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Let's Turn Pages - 2018
Update for 832:Yikes! Need to update!
Mystery of the Ivory Charm- 208 pages
The Clue of the Tapping Heels- 202
Maelyn- 142
The Cat Who Saw Red - 256
The Cat Who Turned On and Off - 271
Daring to Dream- 176
Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold-336
The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk- 180
The Mystery at the Moss-covered Mansion- 204
Let's Turn Pages: 7930/10000
Updated Msg. 11861,654/35,000
5,605 pages for October
November update to msg 1961Web of the Witch World (Andre Norton): 190
There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé (Morgan Parker): 85
The Obelisk Gate (N.K. Jemisin): 446
A Rare Benedictine (Ellis Peters): 150
Progress:> 19,331/25,000
Update message 41FINALLY REACHED MY GOAL!!!
75,051/75,000
Message 1944 Updated54)Doctor Who: I am a Dalek(105 pages)
55)Doctor Who: The Sontaran Games(112 pages)
56)Archie & Me Comic Digest #10(123 pages)
57)London Belongs to Us(264 pages)
8072/9000
Updated message 71:16,491/25,000 -- not looking good! LOL
Update to #107Tell me three things (352 p)
8995/13000
Update to message 799: Total Pages Read: 31,346/25,000
@KirstinThank you for updating this challenge!
You've been doing so much for the group lately.
We all deep appreciate the ways you and your group support and encourage our reading. <3 <3 <3
As of 11/2, my current total stands at 16038.
Monthly UpdateGoal: 28,032/25,000
October: 15 books, 5,226 pages (112.1% goal progress)
Completed date: October 14, 2018 (I was at 25,255 pages after finishing book #91, Stillhouse Lake)
Update message 22842,555/35,000
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore - review4792+444= 5236/5500
Almost there :)
Update to post 587:18,233/16,000
Yeehaw! Challenge completed!
New total 12,192 / 17,500.Details in message 121
Update to message 966Current total: 10,177 pages
Update to msg 1961Progress: 20,375/25,000 (as of 7 November)
Update to message 799:Total Pages Read: 31,918/25,000
Finished some books:Release
Life, the Universe and Everything
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
10.024/12.000
Update to Message 174:Just finished reading:
The Cabin At The End Of The World- 272 pages
Sadie- 311 pages
The Walled City- 424 pages
27,040 pages read
22,960 pages remaining
ॐ Let's Turn Pages - Goal 14,000 pages10,365/14,000 pages [74%]
#1 The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto pp. 496 4/5
#2 Coming Home pp. 785 4/5
#3 First Frost pp. 314 5/5
#4 Rocket Science for Babies pp. 24 3/5
#5 Night Film pp. 637 4/5
#6 Doctor Sleep pp. 485 3/5
#7 The Miniaturist pp. 433 4/5
#8 Starseeker pp. 323 5/5
#9 The Rules of Magic pp. 367 5/5
#10 I See You pp. 372 4/5
#11 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake pp. 325 3/5
#12 The Shipping News pp. 337 4/5
#13 Dark Matter pp. 401 4/5
#14 A Mislaid Magic pp. 236 4/5 (re-read)
#15 After the Unicorn pp. 252 4/5
#16 Arriving in Snowy Weather pp. 239 3/5
#17 Book of Pages pp. 64 5/5
#18 Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog pp. 215 2/5
#19 Into the Water pp. 428 4/5
#20 Mr Mercedes pp. 405 4/5
#21 Finders Keepers pp. 371 3/5
#22 End of Watch pp. 368 3/5
#23 How to Find Love in a Bookshop pp. 375 4/5
#24 The Couple Next Door pp. 362 3/5
#25 Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops pp. 119 4/5
#26 The Mother Garden pp. 191 3/5
#27 Uncanny Valley pp. 32 3/5
#28 The Martian Obelisk pp. 32 4/5
#29 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture pp. 211 3/5
#30 Zapped pp. 32 2/5
#31 Jack of Coins pp. 32 4/5
#32 Five Quarters of the Orange pp. 363 4/5
#33 We Were Liars pp. 225 5/5
#34 The Small Hand pp. 167 2/5
#35 Nine Last Days on Planet Earth pp. 32 5/5
#36 Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land pp. 32 5/5
#37 AI and the Trolley Problem pp. 32 4/5
#38 The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method pp. 147 5/5
#39 The Nearest pp. 32 4/5
#40 Animaculture pp. 72 3/5
Update to message 538.1. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan - 432 pages
2. Bonfire by Krysten Ritter - 288 pages
3. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen - 343 pages
4. I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara - 334 pages
5. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - 306 pages
6. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann - 287 pages
7. Lost Tribe of the Sith: Precipice by John Jackson Miller - 30 pages
8. Lost Tribe of the Sith: Skyborn by John Jackson Miller - 31 pages
9. Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon by John Jackson Miller - 32 pages
10. The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore by Joan Lowery Nixon - 305 pages
11. The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani - 228 pages
12. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling - 201 pages (I listened to the rest on audio)
13. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell - 356 pages
14. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling - 341 pages
15. Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff and David Corn - 305 pages
16. Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon by John Jackson Miller - 32 pages
17. Killer Cruise by Jennifer Shaw - 344 pages
18. Friends Forever by Danielle Steel - 318 pages
19. The Sleeping Beauty Killer by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke - 301 pages
20. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling - 435 pages
21. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 92 pages (Finished on audio)
22. The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper - 325 pages
23. Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History - 293 pages
24. Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco - 248 pages
25. The Outsider by Stephen King - 561 pages
26. You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott - 339 pages
27. Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - 807 pages
28. The Other Woman by Sandie Jones - 294 pages
8,238/20,000
update to message 619The Star-Touched Queen - 339 pages
Hatchet - 195 pages
August:
The Sirens of Titan - 326 pages
The Giver -180 pages
City of Dark Magic - 448 pages
The Call of the Wild - 105 pages
September:
Swan Song - 866 pages
The Shadowy Horses - 430 pages
Wintersong - 464 pages
Wild Beauty - 340 pages
That Inevitable Victorian Thing -330 pages
The Book Jumper - 384 pages
November:
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women - 399 pages
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - 368 pages
Total 20,752/20,000
Update to #107Eat, pray, love
9395/13000
Update to message 799:Total Books Read: 32,898/25,000
(msg 60) 5590/8000 + 272 (Just What Kind of Mother Are You?) = 5862/8000
Update:7163/10,000
A Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell 87/354
The Power by Naomi Alderman 246/399
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 308
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge 272
The Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary 128
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 214
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla 272
If Only They Didn't Speak English: Adventures in America - The Most Foreign Land on Earth by Jon Sopel 198
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 562
The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying F*** About You by Johnny B. Truant 13
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 299
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes by Denise Grover Swank 374
Spectacles by Sue Perkins 464
Coraline by Neil Gaiman 208
Paper Towns by John Green 321
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 116
Beloved by Toni Morrison 291
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 196/422 (Didn't finish)
The Perpetual Astonishment of Jonathon Fairfax by Christopher Shevlin 314/314
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 226/226
Lonely Planet's Beautiful World by Lonely Planet 272/272
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen 528/528
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Chang Jung 688/688
Sri Lanka (Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet 352/352
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe 354/354
Swallows And Ice Cream by Robert Fowler 82/82
Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa 404/466
Edited post #27.So far 28,553/30,000 pages.
Update to #107Sunny Chandler's Return (256p)
9651/13000
Update to message 134: I have read 33,022 pagesThanks!
Update to message 966Current Total: 10,828 pages
Update to message 799: Total Pages Read: 33,714/25,000
ॐ Let's Turn Pages - Goal 14,000 pages11,313/14,000 pages [81%]
#1 The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto pp. 496 4/5
#2 Coming Home pp. 785 4/5
#3 First Frost pp. 314 5/5
#4 Rocket Science for Babies pp. 24 3/5
#5 Night Film pp. 637 4/5
#6 Doctor Sleep pp. 485 3/5
#7 The Miniaturist pp. 433 4/5
#8 Starseeker pp. 323 5/5
#9 The Rules of Magic pp. 367 5/5
#10 I See You pp. 372 4/5
#11 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake pp. 325 3/5
#12 The Shipping News pp. 337 4/5
#13 Dark Matter pp. 401 4/5
#14 A Mislaid Magic pp. 236 4/5 (re-read)
#15 After the Unicorn pp. 252 4/5
#16 Arriving in Snowy Weather pp. 239 3/5
#17 Book of Pages pp. 64 5/5
#18 Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog pp. 215 2/5
#19 Into the Water pp. 428 4/5
#20 Mr Mercedes pp. 405 4/5
#21 Finders Keepers pp. 371 3/5
#22 End of Watch pp. 368 3/5
#23 How to Find Love in a Bookshop pp. 375 4/5
#24 The Couple Next Door pp. 362 3/5
#25 Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops pp. 119 4/5
#26 The Mother Garden pp. 191 3/5
#27 Uncanny Valley pp. 32 3/5
#28 The Martian Obelisk pp. 32 4/5
#29 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture pp. 211 3/5
#30 Zapped pp. 32 2/5
#31 Jack of Coins pp. 32 4/5
#32 Five Quarters of the Orange pp. 363 4/5
#33 We Were Liars pp. 225 5/5
#34 The Small Hand pp. 167 2/5
#35 Nine Last Days on Planet Earth pp. 32 5/5
#36 Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land pp. 32 5/5
#37 AI and the Trolley Problem pp. 32 4/5
#38 The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method pp. 147 5/5
#39 The Nearest pp. 32 4/5
#40 Animaculture pp. 72 3/5
#41 Haunted pp. 412 4/5
#42 The Fox on the Roundabout pp. 100 3/5
#43 The Man Who Planted Trees pp. 46 5/5
#44 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine pp. 390 5/5
I'm going for 50,000Total: 29,632
January:
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August:
September:
October: 19,600
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November: 10,032
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December:
ॐ Let's Turn Pages - Goal 14,000 pages11,487/14,000 pages [82%]
#1 The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto pp. 496 4/5
#2 Coming Home pp. 785 4/5
#3 First Frost pp. 314 5/5
#4 Rocket Science for Babies pp. 24 3/5
#5 Night Film pp. 637 4/5
#6 Doctor Sleep pp. 485 3/5
#7 The Miniaturist pp. 433 4/5
#8 Starseeker pp. 323 5/5
#9 The Rules of Magic pp. 367 5/5
#10 I See You pp. 372 4/5
#11 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake pp. 325 3/5
#12 The Shipping News pp. 337 4/5
#13 Dark Matter pp. 401 4/5
#14 A Mislaid Magic pp. 236 4/5 (re-read)
#15 After the Unicorn pp. 252 4/5
#16 Arriving in Snowy Weather pp. 239 3/5
#17 Book of Pages pp. 64 5/5
#18 Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog pp. 215 2/5
#19 Into the Water pp. 428 4/5
#20 Mr Mercedes pp. 405 4/5
#21 Finders Keepers pp. 371 3/5
#22 End of Watch pp. 368 3/5
#23 How to Find Love in a Bookshop pp. 375 4/5
#24 The Couple Next Door pp. 362 3/5
#25 Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops pp. 119 4/5
#26 The Mother Garden pp. 191 3/5
#27 Uncanny Valley pp. 32 3/5
#28 The Martian Obelisk pp. 32 4/5
#29 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture pp. 211 3/5
#30 Zapped pp. 32 2/5
#31 Jack of Coins pp. 32 4/5
#32 Five Quarters of the Orange pp. 363 4/5
#33 We Were Liars pp. 225 5/5
#34 The Small Hand pp. 167 2/5
#35 Nine Last Days on Planet Earth pp. 32 5/5
#36 Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land pp. 32 5/5
#37 AI and the Trolley Problem pp. 32 4/5
#38 The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method pp. 147 5/5
#39 The Nearest pp. 32 4/5
#40 Animaculture pp. 72 3/5
#41 Haunted pp. 412 4/5
#42 The Fox on the Roundabout pp. 100 3/5
#43 The Man Who Planted Trees pp. 46 5/5
#44 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine pp. 390 5/5
#45 Black Dogs pp. 174 4/5
Update to Update to msg 1950 (due to deleted posts, I guess).
Progress: 23,775/25,000 (as of Nov 28)
Update to message 966Completed: 11,584 pages
Goal: 20,00 pages
Update to Message 174:Finished reading:
The Face On The Milk Carton (Janie Johnson #1)- 192 pages
Whatever Happened To Janie? (Janie Johnson #2)- 224 pages
The Cheerleaders- 384 pages
27,835 pages read
22,165 pages remaining
Update to message 799: Total Pages Read: 34,393/25,000
Update for #1180. Thank you!8355 of 10,000 pages
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Goal: 28,035/25,000, 112.14% - 89 total books.
October - 17 books, 5,030 pages. 28,035 total pages.
73. The Bone Key - 288 pages
74. The Great God Pan - 120 pages
75. The Silent Companions - 384 pages
76. The Saturday Night Ghost Club - 288 pages
77. Dark Harvest - 176 pages
78. In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) - 429 pages
79. Under the Skin - 304 pages
80. Mongrels - 320 pages
81. Come Closer - 196 pages
82. The Devil All the Time - 274 pages
83. Doorbells at Dusk: Halloween Stories - 290 pages
84. The Werewolf of Paris - 304 pages
85. Katie - 295 pages
86. A Prayer for the Dying - 208 pages
87. The October Country - 352 pages
88. Hex - 448 pages
89. The Wicked - 354 pages