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Posted on 8/10/20 at 12:23 pm to
Posted by Sneaky__Sally
Member since Jul 2015
12364 posts
Posted on 8/10/20 at 12:23 pm to
COVID really made hitting my target easy this year.
Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
25845 posts
Posted on 8/10/20 at 12:51 pm to
I've slowed down a bit again. Been binging more things on Netflix the last month or so.
Posted by Telos
Member since Aug 2020
34 posts
Posted on 8/20/20 at 10:37 pm to
1. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan, 782.
2. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan, 681.
3. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan, 674.
4. The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan, 980.
5. The Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan, 963.
6. God, His Existence and His Nature: A Thomistic Solution of Certain Agnostic Antinomies, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, 822.
7. The Old Testament.
8. The Iliad, Homer, 614.
9. The Odyssey, Homer, 485.
10. The Persians, Aeschylus, 40.
11. The Seven Against Thebes, Aeschylus, 40.
12. The Suppliant Maidens, Aeschylus, 39.
13. Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus, 43.
14. The Oresteia, Aeschylus, 162.
15. Antigone, Sophocles, 48.
16. Oedipus the King, Sophocles, 68.
17. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles, 79.
18. Ajax, Sophocles, 57.
19. The Women of Trachis, Sophocles, 49.
20. Electra, Sophocles, 73.
21. Philoctetes, Sophocles, 64.
22. The Histories, Herodotus, 518.
23. Alcestis, Euripides, 49.
24. Medea, Euripides, 60.
25. The Children of Heracles, Euripides, 43.
26. Hippolytus, Euripides, 60.
27. Andromache, Euripides, 46.
28. Hecuba, Euripides, 61.
29. The Suppliant Women, Euripides, 47.
30. Heracles, Euripedes, 56.
31. The Trojan Women, Euripides, 51.
32. Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Euripides, 62.
33. Ion, Euripides, 74.
34. Helen, Euripides, 72.
35. The Phoenician Women, Euripides, 67.
36. Orestes, Euripides, 91.
37. The Art of War, Sun Tzu, 170.
38. How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie, 236.
39. Rhythm of War, Brandon Sanderson, 1219.
40. The Bacchae, Euripides, 65.
41. Iphigenia In Aulis, Euripides, 82.
42. The Cyclops, Euripides, 33.

This post was edited on 12/6/20 at 7:47 pm
Posted by thedrumdoctor
Gonzales,La
Member since Sep 2016
898 posts
Posted on 9/9/20 at 1:03 pm to
Bump to get it back on the first page.
Update your lists people!
And if you have fallen off pace, there's still plenty of time to meet your goal!
Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
25845 posts
Posted on 9/12/20 at 10:14 pm to
Back on the board after taking far too long to read this last book.
Posted by Sneaky__Sally
Member since Jul 2015
12364 posts
Posted on 9/13/20 at 5:42 am to
I slowed up a lot too - hit this series which uses a ton of words i have to look up the definiton for.
Posted by ecb
Member since Jul 2010
10094 posts
Posted on 9/21/20 at 7:16 pm to
1. The windup bird chronicles - Haruki Marukami
2. What I talk about when I talk about running - Haruki Marukami
3. Catholics and Protestants - Peter Kreeft
4. Crossing the Tiber - Stephen K Ray
5. The Body - Bill Bryson
6. The Hot zone - Richard Preston
7. St Thomas Aquinas- C.K. Chesterton (Audio)
8. A sportsman’s notebook - Turgenev (Audio)
9. Letters - C.S. Lewis (audio)
10. Awareness - Anthony Demello
11. Rome Sweet Home - Scott Hahn
12. The Lambs Supper - Scott Hahn
13. I am Hutterite - Mary Ann Kirkby
14. The Sporting Road - Jim Fergus
15. A Hunters Road - Jim Fergus
16. Travels with My Donkey -Tim Moore
17. Another fine mess - Tim Moore

Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
25845 posts
Posted on 10/16/20 at 2:07 pm to
Another on the board bump.
Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
25845 posts
Posted on 10/20/20 at 7:40 pm to
And another bump. Ha.
Posted by Maytheporkbewithyou
Member since Aug 2016
13895 posts
Posted on 11/7/20 at 1:15 pm to
Bump
Posted by r3lay3r
EBR
Member since Oct 2016
2411 posts
Posted on 11/7/20 at 7:44 pm to
Never stated a goal, but decided to track what I read this year. I'm reading #60 at the moment and will finish it in a couple days.

1. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
2. Small Favor (The Dresden Files) - Jim Butcher
3. Quichotte - Salman Rushdie
4. Turn Coat (The Dresden Files) - Jim Butcher
5. Ninth House (Alex Stern) - Leigh Bardugo
6. Changes (The Dresden Files) - Jim Butcher
7. Me - Elton John
8. Ghost (The Dresden Files) - Jim Butcher
9. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
10. Cold Days (The Dresden Files) - Jim Butcher
11. Red Square - Martin Cruz Smith
12. Skin Game (The Dresden Files) - Jim Butcher
13. Open Season - CJ Box
14. The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
15. Garnethill - Denise Mina
16. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
17. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
18. Hellfire - Eoin Colfer
19. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
20. Exile - Denise Mina
21. Resolution - Denise Mina
22. Agent Running in the Field - John Le Carre'
23. Savage Run - CJ Box
24. Dear Edward - Ann Napolitano
25. Benjamin Franklin An American Life - Walter Isaacson
26. I know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
27. Winterkill - CJ Box
28. The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan
29. Still Midnight - Denise Mina
30. Trophy Hunt - CJ Box
31. The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
32. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
33. Love In the Ruins - Walker Percy
34. The Spy and The Traitor - Ben Macintyre
35. The End of the Wasp Season - Denise Mina
36. A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers
37. The Republic of Thieves - Scott Lynch
38. Out of Range - CJ Box
39. Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch
40. The Dragon Reborn - Robert Jordan
41. Gods and Beasts - Denice Mina
42. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor - Hank Green
43. Against All Things Ending - Stephen Donaldson
44. The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern
45. Side Jobs (Dresdan Files) - Jim Butcher
46. The Red Road - Denise Mina
47. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (Catherine Liu translation)
48. In Plain Sight - CJ Box
49. Blood, Salt, Water - Denise Mina
50. The Shadow Rising - Robert Jordan
51. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
52. Utopia Avenue - David Mitchel
53. The Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
54. Free Fire - CJ Box
55. The Fires of Heaven - Robert Jordan
56. Squeeze Me - Carl Hiaasen
57. The Searcher - Tana French
58. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Earnest Hemmingway
59. The Evening and The Morning - Ken Follett
60. Conviction - Denice Mina
61. Blood Trail - CJ Box
62. Brief Cases - Jim Butcher
63. The Last Dark - Stephen R. Donaldson
64. Lord of Chaos - Robert Jordan
65. Below Zero - CJ Box
66. Peace Talks - Jim Butcher
67. An Onion In My Pocket - Deborah Madison
68. Battle Ground - Jim Butcher
69. A Land Remembered - Patrick D. Smith
70. Washington: A life - Ron Chernow

EDIT: Last update - Finished 69 and currently 100+ pages in on #70
This post was edited on 12/31/20 at 10:18 pm
Posted by Big Chipper
Charlotte, NC
Member since Sep 2008
2932 posts
Posted on 11/10/20 at 7:56 am to
Currently on number 80. Updated list on page 1.
Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
25845 posts
Posted on 11/10/20 at 7:59 am to
quote:

Currently on number 80.


From your initial post:
quote:

Did 77 last year. Gonna dial it back to 52 this year.


Shut down made you read more?
Posted by Sneaky__Sally
Member since Jul 2015
12364 posts
Posted on 11/10/20 at 8:08 am to
It definitely did for me
Posted by Big Chipper
Charlotte, NC
Member since Sep 2008
2932 posts
Posted on 11/10/20 at 9:33 am to
quote:

Shut down made you read more?


Yep! I read when there's a lull at work via the Kindle Cloud Reader. All my lunches include reading and I've been wearing out my Kindle Oasis on nights and weekends.
This post was edited on 11/10/20 at 9:35 am
Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
25845 posts
Posted on 11/13/20 at 11:33 pm to
Bump for two additions this week as I finished two anthologies.
Posted by Adajax
Member since Nov 2015
8255 posts
Posted on 11/25/20 at 2:56 pm to
Bump. Get those end of the year updates in. Let us know what you're reading.
Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
25845 posts
Posted on 11/26/20 at 4:33 pm to
Added another today. Hopefully I can get a couple more in before the calendar turns.
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
73180 posts
Posted on 11/26/20 at 10:27 pm to
I just finished "When a crocodile eats the sun" by peter godwin.

a personal and powerful memoir by a white Zimbabwean as he explores why his parents decided to stay in a country collapsing around them. You learn about why Zimbabwe collapsed, but the story is mainly (imo) about a son trying to discover the truth about his very taciturn father. He discovers a shocking detail about his heritage that his father hid from him until very late.

Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
25845 posts
Posted on 12/2/20 at 8:39 am to
Bump.
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