January - Marathon Challenge

[Blagica , Challenges]

MARATHON CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2022

This is such a hit every year, that we thought we would kick off the year again with a running start! How often is it our New Year's Resolution to read more books? How many of us set goals higher than we did last year? How many of us want to read that super long classic that has been sitting on our bookshelf collecting dust, or spend a winter day curled up on the couch with a pile of graphic novels? Let's start 2021 with a marathon of reading!

Pick a pile of books that you feel you could snuggle up with: a nice over-500-page book, a stack of books under 100 pages, or those books that have been on your TBR list for way too long. Anything you choose is fair game!

This is not a sprint, but a way to spend January in the pages! Pick the number of pages or books you would like to read in January and post them below. The goal is to make fast progress on your reading goals in the New Year. Who would have thought that you could do a marathon by hurrying up and sitting with a book?

I’ll be cheering you along and helping you get off to a running start!

Ready......Set.......Read!

[Blagica , Challenges]

How to Participate:

1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time, as long as the challenge is still active. You must choose a goal for the challenge.

2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress. Please be sure to post the number of books you have completed and the number of your original message every time you post an update.
The challenge leader is not able to keep track of your total number of books for you because of the number of participants in the challenge. The number of the original post is used to identify you, as there can be many members with the same name. The challenge leader will not look at this post to track your progress.

Example:
message 32 updated! 2/25 books read!

For more information about how challenges work, check out this thread or ask your challenge leader.

P.S. Please do not delete posts! It makes updating very confusing for the Moderators! If you decide to leave the challenge, please just let us know. You can edit your original post to say {redacted}. Thank you!




Participants:

Books
Alison 9 / 8
Allison 1 / 2
Amy (Other Amy) 7 / 1
Anastasia 21 / 10
Anastasia 21 / 10
Bailey ✰ 2 / 5
Barb 1 / 10
Beverly 22 / 22
Blagica 3 / 4
bookishpursuit 10 / 10
Brittany 12 / 9
Candace 2 / 10
Carmen 39 / 25
Carol 31 / 31
Cassie 2 / 10
Claire 6 / 6
CrazyAsACupcake 5 / 6
D.L. 11 / 10
eatsleepreadreview 6 / 6
fierytales 0 / 6
Fran 22 / 20
GordoTerronillo 4 / 3
Grace 4 / 4
Greg 8 / 8
Gretchen 5 / 5
Gwen 10 / 10
HB 1 / 30
Holly 4 / 7
Jaida 0 / 10
Jamie 0 / 4
Janine 10 / 8
Jenni 5 / 8
Julia 8 / 8
Kait 0 / 5
Karianne 19 / 9
Karin 20 / 20
Kay 0 / 10
Kimberley 4 / 35
Kylie 8 / 15
Lacy 5 / 6
Lanre 9 / 12
Laura Jane 0 / 10
Lauren 0 / 5
Lauren 0 / 5
Lauri 7 / 6
Leandra 8 / 10
Lindsey 33 / 25
Lisa 0 / 10
Lisa Marie 1 / 5
Luisa 0 / 10
Lynn 11 / 10
Lynsey 0 / 5
Mara 0 / 2
Margaret 1 / 7
Mary 4 / 8
Megan 18 / 10
Melissa 3 / 2
Nell 5 / 8
Nicole 18 / 10
Nikki 8 / 9
Pamela 0 / 5
Rachael 10 / 8
Rika 33 / 32
RJ 0 / 10
Roseli 1 / 3
Sarah 4 / 4
Satin 3 / 10
Shari 18 / 20
Star 0 / 4
Suzanne 22 / 22
TCampbell 12 / 10
Terri 2 / 8
TerryJane 18 / 15
Tina 6 / 3
Tresdivas 0 / 15
Vidya 0 / 10
Pages
Amanda 1,507 / 1,500
Anissa 0 / 1,000
Cassie 0 / 500
Chrissie 3,103 / 2,500
Craig 1,461 / 1,700
Erika 1,234 / 1,000
Gwen 2,565 / 2,000
Jam 2,287 / 1,000
Julia 4,017 / 2,500
Karianne 4,290 / 3,333
Ketty 1,624 / 1,000
Laura 1,741 / 800
Lauri 2,899 / 2,500
Lisa 0 / 20,000
Maja 1,288 / 1,001
Marcia 577 / 500
Maria 0 / 2,000
Meghan L 0 / 2,022
Nicolle 1,049 / 2,000
Patti 0 / 500
Stacy 205 / 750

Totals Books

603 / 774b>

Total Pages
29,847 / 50,106

[Chrissie]

First of all, Merry Christmas everyone!

And I'd like to start the new year with 1000 pages.

Finished: 1st Goal (1000) - 2022/01/10
2nd Goal (2000) - 2022/01/12

Finished: 3103/2500 pages 2022/01/20

Books:
The Two Towers (464 pages)
Liebe schlägt mir auf den Magen (178 pages)
Clockwork Princess (569 pages)
Der Geschmack von Glück (186 pages)
Coyote 3 (200 pages)
Fair Blue (192 pages)
Oscar's Books: A Journey Around the Library of Oscar Wilde (385 pages)
The Return of the King (595 pages)
Quality Time (334 pages)

[Rachael]

Love doing this challenge every year. Please sign me up for my traditional 8 books.

COMPLETED: 10/8

1. Light Years finished 2 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐.
2. The World of All Souls: A Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life finished 5 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. Winters' Snow finished 6 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Noughts & Crosses finished 8 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Mort finished 11 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
6. The Martian finished 15 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
7. The Stars Never Rise finished 20 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review previously written
8. Murder Mysteries finished 21 January, ⭐⭐⭐
9. The Flame Never Dies finished 24 January, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
10. The Truth finished 25 January, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review

[Nell]

I'm in for the 1st time! 🤗

Goal: Read a chunkster ~500+ pp


Goal: Binge read a series

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
-/7




The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

[Beverly]

I will join this challenge, reading is all I want to do in January!!! I'll get back with my list! 22/22

1. The Arctic Fury: A Novel by Greer/G.R. Macallister
2. Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
3. Giovanni's Room James Baldwin
4. Gudrun's Tapestry by Joan Schweighardt
5. Recursion by Blake Crouch
6. Good Behavior by Blake Crouch
7. The Shark by Mary Burton
8. When We Were Brave by Karla M. Jay
9. Ink in the Blood by Kim Smejkal
10. The Line Between Tosca Lee
11. 10 Short Stories About Ghosts, Aliens, Cats, and Other Nonsense by David M. Cooper
12. e. e. cummings: A Life by Susan Cheever
13. F'lorna of Rodesh by Alisa Hope Wagner
14. G. by John Berger
15. Alice by Christina Henry
16. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
17. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
18. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
19. Cackle by Rachel Harrison
20. Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
21. The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
22. No Ordinary Life by Suzanne Redfearn

[Maja]

I'd like to join! Please sign me up for 1,001 pages.

1,288/1,001

BOOKS READ:
1) A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab - 175 pages
2) Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson - 448 pages
3) Planeta K. Pięć lat w japońskiej korporacji by Piotr Milewski - 270 pages
4) The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson - 395 pages


Good luck everyone <3

[Anissa]

MARATHON CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 -31, 2022

I LOVE this challenge every year. Please sign me up for 1,000 pages.

Goal: 1,000 ; Progress: 0/1,000

[Greg]

Put me down for 8 books in January.

The Bone Collector
Born of Silence
Rakóssy
Blasphemy
Summer Knight
Ghost Rider
Gladiator Fight for Freedom
Earth Strike

8/8

[Carmen]

Hola, Blagica!
Count me in, please!

PROGRESS: 39/25

HAPPY 2022!!🎉🎆

[Janine]

Please sign me up for 8 books in January.

[D.L.]

Progress: 11/10 - CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

1. Boy-Crazy Stacey
2. Karen's Witch
3. Love Unexpected: With All My Heart
4. Kristy and the Snobs
5. Sleigh Ride with the Rancher
6. The Amityville Horror
7. Because of the Messiah in a Manger
8. Longbourn
9. Claudia and the New Girl
10. Twelve
11. The Genius Thieves

[Tresdivas]

0/15

Happy New Year!

Thank you for doing this. :)

[Megan]

I’m in for 10!

1. King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo - completed
2. When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord - completed
3, Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo - completed
4. Under the Whispering Door by T. J. Klune - completed
5. Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed - completed
6. These Deadly Games by Diana Urban - completed
7. Castle Dor by Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Quiller-Couch - completed
8. Stay Close by Harlan Coben - completed
9. The Wives by Tarryn Fisher - completed
10. The Tsarina's Daughter by Ellen Alpsten - completed.
11. The Maid by Nita Prose - completed
12. Ghost Stories of Tampa Bay by Kim Cool - completed
13. How to Be a Movie Star by T. J. Klune - completed
14. A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow - completed
15. Night Song by Beverly Jenkins - completed
16. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell - completed
17. The Wedding Setup: A Short Story by Sonali Dev - completed
18. The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker - completed

18/10 - challenge completed!

[bailey, Challenges]

I'll sign up for 5! Love this challenge so much!!

Progress: 2/5

✅1. 11/22/63
✅2. Call Me By Your Name
3.
4.
5.

[Beverly]

Updated message #6: I will be reading at least 18 books in January.

[TCampbell]

Update to message 17
12/10 complete
Managed to squeeze an extra two in!

1. Apples Never Fall READ
2. Fatal Storm READ
3. Firekeeper's Daughter READ
4. The Taste of Ginger READ
5. XNOR READ
6. The Jane Austen Society READ
7. Where the Lost Wander READ
8. West with Giraffes READ
9. Thicker than Blood READ
10. The Spanish Love Deception READ
11. The Women of Chateau Lafayette READ
12. The Wish READ

[Laura]

I'm signing up for the challenge; i am going to sign up for 800 pages; as I completed this goal by th 07 i am going to up it to 1000

1741 pages out of 1000

Books read

1. Home Stretch by Graham Norton - 01-03/01 - 362 pages
2. Ash before Oak by Jeremy Cooper 04-07/01 - 530 pages
3. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge 08/01-17/01 - 272 pages
4. Playlist for the Dead by Michelle Falkoff 18/01-22/01 - 281 pages
5. Anthology of a twenty year old soul by Ben Courson 22/01-23/01 128 pages
6. After Dark by Haruki Murakami 23/01-24/01 201 pages

[Lacy]

I'm in for the first time.
I'm going for 6 books in January.
5/6
Books Read

[Margaret]

I am new to the group and this is my first time in this challenge.
I have 7 books in my TBR stack for January.

1. Breakfast at Tiffiany's by Truman Capote - FINISHED

Progress: 1/7

[Craig]

For January: 1700 pages read/listened

Progress: 1461 of 1700

Blood and Honor (Read) - 553 (1/13/22)
Drone (Audio) - 432 (1/15/22)
Project Hail Mary (Read) - 467 (1/24/22)

[Amy (Other Amy)]

Oh, hey, it is time! Put me down for one book. I'm going to try to clear a couple of things off my Currently Reading shelf. Or I might read a series. I don't know. I'm too excited for 2022 and I keep changing my mind!

7/1



Huge success. Mainly because I got that one book that has been on my Currently Reading shelf since 2019 done!

[Lauren]

Put me down for 5 books, I have a series I want to finish!

0/5

[Sarah]

Sign me up for 4 books.

I am going to go for 4 books that have been on my currently reading list the longest.

4/4-COMPLETED

✅1)The Governess(1/1/22)
✅2)It’s Always the Husband(5/1/22)
✅3)The Taking of Annie Thorne(9/1/22)
✅4)Call Nurse Millie(6/1/22)

[Gretchen]

I'm in for 5 books.

1.) The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee
2.) The Dance of the Serpents by Oscar de Muriel
3.) Archive 17 by Sam Eastland
4.) The Royal Secret by Andrew Taylor
5.) Secret Mischief by Robin Blake

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

[Fran]

Hello all. I'd like to sign up for 20 books please.

0/20

[Terri]

I’d like to join with a goal of 8 books for January. Thanks a bunch!

[Kimberley]

I’d like to join. 35 books is the goal. Titles not yet decided.

[Laura Jane]

I'll try for 10 books! Thanks!

[TerryJane, Challenges]

MARATHON CHALLENGE - Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2022
Progress: 18/15 -- COMPLETE

🏃‍♀️ Surviving Savannah
🏃‍♀️ Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
🏃‍♀️ My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life
🏃‍♀️ The Girl in His Shadow
🏃‍♀️ Every Last Fear
🏃‍♀️ Crying in H Mart
🏃‍♀️ Eye for Eye
🏃‍♀️ Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake
🏃‍♀️ Seriously... I'm Kidding
🏃‍♀️ The Westing Game
🏃‍♀️ Remember Me?
🏃‍♀️ The Soulmate Equation
🏃‍♀️ How Much of These Hills Is Gold
🏃‍♀️ Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
🏃‍♀️ H is for Hawk
🏃‍♀️ Where the Heart Is
🏃‍♀️ The Gathering
🏃‍♀️ The Chanel Sisters

[Shari]

I'd like to join with a goal of 20 books for January.

Progress: 18 / 20

The Winters
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story
Home Sweet Murder
The Husband's Secret
The Stars Are Fire
Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight
A Walk Along the Beach
Flying Angels
Billionaire Blend
Blessing in Disguise
Passing
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Handle with Care
Lost
Amish Christmas Hideaway
Deadly Evidence

[Luisa]

I'd like to join! 10 books is a good goal for me (a mix of books ongoing, new books and buddy reads)

Progress: 0/10

[Amanda]

I'd like to join. My goal is 1,500 pages.

January Marathon

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling 5 stars 4/1/22 188/607
2. Onmacht by Charles den Tex 3 stars 8/1/22 45/92
3. Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella 3 stars 9/1/22 314/427
4. The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket 3 stars 20/1/22 256
5. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 3 stars 20/1/22 192/233
6. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 4 stars 23/1/22 213
7. The Midnight Folk by John Masefield 3 stars 26/1/22 299

1507/1500

Challenge completed

[kaitlyn]

I’m trying for 5 books in January! Wish me luck :)

PROGRESS:

0/5

[✯nolareads✯]

I'd love to join please!

Goal: 6 books
Progress: -/6

[Gwen S.]

I'm in again for 2022 January Marathon, I will attempt:
Goal: 10/10 books
Pages Turned: 2,565/2,000

Happy New Year to all my fellow readers! <3
#1) By Lauren Esker 255 pages Keeping Her Pride
#2) By Sarah Morgan 371 pages The Christmas Escape
#3) By Zoe Chant 195 pagesA Dragon for Christmas
#4) By Zoe Chant 150 pages A Griffin for Christmas
#5) By Matt Haig 289 pages The Midnight Library
#6) By Dale Mayer 271 pages What If...
#7) By Zoe Chant. 288 pages Christmas Pegasus
#8) By Zoe Chant 227 pages Hold My Bear
#9) By Nia Arthurs 293 pages Be My Darling
#10) By Zoe Chant 226 pages The Hellhound's Un-Christmas Miracle

Challenge completed!

[Lauri]

Lauri's Spot!
January 2022 Marathon
Goal: 2500 pages or 6 books
(whichever comes 1st!)

Pages read: 2899

Books used:



Books completed:
1) In a Holidaze 1/2/22
2) Death of an Outsider 1/5/22
3) The Candy Cane Cupcake Killer 1/10/22
4) Thunderhead 1/15/22
5) Cat Nap 1/17/22
6) Vision in White 1/22/22
7) Arsenic and Adobo 1/29/22

[Jam]

I'd like to be put down for 1000 pages please.

Goal: reread the entire a darker shade of magic trilogy.

[Julia]

FINISHED!!!Julia's Venue! (stealing a thematic idea from Lauri's title...)
January 2022 Marathon
Goal: 2500 pages or 8 books (including a couple I'm hoping to finally finish!!!)
(whichever comes 1st!)

Pages read: 4017/2500 (not quite sure how I did that!!)

Books being used from this list:


Books completed (besides Ghostwritten*): 8/8


* I'd mostly finished this book in 2021, but did do a quick New Year's Day marathon reading session to finally finish it (200 pages or so)! yay!!! I do not, however, plan on using this as part of the number of books completed, only number of pages.

[Ketty]

In with a goal of 1,000 pages

Goal: 1,624/1,000
---- Kingdom of Fairytales by J.A. Armitage & Various Authors - 109 pages
---- Queen of Dragons by J.A. Armitage - 182 pages
---- Heiress of Embers by J.A. Armitage - 126 pages
---- Throne of Fury by J.A. Armitage - 104 pages
---- The Wrath & the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh - 395 pages
---- Goddess of Flames by J.A. Armitage - 112 pages
---- The Rose & the Dagger by Renée Ahdieh - 422 pages
---- The Moth & the Flame by Renée Ahdieh - 26 pages
---- The Crown & the Arrow by Renée Ahdieh - 18 pages
---- The Mirror & the Maze by Renée Ahdieh - 13 pages
---- Queen of Mermaids by Audrey Rich; J.A. Armitage - 117 pages

[Meghan L]

I like to start each year reading the largest book on my unread shelf. For 2022, that will be To Sleep in a Sea of Stars.

So, my goal will be to read 2,022 pages in January.

[Nicolle]

Please sign me up for 2,000 pages. Thanks!
1,049/2,000
1. The Shadow Rising - finished reading
2. The Fires of Heaven - started and finished

[Lucy'sLilLibrary]

Please sign me up for 6 books:

Year of the Reaper
The Coldest Touch
Grave Secrets
Carrie
The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Silver Chair

Completed 6/6

[Jamie]

Please sign me up for 4 books 😊

Sold on a Monday: A Novel

The Cheat Sheet: A Romantic Comedy

Regretting-You

West with Giraffes: A Novel

Completed 0/4

[Erika]

Sign me up for 1000 pages for this month.

Goal: 1234/1000 pp


The Hawthorne Legacy 368 pp
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water 48 pp
Already Gone 234 pp
Shadow of Night 584pp

[Holly]

Oooo I'm in. Goal of 7 books.

Maybe this will get me motivated to do some reading for my dissertation.

[Anastasia]

This is my first challenge, and it sounds fun!
I’m in for 10 books please!

Goal: 10 books
Progress: 0/10

Books Read:

[Jaida]

Hi, sign me up!

Goal: 7 books
Progress: 0/10

Books Read:

[Patti]

First time participating.
My goal is 500 pages.

Progress 0/500

[Leandra]

I would like to read 10 books in January.