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message 1: by Joy D (last edited Dec 31, 2019 08:50AM) (new)

Nov 19, 2018 06:22PM

# Books YTD: 151
# Pages YTD: 55,793

By Genre:
33 - Non-Fiction
16 - Contemporary Fiction
4 - Fantasy
41 - Historical Fiction
51 - Literary Fiction
6 - Science Fiction

By # Pages:
8 - <200
100 - 200-400
34 - 401-600
7 - 601-800
2 - 800+

By Star Rating:
17 - 5 stars
89 - 4 stars
38 - 3 stars
6 - 2 stars
1 - 1 star

Authors:
76 - Female
74 - Male
1 - Trans

Joy D's Book Balcony 2019 Challenges:
Note: Some books will be used for more than one challenge

鉁�Personal Reading Challenge: challenge of 84 books completed 7/24/19 - will continue to update through year-end
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鉁�TBR Jar Challenge: 12/12 - challenged completed 6/26/19
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鉁�Let's Turn the Pages: 55,793/40,000 - challenge completed 9/16/19
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鉁�Clear the Shelves: 18/18 - challenge completed 4/22/18
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鉁�Non-Fiction Growth Challenge: 10/10 - challenge completed 4/25/19
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鉁�12 +4 in 2019: 16/16 - Challenge Completed 6/2/19
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鉁�Round #2 starts in msg 24 - Challenge Completed 9/16/19:
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鉁�Color Challenge: 18/18 - challenge completed as of 5/20/19
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鉁�POPSUGAR Challenge: 50/50 (only committed to 40) - challenge completed 12/11/19
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鉁�An Author's Body of Work: 5/5 (Isabel Allende) - challenge completed 6/21/19:
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鉁�New to You Authors: 12/1/18 - 11/30/19 - challenge completed as of 6/14/19
12/12
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鉁�Kind of a Big Deal - challenge completed 6/19/19
Total completed: 15/15
10 long books-over 500 pages: 10/10 - completed
and 5 short books under 200 pages: 5/5 - completed
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鉁�Motley Reading Challenge: 26/26 - challenge completed 7/24/19
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鉁�PBT Trim the TBR: 12/12 - challenge completed 12/4/19
(Admins pick 1 per month of 36 listed)
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鉁�PBT Monthly Tags: 12/12 completed 12/15/19
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Reviews are also posted:
Here
and
Here
and
Here (RT - Fiction)
and
Here (RT - Non-Fiction)
and, if published in the 20th century,
Here (Reading the 20th Century)

鉁�2019 Mount TBR Challenge at The Roundtable (private group): Challenge Completed 12/31/19
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鉁�The International Challenge at The Roundtable (private group): Challenge Completed 12/31/19
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鉁�Library and Owned Challenge at the Roundtable (private group):
Challenges Completed 7/14/19
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鉁�Around the World in 80 Books - 2019 TBR Takedown:
/topic/show/... - challenge completed 12/6/19

鉁�All About Books (favorite of the month) - Challenge Completed 12/30/19
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鉁�Around the World Tourist Challenge (visit at least 24 countries):
/topic/show/... - challenge completed 7/28/19 but will keep tallying the countries

Overall Top 25 Favorites of 2019:
1. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak - completed 8/20/19 - 5 stars - My Review
2. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - completed 8/28/19 - 5 stars - My Review
3. Atonement by Ian McEwan - completed 7/7/19 - 5 stars - My Review
4. To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey - completed 5/20/19 - 5 stars - My Review
5. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry - completed 5/13/19 - 5 stars - My Review
6. American Rust by Philipp Meyer - completed 4/16/19 - 5 stars - My Review
7. The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester - completed 6/27/19 - 5 stars - My Review
8. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson - completed 11/21/19 - 5 stars - My Review
9. Peony: A Novel of China by Pearl S. Buck - completed 10/27/19 - 5 stars - My Review
10. The Humans by Matt Haig - completed 10/5/19 - 5 stars - My Review
11. The Hours by Michael Cunningham - completed 5/23/19 - 5 stars - My Review
12. The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism by John U. Bacon - completed 4/11/19 - 5 stars - My Review
13. Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides - completed 1/15/19 - 5 stars - My Review
14. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon - completed 7/31/19 - 5 stars - My Review
15. Inland by T茅a Obreht - completed 4/19/19 - 5 stars - My Review
16. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley - completed 9/16/19 - 5 stars - My Review
17. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner - completed 11/26/19 - 5 stars - My Review
18. The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar - completed 1/4/19 - 4 stars - My Review
19. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zaf贸n - completed 1/24/19 - 4 stars - My Review
20. The Brothers K by David James Duncan - completed 8/9/19 - 4 stars - My Review
21. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead - completed 10/23/19 - 4 stars - My Review
22. The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes - completed 12/7/19 - 4 stars - My Review
23. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser - completed 11/16/19 - 4 stars - My Review
24. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes - completed 7/23/19 - 4 stars - My Review
25. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende - completed 6/21/19 - 4 stars - My Review

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message 2: by Joy D (last edited Dec 31, 2019 08:51AM) (new)

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message 4: by Joy D (last edited Mar 05, 2019 10:42AM) (new)

Nov 19, 2018 06:23PM

February 2019: Month 13; YTD 23

Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request by Mitch Albom - completed 2/1/19 - 3 stars - My Review

We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt - completed 2/2/19 - 2 stars - My Review

The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay - completed 2/3/19 - 3 stars - My Review

Caraval by Stephanie Garber - completed 2/5/19 - 4 stars - My Review

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne - completed 2/7/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande - completed 2/9/19 - 4 stars

Without a Country by Ay艧e Kulin - completed 2/10/19 - 3 stars - My Review

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan - completed 2/12/19 - 4 stars - My Review

In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende - completed 2/15/19 - 4 stars - My Review

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster - completed 2/17/19 - 4 stars - My Review

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks - completed 2/20/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende - completed 2/25/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo - completed 2/28/19 - 3 stars - My Review

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message 5: by Joy D (last edited Mar 31, 2019 08:23PM) (new)

Nov 19, 2018 06:23PM

March 2019: Month 12; YTD 35

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson - completed 3/4/19 - 3 stars - My Review

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester - completed 3/9/19 - 3 stars - My Review

The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker - completed 3/10/19 - 4 stars - My Review

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende - completed 3/13/19 - 4 stars - My Review

The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell - completed 3/16/19 - 3 stars - My Review

The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob - completed 3/20/19 - 4 stars - My Review

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - completed 3/24/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Private Life by Jane Smiley - completed 3/24/19 - 3 stars - My Review

Pickle's Progress by Marcia Butler - completed 3/25/19 - 1 star - My Review

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford - completed 3/27/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue - completed 3/27/19 - 4 stars - My Review

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker - completed 3/31/19 - 4 stars - My Review

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message 11: by Joy D (last edited Dec 31, 2019 09:15AM) (new)

Nov 29, 2018 06:02PM

September 2019: Month 10; YTD 110

The Way of Beauty by Camille Di Maio - completed 9/1/19 - 2 stars - My Review

Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors by James D. Hornfischer - completed 9/4/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk - completed 9/6/19 - 3 stars - My Review

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - completed 9/8/19 - 4 stars - My Review

The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild by Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence - completed 9/10/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi - completed 9/12/19 - 3 stars - My Review

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley - completed 9/16/19 - 5 stars - My Review

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer - completed 9/21/19 - 3 stars - My Review

The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton- completed 9/24/19 - 4 stars - My Review

The Overstory by Richard Powers - completed 9/30/19 - 4 stars - My Review

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message 12: by Joy D (last edited Oct 30, 2019 11:04AM) (new)

Nov 29, 2018 06:02PM

October 2019: Month 15; YTD 125

The Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton - completed 10/3/19 - 4 stars - My Review

The Humans by Matt Haig - completed 10/5/19 - 5 stars - My Review

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute - completed 10/6/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent - completed 10/8/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew by Michael D. Leinbach and Jonathan H. Ward - completed 10/10/19 - 4 stars - My Review

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert - completed 10/12/19 - 3 stars - My Review

The Dry by Jane Harper - completed 10/14/19 - 3 stars - My Review

Melmoth by Sarah Perry - completed 10/16/19 - 4 stars - My Review

The Snow Gypsy by Lindsay Ashford - completed 10/17/19 - 3 stars - My Review

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf - completed 10/19/19 - 3 stars - My Review

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: A Novel by Ron Hansen - completed 10/21/19 - 3 stars - My Review

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead - completed 10/23/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Tangier by Stephen Holgate - completed 10/25/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Peony: A Novel of China by Pearl S. Buck - completed 10/27/19 - 5 stars - My Review

Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton - completed 10/29/19 - 3 stars - My Review

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message 13: by Joy D (last edited Dec 31, 2019 09:15AM) (new)

Nov 29, 2018 06:02PM

November 2019: Month 12; YTD 137

Apeirogon: A Novel by Colum McCann - completed 11/4/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin - completed 11/7/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris - completed 11/12/19 - 3 stars - My Review

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway - completed 11/13/19 - 4 stars - My Review

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser - completed 11/16/19 - 4 stars - My Review

A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial by James Reston Jr. - completed 11/18/19 - 4 stars - My Review

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson - completed 11/21/19 - 5 stars - My Review

The Vegetarian by Han Kang - completed 11/23/19 - 3 stars - My Review

The Last Watchman of Old Cairo: A Novel by Michael David Lukas - completed 11/24/19 - 3 stars - My Review

In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner - completed 11/26/19 - 5 stars - My Review

Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir by Cinelle Barnes - completed 11/28/19 - 3 stars - My Review

A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers - completed 11/29/19 - 4 stars - My Review

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message 14: by Joy D (last edited Dec 28, 2019 08:53AM) (new)

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message 15: by Joy D (last edited Nov 30, 2019 08:28PM) (new)

Dec 17, 2018 01:19PM

Committed to Read: Completed items are checked (鉁�) and bolded
Selected by GR Randomizer:
鉁� 1. Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides - completed 1/15/19 - 5 stars
鉁�2. Caraval by Stephanie Garber - completed 2/5/19 - 4 stars
鉁�3. And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life by Jane Christmas - completed 4/5/19 - 4 stars
鉁�4. We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt - completed 2/2/19 - 2 stars
鉁�5. The Address by Fiona Davis - completed 6/1/19
鉁�6. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande - completed 2/9/19 - 4 stars
鉁�7. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer - completed 5/1/19 - 4 stars
鉁�8. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - completed 4/22/19 - 4 stars
鉁�9. The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker - completed 3/10/19 - 4 stars
鉁�10. The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future by Joselin Linder - completed 5/8/19 - 3 stars
鉁�11. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher - completed 6/26/19 - 3 stars - My Review
鉁�12. Without a Country by Ay艧e Kulin - completed 2/10/19 - 3 stars

Non-Fiction Growth Challenge:

鉁�7. Read a book about how to learn.
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster - completed 2/17/19 - 4 stars

鉁�10. Read a book about psychology.
The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain by James Fallon - completed 4/25/19 - 4 stars

鉁�13. Read a book about your favorite hobby to become better at it.
Discover Oil Painting: Easy Landscape Painting Techniques by Julie Gilbert Pollard - completed 1/31/19 - 4 stars

鉁�17. Read a book about someone鈥檚 journey; inner or outer.
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt - completed 1/2/19 - 4 stars

鉁�18. Read a book about science or technology.
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck by Gary Kinder - completed 4/3/19 - 4 stars

12+4 Challenge:
Committed to reading 12 of 16 listed, with ability to substitute from the 4 alternates:

The Twelve:
鉁�1. The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob - completed 3/20/19 - 4 stars
鉁�2. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker - completed 3/31/19 - 4 stars
鉁�3. The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne - completed 2/7/19 - 4 stars
鉁�4.People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks - completed 2/20/19 - 4 stars
鉁�5. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer - completed 5/1/19 - 4 stars
鉁�6.The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel - completed 5/3/19 - 4 stars
鉁�7. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin - completed 4/28/19 - 4 stars
鉁�8. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zaf贸n - completed 1/24/19 - 4 stars
鉁�9. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - completed 4/24/19 - 4 stars
鉁�10. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell - completed 1/17/19 - 4 stars
鉁�11. Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck - completed 1/10/19 - 4 stars
鉁�12. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - completed 3/24/19 - 4 stars

The Alternates:
鉁�1. City of Thieves by David Benioff - completed 5/29/19 - 4 stars
鉁�2. To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey - completed 5/20/19 - 5 stars
鉁�3. All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy - completed 5/25/19 - 4 stars
鉁�4. The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg - completed 6/2/19 - 4 stars

An Author's Body of Work: Isabel Allende (not necessarily in this order):

鉁�In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende - completed 2/15/19 - 4 stars
鉁�Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende - completed 2/25/19 - 4 stars
鉁�The Japanese Lover - completed 3/13/19 - 4 stars
鉁�The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - completed 5/18/19 - 4 stars
鉁�Eva Luna by Isabel Allende - completed 6/21/19 - 4 stars

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message 16: by Joy D (last edited Jun 15, 2019 05:01PM) (new)

Feb 20, 2019 09:34AM

Offsite 2019 Challenge:
Challenge completed as of 6/11/19:
12/12

鉁�1. a book you鈥檝e been meaning to read
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue - completed 3/27/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�2. a book about a topic that fascinates you
Discover Oil Painting: Easy Landscape Painting Techniques by Julie Gilbert Pollard - completed 1/31/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�3. a book in the backlist of a favorite authorHag-Seed: The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood - completed 6/11/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�4. a book recommended by someone with great taste
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck by Gary Kinder - completed 4/3/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�5. three books by the same author
In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende - completed 2/15/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�6. three books by the same author
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende - completed 2/25/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�7. three books by the same author
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende - completed 3/13/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�8. a book you chose for the cover
The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar - completed 1/4/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�9. a book by an author who is new to you
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zaf贸n - completed 1/24/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�10. a book in translation
Without a Country by Ay艧e Kulin - completed 2/10/19 - 3 stars - My Review

鉁�11. a book outside your (genre) comfort zone
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden - completed 4/8/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�12. a book published before you were born
Published in 1925:
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - completed 4/22/19 - 4 stars - My Review

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message 17: by Joy D (last edited Dec 31, 2019 09:18AM) (new)

Jul 15, 2019 07:22PM

PIFM and Color Challenges
Life of a Book Addict

鉁匤anuary - white
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck - completed 1/10/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�February - pink
In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende - completed 2/15/19 - 4 stars - My Review

and

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan - completed 2/12/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�March - spring green
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson - completed 3/4/19 - 3 stars - My Review

鉁�April - yellow
And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life by Jane Christmas - completed 4/5/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�May - orange
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�June - blue
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�July - red
White Teeth by Zadie Smith - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�August - purple
The Girl from the Savoy by Hazel Gaynor - 3 stars - My Review

鉁�September - aqua
The Way of Beauty by Camille Di Maio - completed 9/1/19 - 2 stars - My Review

鉁�October - black
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew by Michael D. Leinbach and Jonathan H. Ward - completed 10/10/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�November - brown
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser - completed 11/16/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁�December - tan/beige
Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman by Mary Mann Hamilton - completed 12/1/19 - 3 stars - My Review

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message 18: by Blagica , Challenges (new)

Jul 17, 2019 02:45PM

Awesome job so far!

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message 19: by Joy D (new)

Jul 17, 2019 08:54PM

Blagica wrote: "Awesome job so far!"
Appreciate the encouragement, Blagica!

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message 20: by Joy D (last edited Dec 04, 2019 07:25PM) (new)

Aug 01, 2019 10:34AM

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message 21: by Joy D (last edited Dec 13, 2019 09:21AM) (new)

Sep 22, 2019 08:21PM

Monthly or Seasonal:

鉁匱he Roundtable (scary book for October):
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鉁匬lay Book Tag: Fall Flurries: challenge completed 12/11/19
Planning Thread: /topic/show/...

鉁匫ctober: Spooky for Halloween:
Melmoth by Sarah Perry - completed 10/16/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁匩ovember: Veteran's Day
Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin - completed 11/7/19 - 4 stars - My Review

鉁匘ecember: The Holiday Season (Christmas)
The Holidays by Mike MacDonald - completed 12/11/19 - 1 star - My Review

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message 22: by Joy D (last edited Dec 30, 2019 11:24AM) (new)

Nov 30, 2019 08:06PM

2020 Planning

Personal challenge: 100 books

16 designated books (12 + 4 Challenge)

Clear the Shelves - 20 physical books

TBR Jar - 12 ebooks

An Author's Body of Work - 5 books by Saramago

Monthly PBT Tag

PBT Decade Bingo

PBT Poll Ballot

Unofficial PBT Trim

Monthly Color Challenge (LoaBA)

Monthly P1FM (LoaBA)

Visit 24 different countries (ATW)

Read 10 from the Boxall 2001 Books List

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message 23: by Joy D (new)

Dec 31, 2019 05:55AM

All challenges completed 12/31/19
That's a wrap for 2019!

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