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2023: 800,000 Page Challenge
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by J. Sheridan Le Fanu48 pages
Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf
10 pages
Current Group Total: 327,047
Medea by Euripides - 113 pgs
The Shadow Puppet by Georges Simenon - 160 pgs
Night's Cloak by E.R. Punshon - 218 pgs
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery - 235 pgs
Suddenly at His Residence: A Kent Mystery by Christianna Brand - 218 pgs
Crime in Kensington by Christopher St. John Sprigg - 168 pgs
Total to Date: 329,795 pgs
Karin wrote: "The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax - 204 pages204 + 327,826 = 328,030"
*blushing*
That was the wrong book in the series (I put that in on the previous page), so I will correct things here. I meant to add The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax which is 208 pages, so will add the extra four pages
our total is actually 331,547
From earlier this summer…. lately I've been on a modern jag! The Turmoil by Tarkington Booth
349 pages
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
298 pages
The Inimitable Jeeves by Wodehouse
240 pages
Previous 331,547 + 887 pages
New group total of 332,434
Main Street (Sinclair Lewis) by Sinclair Lewis 471Shane by Jack Schaeffer 135
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 249
Group total 335,061
Mod
234 pages
A King's Lesson by William Morris
8 pages
Group total: 335 303
Aramaic Peshitta New Testament Translation translated by Janet M. Magiera 616 pages
Group Total
336, 132
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 191 pagesOliver Twist by Charles Dickens 608 pages
799 + 338,770 = 339,569 total to date
Forgot this, but am just starting again in case someone else is updating at the same time.
Giant Treasury of Beatrix Potter 64 pages
The Beatrix Potter Treasury 79 pages(note that only one story is the same in both, so just counting the both!)
143 + 339,569 = 339,712
adding 776 pages144 pgs Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
296 The Coral Island
by R.M. Ballantyne
88 The Little Pot Boiler
by Spike Milligan
24 The Story of the Root Children
by Sibylle von Olfers
32 The Quangle Wangle's Hat
by Edward Lear
40 Veronica
by Roger Duvoisin
24 Pancakes for Breakfast
by Tomie dePaola
128 Yellow Submarine: Nothing is Real
by Max Wilk340,488==New group total
The First Fast Draw156 pages
GoodReads lists the first publication of this as 2003. That is incorrect.
Current Group Total: 340,887
Death on the Riviera by John Bude - 256 pgs
Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh - 329 pgs
Towards Zero by Agatha Christie - 301 pgs
Washington Square by Henry James - 243 pgs
Total to Date: 343,483 pgs
The British Communist Left: A history of left-wing communism in Britain, 1914-1945 by Mark Hayes
217 pages - 27/07/2023
Total to Date : 343,700
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett217 pages
7/27/2023
Total to Date: 343,917 pages
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Current Group Total: 326,763