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2025: 1,000,000 Page Challenge
The Quiet American (1955) by Graham Greene (1904-91). Started 24 January 2025, Finished 29 January 2025. 180 pages.
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I got the same number when I added it up, James.
33 142
I'd forgotten to include the group total in my posting of the book.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky833 pages
Group total: 34197 pages
Adam a Eva by Karel Šiktanc 77 pages
group total: 34 711
Berne and Luthien by Tolkien 288pgsGroup total: 35,914
The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth157 pages
Group total: 36,071
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry96 pgs
Group Total: 96 + 36,071 = 36,167
96 pages Tender Buttons (Gertrude Stein) 📖 ✅ 3* my review .(36 283+96 = 36 379)
New group total: 36 379
92 pages The Women (Clare Boothe Luce) 📖 ✅ 4* my review .(38 316+92 = 38 408)
New group total: 38 408
"Orlando" by Virginia Woolf, 178 pages... Now, I have to add it to the total? Is this a mathematics quiz? Alrighty then, I'll pull out my handy-dandy calculator.. Let me see: 12,969 plus 178 equals 13,147... Oh, Leslie, we still have a long ways to go, don't we?Group total: 13,147
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Michael, you are another victim of the infamous goodreads glitch-which takes you to the previous set of posts.
It's happened to pretty well everybody.
Thanks Rosemarie, that makes me feel better about our total count... So, let me recalculate this... Oh, you've already done that Rosemarie.Group total: 39,209
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Well, the retired teachers (you, Rosemarie, and me) can still add. As long as we have our handy-dandy calculators!!
The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart381 pages
Group total: 32,076
The count total of Pages is incorrect. Please check it. I think the total number of pages is 40, 070
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Classics read from 1/1/25 to 2/6/25:
1/21/25 @ 335 pagesLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1935
1/22/25 @ 384 pagesOn the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1937
1/24/24 @ 74 pagesThe Call of the Wild by Jack London, 1903
(Abridged version - Children's Treasury of Illustrated Classics)
1/25/25 @ 204 pagesThe Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman, 1966
1/28/25 @ 385 pagesBy the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1939
1/29/25 @ 448 pagesThe Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1940
1/30/25 @ 400 pagesLittle Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1941
1/31/25 @ 96 pagesThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943
1/31/25 @ 289 pagesThese Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1943
1/31/25 @ 160 pagesThe First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1971
2/5/25 @ 474 pagesEmma by Jane Austen, 1815
2/6/25 @ 260 pagesNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 1817
2/6/25 @ 180 pagesLady Susan by Jane Austen, 1871
2/6/25 @ 180 pagesThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
(Pages read: 3,869)
Group Total: 44,739 pages
As of 2/11/25
2/11/25 @ 315 pagesThe Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie, 1932
2/11/25 @ 89 pagesThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, 1895
(Pages read: 404)
Group Total: 45,911
Valis Trilogy by Philip K. Dick:VALIS, 244p
The Divine Invasion, 272p
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, 256p
(244+272+256)=
New Group Total: 46,683 pages
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