Log only the books you finish or DNF from July 1, 2025 to July 31, 2025. The logging will start and end at midnight whatever time zone you're in. The logging will officially stop at midnight PST July 31. (Pacific Time).
Log books within 3 days of finishing / DNFing them. Please DO NOT log pages that you intend to read or page counts of books that are in your TBR. ONLY FINISHED PAGES SHOULD BE LOGGED!
Add the book title/ author/ format and page count to the post you have reserved in your team’s thread (which will be posted by your captain). You will edit this post as you keep reading. You will also be adding the same page counts in the Google sheet that will be shared in your team’s thread.
Wherever possible, please use Amazon’s page counts for logging pages. For ebooks and audiobooks, use Kindle page counts. For paperbacks and hardcovers, use paperback page counts. If you cannot find the book on Amazon, you can use other legitimate sources.
For online fiction, use word count divided by 300 to log pages.
If you DNF, or if you are continuing a book from June, log only the pages you’ve read. You can use percentage read (at the point of DNF) for ebooks, actual page numbers for paperbacks and for audiobooks, log pages based on number of hours read (40 pages per hour at normal speed)
You are responsible for tracking your own reading. Please keep an accurate log of the books you finish. We trust you to be honest. And while we understand the spirit of competitiveness, please also remember that the Reading Challenge is designed to motivate you to read more and beat your own personal counts, so you are competing with yourself!
Lastly, have fun! This is not meant to stress you out, or cause a burn out, it's meant to nurture a love of reading. Read what you can, how much you can, when you can!
Moving on to the Disability Reads Themed part of the challenge!
In order to win this beautiful badge designed by Shibani, you will need to read a minimum of 500 pages of Disability themed fiction/ non-fiction.
These books can be included in your page logs for your team as well, so you stand to earn 2 badges should you participate in both the Disability Reads Challenge and the regular monthly Reading challenge.
This is an optional challenge.
You can choose to participate in only the July Reading Challenge OR only the Disability Reads challenge or both.
In addition to reading 500 pages, you will have to post a short review and 2 quotes highlighting how the book relates to the Disability theme in the Disability Reads Reviews thread.
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Team, please reserve a post for your page logs and log your book & page count in the excel as well!
sambhavami's reading list
- Ulka Rahashya - Kakababu - Sunil Gangopadhyay - 122
- Rajbarir Rahashya - Kakababu - Sunil Gangopadhyay - 119
- Radha Krishna - Sunil Gangopadhyay - 163
- Lal Kalo - Girindrasekhar Basu - 58
- Mandavi - Vaishakhi Thakur - 95
- Kolkatar Jongole - Kakababu - Sunil Gangopadhyay - 88
- Atha Mandodari Katha - Paramita Chakraborty - 157
- Those Days (English) - Sunil Gangopadhyay - 660
- All the Light We cannot See - Anthony Doerr - 530
- The Second Mrs Thistlewood - Dionne Haynes - 310
- Manda-Katha - Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri - 125
- 50 Comic Stories - Shibram Chakraborty (Bengali) - 162/296 -> In progress
Total Pages: 2589
To be started:
- Krishna Vasudeva - Bani Basu - 265 pages read already.
Gags05's page log
1. The Wedding Photographer by Sakshama Puri Dhariwal : 165 pages (ongoing from June from page 54 till 219)
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2. Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce : 192 pages (out of 399) : DNFed
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3. It had to be a Duke by Vivienne Lorette : 372 pages
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4. None of this is true by Lisa Jewell : 390 pages
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5. Breast and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami : pages 198
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(Continued from June'25 from page 232 till end, i.e 430)
6. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir: pages 476
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7. Princess Trap by Talia Hibhert : Pages 80 (DNF)
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