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Keep Turning the Pages Reading Challenge Update!

Buried By Ellison Cooper book 36 2019 Reading Challenge

Now that we’re 3/4 of the way through 2019 I think it’s time to see how I’m doing iwith my 2019 Reading Challenge. So here is my 2019 Reading Challenge……. Keep The Pages Turning 2019 Reading Challenge Through August 2019  Reading Challenge Genre Proposed No of Books Reads in 2019  Mystery and Thrillers 30 31  Science Fiction  12 1  General Fiction   6  Nonfiction      History/Political  6 3       Biographies  6 1       Science  6       Self-Help     6_ Total Books to be Read 72 36 Keep The Pages Turning 2019 Reading…

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Keep the Pages Turning 2019 Reading Challenge

The EK’s Life Safari’s 2019 Reading Challenge So since we are now into month two of 2019, I think it is time to final commit to my 2019 Reading Challenge. I have written earlier that my overall goal is to read 72 books in 2019. That’s seven books over my 2018 Challenge Goal. And  while I thought that goal of 65 books was unreachable I made it.So this ea I thought I’d  added some more! Though the years I have read mostly mysteries and thrillers. Occasionally I read history and political books. and maybe even a few self-help books. A…

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The EK’s Life Safari’s 2019 Reading Challenge

<h5><strong><em>The EK’s Life Safari’s 2019 Reading Challenge</em></strong></h5> So since we are now into month two of 2019, I think it is time to final commit to my 2019 Reading Challenge. I have written earlier that my overall goal is to read 72 books in 2019. That’s seven books over my 2018 Challenge Goal. And  while I thought that goal of 65 books was unreachable I made it.So this ea I thought I’d  added some more! Though the years I have read mostly mysteries and thrillers. Occasionally I read history and political books. and maybe even a few self-help books. A…

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An Update on the Books Read in May 2018.

So my last post was written and posted on May 26th. Since then I have started to write several posts. Then I get distracted, do something else and they never get posted! Maybe I can catch up by writing two posts. The first will be about the books I read in May and the second about my May runs. I read five book in May. That brought the total number of books that I have read in 2018 to 26. My 2018 Reading Challenge goal is 65 books so I’m on pace to reach my goal. My May Reads The…

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A Recap of My 2017 Reading Challenges – A Great Year of Reading!

Recapping My 2017 Reading Challenges So this morning I finished The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: the Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo. It is the 63rd book  that I have read in 2017. I will write about it and book 62 Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda soon. For now though, I want to review my performance on my various Reading Challenges. I will also provide some thoughts about my 2018 Reading Challenges. Here are the final statistics regarding my 2017 Reading Challenges….. 2017 Reading Challenges Goal Total % of Goal 2017 Literature Reading Challenge    …

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August Reads Recap and Reading Challenges Update….

Where I spent my August  Ok so for a week in August I was in Ship Bottom on Long Beach Island in New Jersey. But for the rest of the month I was all over the place thanks to the five books that I read. Well actually only four of them took me someplace other than my own mind, which is where You are not Your Brain took me!   My Travels Via My August Reads First, Parnell Hall’s latest Stanley Hastings adventure took me to New York City. In A Fool for a Client Stanley must discover who murdered his boss…

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Reading Challenges Update – End of June, Start of July

Reading Challenges Update and Proposed July Reads   So I wrote the other day, that I am slightly behind the pace I need to maintain to reach my goal of reading 60 books in 2017. Right now I am at 29 books and I will need to read 6 books by the end of July to get back on pace. The following chart provide a tabulation of  where I am on my various reading challenges 2017 Literature Reading Challenge Kindle Bookshelves Library Total Goal % of Goal General Fiction 0 1 2 3 2 150.00% Classics (Books I should have read but…

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Mid-May 2017 Reading Challenges Update

Mid-May Reading Challenge Update… Ok so I really must apologize for not posting here for a fairly long time. But just because I haven’t posted doesn’t mean that I haven’t been reading or listening. So in the next few posts I will try to catch up and then maybe get back on a more regular schedule for posting. My April – May Reads in my last post about reading I presented the four books that I planned to read in the remaining days of April and on into May. The four books were: Exit West by Moshin Hamid, The Lives…

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Four Reading Challenge Reads for the Rest of April

  Four Reads for the Remainder of April……   In my post for The Blood Strand, I indicated that I have currently read 18 books on a goal of 60 books. So to stay on pace I only need to read two more books before the end of the month. That should be doable! Here are four books that I am currently reading or plan to read over the next few weeks     Exit West – Mohsin Hamid One of my individual Reading Challenges is to read the Literature Reading Challenge. This challenge is to move me a little out…

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February Reads Take Me All Over Europe!

 February Reads – Books 12 to 9…..   So far this month I have finished four books. Those books have taken me to a variety of counties where I met a lot of interesting characters. I am writing about the books in the reverse order of when I read them… Book Number 12 The Hermit by Thomas Rydahl took me to the Canary Islands.There I met a 65-year-old taxi driver from Denmark, Erhard Jorgenson. Erhard lives alone in a shack near the resort of Fuerteventura. Erhard’s life is changed forever,after a car is found washed up on the beach. A dead…

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