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September - Surpassing One's Limits
Hello everyone, and welcome to this September mountain-themed challenge! I am excited to follow everyone's reading journey, and hope you are all ready to surpass your reading limits this month! 🏔️� How high will your "literary summit" be?
"Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing."
� Barry Finlay
✍️ How to participate:
� To sign up, comment below letting me know how many books you plan to read for the challenge.🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔�
� To have your progress updated on the participant's list, post a new comment in which you include both your original (sign-up) message number, plus your progress status using the format below:
Update to msg #xx: (current progress)/(challenge goal)
� Should you decide to drop out of the challenge, please don’t delete your original sign-up post. Just update and let me know. You may also edit your original post to say {redacted} if you wish. Thank you kindly!
� If you have any questions or need more information, feel free to ask me or check out this FAQ thread.
Participants:
Allie (msg #35) � 0/10
Allie (msg #39) � 0/4
Barbie � 0/40
Beth � 7/25
Blagica � 3/6
Blu's World � 6/8
Briana � 8/10
Carmen � 35/20
Carri Carey � 7/7
Ciara � 25/20
Chalmation � 5/5
Chrissie � 6/5
Elizabeth Sofia � 0/5
Gail W � 0/10
Jaida � 8/10
Janine � 7/5
JennH � 5/10
Kylie � 0/3
Lisa � 0/5
Lina � 3/10
RaeRae � 0/8
Rachael � 10/8
Rachel � 0/10
Sahira � 3/3
Sarah � 0/15
Saravzee � 3/10
Shari � 11/10
Sheila � 13/15
Suzanne � 2/5
TerryJane � 27/21
Good luck, and happy reading to all of you! 😊
Updated up to msg #103
Still researching! I've got a gazillion ARCs to read before the end of the year, so this may be the exact best time.Going for 5 books but not sure which they will be just yet
🧗♀� SURPASSING ONE'S LIMITS - Monthly ChallengeDuration: September 1 - September 30, 2024
Progress: 27/21
🧗♀� Whereabouts - 176p
🧗♀� If I Run - 200p
🧗♀� Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith - 224p
🧗♀� Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board - 240p
🧗♀� Wait for Dark - 258p
🧗♀� The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner - 264p
🧗♀� The Other Mother - 280p
🧗♀� Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team - 288p
🧗♀� Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens And Hitler's Olympics - 304p
SUBTOTAL = 2,234p
Surpassing Mount Kosciuszko 2,228
🧗♀� The Berry Pickers - 307p
🧗♀� Burn Baby Burn - 310p
🧗♀� Come On In - 315p
🧗♀� The Anthill - 320p
🧗♀� Last Minute Guest - 322p
🧗♀� The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph - 336p
🧗♀� Thyme of Death - 352p
SUBTOTAL = 4,496p
Surpassing Mauna Kea 4,207m
🧗♀� How the Penguins Saved Veronica - 355p
SUBTOTAL = 4,851p
Surpassing Mount Wilhelm 4,509m and Surpassing Mont Blanc 4,806m
🧗♀� The Satapur Moonstone - 364p
SUBTOTAL = 5,215p
Surpassing Puncak Jaya 4,884m and Mount Vinson 4,892m
🧗♀� The Book Charmer - 368p
🧗♀� The People in the Trees - 369p
SUBTOTAL = 5,952p
Surpassing Mount Elbrus 5,642m and Kilamanjaro 5,895m
🧗♀� Quiet in Her Bones - 374p
SUBTOTAL = 6,326p
Surpassing Denali 6,190m
🧗♀� His & Hers - 384p
🧗♀� A Cry in the Dark- 386p
🧗♀� The Song of Achilles - 408p
SUBTOTAL = 7,504p
Surpassing Aconcagua 6,961m
🧗♀� Black Cake - 416p
🧗♀� The House Across the Lake - 464p
🧗♀� The Little Wartime Library - 496p
GRAND TOTAL = 8,880p
Surpassing Everest 8,849m
Welcome to the challenge, TerryJane! That is quite the list you've got set up 😊I hope you have a fantastic September!
Not yet knowing what the month holds for me, I am going to go for (at least) 20 books, & I am going to go big, trying to surpass the height of Changtse (7543 meters). Specific books yet to be decided.
This is a really fun idea. Sign me up for 5 books please :)
Welcome Ciara and Janine! 😊I hope you discover fantastic books. Happy reading!
i'm going to try this one and I'm going to try 6 books
Please sign me up for 8 books.COMPLETED: 10/8
1. Becoming the Dark Prince (64 pages) finished 3 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Arch-Conspirator (129 pages) finished 8 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. King Henry VI, Part 3 (140 pages) finished 10 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. The Vesuvius Club (256 pages) finished 13 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Spellslinger (323 pages) finished 17 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. A Deadly Education (338 pages) finished 20 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐� with review
7. The Last Graduate (389 pages) finished 23 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
8. The Golden Enclaves (411 pages) finished 25 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
9. Thief's Magic (561 pages) finished 27 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
10. Angel of Storms (576 pages) finished 30 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
⛰️ Surpassed: Mount Galatea, Canada (3,185 metres high) by reading 3,187 pages for this challenge
Finished: 2024/09/28I played a little with the example and see where it'll lead me. :)
6/5
Start Climbing:
(40) �
(102) �Keep Going:
(146) �Getting Higher:
(210) �Reaching New Heights:
(359) �Summit Push:
(452) �Bonus Challenge: Accumulate a total page count to surpass the height of a chosen mountain (Brocken 1141). 1736/1141
I Will Read to You (40)
Robertos Angebot (102)
Katekyo! 01 (146)
The Gender of Mona Lisa 03 (196)
Taste of Desire (210)
Dubliner (231)
Ein Regenbogen für den Schah (Luk und Galiano 1) (359)
Madame Bovary. (452)
I am going to be trying for 10 books, thanks Surpassing One's Limits - Monthly Challenge
Duration: September 1 - September 30, 2024
Progress 3/10 - not finished
What Feasts at Night - T. Kingfisher // 147 pages
The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis // 258 pages
Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree // 308 pages
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain // 328 pages - started during September
Zeitoun - Dave Eggers // 342 pages - started during September
Failed Plan:
Total = 3,626 pages
Surpassing Mount Etna Sicily, Italy, 3,329 meters
I am going for 10 books for now. I may end up having to increase my goal to hit the bonus challenge, though.SURPASSING ONE'S LIMITS
Duration: September 1 - September 30, 2024
5/10
1 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9/12/24 - 180 pages
2 milk and honey by Rupi Kaur 9/14/24 - 204 pages
3 Honey Drop Dead by Laura Childs 9/15/24 - 320 pages
4 The 19th Christmas by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro 9/19/24 - 368 pages
5 Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi 9/22/24
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Subtotal - 1,576 pages
My goal is Mount Vinson (4,892 meters/pages), the highest peak in Antarctica.
* Bonus Challenge: Accumulate a total page count to surpass the height of a chosen mountain.
Welcome everyone! Thanks for joining. 😊 I hope you all have a great reading month!
Sign me up for 15 books15/15-COMPLETED
�1. British Shorthair Breed Profile (58 pages) (20/9/24)
�2. Letter to a Christian Nation (96 pages) (17/9/24)
�3. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr (124 pages) (19/9/24)
�4. Wine and Dead, Another Murder (142 pages) (23/9/24)
�5. Montreal Stories (192 pages) (25/9/24)
�6. Kiss Off: Poems to Set You Free (232 pages) (1/9/24)
�7. Heartstopper: Volume One (292 pages) (2/9/24)
�8. Finding Gina (292 pages) (5/9/24)
�9. I Never Knew That About London (305 pages) (7/9/24)
�10. Better Off Wed (318 pages) (8/9/24)
�11. The Winemakers (378 pages) (9/9/24)
�12. All My Mothers (400 pages) (6/9/24)
�13. I, Eliza Hamilton (444 pages) (11/9/24)
�14. Twisted Lies (560 pages) (14/9/24)
�15. Night Film (640 pages) (15/9/24)
Total = 4,473 pages
Surpassing Mount Whitney in Sierra Nevada, California, US: 4,421 meters
Hola!I'm aiming to read at least 20 books
PROGRESS: 35/20
PAGES: 12,612 (* Bonus Challenge)
1. Los cuerpos extraños 360 pp
2. Zikora 39 pp
3. Donde los escorpiones 350 pp
4. Lejos del corazón 384 pp
5. Lulu 121 pp
6. El fútbol a sol y sombra 312 pp
7. El mal de Corcira 544 pp
8. La llama de Focea 552 pp
9. The Prestige 404 pp
10. Un inspector en Fuseta 355 pp
11. Death at Noon 108 pp
12. Cumbres borrascosas 456 pp
13. La inquilina de Wildfell Hall 608 pp
14. Jane Eyre 656 pp
15. A Rule Against Murder 313 pp
16. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 720 pp
17. The Last Time We Spoke: 338 pp
18. El conde de Montecristo 1,154 pp
19. La Ilíada 468 pp
20. Crematorio 424 pp
21. The Cutting Season 105 pp
22. La fortuna de los Rougon 416 pp
23. Wild Strawberries 275 pp
24. Crimen y castigo 504 pp
25. Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis 333 pp
26. La barraca 233 pp
27. ¡Adiós, Cordera! 22 pp
28. Trafalgar 186 pp
29. La corte de Carlos IV 224 pp
30. El 19 de marzo y el 2 de mayo 193 pp
31. Crónica del rey pasmado 192 pp
32. El retrato de una dama 828 pp
33. De profundis 68 pp
34. El Último Día de un Condenado 114 pp
35. La soledad del corredor de fondo 213 pp
Welcome to this month's challenge, Sarah & Carmen! 😊Best of luck with your respective goals!
Question-does the minimum 100 page count requirement for challenges apply to this challenge? I have a bunch of novellas I'd like to read for the challenge, but some of them are under 100 pages.
Saravzee wrote: "Question-does the minimum 100 page count requirement for challenges apply to this challenge? I have a bunch of novellas I'd like to read for the challenge, but some of them are under 100 pages."Saravzee, you're welcome to start out with a lower page-count if you want 😊 The point is to read books in increments, so you can start with 75 pages (or how ever long the novella is) and then increase from there.
Lisa wrote: "Saravzee wrote: "Question-does the minimum 100 page count requirement for challenges apply to this challenge? I have a bunch of novellas I'd like to read for the challenge, but some of them are und..."
Great, thanks!
Great, thanks!
Saravzee wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Saravzee wrote: "Question-does the minimum 100 page count requirement for challenges apply to this challenge? I have a bunch of novellas I'd like to read for the challenge, but some of..."You're very welcome! Looking forward your sign-up 😉
Goal: 6/10
1. Two Scoops Of Hellfire {30 pages}
2. A Bump In Boohail: A Mead Realm Tale {44 pages}
3. Mistlefoe {60 pages}
4. Aliens Abducted My Heart {174 pages}
5. That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf {204 pages}
6. That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human {336 pages}
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1. Two Scoops Of Hellfire {30 pages}
2. A Bump In Boohail: A Mead Realm Tale {44 pages}
3. Mistlefoe {60 pages}
4. Aliens Abducted My Heart {174 pages}
5. That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf {204 pages}
6. That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human {336 pages}
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Joining with 3 books
Please count me in for 10 to start! 3,057 metres.Haleakalā, or the East Maui Volcano, a massive, active shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui
1. Start Climbing: Read a book with under 110 pages: Foster -80
2. Keep Going: Read a book between 130 and 160 pages: All Systems Red -149
3. Getting Higher: Read a book between 200 and 230 pages: Blind Sight -225
4. Reaching New Heights: Read a book with 250+ pages: A Disappearance in Fiji -288
5. Summit Push: Read a book with 400+ pages: Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories -410
6. Bonus Challenge: Accumulate a total page count to surpass the height of a chosen mountain:
a. The Last Murder at the End of the World -400
b. The Plot -320
c. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History -292
d. Umami -290
(2,454 to here) (603 to go)
I would like to join for 10 books.SURPASSING ONE'S LIMITS
Duration: September 1 - September 30, 2024
Progress: 11 / 10 - COMPLETED 9-23-24
* Start Climbing: Read a book with 87 pages. The Twits
* Keep Going: Read a book with 128 pages. The Copycat Mystery
* Getting Higher: Read a book with 214 pages. Lakeside Family
* Reaching New Heights: Read a book with 287 pages. The Banty House
* Summit Push: Read a book with 329 pages. The Housemaid
The Housemaid's Secret 318 pages
At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities 321 pages
Zero Days 400 pages
Called for Life: How Loving Our Neighbor Led Us into the Heart of the Ebola Epidemic 240 pages
The X'ed-out X-ray 85 pages
Queens of London 368 pages
* Bonus Challenge: Accumulate a total page count to surpass the height of a chosen mountain: Ugly Mountain in WV 2598 feet - Page count: 2777
I'm in for 5.5/5
Challenge complete
Start Climbing: Read a book with 75 pages.
Flirting With Danger (Sloane Monroe #5.5) 78 pages
Keep Going: Read a book with 110 pages.
Richard III 115 pages
Getting Higher: Read a book with 320 pages.
Pirate Latitudes 324 pages
Reaching New Heights: Read a book with 430 pages.
Eruption 432 pages
Summit Push: Read a book with 800+ pages.
Insomnia 802 pages
Total Pages: 1751
Bonus Challenge: The Horn (Mount Buffalo) in Victoria, Australia, 1723 meters.
8/10 Complete.
1. The Unhurried Homeschooler: A Simple, Mercifully Short Book on Homeschooling 78 pages Finished 9/9
2. Indigiqueerness: A Conversation about Storytelling 95 pages Finished 9/13
3. Rabbit-Proof Fence 135 pages Finished 9/13
4. Tonguebreaker 148 pages Finished 9/15
5. How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir 156 pages Finished 9/22
6. Faith & Fandom Nine: The Errors Tour 182 pages Finished 9/30
7. My Happy Marriage, Vol. 1 208 pages Finished 9/30
8. Don't Keep Your Day Job: How to Turn Your Passion into Your Career 256 pages Finished 9/27
9. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America 288 pages
10. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror 298 pages
My chosen mountain is Whitetop Mtn, VA, USA. Height is 1,684 meters, therefore my goal is to surpass 1,684 pages. :)
Welcome, wecome! I've added everyone to the participant's list 😊I love how many great plans are already being formed. Hoping you all have an amazing month!
Hi, sign me up, I'm aiming for 10 books!8/10 books
2,799 / 4,892 pages
1. Fallen Crest High (375 pages) �
2. Chain of Thorns (688 pages) �
3. The God of the Woods (437 pages) �
4. Honor Among Thieves (467 pages) �
5. Sordid (336 pages) �
6. Honor Bound (496 pages) �
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*aiming for Mt Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica at 4,892m.
Welcome, Jaida! Good luck with your reading in September. Excited to see what you'll be reading 😊
I'll read 7 books, in increasing size! I'm also hoping to reach the highest point in Maryland, where I live. It's not very high, but the goal is 3360 feet (and pages!)� 176 pages - A Light in the Attic - Read 9/1/24
� 288 pages - 4:50 from Paddington - Read 9/6/24
� 357 pages - Hostage - Read 9/8/24
� 416 pages - Wrong Place Wrong Time - Read 9/10/24
� 608 pages - Quietus - Read 9/16/24
� 652 pages - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Read 9/19/24
� 759 pages - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Read 9/25/24
Sign me up for 10Progress
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* Start Climbing: Read a book with 110 pages.
* Keep Going: Read a book with 150 pages.
* Getting Higher: Read a book with 200 pages.
* Reaching New Heights: Read a book with 250 pages.
* Summit Push: Read a book with 300+ pages.
* Bonus Challenge: Accumulate a total page count to surpass the height of a chosen mountain (e.g., Mount Everest with 8,849 pages)
Sheila from NC signing on. I’ll go for 15 books and hope to scale Everest with 8800+feet, or maybe meters. Still- a lot of pages. Maybe I’ll finally read a couple of the real long ones on my tbr!😁
Welcome everyone 😊 I'm so happy to see so many people already. You're all added to the participant's list. Happy reading. Wishing y'all a fantastic September!
Please sign me up for 8 books this month. I'm using this prompt as a "catch up" prompt 😆
1. Silver Foxed - 160 pages
2. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom - 273 pages
3. Never Lie - 285 pages
4. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - 352 pages
5. Killers of a Certain Age - 369 pages
6. The Truth Hurts - 377 pages
7. The Housemaid Is Watching - 387 pages
8. The God of the Woods - 433 pages
Total pages: 2,636
Books completed: /8
I am going to read 4 books by the end of the month 1. People we meet on vacation : 374 pages
2. Beach Read: 380 pages
3. The Last Letter: 434 pages
4. The Women: 474 pages
Since my message is #40 on this board I am going to set my goal for 40 books!! Reach for the stars!!
Welcome to the challenge! 😊 You're all added to the list! Goodluck!
Happy September! I'm in for 3 books~3/3 books completed
* Start Climbing: Read a book with 110 pages.
* Keep Going: Read a book with 150 pages. A Spindle Splintered
* Getting Higher: Read a book with 200 pages.
* Reaching New Heights: Read a book with 250 pages.
* Summit Push: Read a book with 300+ pages. The Prison Healer The Watchmaker's Daughter
* Bonus Challenge: Accumulate a total page count to surpass the height of a chosen mountain (e.g., Mount Everest with 8,849 pages).
Updated message 11: my climb has started - 1/8
Hola!Update to message #17
PROGRESS: 11/20
PAGES: 3,529 (* Bonus Challenge)
I already surpassed ѳܱé the highest mountain in the Iberian Peninsula and in Southern Europe outside of The Alps with an elevation of 3,482 metres (64th in the world) ⛰️
Mont Blanc, I'm climbing! 🧗🏻♀�
Sheila from NC posting first update, and covering first 5 challenges. 7/151. Mountains, Lanterns lakes and larceny , 170 pg
2. Africa- Mrs Pollifax on safari, Mrs. Pollifax on Safari by Dorothy Gilman ri, 223 pg.
3. Set in Alpine country- And both Were Young, And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle, 256 pgs.
4. Deadly Currents, 300 pgs. , Deadly Currents by Beth Groundwater
5. the Moor- Russell and Holmes, #4, /book/show/1..., 320 pgs.
6. Fallen into the Pit- 325 pgs.
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerors stone ,333 pgs. , Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by J.K. Rowling
I'm in for Everest's height. 🗻 Based on my September TBR, that will be around 25 books.Start Climbing: Read a book with 100 to 125 pages.
🧗🏻♀� The Cutting Season (Washington Poe, #4.5) by M.W. Craven 105
Keep Going: Read a book with 126 to 150 pages.
Getting Higher: Read a book with 151 to 200 pages.
Reaching New Heights: Read a book with 201 to 250 pages.
🧗🏻♀� The Sea Road by Margaret Elphinstone 244
🧗🏻♀� Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov 244
Summit Push: Read a book with >=300 pages.
🧗🏻♀� The Locked Door by Freida McFadden 313
🧗🏻♀� The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton 368
🧗🏻♀� The Summer Children (The Collector, #3) by Dot Hutchison 300
🧗🏻♀� The Botanist (Washington Poe, #5) by M.W. Craven 496
🧗🏻♀� Gai-Jin (Asian Saga, #3) by James Clavell 1078
🧗🏻♀� The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 327
🧗🏻♀� Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2) by C.J. Sansom 501
🧗🏻♀� Snakes and Ladders (Ziba MacKenzie, #3) by Victoria Selman 385
🧗🏻♀� Friday on My Mind (Frieda Klein, #5) by Nicci French
Bonus Challenge: Accumulate a total page count to surpass the height of Mount Everest with 8,849 pages.
🏔� Update, 12 Sep: 7 books. 2987 pages - Mount Girouard in the Canadian Rockies ()
Update to message #34 - 2/7 books read!464/3360 feet climbed!
Updated message 11: 2/8 books completed
2025 Reading Challenge
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Duration: September 1 - September 30, 2024
Ready to push your reading boundaries? In this challenge, you'll climb higher and higher by tackling books with increasing page counts. Start with a small book and gradually ascend to heftier reads, reaching your personal summit by month's end.
To join, post a message telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read. If you are new to our group and/or our group challenges, you can learn more about how they work in this thread.
Example:
* Start Climbing: Read a book with 110 pages.
* Keep Going: Read a book with 150 pages.
* Getting Higher: Read a book with 200 pages.
* Reaching New Heights: Read a book with 250 pages.
* Summit Push: Read a book with 300+ pages.
* Bonus Challenge: Accumulate a total page count to surpass the height of a chosen mountain (e.g., Mount Everest with 8,849 pages).
Thanks to Lisa and Lina for creating this challenge. Thank you to Lisa for agreeing to lead