January - Reading by Number

[TerryJane, Challenges]

READING BY NUMBER
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2023

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
-- Brad Paisley

As we begin a new year, pick a few numbers for this challenge that are important in your life. You might choose birthdays, ages, or graduation years, address numbers, phone numbers, lucky numbers, etc. Go to your TBR, sort it by # and read books that correspond with your numbers. Alternately, you may read books with your special numbers in the title or cover art.

NOTE: To keep your online identity safe, please don't state what your numbers represent.

To join, leave a comment here telling the leader how many books you plan to read for this challenge.

SarahKat created this challenge and will be leading it. Many thanks!

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Participants

Amber: 1/2
Brianna: 0/3
Brianna Raquel: 6/6
Brittany: 1/7
Carmen: 12/12
Chalmation: 4/4
Chrissie: 2/3
D.L.: 0/2
eatsleepreadreview: 5/5
Elaine: 0/10
Frankie: 6/6
Greg: 1/3
Hina: 0/3
Katy: 2/2
Kristina: 10/10
Laraib: 0/2
Laurie: 1/1
LYNN: 4/4
Sarah: 6/6
SarahKat: 4/4
Sheila: 6/4
Sherry: 0/3
Suzanne: 3/3
TerryJane: 10/10

[Chrissie]

I'd love to try for three reads.

9 - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie ✓
27 - Carrie by Stephen King ✓
159 - Der Schöne und der Nerd by Kousaka Akiho

[Sarah]

Sign me up for 6 books

6/6-COMPLETED

✅2: The Girls from the Local (20/1/23)
✅5: Money Can't Buy Me Love(21/1/23)
✅17: Breakfast Club (22/1/23)
✅22: The Best of Nancy Drew Classic Collection(26/1/23)
✅50: Happy Girl Lucky (16/1/23)
✅54: Run, Rebel (31/1/23)

[Carmen]

Hola!
Count me in, please 😉

PROGRESS: 12/12

❎③ La fiesta del chivo
❎⑤ Light in August
❎⑥ El corazón es un cazador solitario
❎⑧ Midnight's Children
❎①⓪ Island of Flowers
❎①⑨ The Cold Cold Ground
❎②③ Evans Above
❎②⑨ El país bajo mi piel: Memorias de amor y guerra
❎⑥⑦ Smaller and Smaller Circles
❎⑨③ Too Loud a Solitude
❎⑨⑦ Tropic Moon
❎⑨⑧ The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

[Sheila]

Sheila from eastern NC signing on to start with 4. One per week.

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Welcome all!

I'm starting with 4

3: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
4: Blue Moon Rising
7: The Book of Strange New Things
24: The Clockwork Three

[D.L.]

I'll try for 2.

Progress: 0/2

POSSIBILITIES:

58: Protection Detail
59: A Girl's Guide to Moving On
65: Play Dead
82: Strange Girl

[Chalmation]

I'm in for 4.

4/4 Challenge Complete

1986: Girl on a Train
54: Coding Isis
1968: The Search
2017: The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Most Famous Trading Companies across the World

[Frankie]

READING BY NUMBER
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2023

6/6 Completed. Finished

1.2006:Alpha Omega-London Miller 1/13/23
2.0088:Shaken-J.A. Konrath 1/04/23
3.2670:Northern Stars-Brittainy C. Cherry 1/22/23
4.1998:Vicious-Debra Webb 1/05/23
5.2020:Worth Dying For-Rita Herron 1/08/23
6.1970:Not Quite Mine-Catherine Bybee 1/14/23

[Kristina]

READING BY NUMBER
January 01 - January 31
Progress: 10/10

✅ 5: Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
✅ 7: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
✅ 8: A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos
✅ 25: The World According to Color: A Cultural History by James Fox
✅ 30: The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limon
✅ 93: I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
✅ 115: A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy
✅ 450: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
✅ 612: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
✅ 444: The Yellow Wife: A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson

[Amber]

I’d like to do 2

1/2

7 My Best Friends Have Hairy Legs changing book cant find
11 The Eleventh Victim read 1-10-23

[Laurie]

READING BY NUMBER
January 01 - January 31
Progress: 1/1

❎23 Sula

[Hina]

I'm in for 3 books!

Reading by Number
January 1 - January 31 2023

Progress: 0/3

[TerryJane, Challenges]

3️⃣ READING BY NUMBER - Monthly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2023
Progress: 10/10 -- COMPLETE

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
-- Brad Paisley

3️⃣ 3 - One Two Three (title)
3️⃣ 20 - 20th Century Ghosts (title)
3️⃣ 23 - House 23 (title)
3️⃣ 25 - The Well (TBR position)
3️⃣ 27 - Bettyville: A Memoir (TBR position)
3️⃣ 400 - The Comfort of Strangers (TBR position)
3️⃣ 1960 - The Night Olivia Fell (TBR position)
3️⃣ 1979 - The Last American Vampire (TBR position)
3️⃣ 1986 - The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (TBR position)
3️⃣ 1989 - GodPretty in the Tobacco Field (TBR position)

[Greg]

Put me down for three:

1 - If It Bleeds
4 - Chance read January 7
45 - The Warrior's Path

1/3

[Sherry]

I'm in for 3!~

[Suzanne]

2022 & 2023 Reading Challenge
January - Reading by Number
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2023

Progress: 3 out of 3

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
-- Brad Paisley

As we begin a new year, pick a few numbers for this challenge that are important in your life. You might choose birthdays, ages, or graduation years, address numbers, phone numbers, lucky numbers, etc. Go to your TBR, sort it by # and read books that correspond with your numbers. Alternately, you may read books with your special numbers in the title or cover art.

My Number is 7!

#7 in my TBR: Surrender Bay by Denise Hunter - ** - 1/16/2023 - 298 Pages

#7 in the page numbers:
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown - ***** - 1/13/2023 - 736 Pages

#7 in the publication date:
Bad Blood by L.A. Banks - **** - 1/7/2023 - 342 Pages - published April 1st 2007

[Elaine]

Reading by Number

Jan. 1-31

8/10 Completed
Updated through: 1-20-23

1- A Betrayal of Storms DNF 1-18-23
4- The Last Fallen Star DNF 1-13-23
5- The Deal Dilemma DNF 1-19-23
10- Dear Ava DNF 1-20-23
42- Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
50- Psychos DNF 1-18-23
53- Crown of Bones DNF 1-19-23
69- Kings of Chaos DNF 1-19-23
73- When Heroes Fall DNF 1-19-23
80- The Fire and the Ore

[Laraib]

January 1- 31
I chose number 1 (Pakistan at the crossroads by Christopher Jaffrelot) and number 6 (The tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell)on my TBR

[Brittany]

1/7 complete

Nine is my number, I have obsessive compulsive disorder and I just like how all the multipliers of nine when added up to a single digit number are also nine. It is nice and tidy and calming. With that being said I'm planning on listening to audiobooks that are 9 hours long.

1. Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger finished 1/8/2023
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

[✨ Brianna Raquel ✨]

I'm down for 6!

6/6

11 – A Magic Steeped in Poison🌸
28 – He Gets That From Me🌸
121 – I'm the Girl🌸
85 – The Book of Cold Cases🌸
106 – The Scapegracers🌸
58 – Make a Scene🌸

[Katy]

Sign me up for 2, please!

Progress: 2/2
87 -Sleight of Hand - Finished 01/24/2023
198 - Hour of the Witch - Finished 01/06/2023

[Lucy'sLilLibrary]

Hi,

Happy New Year,

5 for me please,

3: The Red Knight
7: It
17: Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow
26: The Guest List
206: 206 Bones


Thank You

[Brianna]

Count me in for 3, please!

11:

21:

85:

[Carmen]

Update to message #5

PROGRESS: 2/12

❎③ La fiesta del chivo
❎⑥ El corazón es un cazador solitario

[Katy]

Updated message #23

1/2

[Laurie]

Update to message #13

1/1 completed

[Greg]

Update to message 16:

Chance read January 7

1/3

[Brittany]

update to message #21

1/7 complete

[Carmen]

Update to message #5

PROGRESS: 3/12

❎③ La fiesta del chivo
❎⑤ Light in August
❎⑥ El corazón es un cazador solitario

[Frankie]

READING BY NUMBER

Update for Message #10

3/6 Completed

[Sheila]

Sheila from eastern NC updating 2/4.
1. 27- The Cat Who Went Bananas, #27. https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_b...
2. 29- The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers, #29. https://www.goodreads.com/work/161318...

[Kristina]

Update for message 11 - 5/10 books

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Hi everyone! Glad to see you all working through your list!!

I also read a Cat Who book for this Sheila. It was my first one and I really liked it!

[Carmen]

Update to message #5

PROGRESS: 4/12

❎③ La fiesta del chivo
❎⑤ Light in August
❎⑥ El corazón es un cazador solitario
❎②⑨ El país bajo mi piel: Memorias de amor y guerra

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #15: 8/10

[Amber]

7 My Best Friends Have Hairy Legs changing book cant find
11 The Eleventh Victim read 1-10-23

i have to change my first book ....i cant find it anywhere..changing to
21 Eat, Pray, Love

[Carmen]

Update to message #5

PROGRESS: 5/12

❎③ La fiesta del chivo
❎⑤ Light in August
❎⑥ El corazón es un cazador solitario
❎②⑨ El país bajo mi piel: Memorias de amor y guerra
❎⑨⑧ The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

[Chalmation]

Updated message #9

1/4

[Chrissie]

Update to message #3 - 1/3

[Frankie]

READING BY NUMBER

Update for Message #10

5/6 Completed

[Carmen]

Update to message #5

PROGRESS: 6/12

❎③ La fiesta del chivo
❎⑤ Light in August
❎⑥ El corazón es un cazador solitario
❎①⓪ Island of Flowers
❎②⑨ El país bajo mi piel: Memorias de amor y guerra
❎⑨⑧ The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #15: 10/10
Complete!

Thanks for the challenge, SarahKat! 🙂

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

TerryJane wrote: "Update to Message #15: 10/10
Complete!

Thanks for the challenge, SarahKat! 🙂"

Congrats TerryJane!

Great progress everyone!!

[Sheila]

Sheila from NC. I don’t know my number, but I am adding 4 more books this updating previous post from 2/4 to 6/4.

3- Three Day Town. https://www.goodreads.com/work/157283...
69- Summer of ‘69. https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_b...
5- Tea at Five. https://www.goodreads.com/work/197995...
8-I am number 8. https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_b...

[Sheila]

And thanks Sarah Kat for creating and hosting this challenge.

[Suzanne]

Finished!

2022 & 2023 Reading Challenge
January - Reading by Number
Duration: January 1 - January 31, 2023

Progress: 3 out of 3

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
-- Brad Paisley

As we begin a new year, pick a few numbers for this challenge that are important in your life. You might choose birthdays, ages, or graduation years, address numbers, phone numbers, lucky numbers, etc. Go to your TBR, sort it by # and read books that correspond with your numbers. Alternately, you may read books with your special numbers in the title or cover art.

My Number is 7!

#7 in my TBR: Surrender Bay by Denise Hunter - ** - 1/16/2023 - 298 Pages

#7 in the page numbers:
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown - ***** - 1/13/2023 - 736 Pages

#7 in the publication date:
Bad Blood by L.A. Banks - **** - 1/7/2023 - 342 Pages - published April 1st 2007

[Carmen]

Update to message #5

PROGRESS: 7/12

❎③ La fiesta del chivo
❎⑤ Light in August
❎⑥ El corazón es un cazador solitario
❎①⓪ Island of Flowers
❎②⑨ El país bajo mi piel: Memorias de amor y guerra
❎⑨③ Too Loud a Solitude
❎⑨⑧ The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Congrats Suzanne and Sheila for completing your goals!