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2023: 800,000 Page Challenge
72 The Big Honey Hunt
by Stan Berenstain
210 The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
by May Gibbs
176 Peter Pan
by J.M. Barrie
739 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other Classic Novels
by Jules Verne
240 Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne
New total=264,537
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset 1,168 pages; and,
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu 1,211 pagesNew total: 266,916
The (Love of the) Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald - (1941) - 169 pagesSurfacing by Margaret Atwood - (1972) - 199 pages
Total this reading - 368 pages
GROUP TOTAL - 267, 488
The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming - 156 pgsThe Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall - 279 pgs
High Wages by Dorothy Whipple - 259 pgs
For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming - 182 pgs
Total to Date: 269,751 pgs
A Man Called Trent by Louis L'Amour246 pages - 06/03/23
Group Total to Date: 271,438
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 435p Total to date: 271,873 pages
April 20231.Peter Camenzind. Herman Hesse 208 pages
2. Le château. Franz Kafka 428 pages
3. Can you forgive her. Anthony Troloppe 847 pages
4. Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. Jules Verne 606 pages
5. At Lady Molly's. Anthony Powell 256 pages
6. L'incroyable et triste histoire de la candide Erendira et de sa grand-mère diabolique. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 154 pages
7. Moby Dick. Herman Melville 608 pages
8. Casanova's chinese restaurant. Anthony Powell 205 pages
Total 3312 + 272,221= 275,533
Mai 20231- La fortune des Rougons. Emile Zola 544 pages
2- Son excellence Eugène Rougon. Emile Zola 474 pages
3- The Wreath. Sigrid Undset 338 pages
4- Damian. Hermann Hesse 176 pages
5- Les Trois Mousquetaires. Alexandre Dumas. 1092 pages
6- Summer. Edith Wharton 110 pages
7- Le côté de Guermantes. Volu,e 1. Marcel Proust 497 pages
Total 3231 + 275,533 = 278,764
oups adding Luis pages. new total should be278,988 pages
Crimes of Cymru: Classic Mystery Tales of Wales - 276 pgs
Untimely Death by Cyril Hare - 192 pgs
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson - 176 pgs
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry - 80 pgs
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey - 231 pgs
Total to Date: 280,568 pgs
(White Dog) Chien blanc by Romain Gary (1970) 224 pages
(The Marriage of Figaro) Le Mariage de Figaro by Beaumarchais (1778)
258 pages
(The Temple of the Golden Pavilion) Le Pavillon d'Or by Yukio Mishima (1956)
376 pages
Total : 858 pages
Total to date : 281,762
Daphnis and Chloe by Longus 128p
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim 117pGroup Total to Date: 283,355
Mod
170 pages
Group total: 284 397
80 pages
157 pages
Group total: 284 634
Desert Gold by Zane Grey - 326 pagesGroup Total: 286,404
Just joined this group so wanted to contribute my Classic reading for the year so far:-The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
- 360 pages;The Desperadoes and Other Stories by Stan Barstow
- 192 pages;The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- 320 pages;A Death in the Family by James Agee
- 310 pages;A Handful Of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
- 221 pages;The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 796 pages;One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 150 pages;= total of 2349 pages >
Group total: 289,040
Mod
adding 532 📚32 🍯The Berenstain Bears and the Wild, Wild Honey
by
Stan Berenstain239 👀Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
by
Lewis Carroll137 🐇Tales of Peter Rabbit and His Friends
by
Beatrix Potter32 🍞The Giant Jam Sandwich
by John Vernon Lord92 🐹🐹🍳The Battle Of Bubble And Squeak
by Philippa Pearce289,840 =Group total 📜
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Henry V by William Shakespeare
137 pages
Group Total to Date: 263,100