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Green Eggs and Ham 62 pages
All the Bright Places 400 pages
Batman: the Killing Joke 64 pages
Total : 6809 pages

Within These Walls 464 pages 01.30.16
Sex, Lies & Sweet Tea 411 pages 01.30.16
Total: 4,671/62,315

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales - 132
City of Glass - 492
City of Fallen Angels - 435
Half a War - 497
Total: 1,667 / 20,000

January
1.The Witches: Salem, 1692 Pages: 512
2.Life After Life Pages: 544
3. De qué hablo cuando hablo de correr Pages: 232
4. The Bollywood Bride Pages: 352
5. Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy Pages: 128
6. ¡Muuu! Pages: 328
7. Instructions for a Heatwave Pages: 336
8. Bitch Planet, Vol 1: Extraordinary Machine Pages: 156
9.The Handmaid's Tale Pages: 324
Current progress: 2912/15000
This is the 19.41% of the pages I expect to read this year.

Added 2 books to msg #15
The Stand - Stephen King
1167 pages
Walkin' the Dog - Walter Mosley
288 pages

5,122/12,000
12) Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters by Pearl S. Buck

Duration: January 1 – December 31, 2016

10,363/60,000
January
1.Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder
2.The Secret by the Lake
3.Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love
4.The Bone Collector
5The Martian
6.Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
7.Jack & Jill
8. Wicked Beat
9.The Silver Linings Playbook
10.Luckiest Girl Alive
11.Finding Olivia
12.End of Eternity
13.Yes Please
14.Run for Your Life
15. A Clash of Kings
16.Chocolat
17.Ashes to Ashes
18.Station Eleven
19.Of Mice and Men
20.Unwind
21.Hidden Doors, Secret Rooms
22.Shades of Pearl
23Big Little Lies
24.Shadows of Pearl
25.Shimmers of Pearl
26.Seven Years

1409/10,000.
1. Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult 368 pages
2. The Siren by Tiffany Reisz 428 pages
3. Little Red Riding Crop by Tiffany Reisz 37 pages
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 576 pages

Goal: 3,927/45,000, 8.73% - 12 total books.
January - 12 books, 3,927 pages. 3,927 total pages.
01. The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) - 500 pages
02. The Thin Man - 208 pages
03. The Little Prince - 96 pages
04. At Swim Two Birds - 218 pages
05. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - 116 pages
06. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - 116 pages
07. Seveneves - 880 pages
08. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - 512 pages
09. Timequake - 276 pages
10. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (A Flavia de Luce Mystery, #1) - 386 pages
11. The Good Earth - 357 pages
12. Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1) - 262 pages

January 2016 Let's Turn Pages: 2929 pgs / 25,000 pages
Spider Game: 464 pgs
Bad Feminist: 320 pgs
The Dream Comes True: 256 pgs
We Should All be Feminist: 49 pgs
The Dream by B. Delinsky: 250 pgs
Holly and Mistletoe : 248 pgs
Orphan Train: 278 pgs
The Dream by Kat Martin: 426 pgs
Wild Seed: 320 pgs
American Born Chinese: 240 pgs
Learn How to Crochet Quick and Easy: 78 pgs
Eleven books read and 2929 pages turned, with 22,071 pages left to turn! 11.7% of goal met.
Now onto Festive February!!

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2,551/18,500
2,551/18,500

Tess of the D'Urbervilles - 508
Practical Demonkeeping - 280
Stazione undici - 412
La festa del ritorno - 161
Northanger Abbey - 176
Il deserto dei Tartari - 202
Stoner - 332
The Moonstone - 528
Povera gente - 157
2,756/30,000

1. The Last Kingdom - Bernard Cornwell ★★★★☆ 368 pages (02/01/16)
2. The Prince of Midnight - Laura Kinsale ★★★★★ 512 pages (03/01/16)
3. Cinder - Marissa Meyer ★★☆☆☆ 390 pages (04/01/16)
4. The Child Thief - Brom ★★★★★ 508 pages (06/01/16)
5. Persuasion - Jane Austen ★★☆☆☆ 249 pages (08/01/16)
6. Alice - Christina Henry ★★★★☆ 291 pages (12/01/16)
7. Again the Magic - Lisa Kleypas ★★★★☆ 391 pages (12/01/16)
8. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery ★★★★★ 320 pages (14/01/16)
9. Anne of Avonlea - L.M. Montgomery ★★★★☆ 304 pages (16/01/16)
10. Feverborn - Karen Marie Moning ★★★★★ 436 pages (19/01/16)
11. Anne of the Island - L.M. Montgomery ★★★☆☆ 272 pages (20/01/16)
12. The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson ★★★☆☆ 503 pages (23/01/16)
13. Bossypants - Tina Fey ★★★★☆ 277 pages (26/01/16)
14. The Hidden Heart - Laura Kinsale ★★★☆☆ 342 pages (27/01/16)
15. The Duke's Tattoo - Miranda Davis ★★★☆☆ 265 pages (28/01/16)
16. The King's Man -Elizabeth Kingston ★★★☆☆ 275 pages (30/01/16)
17. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai ★★☆☆☆ 327 pages (31/01/16)
18. Magic Bites - Ilona Andrews ★★★☆☆ 260 pages (31/01/16)
19. Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell ★★★★☆ 445 pages (01/02/16)
6,735/40,000

5476 pgs
Happy for the month of Jan. :) Not to bad of a start but definitely learned my lesson about logging right after finishing. There are a ton of kids books I read to my boys that I will never remember. Lol, oopsies leason learned.

January Books:
1. A Fork in the Road by James Oseland, 304 pages
2. Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature by Nick Davies, 289 pages
3. War at the Edge of the World by Ian James Ross, 389 pages
4. Murder Most Howl by Krista Davis, 282 pages
5. A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees by Dave Goulson, 256 pages
6. A Ghoul's Guide to Love and Murder by Victoria Laurie, 341 pages
7. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard, 606 pages
8. Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid, 310 pages
9. Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, 320 pages
10. The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
11. The Penny Heart by Martine Bailey, 458 pages
12. Other Broken Things by Christa Desir, 250 pages
13. The Assassin's Masque by Sarah Zettel, 384 pages
14. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, 1232 pages
15. Fat Tuesday Fricassee by J.J. Cook, 295 pages
16. Zero Day by Jan Gangsei, 359 pages
17. Ill-Gotten Panes by Jennifer McAndrews, 291 pages
18. Death Under Glass by Jennifer McAndrews, 294 pages
19. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward, 256 pages
20. Rise of an Empire: How One Man United Greece to Defeat Xerxes's Persians The true story behind the events in 300 by Stephen Dando-Collins, 267 pages
21. John Adams by David McCullough, 751 pages
22. Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett by Jennifer Gonnerman
23. Girl Through Glass by Sari Wilson, 289 pages
24. The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry, 390 pages
25. Staked by Kevin Hearne, 310 pages
26. Coconut Cowboy by Tim Dorsey, 322 pages
27. Deep Storm by Lincoln Child, 370 pages
28. Daisies For Innocence by Bailey Cattrell, 325 pages
Total Pages Read in January: 10,636 pages
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