A few days ago, I stumbled upon this book challenge, hosted by The Dragon’s Book Lair while reading other book bloggers’ posts. Pages Read 2019 sounds super fun, and I decided to give it a try. I’ve never done a collective book challenge before, so this new bookish endeavor should be interesting. My last attempt, the December book challenge, was an epic fail after getting super sick, but this one is different.

What is this book challenge about? Pages Read 2019 says it all in its title, but let’s dive into the specifics. It’s fun, I promise. 🙂

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2019 Book Challenge – Pages Read 2019.

How many pages can you read this year?

 

Here are the rules defined by Dragon’s Book Lair:

 

This challenge isn’t about how many books you read but rather how many pages. After all, it isn’t fair that one read 4 titles and another read 2 titles but both read the same number of pages!

 

There is one hard rule, one just for general courtesy, several guidelines, and eight levels.

 

Hard Rules

• The book in question must have an ISBN or equivalent. If you can buy it or borrow it, it counts – which just means that you can’t count unpublished novels or fanfiction.

 

General Courtesy

• When you sign up in the linky, put the direct link to your post. That way we can find it. (In other words, go to her website to add the link to your own post that refers to the challenge or your Goodreads for example if you’re not a blogger so that all participants can follow each other.)

 

Guidelines

• You can list your books in advance or as you read them. You can also change your list.
• Any genre or length of book counts.
• Anyone can join, you don’t need to be a blogger, just let Dragon’s book Lair know in the comments.
• Reviews are good but not necessary. Once again, you don’t need to be a blogger, there are lots of places to post reviews. Hopefully, they’ll link up so we can read them.
• You may move up a level but not down.
• Crossovers for other challenges count
• Books started before January 1st, 2019 don’t count – unless you start over 😉

 

Levels

 

 

How to keep track of your pages?

 

You can write it down in a notepad. Or you can use GoodReads. Under “My Books”, you’ll have access to this number by clicking on Stats.

 

By the way, here is the link to my Goodreads profile for those of you who might want to add me. 🙂

 

I’ll do my best to post an update at the end of the month. 🙂

 

So far, my Goodreads indicates 300 pages because the other book is set to be released in May. The page count probably won’t add up until then.

 

I’ve been super sick on and off this past month, so I had a not-so-great start of that challenge, but I believe I can make up for it.  As for my goal, I’m aiming for Shrub (24,000 pages for the year). This is my first time doing this, and I’m not sure how this will go. 🙂

 

Happy Reading All!

 

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What about you? Are you up for the challenge?

 

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