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Goal: up to 1,000 pages
Tasks: up to 3
Goal: up to 3,500 pages
Tasks: up to 5
Goal: up to 7,000 pages
Tasks: up to 8
Goal: up to 10,000 pages
Tasks: up to 11
Goal: 10,000++ pages
Tasks: up to 15
Mod
Amy
Ashley
Bea
CassieV
Christina (AKA Babbling
Coralie
Dee
Jayme(the ghost reader)
Joyce
Kristina Simon - COMPLETED
LaurLa
Lusie
Mary
Nat
Rosemary
Sandy - COMPLETED
Sassafrass
Stacey
Susan
Tien - COMPLETED
Dee’s spotgoal: 8452pgs
2) stretch goal #1 - non-fiction
2) stretch goal #2 - diversity challenge
Pages read: 3478/8452
Pages remaining: 4974/8452
#1 - world war 2 (1939-1945)
The German Midwife - Finished - 7/12/19 - 352pgs
White Rose - Finished - 8/3/19 - 368pgs
The Lost Girls of Paris - Finished - 8/28/19 - 384pgs
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II - finished - 11/13/19 - 405pgs (368pgs +10% OOZ NF)
The Flight Girls - finished - 11/18/19 - 384pgs
#2 - the most wonderful time of year (aka Christmas)
Sleigh Bells in the Snow (set in the week before and Christmas Day) - Finished - 7/28/19 - 384pgs
Christmas in Transylvania - Finished - 8/25/19 - 192pgs
A Griffin for Christmas - Finished - 12/7/19 - 150pgs
A Dragon for Christmas - finished - 12/23/19 - 195pgs
Temporary Santa - finished - 12/24/19 - 154pgs (140pgs+10% OOZ Diversity)*
#3 - 20th century (1900-1999)
A Bend in the Stars (1917/18) - finished - 12/6/19 - 510pgs (464pgs + 10% Oz diversity - religion)
*page count derived from kindle locations/15 (no page/word count to be found anywhere for this book)
Stage 9 - Settings (time)Goal 5% - 4,456 pages.
up to 8 tasks
Out of Zone goal: books I own as of 12/19/18 and have not read before
4509/4456
1. Present Day (post 2000) - subtotal 2335
- Big Sky - 7/8/19. 400 pages.
- The Swallows - 7/13/19. 368 pages.
- The Fallen - 7/22/19. 432 +10% (purchased 11/18) = 475 pages.
- The Spotted Dog - 7/24/19. 298 pages.
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - 7/27/19. 402 + 10% (purchased 4/13/16) = 442.
- Never Have I Ever. 8/3/19. 352 pages.
2. 1970s
- Daisy Jones & The Six - 7/14/19. 368 pages.
3. World War II
- The Lost Girls of Paris - 7/20/19. 384 pages.
4. 15th Century
- Lent - 7/27/19. 382 pages.
5. Russian Revolution
- The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family. 8/1/19. 464 pages.
6. Futuristic
- The Giver. 8/3/19. 208 pages.
7. English Restoration Period
- The King's Bed: Ambition and Intimacy in the Court of Charles II - 8/5/19. 368 pages.
Stage 9: Settings (time) COMPLETEDGoal: 2500 pages
OOTZ: Pulitzer Prize winner
Number of tasks 5
Task 1: 1970s
104 p The Beggars' Strike by Aminata Sow Fall
152 p Meet Me At Tamerlane's Tomb byBarbara Corcoran
256p Voyage to the Island by Raija Nieminen
Task 2: 1940s
192 p. The Dark Child by Camara Laye
Task 3: After the fall of the Iron Curtain 1990s
258 p. Rivers of Babylon by Peter Pišťanek
Task 4: Between the World Wars (1920s and 1930s)
198 p = 180 p + 10% Both Your Houses by Maxwell Anderson
197 p = 179p + 10% They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard
218 p The Black Joke by Farley Mowat
194p = 176 p + 10%. Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill
54 p = 49 p +10%. Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill
138p. = 126p +10% Craig's Wife by George Kelly
309 p. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear bt Dore Schary
Task 5: Current Day (post-2000)
153p The Story of Anna P, as Told by Herself by Penny Busetto
Total. 2524 p
Lusie's Stage 15: Protagonists - completed � � �Goal: 5% - 3975 pages: Up to 8 tasks
Out of zone goal: Science Fiction
Total: 3987 pages
1. Medieval (5th-15th century)
� 468p A Kingdom of Dreams set in 1497 [10-jul-19] ★★�
2. Set in 1800
� 736p Whitney, My Love set in 1816 [12-jul-19] ★★�
� 430p Until You set in 1824 [13-jul-19] ★★�
� 390p An Offer From a Gentleman set in 1817 [25-aug-19] ★★�
� 372p To Sir Phillip, With Love set in 1824 [28-aug-19] ★★�
� 368p When He Was Wicked set in 1824 [28-aug-19] ★★�
3. Third Millenium (2000+)
� 276p Onder de Griekse zon [16-jul-19] ★★�
� 107p Draw You In [18-jul-19] ★★�
� 294p Just This Once [4-aug-19] ★★�
� 250p Ryan's Bed [20-aug-19] ★★�
4. Futuristic
� 296p Glory in Death [13-jul-19] ★★�
Mod
Up to 8 tasks
OoZ: books in Bahasa Indonesia
Progress: 5,441/5,400 pages as at 08/16
1. 20th Century
🗸 339p - The Ministry of Special Cases (chp1, 4th para, "It was 1976 in Argentina") -Read 07/12
🗸 314p - Hear the Wind Sing / Pinball, 1973: Two Novels (The Rat #1-2) (Wind - chp2, "This story begins on August 8, 1970. and ends eighteen days later--in other words, on August 26 of the same year."; Pinball - up to 1973) -Read 07/13
🗸 576p - The Shifting Fog (timeslip between 20s & 90s) -Read 07/22
🗸 434p - The Complete Autobiography (Janet Frame Autobiography #1-3) (20's to 60's) -Read 08/08
🗸 351p - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple #9) -Read 08/12
sub-total: 2,014p
2. Third Millenium (2000+)
🗸 336p - A Scone to Die For (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #1) -Read 07/09
🗸 422p - The Coroner (Jenny Cooper #1) -Read 07/26
🗸 384p - Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin #1) -Read 07/29
🗸 334p - The Ranger (Quinn Colson #1) -Read 07/30
🗸 421p - The Disappeared (Jenny Cooper #2) -Read 08/04
🗸 422p - A Tale for the Time Being -Read 08/14
🗸 384p - Death Mask (Dr. Anya Crichton #5) -Read 08/16
sub-total: 2,703p
3. 18th Century
🗸 226p - The Red Chief -Read 07/24
sub-total: 226p
4. Futuristic
🗸 266p - The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles #1) -Read 07/18
🗸 232p - The Book of Phoenix (Who Fears Death 0.1) -Read 07/23
sub-total: 498p
Mod
Goal: 2,675 pages
up to 5 tasks
OOZ Goal: Magical Realism - You know that I am never going to read this Genre by choice, right?
1. Roman Empire (Rome as Capital - 27 BC to 286 AD)
370p - Daughters of Rome
386p - Medicus
480p - As a Driven Leaf
277p - Venus in Copper
2. Roman Republic (509 BC to 27 BC)
290p - The Judgement of Caesar
896p - The First Man in Rome
Total 2699p.
Stage 9: Settings (Time)Goal: 8,000 pages
Tasks: Up to 11
OoZ: POC
Completed: 8,079/8,000 pages
Present day:
The Husband Maker (226 pages) 7/19/19
Lying Season (348 pages) 7/23/19
On Demon Wings (454 pages) 7/23/19
Unraveled (352 pages) 8/7/19
The Boyfriend Experience (158 pages) 8/4/19
Into the Hollow (447 pages) 8/13/19
Intercepted (320 pages + OoZ --author is AA + 32 = 352 pages) 8/14/19
Irreplaceable (306 pages) 8/18/19
Coldhearted Boss (331 pages) 8/22/19
Take Me Again (234 pages) 8/23/19
When Dimple Met Rishi (400 pages + OoZ --author of Southeast Asian descent --40 pages = 440 pages) 8/23/19
Fumbled (331 pages + OoZ --author is AA + 33 = 362 pages) 8/27/19
Hot as Puck (330 pages) 8/28/19
The Wild Ones (336 pages) 8/30/19
Revved (410 pages) 8/30/19
Accidental Abduction (110 pages) 8/31/19
Up in Flames (288 pages) 9/1/19
Her Mad Hatter (137 pages) 9/1/19
Unwrapping Hank (138 pages) 9/2/19
Under Locke (497 pages) 9/2/19
Off the Record (236 pages) 9/2/19
Never Kiss a Stranger (274 pages) 9/2/19
Nailed Down (258 pages) 9/4/19
Yes, Please (252 pages) 9/5/19
Now, Please (198 pages) 9/5/19
Futuristic:
Wolf Rain set in 2083 (416 pages + OoZ --heroine is AA +42 pages = 458 pages) 8/12/19
1960's:
Let It Shine (134 pages + OoZ -- author is AA + 13 pages = 147 pages ) 8/17/19
Stage 9 - Settings (Time) - COMPLETEDGoals: 2500 pages
1001 list books (bonus of extra 10% of the book's pages if it qualifies)
Books read = 8
Pages read = 2503
1. Between the Wars (1919-1939)
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr, 4 Aug 19 - 111 pages
2. World War II
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 15 Aug 19 - 478+10% 1001 bonus = 526
Fair Stood the Wind for France by H.E. Bates, 30 Sept 19 = 224 pages
3. 21st Century (2000-2019)
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon, 30 Aug 19 - 214 pages
Autumn by Ali Smith, 18 Sept 19 - 264 pages
4. Future
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, 31 Aug 19 - 339 pages
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, 15 Oct 19 - 404 pages
The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey, 19 Oct 19 - 421 pages
Stage 9: Settings (time)Goals:
2,112 pages (5% of 2018 pages) ==> up to 5 tasks
🎯Out of the Zone goal: nonfiction
1. 1950s
The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley (set in 1950s England) (327 pages) Read: 7/5/19
2. Present Day
Beartown by Fredrik Backman (418 pages) Read: 7/9/19
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager (371 pages) Read: 7/25/19
When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal (352 pages) Read: 7/27/19
3. Futuristic
Feed by Mira Grant (set in 2024) (599 pages) Read: 7/26/19
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (set in "spacefaring future") (149 pages) Read: 7/28/19
Total = 2,216
Goal = 2,112
Staged 9: Settings (time)Goals: 2275 pages
Out of the Zone goal: Non audiobooks
Unlocked 7/5/19
tasks up to 5
Task 1: 70's
Suspicious Minds 304 pages + OOTZ bonus 30= 334 pages
Task 2: Aughties 1900-1909 & 2000-2009
Goal: 5,000 pages - DONE!1. The 1950's and 60's
2. Futuristic
3. World War II
4. World War I
5. Present Day
Total: 5,018
Stage 9: Settings (time)My Goal: 3800 pages
Up to 8 tasks
Progress: /3800 pages
0% complete
Date: Jul 7
***OOTZ bonus = Nonfiction***
1. 1980s
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2. 1990s
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3. 1970s
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4. 1950s
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Mod
I think that's a fair assumption
Goal: 3000 pagesTasks: up to 5
OoZ: Nonfiction
1. 1920s-1930s
2. WW2-era
3. end of the 19th century
4. Early 1900s
5. 1862
= 3245
Completed: 3245/3245
DONE!
Mod
Goal 1225 pages, up to 5 tasks
1 - present day
�The Shortest Way Home, 352 pages - fin 7/24
2 - futuristic
�Dawn (Xenogenesis #1), 248 pages - fin 7/14
�This World We Live in, 256 pages - fin 8/20
3 - 17th century
�Shinju, 437 pages - fin 8/18
Total pages read:1293
COMPLETED 8/20
Goal 3,500 pagesPages Read: 532
1) Present Day
2) futuristic
3) 1990's
4) 1980's
5)Word War II
The Alice Network
Completed 10/13/19
532 pages
Goals:5% of 2018 pages - to be calculated 1/1/19 (2,770 pages)
Out of the Zone goal: Nonfiction (+10% page numbers)
Unlocked: 7/5/19
Tasks: up to 5
TBD
Stage 9 - Settings (time)Goal =2,234 5% of 44,686
Post WII
� The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 15 July 2019 ★★� 487 (audio)
� The Huntress by Kate Quinn 21 July 2019 ★★★★ 560 (audio)
(1048)
Regency
� Venetia by Georgette Heyer 29 July 2019 ★★★★� 364 (audio)
1960's
� The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart 13 September 2019 ★★★★� 400 Audio
1950's
� Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart 31 December2019 ★★★★� 372
� 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie 24 November 2019 ★★★★ 272
Stage 4: Listopia Goal: 5468 p.
Tasks: up to 7
OOZ: Non fiction
Pages Completed: 5591 p.
1. Current Day
Fight for Her 10/5/19 254p.
The Sleeping Beauty Proposal 10/20/19 322p.
A Lot of Fuss About a Duck 11/14/19 165p.
Hot Mess 11/29/19 137p.
Risk No Secrets 12/4/19 388p.
The Knocked up Plan 12/6/19 302 p
Savor the Danger 1/5/20 411p.
Deadly Fear 2/28/20 385p.
A Madness of Sunshine 3/6/20 344p.
My Sister's Grave 5/9/20 416p
Death du Jour 5/23/20 451p
2. Futuristic
Big Jack 5/17/20 309p.
3. 19th Century
No Good Duke Goes Unpunished 10/15/19 384 p.
A Perilous Undertaking 5/18/20 338p.
4. Early 20th Century
Fall of Giants 4/30/20 985p.
Stage 9 settings (time)Goal 6,500
OOZ - not a novel
1. Futuristic
All You Need Is Kill 201 pages completed July 14
State Tectonics 432 pages completed July 23
The Consuming Fire 336 pages completed August 11
The Stars, Like Dust 304pages completed August 18
Yesterday's Kin 192 pages completed August 20
The Currents of Space 304 pages completed October 11
Empty Space: A Haunting 320 pages completed October 17
Vigilance 208 pages completed October 21
Children of Ruin 608 pages completed November 4
The Serrano Connection 768 pages completed November 8
3682 pages
2. 17th Century
Lords of Misrule 608 pages completed August 4
Silence 267 pages completed September 6
The King's Gold 296 pages completed September 16
1171 pages
3. 19th Century
Where Shadows Dance 342 pages completed September 22
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet 472 pages completed September 26
814 pages
4. 18th Century
Benito Cereno 160 pages completed Sept 25
Hazard 346 pages completed October 7
506 pages
5. 1910-1919
Prisoner of Midnight 247 pages completed October 14
The Devil in the Flesh 172 pages completed November 9
374 pages
6547/6500
Stage 9 ~ Goal: 9,199 pages'Out of the Zone' goal: POC authors
Tasks: up to 11
Goal: 2,500 pages (up to 5 tasks)Out of Zone: Read a book I own (and acquired before 2019)
1. The Future
Etherworld (340 + 34 pages) - 7/28/2019
Partials (468 pages) - 9/9/2019
Starters (384 + 38 pages) - 9/16/2019
Portrait of a Spore: The 3rd Unhidden Story (33 + 3 pages) - 9/17/2019
2. 1600s
Invisible World (228 + 23 pages) - 8/30/2019
3. 1900s
Goliath (543 pages) - 10/7/2019
4. Cerca First Century A.D.
Alphabet of Dreams (432 + 43 pages) - 10/12/2019
Total: 2,569/2,500 pages - Completed
does time - as in like a time of year count? i'm thinking rather than just a ton of contemporary books - saying like books set christmas time vs. any time of year
Mod
yep that works
Tien wrote: "Dee wrote: "does time - as in like a time of year count? i'm thinking rather than just a ton of contemporary books - saying like books set christmas time vs. any time of year"yep that works"
thanks ;)
Pick 'n' Mix (2019) ~~ Stage 9 ~ Settings (time)January - December 2019
Page Goal: 5,000 Total Pages Read: 5,177
Out of the Zone: classic or literary fiction
Task limit is 8
Stage 9 ~ Settings (time) (msg 29)
Futuristic ~ set in the future
🔹Chaos in Death ~ J.D. Robb ~ 160 pp ~ 07.16 ★★�
🔹Celebrity in Death ~ J.D. Robb ~ 396 pp ~ 08.23 ★★★★
🔹Delusion in Death ~ J.D. Robb ~ 381 pp ~ 12.01 ★★★★
🔹Calculated in Death ~ J.D. Robb ~ 401 pp ~ 12.31 ★★★★
Historical ~ set pre-1900
🔹Yellowstone Reflections ~ Peggy L. Henderson ~ 127 pp ~ 07.14 ★★�
🔹Tender Betrayal ~ Jennifer Blake ~ 380 pp ~ 08.19 ★★�
🔹The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After ~ Julia Quinn ~ 386 pp ~ 10.09 ★★★★
🔹Beneath Montana's Sky ~ Debra Holland ~ 125 pp ~ 09.07 ★★�
🔹Cupid's Mistake ~ Karen Harbough ~ 224 pp ~ 09.11 ★★�
🔹Crocodile on the Sandbank ~ Elizabeth Peters ~ 262 pp ~ 08.30 ★★�
🔹Secrets of a Summer Night ~ Lisa Kleypas ~ 384 pp ~ 10.02 ★★★★
🔹In from the Cold ~ Nora Roberts ~ 105 pp ~ 11.02 ★★★★
Near Past ~ set pre-2000
🔹A Bridge for Judith ~ Clarissa Ross ~ 136 pp ~ 11.17 ★★�
🔹Death at Wentwater Court ~ Carola Dunn ~ 276 pp ~ 07.25 ★★�
🔹Last Summer ~ Theresa Weir ~ 248 pp ~ 08.16 ★★�
Past and Present
🔹Seduction ~ M.J. Rose ~ 386 pp ~ 07.10 ★★�
🔹The Collector of Dying Breaths ~ M.J. Rose ~ 416 pp ~ 07.30 ★★�
🔹Kiss the Earl ~ Gina Lamm ~ 384 pp ~ 11.11 ★★�
Stage 9 - Settings (Time)Goal - 3,500pgs
**OOtZ Goal - MPG Classics
785/3,500pgs
OOtZ books: 0
Futuristic
The Naked Sun - 208pgs - 8/5/19
Artemis - 305pgs - 8/7/19
90s
The Beauty of Men - 272pgs - 9/1/19
Strip Jack - 269pgs - 9/17/19
Stage 9: Settings (Time)Goal - 2,019 pages (up to 5 tasks)
**OotZ Goal - Nobel Winner OR Women's Prize/Man Booker shortlisted
Pages Completed: 2,052
Pages Remaining: -
1. 1900-1949:
**24/7/19 The Second World War: Milestones to Disaster 602pp +10% (Nobel 1953) = 662pp
**27/12/19 Independent People 482pp +10% (Nobel 1955) = 530pp
2. Pre 1700:
**10/12/19 A Mercy 158pp +10% (Nobel 1993) = 173pp
3. Victorian:
4/10/19 The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper 333pp
18/12/19 Shadowplay 310pp
4. Christmas:
30/11/19 A Christmas Tree 44pp
My goals:1: 1,500 pages (about 8% of my 2018 pages)
2. Translated book
Victorian
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde 126
60s
The Muse by Jessie Burton 447
Future
The Twelve by Justin Cronin 569
pages read so far: 1142
OOZ bonus:
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Please note tasks below are just some ideas which you may wish to use and/or adapt according to your preference. You are free, of course, to come up with your own tailored tasks as long as it fits within the theme of "Time".
futuristic
The Noughties (1900 - 1909 & 2000 - 2009)
the 90s
the 60s
the 20's
Ancient (up to 500 AD)
Medieval (5th-15th century)
Napoleonic War (1803 - 1815)
Opium Wars (1839 � 1860)
World War I (1914 - 1918)
World War II (1939 - 1945)
Elizabethan Era (1558 � 1603)
Regency Era (1811 - 1820)
Victorian Era (1837 - 1901)
Colonial period (Australia: 1788�1901)
Civil War (America: 1861-1865)
(etc)
NOTES:
1. Even if your time setting refers to war or particular King or Queen, it does not mean that your books will necessarily involve that particular war or personage. BUT, please be clear in your completion post on what time settings you are referring to AND if not clear from book description, to note it on your post too.
2. If reading a time slip novel (that is where there is alternate perspectives between past & present) at least 50% of a particular time period must be set in your task's time period). Again, please be clear in your completion post, what time setting this is.