Paging All Bookworms! discussion

Our counts so far:

January 2016 - 62,387
February 2016 - 67,136

How many pages did you read in March? Let us know here. Let's see if we can reach the same numbers we did the last couple months!

Leah's March count:

11. Boys in the Trees by Carly Simon (371 pages)
12. Columbine by Dave Cullen (417 pages)
13. Amazing Fantastic Incredible by Stan Lee (192 pages)
14. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (291 pages)

My total: 1,271

GROUP TOTAL: 1,271

March



25. Murder At The Lake (Allison Aldridge mystery, #3) - Helen Goodman (4 stars) 3/3/16 [250]
26. Sweet Revenge (A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery, #1) - Andrea Penrose (4 stars) 3/7/16 [317]
27. Nearly Departed in Deadwood (Deadwood, #1) - Ann Charles (4 stars) 3/9/16 [376]
28. Optical Delusions in Deadwood (Deadwood, #2) - Ann Charles (4 stars) 3/11/16 [432]
29. A Taste Of Heaven - Alexis Harrington (4 stars) 3/12/16 [352]
30. Allie's Moon - Alexis Harrington (3 stars) 3/13/16 [320]
31. Strong Spirits (Daisy Gumm Majesty mystery, #1) - Alice Duncan (4 stars) 3/17/16 [317]
32. Fine Spirits (Daisy Gumm Majesty mystery, #2) - Alice Duncan (4 stars) 3/19/16 [317]
33. Resurrection in Mudbug (Ghost in Law mystery, #4) - Jana DeLeon (4 stars) 3/21/16 [259]
34. Missing in Mudbug (Ghost in Law mystery, #5) - Jana DeLeon (4 stars) 3/23/16 [210]
35. Changeling Moon (Changeling, #1) - Dani Harper (4 stars) 3/26/16 [368]
36. Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) - Melissa Meyer (5 stars) 3/28/16 [390]
37. The Night Is Mine (Night Stalkers, #1) - M. L. Buchman (5 stars) 3/31/16 [416]
38. Captive Dreams - Angela Knight & Diane Whiteside (3 stars) 3/31/16 [336]

Total Books - 14
Total Pages - 4660

Group Total: 5,931

1. Hold Tight by Harlan Coben 416 pages
2. Scandalous Desires by Elizabeth Holt 393 pages
3. Opal Plumstead by Jacqueline Wilson 528 pages
4. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons by Stephen King 181 pages
5. The Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill 384 pages
6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling 223 pages
7. The Soul Catcher by Alex Kava 307 pages
8. Awful Auntie by David Walliams 416 pages
9. Why Mermaids Sing by C S Harris 352 pages
10. The Martian by Andy Weir 369 pages
11. A Clash of Kings by George R R Martin 761 pages
12. The Naughtiest Girl Is a Monitor by Enid Blyton 248 pages
13. City of Bones by Michael Connelly 416 pages
14. The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore 355 pages
15. Here's the Naughtiest Girl! by Enid Blyton 63 pages

March Pages = 5,412

Group Total = 11,343

March:
63. The Altar Girl by Orest Stelmach 256 pages
64. The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls 304 pages
65. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke 782 pages
66. A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 337 pages
67. What She Left Behind Ellen Marie Wiseman 336 pages
68. A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle 256 pages
69. Fortunately the Milk Neil Gaiman 128 pages
70. The Last Bookstore in America Amy Stewart 221 pages
71. The Valley John Renehan 433 pages
72. Beauty and the Beast Jenni James 142 pages
73. O Pioneers! Willa Cather 180 pages
74. Island of Bones Imogen Robertson 384 pages
75. Cricket Song Anne Hunter (MCA) 32 pages
76. A Highland Christmas M. C. Beaton 129 pages
77. Haunted Connecticut Cheri Farnsworth 128 pages
78. Shouldn't You Be in School Lemony Snicket 325 pages
79. Bone Gap by Laura Ruby 368 pages
80. Freedom in Congo Square Carole Weatherford (MCA) 40 pages
81. Emma and Julia Love Ballet Barbara McClintock (MCA) 32 pages
82. The Last Policeman Ben H. Winters 336 pages
83. Richard III William Shakespeare 244 pages
84. The Radetzky March Joseph Roth 384 pages
85. The Woman in White Wilke Collins 635 pages
86. Olinguito, de La A a la Z!/Olinguito, from A to Z! Lulu Delacre 40 pages
87. I Hear a Pickle: and Smell, See, Touch & Taste It Too! Rachel Isadora 32 pages
88. The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club Gil McNeil 404 pages

Total for the Month: 6843
Group Total: 18186

Beverly wrote: "March:
63. The Altar Girl by Orest Stelmach 256 pages
64. The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls 304 pages
65. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke 782 pages
66. A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman..."

Boy, Beverly! I thought I read a lot in March -- you really went crazy! ;)

March:
✔I Am Scout by Charles J. Shields (Buddy Read), 4****s, 3-21-16, 212 pgs
✔The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate, 3***s, 3-7-16, 300 pgs
✔Flowers for Algernon by Daniels Keyes (re-read for Bk Club), 4****s, 3-6-16, 311 pgs
✔Ending Up by Kingsley Amis, 3***s, 3-25-16, 276 pgs
✔Kitchens of The Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal, 2**s, 3-15-16, 310 pgs
✔My Side of The Mountain by Jean George, 4****s, 3-18-16, 166 pgs
✔The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, 3***s, 3-10-16, 142 pgs
✔Middlemarch by George Eliot (audio), 3***s, 3-18-16, 912 pgs
✔A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, 4****s, 3-21-16, 224 pgs
✔Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan, 3***s, 3-21-16, 76 pgs
✔Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery by Deborah and James Howe, 4****s, 3-23-16, 98 pgs
✔A Lesson in Hope by Philip Gulley, 3***s, 3-25-16, 260 pgs
✔The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine by Alexander McCall Smith, 3***s, 3-26-16, 225 pgs
✔Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan, 5*****s, 3-27-16, 378 pgs
✔Love Anthony by Lisa Genova, 4****s, 3-30-16, 309 pgs

Total for the Month: 4199 pages
Group Total: 22,385 pages

JANUARY: 10 books/1 nE, 3875 pages, avg. 388 pages
FEBRUARY: 10 bookd/1 nE, 2945 pages, avg. 295 pages
MARCH: 10 books/1 nE, 3282 pages, avg. 328 pages
TOTAL: 30 books/2 nE, 10,182 pages, avg. 337 pages

MARCH BOOKS:
21. Allendoerfer and Oakley, Fundamentals of Freshman Mathematics [second edition, 1965] 588 pages
22. Jim C. Hines, Revisionary [2016] 339 pages
Kathleen Grissom, Kitchen House [2010] [abandoned after 207 pages, plus the last 18, out of 365]
23. Sean Carroll, From Eternity to Here: The quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time [2010] 438 pages
24. Stanislaw Lem, Solaris [1960, tr. 2013] 223 pages [Kindle]
25. Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design [2010] 198 pages
26. Frederick Copleston, S.J., A History of Philosophy, Volume 5: Hobbes to Hume [1959] 440 pages
27-29. Georg Brandes, Shakespeare: A Critical Study [3 volumes, 1897-98; tr. 1902 by William Archer] 849 pages
30. Stendhal, Vanina Vanini [1829] 32 pages [in French; Kindle]

GROUP TOTAL: 25,667 pages

March
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote--March 343 pages
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng--March 304 pages
The Hypocrisy of Disco by Clane Hayward--75 of 256 pages
Murder In The Family by Burl Barer---320 pages
Give Me My Father's Body by Kenn Harper--320 pages
Month total:1,362

Group Total: 27,029 pages

Terris wrote: "Beverly wrote: "March:
63. The Altar Girl by Orest Stelmach 256 pages
64. The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls 304 pages
65. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke 782 pages
66. A Man Called Ove..."

I know, I'm not sure how I did all that but I'm thinking I'm sleep deprived!!!! :)

41. Mutilated Dreams, Hadena James -201 pages
42. Hammered, Kevin Hearne -338 pages
43. Tricked, Kevin Hearne -370 pages
44. A Wizard of Earthsea. Ursula K. Le Guin -267 pages
45. A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness -594 pages
46. Plague, Victor Methos -333 pages
47. Marked in Flesh, Anne Bishop -416 pages
48. Shadow of Night, Deborah Harkness -593 pages
49. Ink and Bone, Rachel Caine -352 pages
50. Celebrity Crimes, Xavier Waterkeyn -256 pages
51. The Book of Life, Deborah Harkness -737 pages
52. Belladonna Dreams, Hadena James -290 pages
53. Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind -582 pages
54. Zoo, James Patterson -498 pages
55. Storm Front, Jim Butcher -308 pages
56. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman -385 pages
57. The Atlantis Plague, A.G. Riddle -441 pages
58. Ready Player One, Ernest Cline -386 pages
59. Red Rising, Pierce Brown -400 pages
60. Explosive Dreams, Hadena James -385 pages

March Total: 8,132
Group Total: 35,161

31. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline - 4 stars 288p (MTD: 288 / YTD: 9200)
32. Golden Buddha by Clive Cussler - 2.6 stars 416p (MTD: 704 / YTD: 9616)
33. L'enfant allemand by Camilla Läckberg - 4 stars 409p (MTD: 1113 / YTD: 10025)
34. Der Tod in Venedig by Thomas Mann - 3 stars 160p (MTD: 1273 / YTD: 10185)
35. The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves - 4 stars 352p (MTD: 1625 / YTD: 10537)
36. Oktoberfest by Christopher Scholder - 3 stars 603p (MTD: 2228 / YTD: 11140)
37. Girl Missing by Tess Gerritsen - 3.4 stars 271p (MTD: 2499 / YTD: 11411)
38. Sternenspiel by Sergej Lukianenko - 4 stars 639p (MTD: 3138 / YTD: 12050)
39. The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi - 4 stars 376p (MTD: 3514 / YTD: 12426)
40. Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa - 5.4 stars 308p (MTD: 3822 / YTD: 12734)
41. In Real Life by Cory Doctorow - 4 stars 175p (MTD: 3997 / YTD: 12909)
42. Radetzkymarsch by Joseph Roth - 3.6 stars 403p (MTD: 4400 / YTD: 13312)
43. No Second Chance by Harlan Coben - 4.4 stars 452p (MTD: 4852 / YTD: 13764)
44. Wer Wind sät by Nele Neuhaus - 3.4 stars 560p (MTD: 5412 / YTD: 14324)
45. The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva - 3.6 stars 529p (MTD: 5941 / YTD: 14853)

Group Total: 41'102

14. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender - 292 pages
15. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 455 pages
16. Pomfret Towers - Angela Thirkell - 298 pages
17. Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks - 310 pages
18. The Radleys - Matt Haig - 358 pages
19. A History of Loneliness - John Boyne - 384 pages
20. The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes - 180 pages
21. From Notting Hill with Love... Actually - Ali McNamara - 448 pages
22. The Road to Little Dribbling - Bill Bryson - 385 pages
23. Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier - 253 pages
24. Plainsong - Kent Haruf - 320 pages
25. Eventide - Kent Haruf - 320 pages
26. Undermajordomo Minor - Patrick DeWitt - 339 pages.

March Total - 4342
Group Total- 45,444

Split Second by Alex Kava - 408 pages
Jaws by Peter Benchley - 278 pages
Riders by Veronica Rossi - 362 pages
Seven Wonders Journals: The Promise by Peter Lerangis - 112 pages
Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene by Veronica Roth - 43 pages

Total March pages: 1,203
Group Total: 46,647

My March Booklist

1. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs ★★★★ 352 pp.
2. The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith ★★★★ 247 pp./599 pp.
3. The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron ★★★★ 71 pp./670 pp.
4. The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James ★★★★ 506 pp./1176 pp.
5. The Glass Kitchen: A Novel of Sisters by Linda Francis Lee 3.5 ★★★ 384 pp./1560 pp.
6. Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff 3.5 ★★★ 304 pp./1864 pp.
7. Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel ★★★ 64 pp./1928 pp.
8. The Golden Egg Book by Margaret Wise Brown ★★★★ 28 pp./1956 pp.
9. Pigs in Pajamas by Maggie Smith ★★★★ 32 pp./1988 pp.
10. Iris and Walter, True Friends by Elissa Haden Guest 3.5 ★★★ 44 pp./2032 pp.
11. The BFG by Roald Dahl 3.5 ★★★ 272 pp./2304 pp.
12. Sophie and the New Baby by Catherine Anholt ★★★★ 32 pp./2336 pp.
13. Curious George Visits an Amusement Park by Margaret Rey ★★★ 32 pp./2368
14. Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney ★★★★ 32 pp./2400 pp.
15. Curious George Goes to a Costume Party by Margaret Rey ★★★ 32 pp./2432 pp.
16. The S-Word by Chelsea Pitcher 3.5 ★★★ 304 pp./2736 pp.
17. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry ★★★★ 300 pp./3036 pp.
18. The Real Girl's Kitchen by Haylie Duffy ★★★★ 240 pp./3276 pp.
19. I Kill the Mockingbird by Paul Acampora ★★★★ 176 pp./3452 pp.
20. All Four Stars by Tara Dairman 3.5 ★★★ 288 pp./3740 pp.
21. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 3.5 ★★★ 219 pp./3959 pp.
22. The EveryGirl's Guide to Diet and Fitness: How I Learned to Eat Right, Dropped 40 Pounds, and Took Control of My Life-- And How You Can Too! by Maria Menounos ★★★★★ 305 pp./4263 pp.
23. Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall by Emily Bearn ★★★★ 512 pp./4775 pp.

Total March Pages: 4775
Group Total: 51,422

March Page Count
Fortunate Son by John Fogerty 390 pages
Safe Harbor by Brian Macdonald 272 pages
The Beekeeper's Lament by Hannah Nordhaus 288 pages
Candy Freak by Steve Almond 264 pages
The Yoga Store Murer by Dan Morse 361 pages
1000 Things to Love About America by Barbara Bowers 320 pages
Dancing The Cows Home by Sara DeLuca 232 pages
Gitchie Girl by Phil Hamman 154 pages
Blood Bath by Susan Mustafa 346 pages
To See You Again by Betty Schimmel 334 pages
The Undertaking: Life Studies From The Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch 199 pages

Total for March: 3160 pages
Group Total: 54,582

March 2016

1)Giving Up the Ghost, McCoy, 247 pages
2) As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride, Elwes, 247 pages
3) To Brew or Not to Brew, Tremel, 281 pages
4) Make Poverty Personal: Taking the Poor as Seriously as the Bible Does, Barker, 200 pages
5) All Over But the Shoutin', Bragg, 329 pages
6) Death of a Mad Hatter, McKinlay, 281 pages
7) Murder Most Howl, Davis, 267 pages
8) Libriomancer, Hines, 348 pages
9) Writing All Wrongs, Adams, 275 pages
10) Eleanor Roosevelt, With Love: A Centenary Remembrance, Roosevelt, 155 pages
11) Lethal Letters, Adams, 276 pages
12) The Holy Man, Trott, 173 pages
13) The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge, Ridley, 322 pages

Total Pages for March: 3401

Group Total: 57, 983

The Infinite Sea—320
Me Before You—369
Thin Crust Killers—254
In a Dark, Dark Wood—352
Verse of the Vampyre—400
The Wedding Cake Murder—309
The Cakes of Monte Cristo—304
2308 pages
7 books

GROUP TOTAL: 65249

- Say you're sorry by Michael Robotham - 435
- Life or death by Michael Robotham - 418
- Close your eyes by Michael Robotham - 400
- The Royal Ranger by John Flanagan - 464 (with my daughter)
- Passiespel by Isa Maron - 321

5 books, 2038 pages
Group total: 69,150

Catching up!

JANUARY:
One Thousand Splendid Sons by Hosseini-1/1/16. 372 pages
We're Are All Welcome Here by Berg-1/8/16. 187
The Dinner by Koch-1/13/16. 407
Sweet Salt Air by Delinsky-1/21/16 432
Best Boy by Gottlieb-1/24/16. 256
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck-1/29/16. 107

Total for month: 1,761 pages

FEBRUARY:
The Lottery by Jackson-2/1/16. 30
The Lord of the Flies by Golding-2/9/16 202
Anything Can Happen by Papashivily-2/14/16. 202
Mile 81 by King-2/15/16. 54
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Hoffman-2/22/16. 384
Full Dark, No Stars by King-2/29/16 545

Total for month: 1,417 pages
Total for year: 3,178

MARCH:
Scandalous Behavior by Woods-3/6/16. 320
A Man Called Ove by Backman-3/11/16. 337
The Revenant by Punke-3/19/16. 308
Every Fifteen Minutes by Scottoline-3/21/16. 352
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Strout-3/22/16. 193
Rogue Lawyer by Grisham-3/30/16. 344

March total: 1.854
YTD total: 5,032

I'm pretty sure I did this accounting all wrong. Someone help me out?

Marti wrote: "I'm pretty sure I did this accounting all wrong. Someone help me out? "

No problem Marti! We have a monthly count. So you can add your March total to the previous March total for a full group count.

So in this case, with your 1,854 pages read in March, we will add it to the previous persons group count making our current group total for March:

GROUP TOTAL: 71,004

Hope that makes sense. Please feel free to message me with any question!

Leah wrote: "Marti wrote: "I'm pretty sure I did this accounting all wrong. Someone help me out? "

No problem Marti! We have a monthly count. So you can add your March total to the previous March total for a f..."

Thank you, Leah!