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This RaT is not limited to just JRI!

As some participants have finished JRI! but still have some other PAS challenges to complete, this RaT is opened for whatever challenges you have left that you need to complete this month. Please do share your goal/s for this RaT.

My Goals:

*Finish MM20 (2 books)
*Read at least 1 book for Lost & Found (3 books to finish)
*Read a much as I can for my last JRI! Prompt (#6) -still 10K+ pages to go!!

MM20
336p - Sparkling Cyanide (Colonel Race #4) -Read 12/11
audio - The Watchmaker of Filigree Street -Read 12/10

Lost & Found
383p - Waterway - DNF
280p - Lilian's Story (Singer family #1) -Read 12/10
audio - The Vivisector -Read 12/07
416p - Due Preparations for the Plague -Read 12/13

JRI! Prompt #6
432p - The Two Lost Mountains (Jack West Jr #6) -Read 12/05
342p - Give Me Your Hand
654p - The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War #2)
464p - The Confession
416p - Jane In Love
376p - Cold Fear (Grønland - Greenland #2)

My goals:

Lost and Found (6 left)
Silver 1.6m=1p
Monday: 0-101 = 63
Tuesday: 101-201=63
Wednesday: 201-258 =36
Thursday: 145

#Truth and Beauty
Monday: 0-45 = 45
Tuesday: 45-73 = 28
Wednesday: 73-91 = 18
Thursday : 91-257= 166

#Paper Girls, Vol. 3
Monday: 0-121 = 121

#Tidelands
How to Be Both
#What If It's Us
#The Codes of Love
#How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Calmer, Happier Parent
Dept. of Speculation

Seriously serial
Dragon Harper

Bookopoly 2020 (get out of jail!)
#Us Against You 2.2e=1p
Monday: 408-447= 18
Tuesday: 447-611= 75
Wednesday : 10
Thursday : 13


DAILY TOTAL:
1/12 - 247
2/12 - 166
3/12 - 64
4/12 - 324

My Goals:

Finish JRI
The Second Chair - Read 45 pages
Night Moves

Finish LOST
The Alienist - Finished 12/10/20 - 498 pages

Finishing JRI will also finish PnM Settings (Place) and Series 2019

If life allows, I will add these:

from PnM
Mother Earth Father Sky

from Wheel
The Confessions of Nat Turner

These two books would complete Wheel (2018) and PnM Own TBR (2019)

I'll join too. At first I thought I'd have no goals since I've finished most challenges, but I did found some :D

PAS Shelf of the month
� December - Recursion by Blake Crouch [9-dec-2020] ★★�

PAS Bookopoly 2021
� You'd Be Mine [1-dec-2020] ★★�
� Hands Down [4-dec-2020] ★★�
� Happily Letter After [10-dec-2020] ★★
� The Ickabog [11-dec-2020] ★★
� Everless [13-dec-2020] ★★�
� Evermore [13-dec-2020] ★★★★



Pages read:
Tue 01/dec: 304 pages
304p in You'd Be Mine

Wed 02/dec: 102 pages
102p in Hands Down

Thu 03/dec: 176 pages
176p in Hands Down

Fri 04/dec: 272p
272p in Hands Down

Sat 05/dec: 19p
19p in Recursion

Sun 06/dec: 30p
30p in Recursion

Mon 07/dec: 26p
26p in Recursion

Tue 08/dec: 88p
88p in Recursion

Wed 09/dec: 173p
173p in Recursion

Thu 10/dec: 299p
299p in Happily Letter After

Fri 11/dec: 304p
304p in The Ickabog

Sat 12/dec: 56p
56p in Everless

Sun 13/dec: 306p
306p in Everless

Mon 14/dec: 368p
368p in Evermore

Realistically, I think I could knock out Prompt 1. I only need 4 books for this, 2 of which will be graphic novels, 1 will be a play and the other Leeches which is written in an alternative format.

Thereafter, Prompt 6 is next on the list.

Can I join in and Just read? With the lockdown and 8 months of staying home I have most of my challenges well in hand

1. A Medium's Birthday Surprise 01/12/2020 159 pages
2. The Tin Drum 02/12/2020 to the finish 280 pages
3. The Stationmaster's Cottage 04/12/2020 325 pages
4. Twelve Years a Slave 04/12/2020 248 pages
5. Fragile Monsters 05/12/2020 256 pages
6. The Red Badge of Courage 06/12/2020 183 pages
7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 08/12/2020 524 pages
8. March: Book One 08/12/2020 128 pages
9. Survivor In Death 09/12/2020 360 pages
10. The Dictionary of Lost Words 09/12/2020 384 pages
11. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World 10/12/2020 368 pages
12. Perhaps She'll Die 10/12/2020 256 pages
13. Out of the Easy 11/12/2020 346 pages
14. Jeeves and the Leap of Faith 13/12/2020 352 pages
15. Breaking the Chains of Gravity 13/12/2020 304 pages
14. Mercy Snow: A Novel 14/12/2020 336 pages
15. Close to Home on page 120

Total Page count 4,929

Marie (UK) wrote: "Can I join in and Just read? With the lockdown and 8 months of staying home I have most of my challenges well in hand"

Of course, Marie.
I am green with envy that you're up to date with your challenges!

Total pages: 43 4 pp
I am in. I need to finish JRI and MM. I will focus on JRI.
The Nightingale for JRI prompt 1
From Dead to Worse JRI prompt 4
Completed 12/9/20
Handle with Care prompt 1
111 pp

Tuesday December 1-
Wednesday December 2- 50 pp From Dead to Worse
Thursday December 3-28pp From Dead to Worse
Friday December 4-42 pp From Dead to Worse
Saturday December 5-40pp From Dead to Worse
Sunday December 6-30 pp From Dead to Worse
Monday December 7-30 pp From Dead to Worse
Tuesday December 8-40 pp From Dead to Worse
Wednesday December 9-49pp From Dead to Worse Completed 12/9/20
Thursday December 10-
Friday December 11-Handle with Care 40 pp
Saturday December 12-Handle with Care 10 pp
Sunday December 13-Handle with Care 30 pp
Monday December 14-Handle with Care 45 pp

Tien wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "Can I join in and Just read? With the lockdown and 8 months of staying home I have most of my challenges well in hand"

Of course, Marie.
I am green with envy that you're up to ..."

I'm not going to work on challenges either, Marie. Probably just the book of the month

I have three 800+ page books left for my final prompt and I've started all of them. My goal is to finish two, one a week, as well as knock down my currently reading list in general. I'm behind in my overall reading, too.

JRI:
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Passage

Other currently reading:
Lucifer, Book One
Atonement Camp for Unrepentant Homophobes
Olive Kitteridge

Want to start really bad:
Surrender Your Sons

I have 2 more books to finish for LOST. I think I'll have finished one before Dec 1, so my only real goal for the Readathon is my last one, Lost Boys. It's somehow been lost at my library, and I've been waiting for it to arrive via interlibrary loan. But on Dec. 1, I'll give up and request it from another local library that has it available digitally.

If I do finish that, then I'll do more on seriously serial, which I think I'm not likely to complete this year but still haven't given up on.

Daily Totals
Dec 1 (Ts) 45 pages
Dec 2 (Wed) 101 pages
Dec 3 (Th) 207 pages
Dec 4 (F) 140 pages
Dec 5 (Sat) 165 pages
Dec 6 (Sun) 185 pages
Dec 7 (M) 100 pages
Dec 8 (Ts) 86 pages
Dec 9 (Wed) 112 pages
Dec 10 (Th) 197 pages
Dec 11 (F) 112 pages
Dec 12 (Sat) 61 pages
Dec 13 (Sun) 51 pages
Dec 14 (M) 143

Total 1803 pages

my goals for RAT are:
- finish prompt 4 - 400pgs left
- finish prompt 1 - 2300pgs left
- finish LOST and FOUND - 9 books left

I just realized that RAT is 2 weeks long! I plan to add to my list, since that would amount to only 90 pages a day. I can do more than that.

I haven't finished my bookopoly 2020 book yet so that can be my goal for the read-a-thon :D

Lusie wrote: "I haven't finished my bookopoly 2020 book yet so that can be my goal for the read-a-thon :D"

Ha! I DNF'd 2 from a pick-of-3 so hopefully third time's the charm & it's my last for Bookopoly 2020 too & way overdue (after trying & failing to finish those other 2!). It'll have be part of RAT for sure lol

My Goals:

Lost 2020 (and Just Read It Prompt 6) - The Red Pyramid
MM 2020 - 3 books left
Bookopoly 2020 - 1 book left

I did finish bookopoly 2020 after all. So I'll focus on the shelf of the month. It's nice to be done so early with challenges, so I'll be ready when new ones start next year

I have one lost book to finish, then may create a found list to read in December. Or maybe I'll just wait for 2021 on that.

I'm not doing very well with this RAT. I started a 27hr audiobook which is going very slowly...

But then I have to read some library books which don't have anything to do with the challenges!!

How are everyone else going?

Going well for now, but it will slow down soon. My problem is that most of the books I need to read are on audio or ebook. I read those formats a lot more slowly.

I finished a book on the first day, so am doing well so far too. Though now I have evening shifts so reading is likely to slow down

i finished up 1 book which finished up one of my JRI prompts; chugging away on a 28hr audio (thankfully its good, so i'm listening to more each day than i need to - its a library audio and its due back in 21 days with a huge waitlist)

have like 4 other books in progress

I'm struggling. My chosen start book is going slowly. I may start one of the others and read fewer pages per day in the first book...94 pages per day is a struggle unless the book is immediately interesting.

Also, I have several library books in progress not for RAT.

I haven't been doing much, but at least I've remembered to keep track of what little I did do. Some RATs I forget even to do that.

The books I'm reading are going slowly.

I'm reading my last 2020 Lost book - Jesus Land: A Memoir

And I'm listening to Eva Luna, which was picked in bookopoly. It's good, but kind of meandering and I have to listen closely to follow it, so not great if I'm distracted.

I'll probably finish both this weekend.

I think I'm in a reading slump really... I hesitated each time I'm about to read and wanting to do something else!

ETA: I just finished my last book for bookopoly '20!! Now I can move on to '21 :D

Sounds like several of you are strugling. Hugs to you all!

Dee, great job one of your JRI prompts

Bea, think you will hang in there for the slow book or are you thinking about not finishing it?

Joanna, good luck finishing that last lost book!

Tien, sorry to hear you are in a reading slump! Hope you get out of it quickly. Congrats on finishing your last bookopoly 2020 book! Well done you!

For me reading is going well. I've now picked up Recursion for the december shelf of the month science. I've only read a few pages and think it has got potential.

I am halfway through my book for prompt 4

Lusie, congrats on a good RAT so far!

I will try to complete The Alienist. It is the last LOST book, so there is that motivation. But, it is also starting to get a bit more interesting.

I was pushing to do the three books consecutively, but that was 94 pages per day. I have had to revise my plan and slow up a bit. Currently I have also started the second book - The Second Chair. The two books together are over 1000 pages.

Bea - i was planning on listening to Alienist for SRC but likely not to start until next week if you want to wait (i have another uber long audio i'm in the middle of)

Dee wrote: "Bea - i was planning on listening to Alienist for SRC but likely not to start until next week if you want to wait (i have another uber long audio i'm in the middle of)"

Dee, I am about 1/3 of the way through it now. I think I will keep going.

I'm still reading, but I've given up tracking daily pages. I got too far behind. But I've finished 4/8 books i need to finish off all the PAS 2020 challenges

Bea, I have slowed down with my reading now. I have got too many other hobbies and am spending less time on reading.

Sounds like you are doing great, Meg! I have finished 2 books

Lusie wrote: "Bea, I have slowed down with my reading now. I have got too many other hobbies and am spending less time on reading.

Sounds like you are doing great, Meg! I have finished 2 books"

Lusie, that was one of the things that slowed my reading also this year. I have started birding, photography, obtained a trailer, and cooking. I have also continued to grow my skills in gardening. Most of those, except for the cooking, have taken a hiatus during the winter ~ at least until the first of the year.

I've just taken up knitting! well, not really as I knitted a long time ago - nothing difficult then and nothing difficult now, just straight simple sort of knitting.

This is what I've been making: (mine doesn't look that good!) but I've repurposed it to be a book cover of sort. Well, the first one was a Secret Santa gift for my IRL bookclub and I just finished a second one for my son's kindergarten's teacher's Christmas gift.

I will make myself one... some time lol

ETA: I finished 1 Lost book for Lost & Found which leaves 1.5 books to go. Started a MM20 book on audio. I've had to finish a review book last night and a library book today so I'm probably not doing that great with my goal even if I'm reading!

Wow~ Tien. I am impressed. I gave up knitting such a long time ago...my stitches were never even as each time I picked up the piece my tension was different! I ended up pulling more out than I was putting in!

Bea wrote: "Wow~ Tien. I am impressed. I gave up knitting such a long time ago...my stitches were never even as each time I picked up the piece my tension was different! I ended up pulling more out than I was ..."

well, that's probably the reason why my product doesn't look as good as that picture lol

I am halfway through my prompt 4 book.

Bea, how lovely you picked up so many new hobbies this year.

Tien, I like knitting too. The pattern looks good. I never tried knitting with t-shirt yarn though.

I should continu my crochet project, but instead I'm spending more time on my new hobby which is diamond painting. It's so relaxing and helps me clear my mind

It's my first time too with t-shirt yarn. I like how soft it is :)

What's diamond painting?

It's like paiting by number but then using stones instead. You place tiny sparkling stones on a sticky canvas to form a picture. You just follow the pattern.

This is what I am working on


Here is a wip picture, but I am much further with it now but on this picture you can see I've done the left side and yet have to work on he right side

i like diamond painting too lusie - i have a couple on the ship - but we rock too much - so i've defaulted to either cross-stitch or hand quilting as my relaxing activity.

oh my, that's amazing! I never heard of such a thing but I don't think my eyes can cope. I'm struggling with cross stitching as it is :/

Wow! I would never attempt that, but I bet the result is beautiful! Impressive.

Shame you can't work on it now, Dee. I like cross stitch too, but never tried quilting.

Thank you Tien and Bea!

Tien, yes you do need good eyes for it.

Bea, this is my first diamond painting but I also think the end result is going to be beautiful

How did people go this RAT? Did you meet your goal?

I managed to finish MM20 (2 books) & Lost & Found (3 books) but only managed 1 book and a half for JRI! which means I still have 10K pages to read... I don't think I'll finish JRI! before end of year, oops.

I finished my 1 JRI book.

I finished 6/6 remaining Lost and Found books, and my last 2020 bookopoly. Just my last seriously serial to go and I'll be able to check of all the 2020 challenges.

I didn't had any old challenges, so I worked on the shelf of the moth and bookopoly 2021. I finished 6 books, so thats good! Still one day left, so I might finish another book