2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
August 1-31, 2022

Most of us have feet itching for travel these days, even if it's travel through the pages of a book. Satisfy your yearning for new adventures by choosing books that involve travel and new places. As Jhumpa Lahiri says, "that's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."

For this challenge, read a book that either features travel of some sort or is set in a destination or culture that is different from your own. Just let the challenge leader know how many books you will read for this challenge.


Thanks to Theresa for creating and leading this challenge!

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To sign up for this challenge, please post a message that includes your reading goal for the challenge.

When posting your progress please include your original (sign-up) message number plus your current progress.

(Example: Update to message #16: 3/5)

If you decide to drop out of the challenge, please don't delete your original sign-up post. Just post a message to let me know. Thank you!

Enjoy your journey!
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🚶🏻‍♀️ Signed Up 🚶

Kelly #33 - 0/?
Nell #16 - 0/3
Renee #20 - 0/5
Simone #11 - 0/10

🛴 In Progress 🛴


🏍 Goal Reached 🏍

Ashley #14 - 5/5
Carmen #6 - 26/7
Carri Carey #9 - 5/5
Chrissie #5 - 3/3
Christine Paula #13 - 5/5
Kristina #7 - 5/5
Megan #4 - 5/5
Rachel #18 - 5/5
Sarah #15 - 10/10
Shari #23 - 5/5
Suzanne #25 - 5/5
TerryJane #8 - 20/15
Theresa #3 - 2/2

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16 participants
101/95 books read


Updated through message 63

2 books for this one. Progress: 2/2

✔Space travel - Project Hail Mary (Aug 19)
✔Adventure through time and space A Wrinkle in Time (Aug 28)

I'm in for five!

1. England - A Taste of Honey by Rose Lerner - completed
2. China - Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang - completed
3. England/Scotland - The It Girl by Ruth Ware - completed
4. Canada/China - Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien - completed
5. Italy - One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle - completed

5/5 - challenge completed!

I'm trying for 3.

currently reading:

set in destination I want to visit:


other:

Hola!
Theresa, count me in, please! 😉

PROGRESS: 26/7🌠


1. Tales of the Blood Kissed (Detroit - Michigan / USA)✔
2. Blue River, Black Sea (Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania)✔
3. La tumba negra (Turkey/Turkish)✔
4. El tiempo entre costuras (Spain, Morocco, Portugal)✔
5. Delicioso suicidio en grupo (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal)✔
6. Lethal Bayou Beauty (Louisiana)✔
7. The Hour of the Star (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil)✔
8. Sira (Gibraltar, Palestine, England, Spain, Morocco)✔
9. When in Rome (Rome/Italy)✔
10. I'm Traveling Alone (Trøndelag-Oslo/Norway)✔
11. The Devil in Disguise (Key West-Miami/Florida)✔
12. Inés y la alegría (Spain-France)✔
13. Ordeal by Innocence (Devon/UK)✔
14. The Bat (Oslo/Norway-Sydney/Australia)✔
15. Raven Black (Lerwick/Shetland Islands-Scotland)✔
16. When We Believed in Mermaids (Auckland/New Zealand)✔
17. Victim 2117 (Barcelona/Spain-Cyprus-Munich/Germany-Copenaghen/Denmark-Frankfurt-Berlin/Germany)✔
18. La mujer de verde (Reykjavick/Iceland)✔
19. Out of the Past (England)✔
20. Travels with My Aunt (England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Argentina, Paraguay)✔
21. Jinn's Dominion (Caspian Lowland Desert/Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan)✔
22. Normal People (Carricklea-Dublin/Ireland; Venice/Italy; Lund/Sweden)✔
23. Hotel du Lac London/UK-Geneva/Switzerland)✔
24. La cara norte del corazón (Navarra/Spain-Quantico-Miami-Galveston-New Orleans/USA)✔
25. Lord of Shadows (Los Angeles/California; London-Liskeard/UK)✔
26. Daniel Deronda (Germany-England-Italy)✔

The Sky's the Limit
August 01 - August 31
Progress: 5/5

Sign me up for 5 books, please!

✅ 1. The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
✅ 2. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami
✅ 3. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
✅ 4. The Metamorphisis by Franz Kafka
✅ 5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

✈️ THE SKY'S THE LIMIT - Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1 - August 31, 2022
Progress: 20/15 -- COMPLETE

Message #8

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✈️ Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses Israel - walking, camel ride, rowboat, Jeep
✈️ The Summer Book Finland - boat
✈️ The Paris Connection France - train, motorbike
✈️ Redemption Point Australia - plane, bicycle, car
✈️ The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin Belgium
✈️ One Italian Summer Italy - plane, speed boat, bus
✈️ The Hidden Palace New York and Syria - ship, bicycle, train
✈️ Seven at Sea: Why a New York City Family Cast Off Convention for a Life-Changing Year on a Sailboat NYC to Caribbean - catamaran/sailboat
✈️ The Secret Keeper of Jaipur India - foot, horse, car
✈️ Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Poland - snowy foot travel; Suzuki Samurai
✈️ The Ghost Bride 1893 Malaysia - rickshaw
✈️ The Star Side of Bird Hill Barbados - plane, car, bus
✈️ In the Midst of Winter NY, Guatemala, Chile, Brazil, Canada - foot, car, truck, bus
✈️ His Only Wife Ghana - car
✈️ Island Beneath the Sea Haiti - ship, horse
✈️ Ignorance Czech Republic
✈️ Gone by Midnight Australia
✈️ The Pleasure of Drowning Luxembourg
✈️ I Refuse Norway - car, police car, foot, bus, helicopter, ferry, ship
✈️ The Kingdom of Back Austria - horse coach

Please sign me up for 5 books. Thanks!

✅ The Alchemist - Read 8/1/22
✅ A Darker Shade of Magic - Read 8/15/22
✅ The Passage - Read 8/15/22
✅ The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West - Read 8/3/22
✅ There There - Read 8/2/22

Hello, everyone! I'm happy to see you here!

There are currently seven participants signed up with a total of 37 books planned. I hope they are great reads!

I will join this group of "traveling readers" :-)
I'm going for 10!

0/10

And Simone makes 8. Hi, Simone!

The Sky's the Limit
August 01 - August 31
Progress: 5/5

1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Los Angeles, California)
2. Tell No One by Harlan Coben (NY)
3. The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley (Paris)
4. Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood (Houston, Texas)
5. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (LA, California)

I will try for 5 books
1. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
2. The Sea of Monsters
3. Daisy Jones & The Six
4. The Titan's Curse
5. The Alexandria Project

Sign me up for 10 books

10/10-COMPLETED

✅1.As Red as Blood(4/8/22)
✅2.Miss Iceland(7/8/22)
✅3.The Black Tulip(10/8/22)
✅4.Beautiful Affliction(12/8/22)
✅5.Annie's Prophecy(25/8/22)
✅6.The Girl with the Golden Scissors(21/8/22)
✅7.The Rosie Project(27/8/22)
✅8.The Story Girl(14/8/22)
✅9.The Lost Wife(30/8/22)
✅10.Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution(28/8/22)

August Challenge - The Sky's the Limit

Progress: -/3

1.
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
2.
3.

Hello to you all! Thanks for signing up. I hope you enjoy your August books!

Sign me up, aiming now for just six :)

I don't think I'm going to get 10 books done by end of the month so I'm lowering the # down to 5 books.


5/5
✔ 1.The House Across the Lake By Riley Sager ( Vermont- usa ) 8/5 3.5 stars
✔ 2.Dark Objects By Simon Toyne ( London, England) 8/11 5 stars
✔ 3. The Last to Vanish By Megan Miranda (North Carolina, USA) 8/17 4 stars
✔ 4.The It Girl ByRuth Ware (Scotland/England) 8/25 3.5 stars
✔ 5. The Mirror Man By Lars Kepler ( Sweden) 8/31 5 stars

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 1/7🌠

1. Tales of the Blood Kissed (Detroit - Michigan / USA)✔

I'd like to join: 0/5
1) Time travel/18th century Scotland/France: Dragonfly in Amber
2) Dark Ages: The Evening and the Morning
3) Space travel: Babylon's Ashes
4) Contemporary Russia: Red Sparrow
5) Time travel/18th century Scotland: Voyager

Update to Message #8: 2/15


✈️ Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses Israel - Traveled by foot, camel, rowboat and Jeep to five countries, starting and ending in Jerusalem.

✈️ The Summer Book Finland - Boated to island in Gulf of Finland for the summer.

Updated msg 4

England - A Taste of Honey by Rose Lerner. Sweet, sexy novella to end this series. I really like how the author incorporates relationship issues into the character development! Worth reading! 3.5 stars

1/5

I would like to sign up for 5.

THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
August 1-31, 2022

For this challenge, read a book that either features travel of some sort or is set in a destination or culture that is different from your own.

Progress: 5 / 5 - COMPLETED 8-29-22

A Paris Apartment
One Italian Summer
Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
Confessions on the 7:45

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 2/7🌠

2. Blue River, Black Sea (Danube: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania)✔

2022 Reading Challenge
August - The Sky’s the Limit
Duration: August 1-31, 2022

Progress: 5 out of 5

Most of us have feet itching for travel these days, even if it's travel through the pages of a book. Satisfy your yearning for new adventures by choosing books that involve travel and new places. As Jhumpa Lahiri says, "that's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."

For this challenge, read a book that either features travel of some sort or is set in a destination or culture that is different from your own. Just let the challenge leader know how many books you will read for this challenge.

Thanks to Theresa for creating and leading this challenge!

1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - ***** - 8/1/2022 - 85 Pages
2. Irish Thoroughbred by Nora Roberts - *** - 8/4/2022 - 208 Pages
3. Irish Rose by Nora Roberts - *** - 8/4/2022 - 250 Pages
4. The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler - **** - 8/5/2022 - 224 Pages
5. When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger - ***** - 8/10/2022 - 343 Pages

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 3/7🌠

3. La tumba negra (Turkey/Turkish)✔

Update MSG #18 1/10

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 5/7🌠

4. El tiempo entre costuras (Spain, Morocco, Portugal)✔
5. Delicioso suicidio en grupo (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal)✔

Updated msg 4

China

Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang. A heart-wrenching, necessary story to tell! I give the author a lot of credit for this being her first published book. There are indications of debut authorship - gaping holes in the ending and not quite knowing how to land the tale. The imagery surrounding food is useful but a touch overdone. Definitely worth reading! 4 stars

2/5

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 7/7🌠

6. Lethal Bayou Beauty (Louisiana)✔
7. The Hour of the Star (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil)✔

Updated to here!

🎉 Way to go, Carmen! 🎉

Keep on trucking, folks! There's plenty of time!

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 9/7🌠

8. Sira (Gibraltar, Palestine, England, Spain, Morocco)✔
9. When in Rome (Rome/Italy)✔

Thanks, Theresa! 🤗

Hi Theresa. How do I get a sign up number? I’m late in the challenge but would like to join, please.

Hi, Kelly, and welcome!

Do you see where it shows --message 33: by Kelly--

Use 33 as your message number. You can click on "Edit" in the lower right area of the original message, to edit it and add your reading goal for this challenge.

Example: Please sign me up for 5 books.

You can count any qualifying books you may have already read, during the month of August, for this challenge.

All books involved travel!

2022 Reading Challenge
August - The Sky’s the Limit
Duration: August 1-31, 2022

Progress: 5 out of 5

Most of us have feet itching for travel these days, even if it's travel through the pages of a book. Satisfy your yearning for new adventures by choosing books that involve travel and new places. As Jhumpa Lahiri says, "that's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."

For this challenge, read a book that either features travel of some sort or is set in a destination or culture that is different from your own. Just let the challenge leader know how many books you will read for this challenge.

Thanks to Theresa for creating and leading this challenge!

1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - ***** - 8/1/2022 - 85 Pages
2. Irish Thoroughbred by Nora Roberts - *** - 8/4/2022 - 208 Pages
3. Irish Rose by Nora Roberts - *** - 8/4/2022 - 250 Pages
4. The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler - **** - 8/5/2022 - 224 Pages
5. When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger - ***** - 8/10/2022 - 343 Pages

Update: MSG #18 2/10

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 12/7🌠

10. I'm Traveling Alone (Trøndelag-Oslo/Norway)✔
11. The Devil in Disguise (Key West-Miami/Florida)✔
12. Inés y la alegría (Spain-France)✔

Thanks, Theresa!

Updated msg 4

England/Scotland

The It Girl by Ruth Ware. I really enjoyed this murder mystery. The storytelling method was done well. The author did the setting justice and perfectly captured her characters. Definitely worth reading! 4.5 stars

3/5

Update message #5 - 1/3

Updated msg 4

Canada/China

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien. DNF at 50%. I very rarely DNF a book, but this one was not working for me and started to actively discourage me from reading. It was very confusing, constantly going back and forth in time without separation. The characters were almost presented as set pieces. When I did finally latch on to a character, there was almost an immediate distancing in the story. I find this time period of China during the revolutions fascinating and love classical music, and yet, I still could not find enthusiasm for even learning in this story. Not one I recommend.

4/5

🎉 Way to go, Suzanne! 🎉

Updated to here!

Update to message #9 - 5/5 books read!

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 17/7🌠

13. Ordeal by Innocence (Devon/England)✔
14. The Bat (Oslo/Norway-Sydney/Australia)✔
15. Raven Black (Lerwick/Shetland Islands-Scotland)✔
16. When We Believed in Mermaids (Auckland/New Zealand)✔
17. Victim 2117 (Barcelona/Spain-Cyprus-Munich/Germany-Copenaghen/Denmark-Frankfurt-Berlin/Germany)✔

Updated msg 4

Italy

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle. This book made me want to visit Positano so badly! And then I just about shrieked when I realized that this 30 yo woman’s mother was thirty in 1992 - talk about feeling my years! I enjoyed the story overall and the writing was fine. I just had trouble connecting with the main character and the point of the story. Worth reading. 3.5 stars

5/5 - challenge completed!

Update: MSG #18 3/10

Update on message #5 - 2/3

Updated message 3. Progress: 1/2

Update to message 7 - 5/5 books, challenge complete!

Update on message #5 - finished with 3/3

Update to message #6

PROGRESS: 21/7🌠

18. La mujer de verde (Reykjavick/Iceland)✔
19. Out of the Past (England)✔
20. Travels with My Aunt (England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Argentina, Paraguay)✔
21. Jinn's Dominion (Caspian Lowland Desert/Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan)✔