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Rules for this mini readathon challenge:

Participants have to be in pairs. You can bring in your own pair. If you don't have anyone, we will pair you with another person without a pair. If we can't find anyone, you will be asked to join an existing pair as the third person.
Duration: one month (June 2020)

There will be a list of books from which both should read and compete. The one with higher page count at the end of month is winner.

Booklist: Each partner can nominate 10 books (count can be mutually increased after discussion with your partner. Max limit for nominating books is 25. )

Apart from this, Each partner should suggest 2 challenge books that must be compulsorily read by his/her partner.

So there will be totally 24 books minimum in the list which can be counted towards this challenge. This must be chosen and fixed before commencing the challenge.

You can leave some wildcard slots to populate later during the month but the number of books to be suggested by each partner is FIXED.

The number of wildcard slots is limited to 5. Not more than 5 can be left as wildcard slots

Only completed books will be considered for this challenge. If you have 10 pages unfinished in a tome, the tome is not considered.

The rules pretty much remain the same from the previous challenge.
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Some differences.
1. You can continue reading your current reads, however, you should not have read more than 50% of the book. Only pages read in June month counted.

The pairs so far

Iniya (message 10) and Mohi (message 12)
Makarand (message 6), Sharadha (message 9) and SP (message 19)
Richa (message 8) and Smitha (message 7)
HP (message 36) and Kavitha (message 3)
Aka (message 5) and Kru (message 4)
Gorab (message 11) and Resh (message 35)
Prem (message 13) and A (message 29)

Kavitha's books:

Books completed: 8
Page Count: 2,918

My compulsory reads
1. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman - 4 stars 159 pages
2. A Spot of Bother - 4 stars. 354 pages

My selection
1. If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai: A Conducted Tour of India
2. The Overstory
3. Yuganta: The End of an Epoch
4. Jewels of the Sun by Nora Roberts. 4 stars. 367 pages.
5. Mayavalai: மாயவலை - சர்வதே�� தீவிரவாத நெட்ஒர்க�� குறித்�� விரிவா�� ஆய்வ�� (I finished 50% already) 5 stars. 824 pages in June.
6. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
7. Les Misérables
8. The One Hour Content Plan: The Solopreneur’s Guide to a Year’s Worth of Blog Post Ideas in 60 Minutes and Creating Content That Hooks and Sells by Meera Kothand. 4 stars. 108 pages
9. The Arrival by Shaun Tan. 5 stars. 132 pages.
10. Wild card. The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Divakaruni. 4 stars. 360 pages.


Read from HP's list
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis 3.5 stars. 317 pages
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino. 5 stars. 298 pages.

Compulsory books for HP
1. Milk Teeth
2. అసమర్ధున�� జీవయాత్ర Asamardhuni Jeevayatra

Thanks for the thread Kavitha.

Total Pages Completed - 2475
No. of Books Completed - 10

My book list -

1. Zora and Me Pages 192
2. The Cursed Ground
3. Zora and Me: The Summoner - Pages 256
4. After the Quake
5. Salvation of a Saint - Pages 330
6. The Girl from the Attic (Wild Card) - Pages 210
7. Based on a True Story (Wild Card) - pages 384
8. Welcome To Your Period (Wild Card) - Pages 176
9. EVERYTHING EQUALS NOTHING:: The Universe for young scientists, mathematicians and philosophers (Wild Card) - Pages 116
10. Wild Card - The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Pages 262

Books chosen by Aka
11. Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Pages 224
12. How to Stop Time - Pages 325

Books chosen:

1. Les Misérables Pages to go: 1405
2. The Overstory
3. Gerrard: My Autobiography
4. Lanny 210 pages
5. Madame Bovary 327 pages
6. Uprooted 465 pages
7. Endymion: A Poetic Romance
8. The King of Elfland's Daughter
9. Coriolanus 206 pages
10. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well 341 pages

Kru's Picks:
1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being 320 pages
2. So You Want to Talk About Race 248 pages

My Books:
1. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
2. The Hunger Games
3. The Golem and the Jinni
4. Rage Within
5, Twelve Red Herrings
6. Exhalation: Stories
7. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
8. The Fifth Season
9. A Head Full of Ghosts
10. * W----I----L----D C----A----R---D*

Mandatory reads for me (Chosen by Sharadha & SP respectively):
1. American Gods - 674
2. The Book Thief

Mandatory reads for Sharadha & SP
1. A Man Called Ove
2. The Rosie Project
Happy Reading

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Book 1 - American Gods - (Mandatory read)
1 June 2020: At 16% now, the book is absolutely enjoyable. Having an amazing time reading about Shadow and Wednesday!

3 June 2020: 43% in the book & the fantasy is at it's peak! Sure it's meandering as Hell & written in parts wherein only a certain number of characters are only available for the part ( as in theatre) , I am enjoying it !!
7 June 2020: Finished reading American Gods! Loved it immensely.


Book 2 - The Book Thief - (Mandatory read)
11 June 2020: At 20% now. Amazing narration, beautiful relationships, loving it
16 June 2020: Finished!! Glad I got to read this one!


Book 3 - A Head full of ghosts
27 June 2020: Finished, One start. Over and Out

Total pages Read:674 + 552 + 285 = 1511

my update
Compulsory

1. Elevation 146 pages
2. Home Front 390
Rest
3. His and hers 304
4. Casual vacancy 503
5. The testaments 422

6. Cuckold - 609

Total - 2374

MY LIST
COMPULSORY SUGGESTED BY RICHA
1.Elevation ��
2. Home Front��
THE LIST OF 10 I CHOSE:
1. The Casual Vacancy��
2. The Chequer Board
3. Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End
4. The Testaments��
5, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
6. The Institute
7. Little Darlings
8. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
9. The Girl in the Spider's Web: (A Lisbeth Salander novel)
by David Lagercrantz Summary & Analysis
10.Cuckold��

FOR RICHA
1. Ghachar Ghochar
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

RICHA'S LIST
. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
2. When All Is Said
3. A Gentleman in Moscow
4. Life of Pi
5. The Blue Umbrella
6. Wild Card��
7. Wild Card��
8. Wild Card
9. Wild Card
10. Wild Card

Started with
CUCKOLD
THE INSTITUTE
SELFISH GENE

mere bas chale, I will start all 12 or more together :D

Compulsory Books by Smi -
1. Ghachar Ghochar (117 pages) - read
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (490 pages) - read

My book list -
1. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (375 pages) (starting from 106 onwards) - read 270 pages
2. When All Is Said
3. A Gentleman in Moscow (466 pages) - reading
4. Life of Pi
5. The Blue Umbrella
6. The Arrival (119 pages) - read
7. The Prince and the Dressmaker (293 pages) - read
8. The Graveyard Book (307 pages) - reading
9. Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies (71 pages) - read
10. Wild Card

Compulsory books for Smi -
1. Elevation
2. The Selfish Gene

Total Pages Completed : 270 + 117 + 119 + 293 + 490 + 71= 1360

Makrand & SP's Compulsory Reads:
1. American Gods

My list (self-nominated):
1. The Butcher Boy (231 pages) 5 stars oof!
2. A Man Called Ove (352 pages) 2 stars
3. Dear Edward (352 pages) 3 stars
4. The Housekeeper and the Professor (192 pages) 3 stars
5. The Vegetarian (208 pages) 2 stars
6. The Sense of an Ending (107 pages) 4 stars
7. Autumn (272 pages) 2 stars
8. Wild Card - The Lottery (30 pages) 4 stars.
9. Wild Card - Nevermind: Nirvana (143 pages ~30ish pages read in May) 5 stars
10. Wild Card

My list (partner-nominated):
1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (218 pages) 3.75 stars.
2. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (240 pages) 3 stars.

Total pages (possible): 2345
Total pages (compulsory reads): 458
Pages read: 2345/2345 ||| 458/458

All progress updates noted here.

Update: 1/06/20
Started with my first partner-nominated compulsory read, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Going very well at 25%. The prose is easy-flowing and engaging. Christopher is adorable and his circumstances as well as support cast are wholesome at this point. I don't feel like putting the book down :) Unless something really stupid (a la a full 180 in terms of plot and reasoning) happens, it is well on track to being a 4-5 star read for me. Next am planning to pick up either The Butcher Boy or my 2nd compulsory read, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, or both simultaneously.

Update: 2/06/20
Finished Curious Incident with review here. It was very fulfilling with some mixed feelings. I'm glad that I read it though! Thanks, Mak! :) Now onto my 2nd compulsory read.

Update: 4/06/20
Finished Boy in the Striped Pajamas with review here. 3 stars and no more. Thanks for the suggestion, SP. I also squeezed in a short story called The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. 4 stars, and the original publication is free to read on the New Yorker website. Shirley's nonchalant tone is distressing even if nothing terrible happens right until the end. That brings me upto 488 pages done in total so far. I'm now going to read The Butcher Boy. So excited! :)

Update: 6/06/20
Finished The Butcher Boy 5/5 stars and review here. WTF did I just read, I loved every second of it. I think it may genuinely be one of my best reads of the year. Next, I'm going to pick up either A Man Called Ove or another wild card short story as Francie Brady has weighed too deep on my mind. However I finish this read-a-thon, it will be a success in my book on account of The Butcher Boy as it took every ounce of my brain cell to finish!

Update: 8/06/20
Somewhere out of the left field, I picked up The Vegetarian. 2 stars with a short (spoilers-filled) review here. I'm planning to tackle another wildcard now continuing with one of previous non-fic reads (accounting also for the page difference) Nevermind: Nirvana.

Total pages read so far: 333 + 336 + 222 +246 +728 = 1865

Currently reading:
1. Life of Pi
2. Revolting Rhymes
3. The light of all that Falls

My list:

1. An Echo of Things to Come read 3.2% in may - 728 pages in july
2. The Light of All That Falls - 864 pages
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 216 pages
4. The Travelling Cat Chronicles - 288 pages
5. Eldest - 704 pages
6. Death of a Trophy Wife - 259 pages
7. The Quiche of Death - 246 pages - read
8. Tell the Wolves I'm Home - 360 pages
9. Assassin's Apprentice - 460 pages
10. That's Not What Happened - 336 pages - read
11. Revolting Rhymes - 48 pages
12. Wild slot

Mohi's nominations:
13. Verity - 333 pages - read
14. Life of Pi - 460 pages

My nominations for Mohi:
1. Noah's Rainy Day - 392 pages
2. The Tattooist of Auschwitz - 262 pages

Books stolen from Mohi's list:
1. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood - read 22.8% in may - 288 pages - read - 222 pages in june

My Compulsory reads (chosen by Rebecca)
1. Salvation of a Saint
2. Inga

Compulsory for Rebecca:
1. Cutting for Stone
2. The Great Gatsby

My list:
1. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
2. Arresting God in Kathmandu
3. Oleander Girl
4. A Case of Exploding Mangoes
5. Ladies Coupé
6. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
8. The Arrival
9. The Interview
10. Wild Card The Magic of the Lost Temple

Dashboard:
Total: 1157 pgs in 5 books.

Enjoyed both mandatory ones more than my regular reads :) Thx for picking them Rebecca.

Inga (mandatory) - 316 pgs
The Interview (Index 9) - 176 pgs
The Arrival (Index 8) - 132
The Magic of Lost Temple (Wildcard) - 203 pgs
Salvation of a Saint (mandatory) - 330 pgs

Total pages read (Final): 3188 (11 books)

Iniya's Compulsory Reads:

1. Verity by Colleen Hoover (333 pages) (from your TBR shelf)
2. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (460 pages) (from your TBR shelf)

My list (self-nomianted):

1. The Inheritance of LossInhertitance Of Loss by Kiran Desai (357 pages)
2. The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán (193 pages)
3. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (288 pages)
4. Two leaves and a bud by Mulk Raj Anand (250 pages)
5. Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh (280 pages)
6. The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi (452 pages)
7. Babyji by Abha Dawesar (356 pages)
8. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor (252 pages) (85% read in June)
9. The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U (412 pages)
10. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley (212 pages)
11. The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (305 pages)
12. Wild Card


My list (partner-nomianted):

1. Noah's Rainy Day by Sandra Brannan (392 pages)
2. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (262 pages) --

Books borrowed from Iniya's shelf:

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (216 pages)

Total Pages Completed - 1488
No. of Books Completed - 7

My List (Self-Nominated):
1. புயலில�� ஒர�� தோணி PUYALILE ORU THONI: நாவல�� NOVEL by ��.சிங்காரம�� PA.SINGARAM
2. Pasitha Manidam by Karichan Kunchu
3. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo 290 - 30 = 260
4. Around India in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh
5. Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami 48
6. Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 232
7. Vilangu Pannai(Animal Farm) Tamil by Ka. Naa. Subramaniam 184
8. Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata by Devdutt Pattanaik
9. கடவுளின் நாக்கு by S. Ramakrishnan 384-34 = 350
10. தாவரங்களின�� உரையாடல் by S. Ramakrishnan

Nomination for A:
1. The Library Book by Susan Orlean
2. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

Nomination from A:
1. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch 217
2. கோபல்ல கிராமம�� by கி.ராஜநாரயணன் (Ki.Ra) 199

hi Prem... you may ask around with your GR friends and if anyone else joins in you can pair with them.. or perhaps you can choose one of our teams to join in and let us know which
you may add 10 books and the rest of us will give you one compulsory book each to read

Em*bedded-in-books* wrote: "hi Prem... you may ask around with your GR friends and if anyone else joins in you can pair with them.. or perhaps you can choose one of our teams to join in and let us know which "

Thanks Em. I have asked a GR friend & will update based on the response. If I am not getting someone to join me I might join with Kavitha's group! :)

Prem wrote: "Em*bedded-in-books* wrote: "hi Prem... you may ask around with your GR friends and if anyone else joins in you can pair with them.. or perhaps you can choose one of our teams to join in and let us ..."

Sounds like a plan

I read my first book! Definitely did not plan this. So this goes into my wild card number 1. The One Hour Content Plan: The Solopreneur’s Guide to a Year’s Worth of Blog Post Ideas in 60 Minutes and Creating Content That Hooks and Sells by Meera Kothand. Since I started India time June 1st 5 am, I will keep India time to end the readathon.

wow

My Selection:

1. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin - 694 pages(5%)
2. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - 400 pages (May 8% | Jun 0%)
3. Circe by Madeline Miller - 416 pages
4. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel - 336 pages
5. My Gita by Devdutt Pattanaik - 280 pages
6. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling - 503 pages (10%)
7. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas - 700 pages
8. Wild card
9. Wild card
10. Wild card

My Mandatory Reads

1. American Gods by Neil Gaiman - 465 pages (11%)
2. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - 304 pages (36%)
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Update:
The Rosie Project
This is hilarious. The protagonist, Don Tillman's attempt at finding someone to date and eventually marry, reminds me of Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. I'm glad that asked for this book to be one of my compulsory reads.

The American Gods
I'm a Neil Gaiman fan but somehow I haven't managed to figure the rhythm of this book yet. Hopefully soon.

The Casual Vacancy
Oh boy! How many characters are there in this book! I did not expect anything from the author as I started reading this book. As a book that has been marketed as "fiction for adults", it sure uses profanities... However, were all these profanities necessary? I don't know yet.

Total No. of Pages - 4066
Pages Completed -

Hi SP, welcome :) Like your list!

Pairing you with Prem.

FYI, only pages of the book completed by June 30 will be included in the page count :)

Hi SP, Prem just informed me that he already got a friend. Do you also have a friend who would like to join this challenge and pair with you?

Kavitha wrote: "Hi SP, Prem just informed me that he already got a friend. Do you also have a friend who would like to join this challenge and pair with you?"

Hi Kavita, I don't have a friend for this challenge yet. I would actually enjoy reading the following:

American Gods
The Rosie Project - (this one's recommended by Bill Gates)

So I wonder if I may join Makrand and Sharadha in this mini-readathon?

Sounds good. Waiting for that team's response :)

Hello SP,
Sure thing you can join us !!

We'll both choose one book each for you which will be a mandatory read. please provide a list other than 10 for this.

secondly, we'll scrap one book out of our mandatory reads which you'll fill up ... sounds cool?

SP wrote: "I would actually enjoy reading the following:

American Gods
The Rosie Project - (this one's recommended by Bill Gates)

So I wonder if I may join Makrand and Sharadha in this mini-readathon?"

Hi SP, welcome to the challenge and sure, you can join us :) We're both Gaiman fans so happy to have another on board!

So the rules say that if we're doing the challenge as a trio, then we each need to suggest a book to the other. So, both Makrand and my one compulsory read slot opens up to accommodate your suggestion (and we both will likewise suggest to you one compulsory read each). I can keep American Gods on for you as my suggestion (same as I gave to Makrand) or if you want a change, then let me know.

Looking forward to a suggestion from you. You can pick one up for my TBR or the "compare books" section. Good luck!

Awesome!
SP, Then I propose Rosie Project as a mandatory read for you !
Also, you can select a book for me from my ever growing tbr pile's Queued list

Welcome to the group SP

Makrand wrote: "Hello SP,
Sure thing you can join us !!

We'll both choose one book each for you which will be a mandatory read. please provide a list other than 10 for this.

secondly, we'll scrap one book out of..."

Makrand wrote: "Hello SP,
Sure thing you can join us !!

We'll both choose one book each for you which will be a mandatory read. please provide a list other than 10 for this.

secondly, we'll scrap one book out of..."

Thank you Markand! This sounds awesome.

Might I suggest The Book Thief from your "Want to read" list.

Sharadha wrote: "SP wrote: "I would actually enjoy reading the following:

American Gods
The Rosie Project - (this one's recommended by Bill Gates)

So I wonder if I may join Makrand and Sharadha in this mini-reada..."

Sharadha wrote: "SP wrote: "I would actually enjoy reading the following:

American Gods
The Rosie Project - (this one's recommended by Bill Gates)

So I wonder if I may join Makrand and Sharadha in this mini-reada..."

Sharadha wrote: "SP wrote: "I would actually enjoy reading the following:

American Gods
The Rosie Project - (this one's recommended by Bill Gates)

So I wonder if I may join Makrand and Sharadha in this mini-reada..."

Thanks Sharadha!

I would enjoy reading American Gods!

And may I recommend The Boy in the Striped Pajamas as one of your mandatory reads?

Here is my final update on the challenge. I was able to read 13 books. (1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22) However, I wasn't able to finish one of the compulsory reading (Book No: 12). I am thankful to the organizers of this challenge.

My list:
1. Nilam Poothu Malarntha Naal: நிலம�� பூத்து மலர்ந்�� நாள் - 320 pages
2. A Room of One's Own
3. கோபல்லபுரத்த�� மக்கள் Gopallapurathu Makkal
4. ஒர�� நாள் - 233 pages
5. Silence: In the Age of Noise - 160 pages
6. Yugandhar
7. Fahrenheit 451
8. சிற்றன்ன�� - 77 pages
9. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
10. சொந்தஊர் மழ�� - 200 pages

Nominations for Compulsory reading
11. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed - 432 pages
12. The Library Book

Other list:
13. புயலில�� ஒர�� தோணி PUYALILE ORU THONI: நாவல�� NOVEL - 470 pages
14. Pasitha Manidam - 272 pages
15. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
16. Around India in 80 Trains
17. Birthday Girl - 48 pages
18. Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window - 232 pages
19. Vilangu Pannai(Animal Farm) Tamil - 184 pages
20. Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata
21. கடவுளின் நாக்கு - 384 pages
22. தாவரங்களின�� உரையாடல் - 219 pages

Congratulations, everyone! And wish you all a happy reading forever!
-AY

@SP
Thank you! Book Thief seems like a cool choice!

Happy Reading!

A wrote: "I will be reading with Prem

My list:
1. Nilam Poothu Malarntha Naal: நிலம�� பூத்து மலர்ந்�� நாள்
2. A Room of One's Own
3. [book:கோபல்லபுரத்த�� மக்கள் Gopallapurathu Mak..."

Great list, A! Gapallapurathu Makkal is in tbr. There are plans to read that book soon. If you and Prem are going to read together, let me know. I will join you all.

SP wrote: "Sharadha wrote: "SP wrote: "Thanks Sharadha!

I would enjoy reading American Gods!

And may I recommend The Boy in the Striped Pajamas as one of your mandatory reads?"

Yes, that's been in my TBR a long time. Would love to read it now. Thanks for the pick! Updating my list too. Good luck to all for the challenge! :)

Em*bedded-in-books* wrote: "MY LIST
COMPULSORY SUGGESTED BY RICHA
1.Elevation
2. The Selfish Gene

THE LIST OF 10 I CHOSE:
1. The Casual Vacancy
2. The Chequer Board
..."
you have already started 3. For my motivation please update the number of pages you have read every once in a while. haha.

My compulsory reads for Gorab

Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino
Inga by Poile Sengupta

My compulsory reads by Gorab

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cutting by stone by Abraham Verghese

My list

Yuganta
The giver of stars by Jojo Moyes
The Boston girl by Anita Diamant
Nights of rain and stars by Maeve Binchy
The sundown Motel by Simone St. James
Manushyan oru aamukham by Subhash Chandran ( malayalam)
The Graveyard book by Nell Gaiman
wild slot
wild slot
wild slot

My compulsory books for Kavitha
1. The Complete Maus
2. A Spot of Bother

My compulsory books chosen by Kavitha
1. Milk Teeth
2. అసమర్థున�� జీవయాత్ర

My books :
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. A Wrinkle in Time
3. All Quiet on the Western Front
4. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
5. Sam Walton: Made In America
6. The Devotion of Suspect X
7. All the King's Men
8. The Day of the Jackal
9. The Postman Always Rings Twice
10. MSD:
THE MAN, THE LEADER

SP wrote: "The American Gods
I'm a Neil Gaiman fan but somehow I haven't managed to figure the rhythm of this book yet. Hopefully soon."

This is exactly how I felt when reading it. I don't want to say much without giving away spoilers, but I'll just say that it meanders quite a lot. It's an up and down ride, but a fruitful one in the end (hopefully).

Sharadha wrote: "
Makrand & SP's Compulsory Reads:

1. American Gods


My list (self-nominated):

1. The Butcher Boy (231 pages)
2. A Man Called Ove (337 pages)
3. [b..."

Amazing progress there Sharada!!
Now I can feel those vibes of my friends during school exams who'd say they haven't read a damn page and would score distinction. ROFL :P

ha ha ..Makrand .
Feeling the same with Richa ミ●﹏☉��

hola

Hola, Gorab :) I am reading two tomes. The pages count only if I finish. Around 250 pages in both Les Miserables and Mayavalai.

Total: 525 pgs
Inga - 316 pgs
The Interview - 176 pgs
Salvation - 33 pgs

Kavitha wrote: "Hola, Gorab :) I am reading two tomes. The pages count only if I finish. Around 250 pages in both Les Miserables and Mayavalai."

oh. Then my count is: 492 after deducting salvation.

My June readathon so far :

His &Hers 245 pages
Casual vacancy 162 pages
Cuckold 260 pages
Elevation 146 pages
Selfish Gene 50 pages

Total 863 pages

Inga was a joyful read.
The Interview was crap.

Salvation is very promising. Hooked to it. So far readathon giving fruitful results :)

You are definitely going to finish salvation. I think I will finish Mayavalai. Not so sure about Les Miserables, but will try hard to keep up with Aka so I can finish.

I finished
All Quiet on the Western Front - 296 pages
The Postman Always Rings Twice - 116 pages
Asamardhuni Jeevayatra - 132 pages
Sam Walton : Made in America - 346 pages

and

Waylander (carried forward from last month) - 124 pages

Total 1014 pages

Everyone's racing ahead! 😯

I have only finished Coriolanus, which was 206 pages in my copy.

Ongoing read: Les Misérables, of which I have read 840 pages.

Total: 1046 pages.

Read 3 books so far:

1. Verity By colleen hoover - Partner nominated compulsory read for me, 4 stars, Loved the paced thriller.

2. Thats not what happened by Kody Keplinger - 4 stars

3. Born a crime by Trevor Noah - 4 stars

Total so far: 891 pages.

Currently reading: An echo of things to come - second book in Licanius trilogy.

Read 3 books so far:

1. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
3. The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma

Total Pages : 962

Currently Reading: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy