Phrodrick is moving on up , or am dern sure gonna try

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

I have succeeded in clearing a stack, even if I have to carry over a title. 13 books read to date.
My new challenge begins with one from the old.

14. Pagans and Christians
15. Sentimental Education (Kindle Edition)
16. Between the Woods and the Water (Buddie Read)
17. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
18. U.S. Intervention in Siberia and Northern Russia 1918-1920: The Polar Bear Expedition, Naval Forces in Archangel and Murmansk, Logistics, Siberia Expedition, an Early Operation Other than War
19, The Fat Years: A Novel
20. The Ladies' Paradise
21. Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to MarsRise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
22. Network-Centric Warfare: How Navies Learned to Fight Smarter Through Three World Wars
23. The Carnal Prayer Mat
24. The Antiquary, Part of a large Kindle anthology of Walter Scoot books

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Pagans and Christians is going to be my north face for some time yet.
The good news 14 of 24 are done.The Nan Upstairs is behind me.

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

The Man Upstairs and US Intervention done.
One more is maybe a week away, Pagan is still draggin anchor

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

With Between Woods and Water read, I have 3 done and 2 almost. and two others begun.

14. Pagans and Christians
15. Sentimental Education (Kindle Edition)
19, The Fat Years: A Novel
20. The Ladies' Paradise
21. Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to MarsRise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
22. Network-Centric Warfare: How Navies Learned to Fight Smarter Through Three World Wars
23. The Carnal Prayer Mat
24. The Antiquary, Part of a large Kindle anthology of Walter Scoot books

Kinda helps me to keep things where and as I can see them.

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Sentimental Education now done, on to
The Antiquary

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Finally
HUGE relief
Pagans and Christians is done. Thought it might take so much longer and it feels like tooo long anyway
Counting:
18 read<?>
3 started ( 2 only just)
3 still on the shelf.

[Lindsay]

yay! love the feeling of getting through a big book!

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

P and C was one of the hardest reads I have completed in a long time.
700 pages read like twice that


So thanks for the encouragement and commiseration

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
added to the done deals.
down down to blast off
5 to go

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Carnal Prayer mat is fini, by the end of the weekend I will have the last four underway with two fairly well along.

The Fat Years about 1/2 way
The Antiquary closing on 1/3
just begin
Network-Centric Warfare
and about to begin
The Ladies' Paradise

It looks like the last three are going to be a steep North Face.

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

The Fat years, done
3 left, one about 1/3 done the other two barely started.
Gonna try for a buddyread for The Ladies Paradise

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

The Antiquary
IN the rear view mirror, Two to go
One nicely started one around the 1/3 mark, I think I can see to the top

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Network-Centric Warfare: How Navies Learned to Fight Smarter Through Three World Wars is now Fini.
That leaves four chapters of The Ladies Paradise. And then done for this challenge.
I know I will have more than 6 more books this year, but I think I almost climbed out till next year

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

And so with last pages of The Ladies Paradise I have completed my stated goals and cleared a fair amount of space on my shelves. I still have way too many TBR but only a few I wish to read any time soon. Maybe by next year I will be back in th emood for shelf cleaning and start a new climb.

Not to say I am gonna hold back on reading. At th emo I am pages short of finishing Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made
Just started Pearl Buck's Sons and about 4 chapters into A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert sso well on my way to what might be another challenge, but I will be picking my titles as I go rather than posting a 'contract' against specific titles.

Ya'll have fun and if any on my list look interesting, I thin my last read: The Ladies' Paradise would be my first recomendation

[Bev]

You did it! And more!

[Suzanne]

You did it! Hooray!

[Leslie]

Congrats on reaching the peak!