2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Is anyone keeping track of this challenge or is it just like the personal challenge?

I think I'll challenge myself to 15,000 pages :)

Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt 355 pages

2,424/25,000 pages complete

Wow! Welcome everyone to the challenge. Enjoy counting your pages! :)

Turn a Page Challenge

Goal: 50,000 pages


Eden - 408 pages
Chosen Ones- 400 pages
Isle of Wysteria: Make Like a Tree and Leaf- 411 pages
Daughter of Smoke & Bone-439 pages
Across the Universe- 398 pages
Renegade- 368 pages
Lost Voices - 291 pages
Bitter Night - 387 pages
Genesis - 148 pages
The Moon Dwellers - 262 pages
Angelfall - 255 pages
The Star Dwellers - 368 pages
Crimson Wind - 353

Total to date: 4488

3 books under my belt for 2013 and 976 pages down. Kinda excited I went for such a long stretch last year that I read nothing. I love this site and this group. It really gets me reading more.

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien <306 pages

2,730/25,000 pages read

Cynthia wrote: "Turn a Page Challenge

Goal: 50,000 pages


- 408 pages
- 400 pages
- ebook ..."

Cynthia, I looked on Amazon and your ebook Isle of Wysteria is 411 pages. :)

Lilac wrote: "Is anyone keeping track of this challenge or is it just like the personal challenge?"

Lilac, this is more of a personal challenge. I will be checking periodically to see how everyone is progressing and then answering any questions you might have. If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me a message. :)

Ashley wrote: "Cynthia wrote: "Turn a Page Challenge

Goal: 50,000 pages


- 408 pages
- 400 pages
[bookcover:Isle of Wysteria: Make Like a Tree and Leaf|1..."

Wow...what a great idea. I never thought of looking on amazon for a page count. Thank you for the suggestion. I read alot of ebooks.

You are quite welcome, Anna. Most of my ebooks come from Amazon, so I just use their page number. :)

My Goal is 20,000 Pages!

I'll be keeping track of my progress here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Updating...

Duration 1/1/13-12/31/12

1. The Undiscovered Novelist by Sarah Bridgeton- FINISHED 1/1/13 155 pages
2. David J. Bell - Cemetery Girl- FINISHED 1/5/13 389 pages
3. The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman- FINISHED 1/6/13 144 pages
4. Dracula by Bram Stoker- FINISHED 1/6/13 488 pages
5. Fruits Basket, Vol. 1 by Natsuki Takaya- FINISHED 1/7/13 216 pages
6. You Don't Want To Know by Lisa Jackson- FINISHED 1/8/13 416 pages
5. Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson- FINISHED 1/11/13 368 pages
6. Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan- FINISHED 1/12/13 388 pages
7. Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag- FINISHED 1/13/13 421 pages
8. Blood Line: An Anna Travis Novel by Lynda La Plante- FINISHED 1/14/13 480 pages
9. Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner- FINISHED 1/20/13 360 pages

Goal: 50,000

I will keep track on my Personal Challenge Page and update periodically.

my goal is 21,000

My goal will be 50,000 pages for 2013. No clue how many pages I normally read in a year but I've read around 4,000 this month so 50,000 sounds good.

4,269/50,000 completed

* I'll update with the books when I'm at a computer.

Welcome to the challenge everyone! I'm in the process of getting a list made to put on here so we can see everyone's progress so far this month!

Challenge Participants and Their Pages

Lilac – 1,906/30,000
Mallory – 0/?
Toni – 0/15,000
Ashley – 1,245/40,000
Kattibrie – 0/40,000
Alexandra – 0/53,000
JenniferJ – 2,616/50,000
Joni – 1,373/10,000
Kme_17 – 0/40,000
Kai – 0/10,000
Sasha – 0/27,500
Trevor – 96/25,000
Meghan – 0/10,000
Kelsi – 2,028/25,000
Darshana – 0/5,000+
Anja – 0/22,500
Joanne ~Bookworm Extraordinare – 1,397/35,000
Sarah – 1,930/15,000
Audrey – 0/7,500+
Adriana – 1,980/30,000+
Michelle – 976/8,000
Christina – 0/5,000
Lisa – 3,050/25,000
Ana – 0/20,000
Gina – 3,825/12,000
Regan- 904/24,000
Morgan – 0/20,000
Johanna – 0/15,000
Talia – 0/40,000
Kristie – 632/10,000
Gecko – 0/50,000
Anna – 1,178/20,000
Grace – 1,147/3,200
Lisa S – 1,600/50,000
Lorelei – 392/7,000
Hiedi – 1,333/40,000
Dani – 567/15,000
Bridget – 284/24,000
Mabel – 0/15,000
Erin – 0/5,000
Cynthia – 4,488/50,000
Nicole – 286/20,000
Ashley – 1,328/100,000
Erika – 3,992/50,000
Joseph-Daniel – 0/21,000
Megan – 4,269/50,000
Sonja - 2,637/15,000
Robyn - 1,601/12,000

I have everyone updated with their page numbers! Looking good! If you need an update just let me know :)

As of right now we have a group goal to read 1,189,700 pages this year.

So far from the updates I have, we have read 40,398 pages toward our goal.

40,398/1,189,700 pages!

Way to go! :)

Mallory- wrote: "30K, i love it! I've postulated 800 books, so that would be, let's see, 1600-2400 pages.:)"

As I was making my list, I was confused about the number of pages you'd like to read this year. Let me know what your goal is an I'll add it to the list. :)

I finished Sandcastle Girls - 320 pages

Challenge Total - 3,050/25,000 pages

Updated list.
-total to date: 4488

Thanks! :)

*UPDATE*

Total: 286/20,000 Pages.

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss 1,000 pages

Total 4,050/25,000 pages complete

Update: 1,870/20,000 pages complete

Thanks! I will update everyone's pages 2 to 3 times a week to give more reading time. So, if I don't update right away, that's why. Keep the updates coming! :)

I will go for 15,000 pages for this year! According to my last year stats I did over 8,000 then and I am hoping to read about double so hopefully that'll work out nicely!

Okay so I just counted up the first 6 books for the year as I just finished one :-) yay.

So:
The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer: 416 pages

No Bone Unturned: The Adventures of a Top Smithsonian Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America's Oldest Skeletons by Jeff Benedict: 336 pages

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks: 496 pages

The Secret River by Kate Grenville: 349 pages

Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell: 480 pages

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry: 560 pages

2,637/15,000 pages complete

January is almost over, in this month I have read 1,601 pages. Not to shabby considering I read a couple super short books

Congratulations readers! I will get January's totals up on the 31st to see where we are.

Welcome to the challenge, Sonja! Will get you added to the list.

Robyn wrote: "January is almost over, in this month I have read 1,601 pages. Not to shabby considering I read a couple super short books"

Hi Robyn! You're doing great so far. Did you have a yearly goal in mind for this challenge? You can start small and then increase if you start getting close. :)

Hi Ashley, I didn't have a goal but I'm thinking I will make one... lets say 12,000 for the year. Now that I am back in classes my reading time has been dramatically cut : (

12,000 is a great number! Good luck. You are over your goal for January then since 12,000 would be 1,000 pages a month! Not a bad start! :)

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey 391 pages

Total pages read 4,441/25,000

Ashley wrote: "12,000 is a great number! Good luck. You are over your goal for January then since 12,000 would be 1,000 pages a month! Not a bad start! :)"

Thanks! Computer programming and technical writing are two of my courses this semester... I need all the head start I can get!

Update: 2,245/20,000 pages complete :)

Right now I am at 2013/7500+. I think I may have set my goal a little lower than I should have. I will probably update again monthly on the last day of the month. I decided to update now because somehow I was able to get trough exactly 2013 pages a perfect number to start off the year. :)

Updated: 3,861/20,000. Will update again at end of the month. Trying for another 2 or 3 books in the next couple of days...:-)

30,086/30,000 FINISHED

Gone Girl - 419 pages
Sleep No More - 400 pages
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - 214 pages
30 Pieces of Silver - 452 pages
Safe Haven - 340 pages
Keeper of the Bride - 328 pages
Low Pressure - 467 pages
Hoping for Love - 533 pages
Lye in Wait - 324 pages
Easy Innocence - 396 pages
The Sinner - 419 pages
The Scarecrow - 423 pages
L.A. Candy - 326 pages
Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover - 263 pages
Sacred Sins - 368 pages
Cape Refuge - 385 pages
Brazen Virtue - 288 pages
Yellow Medicine - 260 pages
The Devil's Deep - 253 pages
The Innocent - 422 pages
Robert B. Parker's Lullaby - 320 pages
The Racketeer - 340 pages
The Forgotten - 422 pages
Touch & Go - 400 pages
Beautiful Creatures - 563 pages
Soft Target - 256 pages
Where the Sidewalk Ends - 176 pages
The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love - 240 pages
The Untouchable - 367 pages
Summer At Willow Lake - 534 pages
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen - 293 pages
A World I Never Made - 262 pages
The Fine Art of Truth or Dare - 380 pages
The Death of Bees - 311 pages
The Dead - 457 pages
The Casual Vacancy - 503 pages
The Apothecary's Daughter - 415 pages
The Fairy-Tale Detectives - 284 pages
Calculated in Death - 416 pages
Edge of Sight - 376 pages
The Archived - 328 pages
A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages - 256 pages
Blame Canada!: South Park and Contemporary Culture - 288 pages
Truly, Madly, Deeply - 310 pages
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 216 pages
Body Double - 432 pages
Dead Until Dark - 293 pages
We Were the Mulvaneys - 454 pages
Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia - 448 pages
Mad Dog & Englishman: A Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery - 190 pages
Mind Games April 23
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom April 26
Fatal Voyage April 26
The Awakening April 27
A Study in Revenge April 29
It Had to Be You April 30
Angel Falls April 30
The Pillars of the Earth May 7
The Lambs of London May 9
Whiskey Beach May 10
Someday, Someday, Maybe May 12
The Giver May 12
The Elite May 12
Presumed Innocent May 13
Mallory's Oracle May 14
Dressed to Die May 14
Inferno May 18
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children May 20
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews May 21
Zero Day by David BaldacciMay 22
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov May 23

Home Front by Kristin Hannah 388 pages

Total pages 4,829/25,000

Ill set my goal at 20,000 pages for the year...

Does books we've already read count ?

At the end of the month, I'm at 3,007/25, 000

Anna wrote: "Does books we've already read count ?"

As long as you've read them in 2013, they count! :)

End of January update!

1,577/25,000

Alright, I am about to tally up our pages for the month of January!! :)

Challenge Participants and Their Pages

Lilac – 1,906/30,000
Mallory – 0/?
Toni – 0/15,000
Ashley – 2,046/40,000
Kattibrie – 3,359/40,000
Alexandra – 0/53,000
JenniferJ – 2,616/50,000
Joni – 1,373/10,000
Kme_17 – 0/40,000
Kai – 0/10,000
Sasha – 0/27,500
Trevor – 1,577/25,000
Meghan – 0/10,000
Kelsi – 3,007/25,000
Darshana – 0/5,000+
Anja – 0/22,500
Joanne ~Bookworm Extraordinare – 1,397/35,000
Sarah – 1,930/15,000
Audrey – 2,013/7,500+
Adriana – 1,980/30,000+
Michelle – 976/8,000
Christina – 0/5,000
Lisa – 4,829/25,000
Ana – 0/20,000
Gina – 3,825/12,000
Regan- 904/24,000
Morgan – 2,245/20,000
Johanna – 0/15,000
Talia – 0/40,000
Kristie – 632/10,000
Gecko – 0/50,000
Anna (1) – 4,079/20,000
Grace – 1,147/3,200
Lisa S – 1,600/50,000
Lorelei – 392/7,000
Hiedi – 1,333/40,000
Dani – 567/15,000
Bridget – 284/24,000
Mabel – 0/15,000
Erin – 0/5,000
Cynthia – 4,488/50,000
Nicole – 286/20,000
Ashley – 1,328/100,000
Erika – 3,992/50,000
Joseph-Daniel – 0/21,000
Megan – 4,269/50,000
Sonja - 2,637/15,000
Robyn - 1,601/12,000
Shelly - 2,153/30,000
Anna (2) - 0/20,000
Kaitlin - 5,057/38,000

68,469/1,304,700 Complete As of January 31!

Great job guys!!!