Eileen's 2020 Reading Challenges

[Eileen]

July's I Scream You Scream Challenge

a. Coffee - Read a book with an ice cream or coffee on the cover
b. Strawberry - Read a book where a character goes out for ice cream or eats berries
✔ c. Vegan Banana and Apricot - Read a book with the letters of 'ice cream' in the title, series title and authors name
thE spy who CAME In fRom the Cold

✔ d. Neapolitan - Read a book with the pink, white and brown on the cover


✔ e. Chocolate - Read a book with ice or something cold on the cover.
both the title and the frost

✔ f. Mint Ice Cream with KitKat and Pretzels - Read a book with 'mint', 'ice' or 'cream' in the text
One of the stories told by Percy has the characters eating mint

[Eileen]

July's Monthly Challenge

July Monthly Challenge

How to participate:
For this challenge, choose a level you want to read at. Read one book from each task if completing Cafe Latte or Flat White. If aiming for Double Espresso, you may read multiple books for each task.

Duration:
Start - 1st July 2020
Finish - 31st July 2020

Levels:
Cafe Latte - 1 to 5 books
Flat White - 6 to 10 books
Double Espresso - 11 books or more

Tasks
✔💥 2nd July: I Forgot Day.
Read a book where a character forgets something important.
this happens in one of the stories

✔💥 4th July: Independence Day. A federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence of the United States, on July 4, 1776.
Read a book on this day.


✔💥 6th July: International Kissing Day.
Read a book where a character kisses someone.
Matt and Lovey kiss.

✔💥 11th July: World Population Day. Established by the United Nations to which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues.
Read a book where a population is criticized or analyzed. Or these issues are discussed: family planning, gender quality, poverty, maternal health or human rights.


✔💥 14th July: World Pandemonium Day.
Read a book with chaos and/or disorder in it.


✔💥 14th July: Bastille Day. The French National Day is the anniversary of Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, a turning point of the French Revolution
Read a book where France and the French are celebrated on some level. For example: a character is French, speaks French, lives in France, went to France, eats something French or the author is French or was born in France. Make a note as to how your book celebrates France and/or the French.
Piper Speaks French because she is the daughter of Aphrodite

💥 17th July: World Emoji Day.
Read a book with emoji's on the cover or where a character uses them in a message they send.

💥22nd July: Pi Approximation Day.
Read a book with 3.15 in the publication date or page numbers or with a pie on the cover.
The Boy Who Carried Bricks: A True Story Published March 2015

✔ 💥 29 July: International Tiger Day.
Read a book with or about a tiger or with the letters of tiger in the title.
The GIRl and thE Stars

✔ 💥 30th June: International Day of Friendship.
Read a book where someone has a best friend or friendship is valued in the book.
This book emphasizes friendships/family.

Bonus!
✔💥 19th July: Ice Cream Day. The unofficial holiday celebrates everyone’s favourite sweet treat.
Choose a task from the Ice Cream challenge and read for it!
e. Chocolate - Read a book with ice or something cold on the cover.
The title has the word "cold" in it and there is also frost around him. Dresden is the Winter Knight in this book

[Eileen]

Mt TBR, part 3:

Read 50 books that you had in your database before 2020
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Level 1 Base Camp
1. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row d/l 4/12/19, read 6/20
2. All American Boys d/l 10/13/18, read 6/20
3. They Both Die at the End d/l 11/29/18, read 6/20
4. Hatchet d/l 7/27/19, read 6/20
5. Heavy: An American Memoir d/l 6/12/19, read 6/20

Level 2 Start The Climb
6. The Curse of Tenth Grave d/l 8/19/18, read 6/20
7. Eleventh Grave in Moonlight d/l 8/19/18, read 6/20
8. The Trouble with Twelfth Grave d/l 1/5/19, read 6/20
9. Summoned to Thirteenth Grave d/l 3/13/19, read 6/20
10. Ghost d/l 10/21/18, read 7/20
11. Patina d/l 10/19/18, read 7/20
12. Sunny d/l 10/19/18, read 7/20
13. Lu d/l 12/5/18, read 7/20
14. The Magic Misfits d/l 8/30/17, read 7/19
15. The Second Storyd/l 7/25/18, read 7/10

Level 3 Going Higher
16. The Minor Third added 7/25/18, read 7/11
17. The Secret of Nightingale Wood d/l 3/19/18, read 7/12
18. Changes d/l 3/9/18, read 7/17
19. Side Jobs d/l 3/9/18, read 7/18
20. Ghost Story d/l 3/9/18, read 7/19
21. Cold Days d/l 3/9/18, read 7/20-21
22. Brief Cases d/l 10/18/18, read 7/21-22
23. Skin Game d/l 3/9/18, read 7/22-23
24. Percy Jackson's Greek Gods d/l 12/1/17, read 7/24
25. The Lost Hero d/l 12/1/17, read 7/24-25
26. The Son of Neptune d/l 12/1/17, read 7/26
27. The Mark of Athena d/l 12/1/17, read 7/26-27
28. The House of Hades d/l 12/1/17, read 7/28-29
29. The Blood of Olympus d/l 12/1/17, read 7/30-31

Level 4 Reach The Summit
31.


Plant your flag, you made it to the top!

[Eileen]

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History:
July: 42 books, 12,963 pp
August: 48 books, 14,758 pp
September: 30 books, 10416 pp
October: 25 books, 9499 pp
November: 26 books, 8864 pp
December: 43 books, 12794 pp
January: 51 books, 14,713 pp
February: 37 books, 11918 pp
March: 32 books, 14,810 pp
April:50 books, 16,207 pp
May: 56 books, 18,374 pp
June: 53 books, 15617 pp
July: 42 books, 16913 pp

Starting my August reads!
Goal: 12000 pages. 33 books

TBR (will likely change and morph, as usual):


Aug 1:
Leviathan Wakes, pp 1-500 = 500 pp
🌻daily tally: 500 pp

Aug 2-3:
Leviathan Wakes, pp 500-579 = 79 pp ✔
The Butcher of Anderson Station, pp 1-40 = 40 pp ✔
Friday Black, pp 1-211 = 211 pp ✔
Caliban's War, pp 1-611 = 611 pp ✔
Traitor: A Novel of World War II, pp 1-37 = 37 pp
🌻daily tally: 978 pp

Aug 4:
Gods of Risk, pp 1-75 = 75 pp ✔
The River, pp 1-160 = 160 pp ✔
Brian's Winter, pp 1-144 = 144 pp ✔
Traitor: A Novel of World War II, pp 37-114 = 77 pp
🌻daily tally: 456 pp

Aug 5:
Drive, pp 1-30 = 30 pp ✔
Abaddon's Gate, pp 1-509 = 509 pp
🌻daily tally: 539 pp

Aug 6:
Abaddon's Gate, pp 509-566 = 57 pp ✔
Boy's Life, pp 1-250 = 250 pp
Traitor: A Novel of World War II, pp 114-162 = 48 pp
🌻daily tally: 355 pp

Aug 7:
Boy's Life, pp 250-625 = 475 pp ✔
The Churn, pp 1-112 = 112 pp ✔
Traitor: A Novel of World War II, pp 162-184 = 22 pp
🌻daily tally: 609 pp

Aug 8:
2001: A Space Odyssey, pp 1-297 = 297 pp ✔
Traitor: A Novel of World War II, pp 184-368 = 184 pp ✔
🌻daily tally: 481 pp

Aug 9:
Dragon Pearl, pp 1-320 = 320 pp ✔
Cemetery Boys, pp 1-218 = 218 pp
🌻daily tally: 538 pp

Aug 10:
Cibola Burn, pp 1-500 = 500 pp
🌻daily tally: 500 PP

Aug 11:
Cibola Burn, pp 500-624 = 124 pp ✔
Cemetery Boys, pp 218-352 = 134 pp ✔
Occupation, pp 1-227 = 227 pp
The Mostly Invisible Boy, pp 1-29 = 29 pp
🌻daily tally: 514 pp

Aug 12:
The Mostly Invisible Boy, pp 29-292 = 263 pp ✔
Occupation, pp 227-319 = 92 pp ✔
Nemesis Games, pp 1-173 = 173 pp
🌻daily tally: 528 pp

Aug 13:
Nemesis Games, pp 173-576 = 403 pp ✔
Tune It Out, pp 1-107 = 107 pp
🌻daily tally: 510 pp

Aug 14:
Babylon's Ashes, pp 1-544 = 544 pp ✔
🌻daily tally: 544 pp

Aug 15-16:
The Book of Koli, pp 1-418 = 418 pp ✔
The Alice Network, pp 1-528 = 528 pp ✔
Tune It Out, pp 107-288 = 181 pp ✔
🌻daily tally: 1127 pp

Aug 17-18:
The Huntress, pp 1-560 = 560 pp ✔
Half Brother, pp 1-160 = 160 pp
🌻daily tally: 720 pp

Aug 19:
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, pp 1-224 = 224 pp ✔
Half Brother, pp 160-387 = 227 pp ✔
🌻daily tally: 451 pp

Aug 20:
The Other Side, pp 1-32 = 32 pp ✔
Talking to Dragons, 1-272 = 272 pp ✔
Mirage, pp 1-160 = 160 pp
Snatch 2&20: A Satirical Romp through the Wall Street Swamp, pp 1-46 = 46 pp
🌻daily tally: 510 pp

Aug 21:
Bunnicula Strikes Again!, pp 1-144 = 144 pp ✔
Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow, pp 1-170 = 170 pp ✔
Mirage, pp 160-320 = 160 pp ✔
Snatch 2&20: A Satirical Romp through the Wall Street Swamp, pp 46-233 =187 pp ✔
Magician: Apprentice, pp 1-89 = 89 pp
🌻daily tally: 750 pp

Aug 22:
Magician: Apprentice, pp 89-512 = 423 pp ✔
🌻daily tally: 423 pp

Aug 23:
Magician: Master, pp 1-527 = 527 pp ✔
The Vital Abyss, pp 1-75 = 75 pp ✔
🌻daily tally: 602 pp

Aug 24-25:
Silverthorn, pp 1-432 = 432 pp ✔
A Darkness At Sethanon, pp 1-527 = 527 pp ✔
Fable, pp 1-75 = 75 pp
🌻daily tally: 1034 pp

Aug 26:
Strange Dogs, pp 1-112 = 112 pp ✔
Fable, pp 75-184 = 109 pp
🌻daily tally: 221 pp

Aug 27:
Fable, pp 184-368 = 184 pp ✔
The Prisoner of Limnos, pp 1-256 = 256 pp ✔
The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux, pp 1-42 = 42 pp
The Joy Luck Club, pp 148-159 = 11 pp
🌻daily tally: 493 pp

Aug 28:
The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux, pp 42-352 = 310 pp ✔
The Joy Luck Club, pp 159-354 = 195 pp ✔
Elantris, pp 1-100 = 100 pp
🌻daily tally: 605 pp

Aug 29-30:
Elantris, pp 100-672 = 572 pp ✔
Anxious People, pp 1-70 = 70 pp
The Dutch House, pp 1-116 = 116 pp
🌻daily tally: 758 pp

Aug 31:
The Dutch House, pp 116-352 = 236 pp ✔
Anxious People, pp 70-176 = 106 pp
🌻daily tally: 342 pp

Total Pages Read: 15088 pp
Books Finished: 44
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Culture, Social Justice/Racial Issues:


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History:
July: 42 books, 12,963 pp
August: 48 books, 14,758 pp
September: 30 books, 10416 pp
October: 25 books, 9499 pp
November: 26 books, 8864 pp
December: 43 books, 12794 pp
January: 51 books, 14,713 pp
February: 37 books, 11918 pp
March: 32 books, 14,810 pp
April:50 books, 16,207 pp
May: 56 books, 18,374 pp
June: 53 books, 15617 pp
July: 42 books, 16913 pp
August: 44 books, 15088 pp

Starting my August reads!
Goal: 12000 pages. 30 books

TBR (will likely change and morph, as usual):


Sept 1:
Anxious People, pp 176-236 = 60 pp
Someone Knows My Name, pp 1-270 = 270 pp
🌻daily tally: 330 pp

Sept 2:
Someone Knows My Name, pp 270-502 = 232 pp ✔
Anxious People, pp 236-352 = 116 pp ✔
Mexican Gothic, pp 1-112 = 112 pp
🌻daily tally: 460 pp

Sept 3:
Mexican Gothic, pp 112-336 = 224 pp ✔
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir, pp 1-178 = 178 pp
🌻daily tally: 402 pp

Sept 4:
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir, pp 178-592 = 414 pp ✔
🌻daily tally: 414 pp

Sept 5:
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Sneak Peek, pp 1-132 = 132 pp ✔
The Jane Austen Society, pp 1-320 = 320 pp ✔
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, pp 132-238 = 106 pp
🌻daily tally: 558 pp

Sept 6:
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, pp 1-320 = 320 pp ✔
Everything My Mother Taught Me, pp 1-24 = 24 pp ✔
The Pale-Faced Lie, pp 1-157 = 157 pp
🌻daily tally: 501 pp

Sept 7:
The Pale-Faced Lie, pp 157-352 = 195 pp ✔
The Things We Cannot Say, pp 1-334 = 334 pp ✔
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, pp 238-273 = 35 pp
🌻daily tally: 564 pp

Sept 8:
The Things We Cannot Say, pp 334-448 = 114 pp ✔
The World That We Knew, pp 1-384 = 384 pp ✔
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, pp 273-352 = 79 pp
🌻daily tally: 577 pp

Sept 9:
The Secret Letter, pp 1-424 = 424 pp ✔
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, pp 352-396 = 44 pp
The Bone Shard Daughter, pp 1-45 = 45 pp
🌻daily tally: 513 pp

Sept 10:
Truths I Never Told You, pp 1-352 = 352 pp ✔
Cutting for Stone, pp 1-125 = 125 pp
🌻daily tally: 477 pp

Sept 11:
Kenny & the Dragon, pp 1-151 = 151 pp ✔
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, pp 396-440 = 44 pp
The Bone Shard Daughter, pp 45-85 = 40 pp
Cutting for Stone, pp 125-302 = 177 pp
🌻daily tally: 412 pp

Sept 12:
Cutting for Stone, pp 302-672 = 370 pp ✔
Kenny & the Book of Beasts, pp 1-224 = 224 pp ✔
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, pp 440-493 = 53 pp
The Bone Shard Daughter, pp 85-148 = 63 pp
🌻daily tally: 710 pp

Sept 13-14:
Donor 9623, pp 1-125 = 125 pp ✔
Sheryl Crow: Words + Music, ~100 pp ✔
Half Light, pp 1-100 = 100 pp ✔
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown, pp 1-336 = 336 pp ✔
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, pp 493-519 = 26 pp
The Bone Shard Daughter, pp 148-246 = 98 pp
🌻daily tally: 785 pp

Sept 15:
The Bone Shard Daughter, pp 246-448 = 202 pp ✔
The Space Between Worlds, pp 1-192 = 192 pp
🌻daily tally: 394 pp

Sept 16-17:
The Space Between Worlds, pp 192-336 = 144 pp ✔
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, pp 519-880 = 361 pp ✔
Your Own Kind of Girl, pp 1-95 = 95 pp
🌻daily tally: 600 pp

Sept 18-19:
Your Own Kind of Girl, pp 92-324 = 232 pp ✔
The Vanishing Half, pp 1-350 = 350 pp ✔
Beyond the Deep, pp 1-249 = 249 pp ✔
The Trials of Koli, pp 1-50 = 50 pp
Jerry the Squirrel, pp 1-14 = 14 pp
🌻daily tally: 895 pp

Sept 20:
Transcendent Kingdom, pp 1-288 = 288 pp ✔
The Trials of Koli, pp 50-174 = 124 pp
Jerry the Squirrel, pp 14-63 = 49 pp
🌻daily tally: 431 pp

Sept 21:
The Trials of Koli, pp 174-496 = 322 pp ✔
For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World, pp 1-40 = 40 pp ✔
Jerry the Squirrel, pp 63-237 = 174 pp ✔
Invisible Man, pp 1-64 = 64 pp
🌻daily tally: 600 pp

Sept 22:
Invisible Man, pp 64-610 = 546 pp ✔
🌻daily tally: 546 pp

Sept 23:
The Silvered Serpents, pp 1-416 = 416 pp ✔
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, pp 1-35 = 35 pp
🌻daily tally: 451 pp

Sept 24-25:
The Case of the Missing Marquess, pp 1-236 = 236 pp ✔
The Case of the Left-Handed Lady, pp 1-252 = 252 pp ✔
All This Time, pp 1-336 = 336 pp ✔
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, pp 35-244 = 209 pp
🌻daily tally: 1033 pp

Sept 26:
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, pp 244-640 = 396 pp ✔
The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets, pp 1-188 = 188 pp ✔
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change, pp 1-12 = 12 pp
🌻daily tally: 596 pp

Sept 27-28:
The Power of One, pp 1-640 = 640 pp ✔
The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan, pp 1-204 = 204 pp ✔
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline, pp 1-188 = 188 pp ✔
🌻daily tally: 1032 pp

Sept 29:
Peace Talks, pp 1-352 = 352 pp ✔
Battle Ground, pp 1-173 = 173 pp
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change, pp 12-24 = 12 pp
🌻daily tally: 537 pp

Sept 30:
Battle Ground, pp 173-432 = 259 pp ✔
The Case of the Gypsy Good-Bye, pp 1-177 = 177 pp ✔
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change, pp 24-51 = 27 pp
🌻daily tally: 463 pp

Total Pages Read: 14281 pp
Books Finished: 43
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[Eileen]

September Monthly Challenge

How to participate:
For this challenge, choose a level you want to read at. Read one book from each task if completing Cafe Latte or Flat White. If aiming for Double Espresso, you may read multiple books for each task.

Duration:
Start - 1st September 2020
Finish - 30th September 2020

Levels:
Cafe Latte - 1 to 5 books
Flat White - 6 to 10 books
Double Espresso - 11 books or more

Tasks
✔ 🌳 1st September: Random Acts of Kindness Day. Read a book where a character does something kind for or to a stranger.
read 9/1-9/2
There are scenes where neighbors (those with the least resources) help each other out.

🌳 5th September: Be Late for Something Day.
Read a book where a character is late.

✔🌳 11th September: Make Your Bed Day.
Read a book on your bed or where a character makes a bed.
I read this on my bed

✔🌳 13th September: RUOK? Day. Depression awareness and suicide prevention (Australia). Read a book with depression as a topic or suicide is mentioned. Or where a character asks, "Are you okay?".
read 9/1-9/2
Suicide is one of the topics mentioned in this book about human nature and community

🌳 16th September: Guacamole Day. The unofficial holiday celebrates the delicious Mexican side-dish or dip made of avocados.
Read a book where a character eats avocados, guacamole or a food that you can put guacamole in (tacos, nachos).

✔🌳 22nd September: Hobbit Day.
Read a book with a hobbit or halfling, or with a book published in September of any year.
This book was published 9/15/20

✔🌳 24th September: Heritage Day. On this day, South Africans are encouraged to celebrate their culture and the diversity of their beliefs and traditions, in the wider context of a nation that belongs to all its people.
Read a book set in South Africa or where the author is South African.
Read 9/27-28. This book is written by a South African author who grew up in South Africa but was exiled to Australia. The setting is in South Africa.

✔🌳 26th September: European Day of Languages.
Read a book where a character speaks a language from Europe or is from a country in Europe (excluding the UK).

This takes place in Poland and America and they speak Polish (and German)

✔🌳 28th September: Ask a Stupid Question Day.
Read a book where a 'stupid' question is asked.
Read 9/20-21
This book is full of stupid questions, lol. Poor Jerry and Liam!

✔🌳 28th September: Good Neighbor Day
Read a book where the character converses with their neighbor.
Read 9/6-9/7
They talk to their neighbors in this book--not amicably, but hey, it's a conversation!

Bonus!
✔🌳 6th September: Read a Book Day.
Read a book today!
read 9/6
I read this book today

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History:
July: 42 books, 12,963 pp
August: 48 books, 14,758 pp
September: 30 books, 10416 pp
October: 25 books, 9499 pp
November: 26 books, 8864 pp
December: 43 books, 12794 pp
January: 51 books, 14,713 pp
February: 37 books, 11918 pp
March: 32 books, 14,810 pp
April:50 books, 16,207 pp
May: 56 books, 18,374 pp
June: 53 books, 15617 pp
July: 42 books, 16913 pp
August: 44 books, 15088 pp
September: 43, 14281 pp

Starting my October reads!
Goal: 9000 pages. 25 books

TBR (will likely change and morph, as usual):

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October 1-2:
Mystic River, pp 1-496 = 496 pp ✔
Vigilance, pp 1-208 = 208 pp ✔
Horrorstör, pp 1-46 = 46 pp
🍂daily tally: 750

October 3:
Horrorstör, pp 46-248 = 202 pp ✔
Watchers, pp 1-250 = 250 pp
🍂daily tally: 452 pp

October 4:
Watchers, pp 250-624 = 374 pp ✔
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law, pp 1-289 = 289 pp ✔
🍂daily tally: 663 pp

October 5:
Nothing More Dangerous, pp 1-352 = 352 pp ✔
🍂daily tally: 352 pp

October 6:
The Art of Theft, pp 1-352 = 352 pp ✔
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change, pp 51-64 = 13 pp
🍂daily tally: 365 pp

October 7:
In a Dark, Dark Wood, pp 1-354 = 354 pp ✔
🍂daily tally: 354 pp

October 8-9:
An Easy Death, pp 1-336 = 336 pp ✔
My Own Words, pp 1-100 = 100 pp
30 Red Dresses, pp 1-16 = 16 pp
The Inferno: The Longfellow Translation, pp 1-76 = 76 pp
🍂daily tally: 528 pp

October 10:
30 Red Dresses, pp 16-30 = 14 pp
Murder on Cold Street, pp 1-300 = 300 pp
My Own Words, pp 100-275 = 175 pp
The Inferno: The Longfellow Translation, pp 76-91 = 15 pp
🍂daily tally: 504 pp

October 11:
Murder on Cold Street, pp 300-352 = 52 pp ✔
My Own Words, pp 275-401 = 126 pp ✔
30 Red Dresses, pp 30-150 = 120 pp ✔
Speaks the Nightbird, pp 1-141 = 141 pp
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change, pp 64-86 = 22 pp
🍂daily tally: 461 pp

October 12:
The Inferno: The Longfellow Translation, pp 91-302 = 211 pp ✔
Speaks the Nightbird, pp 141-272 = 131 pp
Broken Wish, pp 1-64 = 64 pp
🍂daily tally: 406 pp

October 13:
Speaks the Nightbird, pp 272-670 = 398 pp
Broken Wish, pp 64-80 = 16 pp
🍂daily tally: 414 pp

October 14:
Speaks the Nightbird, pp 670-816 = 146 pp ✔
Broken Wish, pp 80-320 = 240 pp ✔
🍂daily tally: 386 pp

October 15-16:
The Troupe, pp 1-512 pp ✔
The One Man, pp 1-125 = 125 pp
The Blind Light: A Novel, pp 1-16
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change, pp 86-98 = 12 pp
🍂daily tally: 665 pp

October 17:
The One Man, pp 125-470 = 345 pp ✔
Strangers on a Train, pp 1-175 = 175 pp
🍂daily tally: 520 pp

October 18:
Strangers on a Train, pp 175-292 = 117 pp ✔
Wilder Girls, pp 1-357 = 357 pp ✔
Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America, pp 1-112 = 112 pp
The Blind Light: A Novel, pp 16-38 = 22 pp
🍂daily tally: 608

October 19:
Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America, pp 112-224 = 112 pp ✔
Ring Shout, pp 1-192 = 192 pp ✔
Night Night, Norman, pp 1-36 = 36 pp ✔
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, pp 1-58 = 58 pp
The Blind Light: A Novel, pp 38-60 = 22 pp
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change, pp 98-115 = 17 pp
🍂daily tally: 437 pp

October 20:
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, pp 58-240 = 182 pp ✔
Leave the World Behind, pp 1-256 = 256 pp ✔
The Blind Light: A Novel, pp 60-95 = 35 pp
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change, pp 115-133 = 18 pp
🍂daily tally: 491 pp

October 21-22:
The Wheel of Darkness, pp 1-513 = 513 pp ✔
Cemetery Dance, pp 1-256 = 256 pp
🍂daily tally: 769 pp

October 23:
Cemetery Dance, pp 256-513 = 257 pp ✔
Furia, pp 1-368 = 368 pp ✔
🍂daily tally: 625 pp

October 24:
This Savage Song, pp 1-469 = 469 pp ✔
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, pp 1-100 = 100 pp
NIGHTSHATTER: A Werewolf Thriller, pp 1-67 = 67 pp
🍂daily tally: 636 pp

October 25:
Our Dark Duet, pp 1-533 = 533 pp ✔
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, pp 100-205 = 105 pp
NIGHTSHATTER: A Werewolf Thriller, pp 67-96 = 29 pp
🍂daily tally: 667 pp

October 27:
Button Man, pp 1-371 = 371 pp ✔
NIGHTSHATTER: A Werewolf Thriller, pp 96-233 = 137 pp
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, pp 205-257 = 52 pp
🍂daily tally: 560

October 28-30:
NIGHTSHATTER: A Werewolf Thriller, pp. 233-354 = 121 pp ✔
Before She Was Helen, pp 1-336 = 336 pp ✔
Home Before Dark, pp 1-416 = 416 pp ✔
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, pp 257-410 = 153 pp ✔
Instant Karma, pp 1-52 = 52 pp
🍂daily tally: 1078 pp

October 31:
And Now She's Gone, pp 1-384 = 384 pp ✔
🍂daily tally: 384 pp

Total Pages Read: 11997 pp
Books Finished: 35
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History:
July: 42 books, 12,963 pp
August: 48 books, 14,758 pp
September: 30 books, 10416 pp
October: 25 books, 9499 pp
November: 26 books, 8864 pp
December: 43 books, 12794 pp
January: 51 books, 14,713 pp
February: 37 books, 11918 pp
March: 32 books, 14,810 pp
April:50 books, 16,207 pp
May: 56 books, 18,374 pp
June: 53 books, 15617 pp
July: 42 books, 16913 pp
August: 44 books, 15088 pp
September: 43, 14281 pp
October: 35, 11997 pp

Starting my November reads!
Goal: 7500 pages. 25 books

TBR (will likely change and morph, as usual):

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November 1:
The Call of the Wild, pp 1-172 = 172 pp ✔
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, pp 1-350 = 350 pp ✔
🍂daily tally: 522 pp

November 2:
The Return of the Native, pp 1-248 = 248 pp
Instant Karma, pp 52-120 = 68 pp
🍂daily tally: 316 pp

November 3-4:
The Return of the Native, pp 248-496 = 248 pp ✔
Instant Karma, pp 120-400 = 280 pp ✔
The Queen's Gambit, pp 1-107 = 107 pp
🍂daily tally: 635 pp

November 5:
Real Friends, pp 1-224 = 224 pp ✔
The Queen's Gambit, pp 107-267 = 160 pp ✔
Death Comes for the Archbishop, pp 1-100 = 100 pp
🍂daily tally: 484 pp

November 6:
Best Friends, pp 1-256 = 256 pp ✔
Death Comes for the Archbishop, pp 100-187 = 87 pp
NIGHTSHAKER: A Werewolf Thriller, pp 1-43 = 43 pp
🍂daily tally: 386 pp

November 7-8:
Death Comes for the Archbishop, pp 187-297 = 110 pp ✔
The Great Gatsby, pp 1-216 = 216 pp ✔
NIGHTSHAKER: A Werewolf Thriller, pp 43-334 = 291 pp ✔
Nightshiver, pp 1-14 = 14 pp
The Henna Artist, pp 1-96 = 96 pp
🍂daily tally: 727 pp

November 9-10:
The Henna Artist, pp 96-384 = 288 pp ✔
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, pp 1-388 = 388 pp
Nightshiver, pp 14-74 = 60 pp
🍂daily tally: 736 pp

November 11-12:
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, pp 388-527 = 139 pp ✔
Finneas Grey and the Vial of Nech, pp 1-227 = 227 pp ✔
Nightshiver, pp 74-165 = 91 pp
Finneas Grey and the Wraith King, pp 1-111 = 111 pp
🍂daily tally: 568 pp

November 13:
Finneas Grey and the Wraith King, pp 111-222 = 111 pp ✔
Nightshiver, pp 165-295 = 130 pp ✔
Les Misérables, pp 1-125 = 125 pp
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Years, pp 1-14 = 14 pp
🍂daily tally: 380 pp

November 14:
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Years, pp 14-288 = 274 pp ✔
Nightseeker, pp 1-165 = 165 pp
🍂daily tally: 439 pp

November 15-16:
Nightseeker, pp 165-203 = 38 pp
Les Misérables, pp 125-526 = 401 pp
🍂daily tally: 439 pp

November 17-20:
Nightseeker, pp 203-422 = 219 pp ✔
Les Misérables, pp 526-836 = 310 pp
Murder in Old Bombay, pp 1-74 = 74 pp
🍂daily tally: 603 pp

November 21:
Murder in Old Bombay, pp 74-400 = 326 pp ✔
🍂daily tally: 326 pp

November 22:
Amina's Voice, pp 1-208 = 208 pp ✔
Les Misérables, pp 836-1205 = 369 pp
🍂daily tally: 577 pp

November 23-24:
Les Misérables, pp 1205-1488 = 283 pp ✔
I Have Something to Tell You, pp 1-256 = 256 pp ✔
The House in the Cerulean Sea, pp 1-196 = 196 pp
🍂daily tally: 735 pp

November 25:
The House in the Cerulean Sea, pp 196-393 = 197 pp ✔
Lobizona, pp 1-400 = 400 pp ✔
🍂daily tally: 597 pp

November 26-29:
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, pp 1-464 = 464 pp ✔
Almost American Girl, pp 1-228 = 228 pp ✔
A Promised Land, pp 1-384 = 384 pp
Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century, pp 1-42 = 42 pp
🍂daily tally: 1118 pp

November 30:
A Promised Land, pp 384-684 = 300 pp
🍂daily tally: 300 pp

Total Pages Read: 9888 pp
Books Finished: 25
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[Eileen]

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History:
July: 42 books, 12,963 pp
August: 48 books, 14,758 pp
September: 30 books, 10416 pp
October: 25 books, 9499 pp
November: 26 books, 8864 pp
December: 43 books, 12794 pp
January: 51 books, 14,713 pp
February: 37 books, 11918 pp
March: 32 books, 14,810 pp
April:50 books, 16,207 pp
May: 56 books, 18,374 pp
June: 53 books, 15617 pp
July: 42 books, 16913 pp
August: 44 books, 15088 pp
September: 43, 14281 pp
October: 35, 11997 pp
November:25, 9888 pp

Starting my December reads!
Goal: 8000 pages. 35 books

TBR (will likely change and morph, as usual):


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December 1:
A Promised Land, pp 684-768 = 84 pp ✔
An Assassin's Tool, pp 1-21 = 21 pp ✔
The Emperor's New Clothes and Other Fairy Tales, pp 1-85 = 85 pp ✔
Daughter of Poseidon, pp 1-41 = 41 pp ✔
I Am Alfonso Jones, pp 1-176 = 176 pp ✔
Hello, Universe, pp 1-86 = 86 pp
Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century, pp 42-64 = 22 pp
⛄daily tally: 515 pp

December 2:
Hello, Universe, pp 86-320 = 234 pp ✔
We Dream of Space, pp 1-400 = 400 pp ✔
⛄daily tally: 634 pp

December 3:
The Wild Robot, pp 1-288 = 288 pp ✔
The Wild Robot Escapes, pp 1-288 = 288 pp ✔
⛄daily tally: 576 pp

December 4:
We Hunt the Flame, pp 1-400 = 400 pp
⛄daily tally:

December 5:
We Hunt the Flame, pp 400-488 = 88 pp ✔
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, pp 1-224 = 224 pp ✔
Girl Giant and the Monkey King, pp 1-368 = 368 pp ✔
A Christmas Carol: The Original Manuscript Edition, pp 1-69 = 69 pp
⛄daily tally: 749 pp

December 6:
A Christmas Carol: The Original Manuscript Edition, pp 69-138 = 69 pp ✔
The Midnight Library, pp 1-304 = 304 pp ✔
Like Nothing Amazing Ever Happened, pp 1-131 = 131 pp
⛄daily tally: 504 pp

December 7:
Like Nothing Amazing Ever Happened, pp 131-224 = 93 pp ✔
A Boy Called Christmas, pp 1-272 = 272 pp ✔
The Girl Who Saved Christmas, pp 1-84 = 84 pp
Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy, pp 1-51 = 51 pp
⛄daily tally: 500 pp

December 8:
The Girl Who Saved Christmas, pp 84-337 = 253 pp ✔
Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy, pp 51-336 = 285 pp ✔
Take It Back, pp 1-123 = 123 pp
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change, pp 115-150 = 35 pp
⛄daily tally: 696 pp

December 9:
Miss Frost Solves a Cold Case, pp 1-324 = 324 pp ✔
Take It Back, pp 123-154 = 31 pp
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change, pp 150-182 = 32 pp
⛄daily tally: 387 pp

December 10-11:
Take It Back, pp 154-384 = 230 pp ✔
Miss Frost Ices The Imp : A Nocturne Falls Mystery, pp 1-322 = 322 pp ✔
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change, pp 182-240 = 58 pp
Miss Frost Saves The Sandman: A Nocturne Falls Mystery, pp 1-170 = 170 pp
⛄daily tally: 780 pp

December 12:
As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change, pp 240-306 = 66 pp ✔
Miss Frost Saves The Sandman: A Nocturne Falls Mystery, pp 170-270 = 100 pp ✔
Miss Frost Cracks A Caper, pp 1-302 pp ✔
Foundation, pp 1-112 = 112 pp
⛄daily tally: 580 pp

December 13-14:
Foundation, pp 112-320 = 208 pp ✔
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, pp 1-292 = 292 pp
⛄daily tally: 500 pp

December 15:
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, pp 292-384 = 92 pp ✔
When Birdie Babysat Spider: A Jayne Frost Short, pp 1-84 = 84 pp ✔
Miss Frost Braves the Blizzard, pp 1-338 = 338 pp ✔
Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century, pp 64-93 = 29 pp
⛄daily tally: 543 pp

December 16:
Miss Frost Chills The Cheater, pp 1-364 = 364 pp ✔
Hercule Poirot's Christmas, pp 1-201 = 201 pp
⛄daily tally: 565 pp

December 17:
Hercule Poirot's Christmas, pp 201-335 = 134 pp ✔
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, pp 1-46 = 46 pp ✔
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, pp 1-128 = 128 pp ✔
Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century, pp 93-125 = 32 pp
⛄daily tally: 340 pp

December 18:
Chace Ogden and the Quest for Raven, pp 1-160 = 160 pp ✔
Saving Ruby King, pp 1-340 = 340 pp
⛄daily tally: 500 pp

December 19:
Saving Ruby King, pp 340-352 = 12 pp ✔
Miss Frost Says I Do: A Nocturne Falls Mystery, pp 1-312 = 312 pp ✔
Black Sun, pp 1-195 = 195 pp
Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century, pp 125-135 = 10 pp
City of the Plague God, pp 1-60 = 60 pp
⛄daily tally: 589 pp

December 20:
Black Sun, pp 195-464 = 269 pp ✔
City of the Plague God, pp 60-400 = 340 pp ✔
Twelve Slays of Christmas, pp 1-320 = 320 pp ✔
⛄daily tally: 929 pp

December 21:
How We Fight For Our Lives, pp 1-208 = 208 pp ✔
Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century, pp 135-208 = 73 pp ✔
'Twas the Knife Before Christmas, pp 1-309 = 309 pp ✔
The One and Only Bob, pp 1-88 = 88 pp
⛄daily tally: 678 pp

December 22:
The One and Only Bob, pp 88-352 = 264 pp ✔
Outlawed, pp 1-72 = 72 pp
20000 Leagues Under the Sea, pp 1-108 = 108 pp
⛄daily tally: 444 pp

December 23:
20000 Leagues Under the Sea, pp 108-406 = 298 pp ✔
Maya and the Rising Dark, pp 1-180 = 180 pp
Outlawed, pp 72-203 = 131 pp
⛄daily tally: 609 pp

December 24:
Maya and the Rising Dark, pp 180-304 = 124 pp ✔
Outlawed, pp 203-272 = 69 pp ✔
Front Desk, pp 1-320 = 320 pp ✔
One of the Good Ones, pp 1-48 = 48 pp
⛄daily tally: 561 pp

December 25-26:
Three Keys, pp 1-304 = 304 pp ✔
Unquiet: My Life with Beethoven ✔
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, pp 1-496 = 496 pp ✔
One of the Good Ones, pp 48-141 = 93 pp
⛄daily tally: 893 pp

December 27:
The Goose Girl, pp 1-422 = 422 pp ✔
Ramona Quimby, Age 8, pp 1-208 = 208 pp ✔
⛄daily tally: 630 pp

December 28-29:
Dragonsong, pp 1-225 = 225 pp ✔
Danny the Champion of the World, pp 1-240 = 240 pp ✔
Enna Burning, pp 1-348 = 348 pp ✔
River Secrets, pp 1-165 = 165 pp
One of the Good Ones, pp 141-163 = 22 pp
⛄daily tally: 1000 pp

December 30:
River Secrets, pp 165-290 = 125 pp ✔
One of the Good Ones, pp 163-384 = 221 pp ✔
Lore, pp 1-100 = 100 pp
By the Light of the Moon, pp 1-125 = 125 pp
⛄daily tally: 571 pp

December 31:
By the Light of the Moon, pp 125-496 = 371 pp ✔
Lore, pp 100-219 = 119 pp
Dragonsinger, pp 1-41 = 41 pp
⛄daily tally: 531 pp

Total Pages Read: 16,202 pp
Books Finished: 56
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