Completed Stage(s)

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Notes to remember

Please note clearly:

1. The # Stage completed
2. Tasks & how book/s fit within the task/s (if unclear)
3. Goal/s
4. Which Stage # to be unlocked next

REMEMBER Each participant can only unlock a maximum of 2 Stages (but not subsequently). That is, you cannot unlock your second stage if you've unlocked the most recent stage (being your first).

If you are claiming 'Off the Shelf' Bonus, please note clearly:

1. Monthly shelves
2. Books & dates read
3. Links to thread/s for which Stage # above books read for
4. Stage # to be unlocked

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Stages (status)

Stage 1: Genre Shelves (Kristina Simon)
Stage 2: (non-genre) Shelves (Sassafrass)
Stage 3: Publication (Susan)
Stage 4: Listopias (Sandy)
Stage 5: Award Winning (Dee)
Stage 6: DIY (Laura)
Stage 7: Friends' Shelves (Sassafrass)
Stage 8: Settings (location) (Sandy)
Stage 9: Settings (time) (Tien: random drawing)
Stage 10: Authors (Nat)
Stage 11: Titles (random drawing)
Stage 12: Own TBR (Nat)
Stage 13: Covers (Laura)
Stage 14: Series (Tien: monthly shelf bonus)
Stage 15: Protagonists (Lusie)

Latest Stage unlocked & by whom:
01/10 - Stage 6 by Laura
01/23 - Stage 4 by Sandy
02/07 - Stage 13 by Laura
03/01 - Stage 2 by Sassafrass
03/21 - Stage 5 by Dee
04/01 - Stage 7 by Sassafrass
04/11 - Stage 8 by Sandy
06/09 - Stage 15 by Lusie
07/05 - Stage 9 by Tien
07/30 - Stage 1 by Kristina Simon
08/09 - Stage 12 by Nat
09/13 - Stage 3 by Susan
09/24 - Stage 10 by Nat

Participants who have unlocked 2 Stages:
Laura
Sandy
Sassafrass

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Stage 1: Genre Shelves

Mary
Nat
Sandy
Susan
Tien

Stage 2: (non-genre) Shelves

Amanda A
Amy
Angela
Ashley
CassieV
Coralie
Dee
Jess
Kristina Simon
Lagullande
Laura
LaurLa
Lusie
Mary
Rosemary
Sandy
Sassafrass
Stacey
Susan
Tien

Stage 3: Publication

Nat


Stage 4: Listopias

Amanda A
Amy
Angela
Ashley
Bea
CassieV
Coralie
Dee
Jen
Jess
Joyce
Kristina Simon
Lagullande
Laura
Lauren
Lusie
Mary
Nat
Rosemary
Sandy
Sassafrass
Susan
Tien

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Stage 5: Award Winning

Kristina Simon
Laura
Mary
Nat
Sandy
Sassafrass
Susan
Tien

Stage 6: DYI

Abbie DiscoSuperFly
Amanda A
Amy
Angela
Bea
CassieV
Christina (AKA Babbling)
Coralie
Dee
Jen
Jess
Joyce
Kristina Simon
Lagullande
Laura
Lauren
LaurLa
Lusie
Mary
Nat
Rosemary
Sandy
Sassafrass
Stacey
Susan
Tien

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Stage 7: Friends' Shelves

Amanda A
Coralie
Dee
Kristina Simon
Laura
Lusie
Mary
Rosemary
Sandy
Sassafrass
Susan
Tien

Stage 8: Settings (location)

Amanda A
Angela
Dee
Joyce
Kristina Simon
Laura
Lusie
Nat
Rosemary
Sandy
Sassafrass
Susan

Stage 9: Settings (time)

Kristina Simon
Sandy
Tien

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Stage 11: Titles

Abbie DiscoSuperFly
Amanda A
Amy
Angela
Ashley
Bea
CassieV
Christina (AKA Babbling)
Coralie
Dee
Jen
Jess
Joyce
Kristina Simon
Lagullande
Laura
Lauren
LaurLa
Lusie
Mary
Nat
Rosemary
Sandy
Sassafrass
Stacey
Susan
Tien

Stage 13: Covers

Abbie DiscoSuperFly
Amanda A
Angela
Ashley
Bea
CassieV
Coralie
Dee
Kristina Simon
Jen
Jess
Joyce
Lagullande
Laura
Lauren
LaurLa
Lusie
Mary
Nat
Rosemary
Sandy
Sassafrass
Stacey
Susan
Tien

Stage 15: Protagonists

Angela
Dee
Kristina Simon
Laura
Lusie
Mary
Nat
Sandy
Sassafrass
Susan
Tien

[Jayme]

reserved

[Tien]

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "reserved"

You don't need to reserve a spot here, Jayme. Reserved spots are only to list participants who have completed Stages :)

[Laura]

Stage 11: Titles
Goal: 1500 pages
OOZ: Picked by someone else
Unlock Stage 6

Color in title
Purple Hibiscus 336 pgs. ✅ 1/1
Brown Girl Dreaming 337 pgs + 33 ooz bonus ✅ 1/8
A Clockwork Orange 212 pgs ✅ 1/6
Spinning Silver 480 + 48 ooz bonus ✅ 1/3
The Red Pony 95 ✅ 1/9

Total 1629/1,629 pages

I've read a lot more than normal lately, but I think I should have perhaps picked a harder goal.

[Tien]

um, I don't know where you got 1,629 total from, Laura, coz I only got 1,541...?

Nevertheless, Congratulations! I've been watching this space thinking someone will crack it in the next few days lol

Stage 6 coming right up!

[Lusie]

Laura, you are fast! Great job on completing the stage already! Congrats!

[Bea]

Wow! It only took 9 days! Congratulations, Laura!

[Dee]

congrats Laura!

[Lauren]

Well done, Laura!

[Tien]

It's been too hot to do anything but curl up in an air conditioned room & read...

Stage 11: Titles
5,569/5,400 pages

1. 1 word title
🗸 215p - Crash (Crash #1) (Jan shelf: sports) -Read 01/07
🗸 517p - O (470 + 10%*) -Read 01/09
🗸 300p - Fantômas (Fantômas, #1) -Read 01/12
🗸 256p - Left: A Love Story -Read 01/14
🗸 320p - Mirage (Mirage #1) -Read 01/14
Sub-total: 1,608p

2. title contains t-i-e-n
🗸 326p - The Face of Deception (Eve Duncan #1) -Read 01/09
🗸 432p - The Invisible Guardian (Trilogía del Baztán #1) -Read 01/10
🗸 304p - The Snack Thief (Commissario Montalbano #3) -Read 01/12
🗸 278p - Athenian Blues (Stratos Gazis #1) -Read 01/12
Sub-total: 1,340p

3. 2 words in title BUT 'The' being first word
🗸 432p - The Mayfly (Charlie Priest #1) -Read 01/05
Sub-total: 432p

4. title with 10 or more letters
🗸 384p - The Dream Daughter -Read 01/02
🗸 313p - The Power Game (The Monsarrat Series, #3) -Read 01/05
🗸 796p - Aroma Karsa (724 + 10%*) -Read 01/07
🗸 328p - The Washerwoman's Dream -Read 01/08
🗸 368p - Rose Under Fire (Code Name Verity #2) -Read 01/11
Sub-total: 2,189p

*Out of Zone bonus

[Sandy]

Tien wrote: "It's been too hot to do anything but curl up in an air conditioned room & read...

Stage 11: Titles
5,569/5,400 pages

1. 1 word title
🗸 215p - Crash (Crash #1) (Jan shelf: sports) ..."

Congrats, Tien! We have the opposite - 7 inches of snow, so yesterday was a great day to curl up and read!

[Lusie]

wow that's a book a day. Awesome start of the year Tien!

[Kristina Simon]

Nice! Congratulations, Tien!!

[Bea]

Congrats, Tien!

[Abbie]

STAGE 11
My Goals

1. 5% is: 5386
2. (5) tasks

1. ( : ) IN TITLE
333-Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time 1/2
336-The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal 1/2
256- Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology 1/3
312-Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold 1/9
417- Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial 1/10
384- Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties 1/12

2. SINGLE WORD TITLES
146- Elevation 1/2
772-Aztec 1/3
265- Broken 1/10

3. FEMININE TITLE
235-The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 1/4

4. ( THE) IN TITLE
246. The Painted Veil 1/6
450-The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories 1/6
208-The Spy 1/8
294- The Gendarme 1/11
1049-The Arabian Nights 1/13

5. MASCULINE TITLE
514- The Beggar King1/7

PAGE TOTAL: 6217

[Lusie]

Congrats Abbie!!

[Kristina Simon]

Well done, Abbie! Congratulations!!

[Sassafrass]

Goal: 4,000 pages
Tasks: Up to 8
OoZ: POC

Read: 4,337/4,000
Off the shelf bonus x 2

Titles that don't start with an article
Hot Stuff (281 pages) 1/1/19
More Than This (287 pages) 1/1/19
Off Limits (224 pages) 1/4/19
Modern Girl's Guide to One-Night Stands (240 pages) 1/4/19
More Than Crave You (287 pages) (Ooz MC Black + 29= 316)
Painted Faces (356 pages) 1/6/19
Pucked Love (278 pages) 1/8/19 Off the shelf bonus +1
Blame It on the Mistletoe (99 pages) 1/13/19
Melting the Ice (332 pages) 1/15/19 Off the shelf bonus +1
New York to Dallas (402 pages) 1/20/19
Red Fox (324 pages) 1/19/19

Titles that have a word that is at 7 or more letters
The Wedding Gift (180 pages) 1/3/18
The Upside of Unrequited (336 pages) 1/9/19

Titles that Start with "The"
The Hating Game (387 pages) 1/6/19
The Vixen and the Vet (295 pages) 1/18/18

[Rosemary]

Stage 11 - Titles - Complete!
Goals: 2500 pages
1001 list books (bonus of extra 10% of the book's pages if it qualifies)

Books read = 7
Pages read = 2577

Stage 11 tasks:

1. 2 words in title BUT 'The' being first word
The Colour by Rose Tremain, finished 16 Jan 19, 366 pages

2. Has word in title with at least 6 letters
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, finished 3 Jan 19, 320 pages
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, 10 Jan 19, 537 pages
The Circadian Code by Satchin Panda, finished 14 Jan 19, 304 pages
Contact by Carl Sagan, finished 17 Jan 19, 450 pages + 10% bonus for 1001 list book 45 pages = 495

3. Name in title
Richard II by William Shakespeare, 15 Jan 19, 168 pages

4. I, Me, My or Mine in title
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney, finished 19 Jan 19, 387 pages

[Abbie]

Thanks!

[Bea]

Congrats, Abbie, Rosemary and Sassafrass

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: " STAGE 11
My Goals

1. 5% is: 5386
2. (5) tasks"

Congrats, Abbie

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Sassafrass wrote: "Goal: 4,000 pages
Tasks: Up to 8
OoZ: POC

Read: 4,337/4,000
Off the shelf bonus x 2"

WTG, Sassafrass!

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Rosemary wrote: "Stage 11 - Titles - Complete!
Goals: 2500 pages
1001 list books (bonus of extra 10% of the book's pages if it qualifies)

Books read = 7
Pages read = 2577"

Good job, Rosemary!

[Lusie]

Congrats, Rosemary and Sassafrass

[Lusie]

Lusie's Stage 11: Titles

Goal: 5% - 3975 pages: Up to 8 tasks
Out of zone goal: Science Fiction

✅ Total read: 4087 pages
Off the shelf bonus x1

1. Has word in title with at least 6 letters
☑ 250p Beautiful Broken Girl [3-jan-2019] ★★
☑ 485p The Clockmaker's Daughter [11-jan-2018] ★★★★
☑ 288p The Dating Alternative [15-jan-2018] ★★★

2. Title Waterfalls - String of books with increasing number of words in title
☑ 528p Relic (480 + 10%*) [14-jan-2018] ★★★
☑ 320p Buried Secrets [20-jan-19] ★★★
☑ 371p Born in Shame [7-jan-2019] ★★★★
☑ 417p Up in the Treehouse [16-jan-2018] ★★★
☑ 442p If You're Not The One [6-jan-2019] ★★★
☑ 416p We Shall See the Sky Sparkling [21-jan-2019] ★★★

3. One word title
☑ 570p Kulti [13-jan-2019] ★★★★ --> 2019-01 - Sports = Monthly shelves bonus

* Out of Zone Bonus

[Bea]

Nice finish, Lusie!

[Sandy]

Congrats to all the Stage 11 finishers!

[Kristina Simon]

Well done, Lusie, Rosemary, and Sassafrass!!

[Lusie]

Thank you!!

[Sassafrass]

Nice play with the Mariana Zapata slow burn. It got you some nice pages racked up, Lusie! LOL

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Lusie wrote: "Lusie's Stage 11: Titles

Goal: 5% - 3975 pages: Up to 8 tasks
Out of zone goal: Science Fiction

✅ Total read: 4087 pages"

Congrats, Lusie!

[Lusie]

Thanks Sassafrass lol yes I had to fit it in somewhere so that book got it's own task ;)

Thank you!

[Sandy]

Stage 6 - DIY
COMPLETED!
Goal 5% - 4,456 pages.
up to 8 tasks
Out of Zone goal: books I own as of 12/19 and have not read before.
Pages read 4490/4456

Based on a random die roll, I'll unlock stage 4

1. Deceased author
The Chrysalids - 1/12/19 - 200 pages (John Wyndham, d. 1969)
Out of the Silent Planet - 1/20/19 - 224 pages. C.S. Lewis, d. 1963).

2. Books with 6 word title
The Good Luck of Right Now - 1/13/19 - 304 pages
Do Not Say We Have Nothing - 1/14/19 - 474 pages.

3. Main character is detective/police officer
A Shot in the Dark - 1/13/19 - 304 pages
The House of Silk - 1/16/19 - 294 pages
The Golden Egg - 1/17/19 - 276 +10% = 304
Long Road to Mercy - 1/22/19 - 404 pages
Blue Light Yokohama - 1/22/19 - 416 pages + 10% OOZ = 458.

4. Books I received from Netgalley
The Stranger Diaries - 1/15/19 - 416 + 10% OOZ = 458 pages.
The Moroccan Girl - 1/19/19 - 368 + 10% OOZ = 405 pages.

5. Books set in Africa
Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation - 1/18/19 - 288 pages
A Beautiful Place To Die - 1/21/19 - 373 pages.

[Kristina Simon]

Nice! Great job, Sandy!!

[Dee]

congrats Sandy!

[Tien]

omg at this rate, we'll finish this challenge in 6 months' time!

I haven't time right now but I'll be back in a few hours!

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Sandy wrote: "Stage 6 - DIY
COMPLETED!
Goal 5% - 4,456 pages.
up to 8 tasks
Out of Zone goal: books I own as of 12/19 and have not read before.
Pages read 4490/4456

Based on a random die roll, I'll unlock stage..."

Congrats, Sandy!!

Stage 4 (Listopias) is unlocked

[Lusie]

Congrats Sandy!

[Angela]

Stage 11 - Titles - Finished!
Goal - 3,500 pages
**OotZ Goal - MPG Classics

Started - 1/1/19
Finished - 1/23/19
Classics read - 1

Pages Read: 3,982/3,500

Task: Title Waterfalls
String of 5 books with increasing number of words in title

Waterfall #1
1 Word Title - Moonraker - 1/11/19 - 259pgs
2 Word Title - Flower Net - 1/4/19 - 352pgs
3 Word Title - The Killing Room - 1/8/19 - 400pgs
4 Word Title - All My Puny Sorrows - 1/4/19 - 321pgs
5 Word Title - The Forty Rules of Love - 1/10/19 - 354pgs

Waterfall #2
1 Word Title - F - 1/14/19 - 272pgs
2 Word Title - Dune Messiah - 1/8/19 - 331pgs
3 Word Title - **Our Mutual Friend - 1/13/19 - 880pgs + 10% = 968pgs
4 Word Title - Live and Let Die - 1/3/19 - 229pgs
5 Word Title - A Season for the Dead - 1/23/19 - 496pgs

[Lusie]

Awesome, Angela! Congrats!

[Bea]

Wow, Angela! I like your tasks!

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Angela wrote: "Stage 11 - Titles - Finished!
Goal - 3,500 pages
**OotZ Goal - MPG Classics

Started - 1/1/19
Finished - 1/23/19
Classics read - 1

Pages Read: 3,982/3,500"

Congrats, Angela!

[Laura]

Stage 6 DIY - Finished!

Goal 1500 pages
Ootz goal: books suggested/picked by friends

Task 1: Taboo! I'm going to read books that contain topics that people don't like to talk about.

Us Against You 448pg ✔ 1/13
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture 368pg ✔ 1/15
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design 340pg ✔ 1/21
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition 480 pgs ✔ 1/25

1636 total

No ooz bonus. I don't understand why, but as soon as someone tells me to read a book, it instantly falls to the bottom of my to read list. I'll try on stage 4.

[Sassafrass]

Wow, great job everyone!!