finished: 2/ 1/2018
*RituelenCees Nooteboom
Pages: 223 p. Date read: 2/1/2018
*Onland Arnaldur Indriðason
Pages:256 p. Date read:3/1/2018
*The Death's Head Chess Club John Donoghue Pages: 401 p. Read: 4/1/2018
*Don't Look Back Karin Fossum
Pages: 434 p. Date read: 5/1/2018 Rating: 4 stars
*The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good LifeMark Manson Pages:224 p. Read:6/1/2018
*Munich Robert Harris
Pages: 352 p. Date read:6/1/2018
*Luck, Love & Lemon Pie Amy E. Reichert Pages: 320 p. Date read: 7/1/2018
*De Amerikaanse prinses Annejet van der Zijl Pages: 242 p. Date read:8/1/2017
*Timekeeper Tara Sim
Pages: 414 p. Date read:8/1/2018
*A Pocket Full of RyeAgatha Christie Pages: 227 p. Date read:9/1/2018
*Season of the Snake Claire Davis
Pages: 288 p. Date read:10/1/2018
*The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest PeopleMeik Wiking
Pages:288 p. Date read: 11/1/2018
*Killing CupidMark Edwards
Pages: 369 p. Date read:12/1/2018
*Norse Mythology Neil Gaimanpages:304 p.Pages:304 p. Date reead:12/1/201
*Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston Pages: 256 p.Date read:13/1/2018
*The Magician's NephewC.S. Lewis Pages: 318 p.read: 13/1/2018
*Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders
Pages: 368 p. read:13/1/2018
*Raptor RedRobert T. Bakker
Pages: 256 p. read: 13/11/2018
*Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My LifeCaleb Wilde
Pages: 208 p. read: 14/1/2018
*April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed AmericaMichael Eric Dyson
307 p. Read:14/1/2018
*Death in the CloudsAgatha Christie pages: 240 p. read: 16/1/2018
*The Red House Mark Haddon
Pages: 273 p. read:17/1/2018
*The Chalk Man C.J. Tudor Pages: 288 p. read: 17/1/2018
*De pierClaire DouglasPages:336 p. read: 18/1/2018 Rating: 3 stars
*The First Man in Rome Colleen McCullough Pages:1154 p.read: 18/1/2018
*The Tudor VendettaC.W. Gortner Pages:352 p. Read:19/1/2018
*The Scarlet Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Pages:204 p. read:19/1/2018
9066 p.
Let's go with 10. I've already read a couple this year so far.3. Oathbringer
4. Strange the Dreamer
5. Sleeping Giants
6. Down Among the Sticks and Bones
7. Swept Away
8. Hunted
9. Akarnae
10. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Jaci wrote: "3.
The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson - 492 pages, 4/5 starsCompleted: 3/10
Final total of pages:"
I loved this book!
Amy wrote: "Jaci wrote: "3.
The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson - 492 pages, 4/5 starsCompleted: 3/10
Final total of pages:"
I loved this book!"
Me too! I got the second one right away :)
I updated my post, but noticed I didn’t count my pages for a month, but a quarter. I intended to read 10.000 pages each month, to get to 120.000 en of the year. Can I change it?
Updated mesaage #171Status: 4/7
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