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Excellent, I need this prompt!Are we allowed to have books count against multiple prompts?
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🗸 547p - The River of No Return (River of No Return #1) -Read 02/24
🗸 561p - The Son -Read 03/24
🗸 500p - Tyrant's Blood (Valisar Trilogy #2) -Read 03/31
🗸 864p - Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1) -Read 04/04
🗸 565p - The Tower of Ravens (Rhiannon's Ride #1) -Read 04/23
🗸 552p - Cress (The Lunar Chronicles #3) -Read 04/30
🗸 556p - The Bridge to Holy Cross (The Bronze Horseman #2) -Read 05/11
🗸 796p - The Brothers Karamazov -Read 05/13
🗸 503p - Patriot Games (Jack Ryan #1) -Read 05/15
🗸 827p - Winter (The Lunar Chronicles #4) -Read 05/16
🗸 643p - Riders in the Chariot -Read 06/01
🗸 515p - Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe #2) -Read 06/08
🗸 711p - The Persimmon Tree (The Persimmon Tree #1) -Read 06/11
🗸 513p - Without Warning (The Disappearance #1) -Read 06/26
🗸 613p - Mutiny on the Bounty A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds -Read 06/28
🗸 530p - A Fraction of the Whole -Read 06/29
🗸 531p - The Night Watch -Read 06/29
🗸 928p - Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan #2) -Read 07/12
🗸 576p - The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds #1) -Read 07/20
🗸 672p - Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell Trilogy #1) -Read 07/22
🗸 566p - Where Rainbows End -Read 07/24
🗸 625p - The Three Musketeers (The d'Artagnan Romances #1) -Read 08/10
🗸 608p - Oliver Twist -Read 08/12
🗸 502p - Prince of Fools (The Red Queen's War #1) -Read 08/28
🗸 560p - The Liberation -Read 09/01
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Are we allowed to have books count against multiple prompts?"
Ah, good question. No crossover between prompts, Meg, sorry.
There are only going to be 6 so hopefully that's not going to be too big of an issue :)
Oo boy! These big books have, for the most part, been on my TBR a while. I need this prompt (ha!).Prompt 2: Read Big and/or Intimidating Books
Goal: 7 books
�The Fifties, 816 pp. - Yawn .... DNF, but read most of it
�America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie, read 26 Apr 2020, 606 pp.
�The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne, read 3 Feb 2020, 582 pp.
�The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley, read 22 Feb 2020, 582 pp.
�The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish, read 18 Mar 2020, 566 pp.
�Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon, read 9 Jun 2020, 560 pp.
�House Rules by Jodi Picoult, read 28 May 2020, 532 pp.
�The Huntress, Kate Quinn, 14 Sept 2020, 530 pp.
Big BooksThe Labyrinth of the Spirits completed February 10
The Feast of the Goat completed February 24
Oathbringer completed February 26
Fool's Fate completed March 7
Against the Odds completed March 24
Barkskins completed April 1
Fall or, Dodge in Hell: The Sci-Fi Sensation completed April 3
Cage of Souls completed May 3
The Death of the Necromancer completed May 15
The Seamstress completed May 24
Last Call completed July 4
The Famished Road completed July 26
11/30
Tien wrote: "Meg wrote: "Excellent, I need this prompt!Are we allowed to have books count against multiple prompts?"
Ah, good question. No crossover between prompts, Meg, sorry.
There are only going to be 6 s..."
That's what I suspected. I might take a couple of the big ones out of prompt 1 then!
Big books :Progress: 5226/5000
Shantaram 936pp FINISHED!
David Copperfield 912pp FINISHED!
Kushiel's Justice 880pp FINISHED!
4 3 2 1 866pp FINISHED!
Written in My Own Heart's Blood 825pp FINISHED!
Passage 780pp FINISHED!
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Goal: 5 books
�Oathbringer - 1248p - Read 2/27/20
�The Pillars of the Earth - 973p - Read 6/30/20
�And the Sea Will Tell - 729p - Read 7/10/20
�The Wise Man's Fear - 994p - Read 2/26/20
�Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer - 668p - Read 8/11/20
Prompt 2: Big Books �Read: 20 / 20 books
� 1248p Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive #3) [23-feb-20] ★★★★
� 912p Queen of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices #3) [20-apr-20] ★★★★
� 864p The Light of All That Falls (The Licanius Trilogy #3) [31-may-20] ★★★★
� 811p The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman #1) [25-apr-20] ★★★★�
� 742p The Moon Sister (The Seven Sisters #5) [24-feb-20] ★★★★
� 742p The Summer Garden (The Bronze Horseman #3) [7-jun-20] ★★
� 728p The Sun Sister [7-mar-20] ★★★★
� 701p Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices #2) [17-apr-20] ★★★★
� 698p Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices #1) [14-apr-20] ★★★★
� 642p The Innocent Mage (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker, #1) [3-mar-20] ★★
� 624p The Butterfly Room [21-jun-20] ★★★★
� 610p Somerset [12-mar-20] ★★
� 608p Southern Ruby [21-jul-20] ★★★★
� 608p The Wildest Heart [27-jan-20] ★★�
� 578p Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman #2) [6-may-20] ★★★★
� 577p Dragonfly [13-jul-20] ★★★★
� 537p The Colonel and The Enchantress (The Enchantresses #4) [23-apr-20] ★★�
� 530p The Shell Seekers [16-may-20] ★★
� 528 Thuishaven [26-jun-20] ★★�
� 506p Sanctuary [12-jun-20] ★★�
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Prompt #2: Big and/or Intimidating booksGoal 10,000 pages.
10,184/10,000
1. Wolf Hall - 3/7/20 - 653 pages
2. Bring Up the Bodies - 3/24/20 - 412 pages
3. Daughter of the Forest - 3/29/20 - 669 pages
4. The Collected Short Stories of Saki - 4/22/20 - 512 pages.
5. A Plague of Giants - 5/18/20 - 641 pages
6. A Blight of Blackwings - 5/23/20 - 560 pages
7. 17. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. 6/2/20. 540 pages
8. The Mirror & the Light - 6/7/20 - 784 pages.
9. Vagabonds - 6/18/20. 640 pages.
10. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - 7/1/20. 585 pages.
11. Dune - 7/3/20. 688 pages.
12. A Dance with Fate - 7/25/20. 512 pages.
13. The Priory of the Orange Tree - 9/4/20. 848 pages.
14. Ship of Magic - 9/12/20. 832 pages.
15. Complex - 11/14/20. 700 pages.
16. Moonflower Murders - 12/2/20. 608 pages.
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Goal: 10 books
�1 Fall, or Dodge in Hell, 896 pages - fin 4/17
�2 Wish You Well, 432 pages - fin 5/13
�3 Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy #3), 765 pages - fin 6/3
�4 Cress (The Lunar Chronicles #3), 552 pages - fin 6/16
�5 For the Win, 477 pages - fin 6/24
�6 First Family, 449 pages - fin 7/3
�7 Wonderstruck, 640 pages - fin 7/27
�8 The Secret Place, 453 pages - fin 8/5
�9 Children of Blood and Bone - 9/8 - fin 9/8
�10 The Diamond Age, 499 pages- fin 9/21
COMPLETED 9/21
Completed: 5489/5000 pages - Completed!Matches a monthly shelf:
February: speculative fiction
�Gnomon - 704pp - 2/10/20
�A Discovery of Witches - 579pp - 2/15/20
�Shadow of Night - 584pp - 2/29/20
March: mystery
�The Book of Life - 564pp - 3/18/20
The Crimson Petal and the White - 836pp
House of Leaves - 709pp
4321 - 866pp
Cloud Atlas - 529pp
The Queen of the Tearling - 643pp
Kushiel's Chosen - 678pp
Other big books:
�Fall of Giants - 985pp - 3/14/20
�My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales - 576pp - 6/3/20
Here I Am - 587pp
Timothy Leary: A Biography - 704pp
Dreamland - 676pp
Perdido Street Station - 710pp
�2666 - 898pp - 8/3/20
�Feed - 599pp - 9/21/20
Prompt 2: Read Big and/or Intimidating Books - 5 books ~ ~ ~ (5/5 read)- Textos cautivos by Jorge Luis Borges (reviews, essays and biographies... by Borges) �
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (692 pages of tiny font) �
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (502 pages of tiny font) �
- La muerte del comendador, Libro 2 (496 pages) �
- El tesoro de Troya: La odisea de Heinrich Schliemann, el arqueólogo más famoso del siglo XIX [The Treasure of Troy] by Philipp Vandenberg (exhaustive biography of H. Schliemann in my tbr since... 1997...) �
of course...maybe i'll do better on this prompt....
Goal: 4,040 pages per Prompt Read : 921/4,040
**=Matches a monthly shelf:
February: speculative-fiction
March: mystery
On my LOST 2020:
1276pp - The Count of Monte Cristo
720pp - In Sunlight and in Shadow
624pp - The Bone Clocks
534pp - Ice Road
Others on my TBR:
1,088pp - The Pillars of the Earth
838pp - Anna Karenina
742pp - Cathedral of the Sea
737pp - A Little Life
640pp - The Nix
630pp - Red Seas Under Red Skies
622pp - Life after Life
600pp - Flight Behaviour
582pp - The Heart's Invisible Furies
576pp - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
549pp - Fingersmith
529pp - Cloud Atlas
�521pp - North and Southfinished 30/3/20
512pp - What Happened
�400pp - The Three-Body Problem (not Big, but Hard Science Fiction is definitely Intimidating) finished 2/5/20
On my Wishlist:
784pp - The Mirror & the Light
731pp - Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
721pp - Armadale
501pp - Palace Walk
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yes, same goal
Prompt 2: Read big and/or intimidating books Goal: 20 books - DONE!
�1. Knife (531 pages) - Completed 2/1/20
�2. Lies (498 pages) - Completed 2/11/20
�3. The Nix (640 pages) - Completed 3/29/20
�4. One Good Deed (628 pages) - Completed 3/7/20
�5. Iron Gold (601 pages) - Completed 5/3/20
�6.The Heart's Invisible Furies (592 pages) - Completed 2/25/20
�7. Masked Prey (640 pages) - Completed 5/8/20
�8. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (540 pages) - Completed 6/16/20
�9. The Fountains of Silence (512 pages) - Completed 4/15/20
�10. The Border (768 pages) - Completed 5/4/20
�11. Plea of Insanity (608 pages) - Completed 10/18/20
�12. Long Bright River (482 pages) - Completed 6/25/20
�13. New York 2140 (624 pages) - Completed 9/9/20
�14. Memories of Glass (432 pages) - Completed 8/9/20
�15. This Tender Land (450 pages) - Completed 7/31/20
�16. An Ember in the Ashes (446 pages) - Completed 9/9/20
�17. High Noon (480 pages) - Completed 11/15/20
�18. Dark Age (704 pages) - Completed 10/8/20
�19. Troubled Blood (994 pages) - Completed 12/7/20
�20. The Program (464 pages) - Completed 11/20/20
My goal is 5 booksGoal: 0/5,000
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Prompt 2: Read big and/or intimidating books - 5,000 pagesThe Wise Man's Fear - 27/02/2020 - 1,000 p.
Silent in the Grave - 21/03/2020 - 509 p.
The Poet - 25/08/2020 - 510 p.
Jonathan Strange & il Signor Norrell - 31/10/2020 - 887 p.
La diseducazione di Cameron Post - 14/12/2020 - 536 p.
Total: 3,442/5,000 pages
Prompt 2: Read big and/or intimidating booksGoal : 5 books
7/10
1. The Great Pursuit - 3/15/20 - 528 pg
2. Caged - 3/25/20 - 506 pg
3. Devious Lies - 6/14/20 - 700 pg
4. Mr. Spencer - 7/11/20 - 550 pg
5. Lev - 7/31/20 - 678 pg
6. The Shadows - 9/23/20 - 576 pg
7. The Coffin Dancer - 10/7/20 - 532
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Goal: 5 Books
1. It (Big)
2. The Priory of the Orange Tree (Big)
3. The Passage (Big)
4. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Intimidating)
5. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Big)
Finishes:
10/12
10/19
1. It (Big)
2. The Priory of the Orange Tree (Big)
3. The Passage (Big)
4. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Intimidating)
5. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Big)
Finishes:
10/12
10/19
Prompt 2 ~ Read Big and/or Intimidating BooksGoal ~ 10 books
I don't ever read books over 400 pages, so a 500+ book is pretty huge for me! And my goal of 10 books per prompt - that's going to be a massive number of pages. I need to think of it as a year long project. Then maybe it won't scare me so bad.
1. Big Book
The Alice Network by Kate QuinnCompleted ~ 1.29.20
Pages ~ 503
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(Definitely worth the time it took to finish it, which wasn't that much longer than usual)
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenCompleted ~ 2.13.20
Pages ~ 503
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(I've put off reading this book for so long, and now I don't even know why because it was wonderful)
3.
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow: A Novel by Olivia HawkerCompleted ~ 2.16.20
Pages ~ 493
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In the Woods by Tana FrenchCompleted ~ 2.21.20
Pages ~ 431
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(This book was good but it took forEVER to read because of the tiny print and narrow margins.)
5.
The Murmur of Bees by Sofía SegoviaCompleted ~ 3.5.20
Pages ~ 471
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(I really enjoyed this one. It was a book selection in one of my other challenge groups, and it was fun to read it with other people.)
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The Quiet Game by Greg IlesCompleted ~ 4.25.20
Pages ~ 580
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(I knew I would like this one, once I got started on it because I really loved the Mississippi Burning trilogy. Penn Cage is a great character and Greg Iles tells a really good story. The only problem I had with this one was the print size was SO SMALL!)
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The Orphan Master's Son by Adam JohnsonCompleted ~ 5.8.20
Pages ~ 443
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(This one truly was intimidating, even though it wasn't all that much longer than what I usually read. But, being a Pulitizer Prize winner, it was very "academic" by my normal reading standards. It took me a while to get into it, but once I did, I devoured it. Fantastic reading!)
8.
The Last Juror by John GrishamCompleted ~ 5.20.20
Pages ~ 487
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(This one feels almost like cheating because it didn't feel that long. Honest. It was Grisham at his finest.)
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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel MaddowBlowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
Completed ~ 5.25.20
Pages ~ 405
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(So not really "big" so much as just simply intimidating. I don't read non-fiction much at all because I have plenty of nonfiction in my real life. I read for relaxation. I read to escape reality. I read for entertainment. I read just for fun. I listen to Rachael Maddow - every night. And I admire and respect her. She's brilliant. She connects dots in a way that is pure journalistic genius. But she scares me a little with how smart she is, and ... this book. I should have known better. What she did was tell a series of stories, gradually connecting this dot to that dot to the next dot, and when she was done, I was smarter, and the book was - just like Rachael - brilliant.)
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The Bone People by Keri HulmeCompleted ~ 6.24.20
Pages ~ 450
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So this one has been on my to-read list since I first joined GoodReads - which means at least 2014, and probably further back than that. I don't know why I haven't attempted it before now, so I'm putting it in the "intimidating" category because it just looked so ... academic. Too bad for me, because it was brilliant. The language barrier was tricky at first, but once I got into the unique rhythms of the syntax, time literally flew by. Great book!
Bonus !
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Cemetery Road by Greg IlesCompleted ~ 6.15.20
Pages ~ 590
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This one was simply a great read.
Prompt #2: Read Big and/or Intimidating BooksFinished: 7/10 books
Big Books
1. Ruins (544 pages) - 3/7/2020
2. Gone (560 pages) - 3/22/2020
3. Hunger (590 pages) - 4/19/2020
4. The Sight (480 pages) - 4/28/2020
5. Dragon Rider (527 pages) - 5/3/2020
6. The Book of Fate (508 pages) - 7/22/2020
7. Visitors (608 pages) - 8/4/2021
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (620 pages)
The Diviners (578 pages)
The Angel's Game (522 pages)
The Red Pyramid (516 pages)
Tess of the Road (544 pages)
Nevermore (543 pages)
Renegades (556 pages)
Strange the Dreamer (536 pages)
Replica (520 pages)
Fire Bringer (512 pages)
Stain (512 pages)
I'm so glad I choose 5 books for these prompts. Here are my 5 big/intimidating books
1. Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb- 832 pages FINISHED 28 Feb
2. Crime and Punishment- 614 pages- FINISHED May 7
3. Jump!- 768 pages
4. Alaska- 868 pages
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Prompt 2: Big and/or Intimidating Books Goal: 10 books
***Requirements: 450+ pages and/or 15+ hours on audio***
✔︎1. Boarded by Love (16 hours, 3 minutes) 2/27/20
✔︎2. Steel's Edge (15 hours, 25 minutes) 3/1/20
✔︎3. The Will (24 hours/595 pages) 3/4/20
✔︎4. Beard in Mind (466 pages) 3/14/20
✔︎5. Luna and the Lie (17 hours/628 pages) 3/16/20
✔︎6. Soaring (24 hours, 7 minutes/603 pages) 4/1/20
✔︎7. Prey (477 pages) 4/19/20
✔︎8. The Time in Between (19 hours, 2 minutes/563 pages) 4/23/20
✔︎9. Broken Dove (23 hours, 3 minutes/692 pages) 4/26/20
✔︎10. Wild Country (17 hours, 57 minutes/492 pages) 5/3/20
Prompt 2: Big and/or Intimidating BooksGoal: 5,000 pages
Progress: 4,564/5,000 pages
✔︎ Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (541 pages) Read: 4/8/20
✔︎ The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston (629 pages) Read: 10/12/20
✔︎ Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (531 pages) Read: 11/9/20
✔︎ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (672 pages) Read: 6/30/20
✔︎ One Second After by William R. Forstchen (511 pages) Read: 10/29/20
✔︎ Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (525 pages) Read: 5/31/20
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (518 pages)
✔︎ An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (1,155 pages) Read: 2/29/20
Planned pages = 5,077
Aww man, I made big books one of my "out of comfort zone" topics. Guess I'll be reading a lot of big books this year!! :)Prompt 1: Big/Intimidating Books
Goal: 5000p.
Completed: 985 p.
1. Fall of Giants 4/30/20 985p.
Prompt 2: Read big booksMy goal: 3500 pages
Read: 6 books, 4038 pages
1. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates, 2 Apr 20 - 939 pages
2. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, 3 May 20 - 589 pages
3. The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge, 29 May 20 - 490 pages
4. Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18 June 20 - 428 pages
5. Weaveworld by Clive Barker, 26 Sept 20 - 648 pages
6. Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith, 16 Oct 20 - 944 pages
Oh no... I need this one but there's a reason these have been sitting on my to-read shelf for so long....Goal: 6000 pages
The Way of Kings (1007 pgs)
A Game of Thrones (835 pgs)
New York 2140 (624 pgs)
Completed = 3859/6325
Prompt 2: Read big or intimidating books3/10 READ
1. I Know This Much Is True (897 pgs)
2. A Column of Fire (916 pgs)
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5. Anna Karenina (964 pgs)
6. The Plague
7. Fight Club
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9 House of Leaves (705 pgs)
10. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Started on my first "big book". I put it on my pile of books last week and have been trying to plan my reading so I could start it this morning. Yay! And so far it's a good read -- yay again :)
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Just Read It! (2020)
January - December 2020
Prompt #2: Read Big and/or Intimidating Books (size or content)
Prompt Goal: 10 books | Total Read: 10
My Prompt #2 (msg 39)
Big Books (page count)
✔�772 pp ~ Alone In the Dark ~ 02.24 ★★★★�
✔�673 pp ~ Lover Mine ~ 04.20 ★★★★
✔�563 pp ~ The Time in Between ~ 04.18 ★★★★
✔�499 pp ~ Wild at Heart ~ 07.19 ★★★★
✔�556 pp ~ Lover Avenged ~ 03.28 ★★★★
✔�461 pp ~ Sommersgate House ~ 11.15 ★★★★
✔�511 pp ~ Lover Unleashed ~ 05.19 ★★★★
✔�521 pp ~ The Stopover ~ PaS Monthly - April ~ 04.29 ★★★★
Intimidating (not usual genre, dreading finishing the book)
✔�straight (non-romance) sci-fi/fantasy ~ Animal Farm ~ 11.02 ★★�
✔�dread to finish ~ Axeman's Jazz ~ 04.28 ★★�
Prompt #2: Big and/or Intimidating bookschanged goal to 10 per prompt
Prompt #2
Prompt #2
� Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden 16 June 2020 ★★★★
� Back in the Fight: The Explosive Memoir of a Special Operator Who Never Gave Up by Joseph Kapacziewski
� Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon 24 March 2020 ★★★★�
� The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 26 July 2020 ★★�
� Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer 5 October 2020 ★★★★
� Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre 11May 2020 ★★★★
replacement: The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff 22 November 2020 ★★★★�
� Helen of Sparta by Amalia Carosella 18 August 2020 ★★�
� The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America by Allison Pataki 14 November 2020 ★★★★
� Nefertiti by Michelle Moran 27 December 2020 ★★★★
Prompt 2: Read Big and/or Intimidating BooksGoal 8 Books
1. Auraria 3/1
2. Perfect Poison: A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine 3/16
3. Kiss Me, Kill Me and Other True Cases 3/29
4. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End 3/25
5. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery 3/30
6. The Notebook 3/31
7. The Zombie Chronicles 3/31
8.A Gentleman in Moscow4/4
ha - apparently i never signed up for this phase ;)Goal: 12000pgs
Current: 8469pgs
Fall of Giants - finished - 3/16/20 - 942pgs
Winter of the World - finished - 4/4/20 - 940pgs
Edge of Eternity - finished - 4/20/20 - 1104
The Brothers Karamazov - finished - 5/19/20 - 796pgs
The Summer Garden - finished - 6/8/20 - 742pgs
The Gilded Hour - finished - 6/27/20 - 741pgs
Wolf Hall - Finished - 7/22/20 - 604pgs
Dragonfly - Finished - 7/23/20 - 563pgs
The Mirror & the Light - finished - 9/7/20 - 757pgs
Harrow the Ninth - finished - 10/01/20 - 512pgs
A Promised Land - finished - 12/10/20 - 768pgs
New York 2140
The Guns of the South
My goal is going to be five "big" books from my list, and I'll add the date as I finish them :)1. The Brothers Karamazov 796 Pages
2. Infinite Jest 1,088 Pages
3. A Little Life 720 Pages
4. The Goldfinch 771 Pages
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 639 Pages
Saylor - Tien and I are reading the Brothers Kamarazov right now - we’re about 40% of the way done if you want to join us
That would actually be perfect! I’m between books while waiting for some to become available and I have this one. Should I try and catch up to a certain point this weekend?
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I'm a tad ahead of schedule but not that far ahead.
Awesome, I started last night and I'll try and read as much as possible this week! :)
Prompt 2: Big/Intimidating Books
Goal: 10 Books per Prompt
Completed: 0/10
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Black Hawk Down (other topics)The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (other topics)
Helen of Sparta (other topics)
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield (other topics)
The Count of Monte Cristo (other topics)
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Kate Quinn (other topics)
William R. Forstchen (other topics)
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