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message 101: by Rina (new)

Rina (rina_p) | 179 comments Update to message 29:
Progress: 4/10


Octothorpe Reader Leora K (octothorpereaderleorak) Update to p2 message 65
Completed 3/4


message 103: by Carmen (last edited Mar 05, 2019 01:26AM) (new)


message 104: by Nikki (new)

Nikki (nikki_framke) | 276 comments Update to msg. 24

8/4 finished --- Challenge Complete!


message 105: by [deleted user] (last edited Feb 28, 2019 01:46PM) (new)

sorry - it looks like my original post didn't post .

LOOKING BACK AT THE BEST COMPLETED
Duration: January 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019

I'll be using Goodreads Choice Awards nominees for this one.

Aiming for 2 books

1… Into the Water– Paula Hawkins – 17.02.19
Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller (2017)

2…. Here I Am - Jonathan Safran Foer – 21.02.19
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2016)


message 106: by Claire (new)

Claire  (claire6452) | 718 comments Den wrote: "sorry - it looks like my original post didn't post .

LOOKING BACK AT THE BEST COMPLETED
Duration: January 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019

I'll be using Goodreads Choice Awards nominees for this one.

Ai..."


No problem, Den, I've had the same thing happen to me!

One question, you have dates after the titles of your books, and I was wondering if you finished them on those dates?


message 107: by Diane (new)

Diane (diane_g) | 608 comments Update to msg #13. Goal 1/3.

Thank you!


message 108: by Carmen (last edited Mar 05, 2019 01:26AM) (new)


message 109: by Candiss (new)

Candiss (tantara) | 996 comments I updated message #11.

Read: 7/6 (I completed a while back but am still reading some from my list.)


message 110: by Brittany (new)

Brittany | 804 comments updated post 5

1/4


message 111: by Steph (new)

Steph V | 58 comments Update to message #34 - 2/4


message 112: by Janet (new)

Janet (goodreadscomjanetj) | 784 comments Update to message 100
3/5


message 113: by Chalmation (new)

Chalmation | 3724 comments Updated message #21

2/3


message 114: by oshizu (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Update to msg #7

✔️16. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016 Goodreads nominee/History & Bio)
✔️17. Huntress (2018 Lambda Literary Award/Lesbian Mystery)
✔️18. The Plague of Doves (2009 Pulitzer finalist/Fiction)

Progress: 18/15
(Claire, I'll still be reading a few more award-winners this month, but without changing my challenge goal)


message 116: by Susan (last edited Mar 11, 2019 05:17PM) (new)

Susan (jazzescrapper) | 33 comments I want to read books I get from Book of the Month. I have them stacked up. I know I signed up for this challenge and I can't find it anywhere.

1/5
1. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 2/12/19
2. An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks
3. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
4. One Day in December by Josie Silver
5. The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1) by Helen Hoang


message 117: by [deleted user] (new)

Message #23 update

6/12

7. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks 12.03.2019 ★★★★☆


Octothorpe Reader Leora K (octothorpereaderleorak) Update to p2 message 65
Increased goal to 5 book
Completed 4 / 5


message 120: by Chalmation (new)

Chalmation | 3724 comments Updated message #21

3/3
Complete


message 122: by oshizu (last edited Mar 16, 2019 06:26PM) (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Update to msg #7

I know I already informed you that I've finished, but please increase my challenge goal to 21 books.

#20: A Fine Balance (1996 Man Booker shortlist/Fiction)

Progress: 20/21


message 123: by [deleted user] (new)

Message #23 update

7/12

3. Educated by Tara Westover 17.03.2019 ★★★★★


message 124: by oshizu (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Update to msg #7

21. Shadow and Bone (2018 Goodreads nominee/YA Fantasy and SciFi)

Progress: 21/21 done!


message 127: by Elina (new)

Elina Tola (Bookeliina) (elinatola) | 94 comments Update ms 26 - finished 4/4


message 129: by Janet (new)

Janet (goodreadscomjanetj) | 784 comments Update to message 119
4/5 completed. This will do it for me since I will not be able to finish the last book I planned to read in time. Good Challenge.


message 132: by Janine (new)

Janine | 1545 comments Made it to 8/6

7. Kingdom of Ash (winner YA Fantasy)
8. Little Fires Everywhere (finalist Best of Best)


message 133: by Brittany (new)

Brittany Morrison | 421 comments Update to message #10

4/5 completed. I'm going to try to get a last one in this week before the month is over.


message 134: by Steph (new)

Steph V | 58 comments Update to post #34 - 3/4


message 135: by Carmen (last edited Mar 28, 2019 08:53AM) (new)

Carmen | 8125 comments Message #35 updated: 30/30

CHALLENGE COMPLETED!!!

The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5) by J.R. Ward The Bridges Of Madison County by Robert James Waller Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) by Orson Scott Card In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) by Tana French The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Ready Player One by Ernest Cline La casa en Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Fun Home A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison If I Stay (If I Stay, #1) by Gayle Forman The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman El amor en los tiempos del cólera by Gabriel García Márquez Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Tangled (Tangled, #1) by Emma Chase
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1) by Graeme Simsion The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon El jilguero by Donna Tartt Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Four to Score (Stephanie Plum, #4) by Janet Evanovich Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1) by Alan Bradley The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #01) by Alexander McCall Smith

They really look wonderful, once I've read them all, LOL
It's been a pleasure to participate in this magnificient challenge, thanks!


message 136: by Lindsay (new)

Lindsay | 1337 comments Update msg 25

5/3 completed


message 137: by Brittany (new)

Brittany | 804 comments Message 5

I only got 2/4 finished

Was fun picking possible reads though!


message 138: by Rina (new)

Rina (rina_p) | 179 comments Update to message 29:
Progress: 10/10 (Completed)


message 139: by [deleted user] (new)

Message #23 update

12. The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro 31.03.2019 ★★☆☆☆

8/12


message 140: by Megan (new)

Megan | 150 comments Update to message 38:

Fell significantly short of my goal with only 3 of 6 read. The latest/last:

River Thieves by Michael Crummey


message 141: by Diane (new)

Diane (diane_g) | 608 comments Update to message 13... I read 3 of 3. Thank you for leading the challenge Claire!


Octothorpe Reader Leora K (octothorpereaderleorak) Update to p2 message 65
Completed 7/5 Books


message 143: by Steph (new)

Steph V | 58 comments Update to message #34 - 4/4 challenge complete!


message 144: by Claire (new)

Claire  (claire6452) | 718 comments Great job by everyone! Even if you didn't make your goal, there were a lot of really good books read.

I will check back periodically to see if anyone else has updated. I'll be happy to add updates, even if they're late (I'm still going to try to read my last book, if it's ever available at my library. It must be good, because it's always checked out!)


message 145: by Jessica (new)

Jessica R. | 549 comments Message #15 updated. Challenge completed. Sorry, I'm really backlogged on updating the books that I've read over the last couple of weeks :)

LOOKING BACK AT THE BEST
Duration: January 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019


I'll be utilizing Goodreads Choice Awards nominees for this one.

1. Severance by Ling Ma
2. Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson
3. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
4. This Is Me Loving the Person You Are Today by Chrissy Metz
5. I Am, I Am, I Am Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
6. Tell Me More Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say by Kelly Corrigan
7. Heavy An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
8. Brave by Rose McGowan
9. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
10. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
11. Feminasty The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death by Erin Gibson
12. This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
13. The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
14. Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
15. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
16. How to American An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents by Jimmy O. Yang
17. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
18. Not That Bad Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
19. My Life as a Goddess A Memoir through (Un) Popular Culture by Guy Branum
20. The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton

20/20 - COMPLETED!


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