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Find Your Flight - 2020
March update for msg #9: Progress: 35/60
Updated msg 28Just completed a book for my Feminism and Christianity flight - Womanist Midrash by Wilda C. Gafney. I truly appreciate the author's scholarship in this book! It is evident on every page how thorough she was in her interpretation. And I really enjoyed her perspective. I had difficulty with her writing and really struggled through this one. Highly recommend for biblical scholarship! 3 stars
7/12 books, 1/3 flights
Message 18 updated! 11/50 NYC books read!
Message 5 update
19/40 completed
Flight 1: Phrasebook--In Translation
✅A True Novel—Japanese
✅Medea—German
✅A Midsummer's Equation—Japanese
✅ The Aosawa Murders—Japanese
✅Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead—Polish
✅Malice--Japanese
✅The Great Passage—Japanese
✅Borges and The Eternal Orangutans—Portuguese
✅Captain of the Sleepers--Spanish
✅The Brothers Karamazov—Russian
Flight 2: City Guide--London
✅The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
✅The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Flight 3: Connecting Flights—Empire and Immigration
✅A Passage to India
✅They Called Us Enemy
✅The People in the Trees
✅West
Flight 4: Flights of Imagination
✅Eden
✅The Fifth Season
✅Life After Life
19/40 completed
Flight 1: Phrasebook--In Translation
✅A True Novel—Japanese
✅Medea—German
✅A Midsummer's Equation—Japanese
✅ The Aosawa Murders—Japanese
✅Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead—Polish
✅Malice--Japanese
✅The Great Passage—Japanese
✅Borges and The Eternal Orangutans—Portuguese
✅Captain of the Sleepers--Spanish
✅The Brothers Karamazov—Russian
Flight 2: City Guide--London
✅The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
✅The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Flight 3: Connecting Flights—Empire and Immigration
✅A Passage to India
✅They Called Us Enemy
✅The People in the Trees
✅West
Flight 4: Flights of Imagination
✅Eden
✅The Fifth Season
✅Life After Life
So impressed with our flight progress this month! Way to go! Updated to here
Update to message #27.Progress: 12/40 Books | 0/4 Flights
update msg #108 : 1/9I've recently read Hell's Gate by Laurent Gaudé, and I loved it so much that it's going to be the starting point of my fist flight. And what a flight it is to be! Board with me, we're on a flight to Hell!
Update to message #8:20/30 as of March 19
Update msg #35 Completed 1 book, 0 flights
La_mariane wrote: "update msg #108 : 1/9I've recently read Hell's Gate by Laurent Gaudé, and I loved it so much that it's going to be the starting point of my fist flight. And what a..."
Love it!
Message 18 updated! 12/50 NYC books read!
Nathalia's Find Your Flight 2020PROGRESS
BOOKS: 3/14
FLIGHTS: 0/4
FLIGHT 1: Lev Tolstoi 1/4
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FLIGHT 2: CANADÁ 1/6
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FLIGHT 3: Conceição Evaristo 1/3
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FLIGHT 4: PERU 0/4
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Updated to here! Welcome to the challenge, Nathalia!
Update msg #108 : 2/9I'm starting my second flight, the one about the theme "social media". My first book for this flight is #Murdertrending by Gretchen McNeil. I love the cover!
I picked this book because I thought it would be about death penalty, but it's much more about the pitfalls of social media.
I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy! We might not be able to travel, but at least we can go places in our books:)
Update msg #108 ; 3/9I just read
by Louison Nielman for my second flight, the one about the dangers of social medias.
Message 18 updated! 13/50 NYC books read!
Update to message #42FLIGHTS: 5/5
BOOKS: 78/65
Challenge completed! 🎉 (But I'll keep adding books to my flights 😉)
Carmen wrote: "Update to message #42FLIGHTS: 5/5
BOOKS: 78/65
Challenge completed! 🎉 (But I'll keep adding books to my flights 😉)"
Congratulations on being the first to complete the challenge!!!
Updated message #171BOOKS: 3/14
FLIGHTS: 0/4
Megan wrote: "Updated to here! Welcome to our new participants, by Books and peloton and Anu!"Thank you!
Updated message #148Progress: 0/4 flights, 4/14 books
Update mag #108 : 4/9 books, 1/3 flightsI finished Need by Joelle Charbonneau : it's about a terrible social media site. Last book for my flight about social media! All the covers were beautiful.
Message 18 update! 15/50 NYC books read!
April update to msg #9Progress: 46/60
Update to message #42PROGRESS:
91/65 books
5/5 flights✔
Updated msg 14Just completed my Faith and Feminism flight - A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans. Overall, I give this author a lot of credit for tackling this idea. I like some of her ultimate conclusions at the end. I do think she glosses over quite a lot of problems in the bible and sugarcoats issues in the American church. 3.5 stars
2/3 flights, 8/12 books
Update to message #27. Progress: 17/40.
✈️FLIGHT ONE: JOURNEY TO WWII
La_mariane wrote: "Update mag #108 : 4/9 books, 1/3 flightsI finished Need by Joelle Charbonneau : it's about a terrible social media site. Last book for my flight about social medi..."
Congrats on completing your first flight!
Great job, everyone! Welcome to our newest participant, Lisa! Lisa, just let me know what your goal is (how many books and/or how many flights).Hopefully your literary travels are helping you through the current crisis!
Hello! I would like to join the challenge and will be reading 12 books :) Flight 1: City Guide: Delhi
Reading books set in, or about, Delhi
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Flight 2: Aesthetics
Reading books about different kinds of aesthetics: art or cultural
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Flight 3: Philosophy via Youtube
Reading books recommended or cited in the Youtube channel Philosophy Tube (by Oliver Thorn)
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Flight 4: Technology
Books about the effects of technology on us
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Progress: 12/12 books, 4/4 Flights (Completed!)
Message 18 updated! 17/50 NYC books read!
Updated msg 14Just completed another book for Faith and Feminism flight - Untamed by Glennon Doyle. Fantastic! Exactly what I needed to read right now! Her bravery and knowing are an inspiration! Definitely worth reading! 5 stars
9/12 books, 2/3 flights
Updated msg 14Just completed a book for my Asexuality flight - The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater. This is a really important book! It explores non-binary gender, poverty, juvenile justice or the lack thereof, restorative justice, systemic racism, all through the true account of a ride on a bus for two different teens in 2013. I really appreciate the research that went into this account and how it was seamlessly woven into the story. As someone who fights for teens every day and sees the lasting impacts, I highly recommend this book. 5 stars
2/3 flights, 10/12 books
Message 32 UpdatedFlights: 2/3
Books: 26/68
Update to msg #9Progress: 55/60 books, 1/5 flights
Message 18 updated! 18/50 NYC books read!
Update to msg #9Please increase my challenge goal to 75 books across 6 flights.
Thank you, Megan!
Progress: 56/75 books, 2/6 flights
2025 Reading Challenge
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Progress: 0/4 flights, 3/14 books