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Let's go for a couple of challenges this year to rehabilitate after an excruciating senior year with close to no time to read, shall we?

Have joined so far:

Personal Challenge - 2019 : 56 / 101 (challenge thread)
Let's Turn The Pages - 2019 : 20965 / 50 000 (first message 1121)

01.01.2019 - 06.05.2019 in no particular order :

1-8: Discworld #1-8 by Terry Pratchett
9: The God Delusion
10-12: Attack on Titan #26-28 by Hajime Isayama
13-14: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality x2
15: Путеводитель по оркестру и его задворкам , A Guide to Orchestra and its Backyard by Vladimir Zisman
16: The Art of Translation: Kornei Chukovsky's a High Art
17: Слово живое и мертвое , Words Living and Words Dead by Nora Gal
18-21: A Song of Ice and Fire #1-4 by George R.R. Martin
22: Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union: An Autobiography
23: In the Miso Soup
24: Heart of a Dog
25: The Kreutzer Sonata
26: 69

06.05.2019 - 31.12.2019 :)
27: Almost Transparent Blue - 126 pages, 06.05.19
28: The Twelve Chairs - 395 pages, 11.05.19
29: The Diary of a Young Girl - 304 pages, 12.05.19
30: Omon Ra - 154 pages, 13.05.19
31: The Death of Ivan Ilych - 86 pages, 13.05.19
32: The Life of Insects - 176 pages, 14.05.19

Total pages : 14 972 / 50 000

It certainly is nice to be back here...

Welp, I do feel funny. All things were well, right up until my studies crushed me again. I could really do better, though, so no excuses for me for not trying harder.

Although in retrospect, I really should've considered my study volumes first - or picked books that are easier to read :D As short as the most popular English edition of The Tale of Genji may seem (as listed on ŷ������), it took me exactly three months to finish in Russian, and don't even get me started on completing my Bachelor's... Welp, better luck next year!

Still, some updates are pretty much overdue:

33: Собрание сочинений в шести томах: Том 1 - Весёлые устрицы, Jolly Oysters by Arkady Averchenko - 448 pages, 17.05.19
34: Повесть о Гэндзи. Приложение, The Tale of Genji: Supplementary Materials, and
35: The Tale of Genji, two books that broke my schedule :D - 1374 pages, 17.08.19
oh, here comes...
36: Snow Country - 175 pages, 18.08.19
37: Palm-of-the-Hand Stories - 288 pages, 18.08.19
38: Thousand Cranes - 147 pages, 18.08.19
39: Hard to Be a God - 219 pages, 19.08.19
40: The Dancing Girl of Izu - 38 pages, 19.08.19
41: Песнь об Италии, The Song of Italy by Yasunari Kawabata- 19.08.19
42: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - 258 pages, 19.08.19
43: Rise of the Horde - 368 pages, 19.08.19
44: Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself - 74 pages, 19.08.19
45: Избранные рассказы, The Chosen Short Stories by Yasunari Kawabata - 19.08.19
46: Бета-тестеры, Beta-testers - 19.08.19
(yeah, dates are not mixed up: trains are boring, yaknow!
47: The Setting Sun - 175 pages, 20.08.19
48: No Longer Human - 176 pages, 21.08.19
49: House of the Sleeping Beauties - 160 pages, 22.08.19
50: The Old Capital - 160 pages, 24.08.19
51: The Call of Cthulhu - 43 pages, 29.08.19
52: The Name of the Rose - 536 pages, 25.09.19 (ah, this one took some time too alright)
53: The Sound of the Mountain - 276 pages, 27.09.19
And this is where it all went wrong :)
54: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - 320 pages, 04.11.19
55: The Prince - 140 pages, 08.11.19
56: Minus Millionaires - 294 pages, 11.12.19

To be quite honest, I was scared to return upon not having made updates in quite a while, but have finally made my mind, so I am back until the next update in half a year :) (just kidding - probably - or hopefully, rather)

P.S. I, unfortunately, have to exclude the books that do not have page count on ŷ������ from Let's Turn Pages stats, because my Kindle only shows percentages, and I am terrible at converting those.

Total pages : 20965 / 50000