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May 2019 Stand Alone
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Allison FINISHED
Amanda FINISHED
✩Anna✩
Anne FINISHED
Banshee FINISHED
Celia FINISHED
Christina (AKA Babbling) FINISHED
Debbie FINISHED
Ebony
Elle FINISHED
Erica FINISHED
Erin FINISHED
Ferenc FINISHED
Grace FINISHED
Jess
Joanna FINISHED
JoAnne FINISHED
JoAnne - mod FINISHED
Katherine
Kimberly FINISHED
Melanie FINISHED
Mycal FINISHED
Rina FINISHED
Sandra FINISHED
Shash FINISHED
Suzanne
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Single: Read 3-4 books
3/3-4
My List:
1. Drawing Free Elena Aitken 5/13/19
2. Until Harry L.A. Casey 5/27/19
3. Our Little Lies Sue Watson 5/28/19
May Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeSolitary: Read 5-6 books
6/6
My List:
1.) A Separation by Katie Kitamura COMPLETED 5/11/2019
2.) The Witch Elm by Tana French COMPLETED 5/13/2019
3.) Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys COMPLETED 5/18/2019
4.) Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens COMPLETED 5/19/2019
5.) Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn COMPLETED 5/21/2019
6.) The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 by Wladyslaw Szpilman
COMPLETED 5/25/2019
May Stand Alone ChallengeSingle: Read 3-4 books
1. An Unkindness of Ghosts | Rivers Solomon - May 20
2. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Ambrose Bierce - May 26
3. The Tea Master and the Detective | Aliette de Bodard - May 31
I'M IN!1 Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn - 5 MAY
2 Hate Notes - Vi Keeland - 6 MAY
3 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid - 7 MAY
4 Tailspin - Sandra Brown - 2 MAY
5 The Rainmaker - John Grisham - 12 MAY
6 Wiseguy - Nicholas Pileggi - 20 MAY
Completed 5/19/19Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
6/6 read
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Pressure Points by Silvia Violet, read 5/14/19
2. Bear Among the Books by T.J. Masters, read 5/17/19
3. Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown, read 5/6/19
4. Gremlins are Malfunctioning by Susan Laine, read 5/7/19
5. The Hunt by J.M. Dabney, read 5/19/19
6. Becoming by Michelle Obama, read 5/17/19
Mod
May Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeSolo: Read 1-2 books
2/2
My List:
1. Five Feet Apart-Rachael Lippincott 5/2
2. From Twinkle, with Love-Sandhya Menon 5/20
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Goal: 6/6
1. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang – 05/02/2019
2. Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter by Tom Clavin – 05/06/2019
3. Tenth of December by George Saunders – 05/10/2019
4. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl – 05/19/2019
5. The Twits by Roald Dahl – 05/19/2019
6. Descendant of the Crane by Joan He – 05/26/2019
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Cujo, Stephen King, 08.05.2019
2. Das Jahr des Werwolfs, Stephen King, 08.05.2019
3. The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat, 13.05.2019
4. The Call of the Wild, Jack London, 23.05.2019
5. White Fang, Jack London, 25.05.2019
May Stand Alone Monthly Challenge May 2019Solitary: Read 5-6 books
6/6
My List:
1. Heike Grotegut - Katze allein zu Haus - Wohnungskatzen glücklich machen (May 02, 2019)
2. Ernst Bromeis - Jeder Tropfen zählt - Schwimmen für das Recht auf Wasser (May 05, 2019)
3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Die Wahlverwandtschaften (May 12, 2019)
4. Gregory Hill - Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger (May 11, 2019)
5. James Baldwin - Nach der Flut das Feuer: The Fire Next Time (The Fire Next Time) (May 16, 2019)
6. T.C. Boyle - Wenn das Schlachten vorbei ist (When the killing's done) (May 19, 2019)
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Single: Read 3-4 books Read 4 books
1.
The Cowboy and His Baby by Jessica Clare 5/5/19 4stars2.
Summer by the Tides by Denise Hunter 5/17/19 4stars3.
The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani 5/30/19 4stars4.
A Family Forever by Helen Scott Taylor 5/31/19 3stars
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1.
The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen - 5/5/20192.
The Pianist - Władysław Szpilman - 5/7/20193.
Undercover - Danielle Steel - 5/20/20194.
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 - Andrea White - 5/23/20195.
The Sisters of Alameda Street - Lorena Hughes - 5/27/2019
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeMay 2019
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Scarlet by Jen Geigle Johnson (5/15/19)
2. My Fair Gentleman by Nancy Campbell Allen (5/16/19)
3. The Shipbuilder's Wife by Jennifer Moore (5/21/19)
Mod
Single: Read 3-4 booksNimona by Noelle Stevenson (Finished 5/2)
There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins (Finished 5/23)
Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley (Finished 5/27)
May Stand Alone Monthly Challenge May 2019Solitary: Read 5-6 books
5/6
My List:
1. Warren Lane by Andrew Diamond 5/3/19
2. Flowers For Her Grave by Jean Sheldon 5/9/19
3. Safely Endangered Comics by Chris McCoy 5/13/19
4. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn 5/23/19
5. The Damned by Andrew Pyper 5/28/19
6.
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solo: Read 1-2 books
The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer 17 May 2019 ★★★
Stand-alone The Lost Challenges
Level: Single Read 3-4 books
Duration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
1. Tonio Kröger by Thomas Mann
4/5/19
2. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
10/5/19
3. Thérèse Desqueyroux by Francois Mauriac
15/5/19
4. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
24/5/19
4/4
Challenge completed
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Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Books Read: 0/2+
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Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
1. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing 02/05/19
May 2019 Stand Alone Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1.
6/5/19 ★★★2.
7/5/19 ★★★★3.
14/5/19 ★★★★★4.
16/5/19 ★★★5.
16/5/19 ★★★6.
17/5/19 ★★★
May Standalone Challenge
The Lost ChallengesMay 2019 Stand Alone
Duration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Progress: 4 out of 4
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
1. Ain't She Sweet? by Susan Elizabeth Phillips - ***** - 5/3/2019 - 464 Pages
2. Supermarket by Bobby Hall - *** - 5/7/2019 - 288 Pages
3. I Myself Have Seen It by Susanna Moore - **** - 5/23/2019 - 192 Pages
4. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson - ***** - 5/29/2019 - 318 Pages
Challenge Rules
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Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
6/6
Goal:
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida- 5/3/19
2. Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brené Brown- 5/8/19
3. The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner- 5/10/19
4. The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You by Jessica N. Turner- 5/11/19
5. The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick- 5/18/19
6. Leota's Garden by Francine Rivers- 5/23/19
May 2019 Stand Alone ChallengeMay 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Goal: Single 3-4 books
1. Conviction - Robbin J. Peterson (5/24/2019)
2. The Incomplete Book of Running - Peter Sagal
3.
4.
FINISHEDMay Stand Alone Monthly Challenge May 2019
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
6/6
My List:
1. Heike Grotegut - Katze allein zu Haus - Wohnungskatzen glücklich machen (May 02, 2019)
2. Ernst Bromeis - Jeder Tropfen zählt - Schwimmen für das Recht auf Wasser (May 05, 2019)
3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Die Wahlverwandtschaften (May 12, 2019)
4. Gregory Hill - Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger (May 11, 2019)
5. James Baldwin - Nach der Flut das Feuer: The Fire Next Time (The Fire Next Time) (May 16, 2019)
6. T.C. Boyle - Wenn das Schlachten vorbei ist (When the killing's done) (May 19, 2019)
Completed 5/19/19Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
6/6 read
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Pressure Points by Silvia Violet, read 5/14/19
2. Bear Among the Books by T.J. Masters, read 5/17/19
3. Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown, read 5/6/19
4. Gremlins are Malfunctioning by Susan Laine, read 5/7/19
5. The Hunt by J.M. Dabney, read 5/19/19
6. Becoming by Michelle Obama, read 5/17/19
FINISHED!1 Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn - 5 MAY
2 Hate Notes - Vi Keeland - 6 MAY
3 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid - 7 MAY
4 Tailspin - Sandra Brown - 2 MAY
5 The Rainmaker - John Grisham - 12 MAY
6 Wiseguy - Nicholas Pileggi - 20 MAY
May Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeSolo: Read 1-2 books
2/2
FINISHED
My List:
1. Five Feet Apart-Rachael Lippincott 5/2
2. From Twinkle, with Love-Sandhya Menon 5/20
Finished! 6/6Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida- 5/3/19
2. Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brené Brown- 5/8/19
3. The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner- 5/10/19
4. The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You by Jessica N. Turner- 5/11/19
5. The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick- 5/18/19
6. Leota's Garden by Francine Rivers- 5/23/19
COMPLETION POSTStand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1.
The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen - 5/5/20192.
The Pianist - Władysław Szpilman - 5/7/20193.
Undercover - Danielle Steel - 5/20/20194.
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 - Andrea White - 5/23/20195.
The Sisters of Alameda Street - Lorena Hughes - 5/27/2019
Finished!Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Cujo, Stephen King, 08.05.2019
2. Das Jahr des Werwolfs, Stephen King, 08.05.2019
3. The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat, 13.05.2019
4. The Call of the Wild, Jack London, 23.05.2019
5. White Fang, Jack London, 25.05.2019
May Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeSolitary: Read 5-6 books
6/6 -- completed.
My List:
1.) A Separation by Katie Kitamura COMPLETED 5/11/2019
2.) The Witch Elm by Tana French COMPLETED 5/13/2019
3.) Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys COMPLETED 5/18/2019
4.) Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens COMPLETED 5/19/2019
5.) Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn COMPLETED 5/21/2019
6.) The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 by Wladyslaw Szpilman
COMPLETED 5/25/2019
completedStand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solo: Read 1-2 books
The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer 17 May 2019 ★★★
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (other topics)An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (other topics)
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Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: May 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
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