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Let's Turn Pages Challenge - 2016
Update: No longer safe by AJ Waines
5,282/10,000
Updated Message 43
05.01.16 - 5 Stars - 108 Pages
Total: 14,262/62,315 pages
Katelyn, are you setting your goal for 1,000 or 10,000 pages? I couldn't tell because of the comma placement. Note that you can also count any books you've already read this year.Welcome, Sophie! The same goes for you - you can count any books you've already read this year.
Read the kindle edition of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo which according to goodreads has 658 pages. So my total is now 10,981/20,000
Update message 47:11,971/18,000
As of 5/4/16.
Challenge #1Let's turn pages
January 1 2016 - December 31 2016
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Last year I wanted to read 15000 pages. Did not happen, so This year I will set my goal again in 15000 hopefully This year I will make it.
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
January Progress: 2912/15000 This is the 19.41% of the pages I expect to read this year.
February
1.The Nightingale Pages: 449
February Progress: 3361/15000 This is the 22.40% of the pages I expect to read this year
March
1.Voces de Chernóbil Pages: 408
2.Batman: The Killing Joke Pages: 64
3.Relish: My Life in the Kitchen Pages: 192
4.I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Pages: 288
5.Ghost Summer: Stories Pages:335
Pages read in March: 1287
Progress till March: 4648/15000 this is the 30% of my goal
April
1.Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1 Pages: 224
2.Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?Pages:222
3.Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Pages: 282
Pages in April: 728
Progress till April 30: 5376/15000 This is the 35.84% of my reading goal.
Update to message #1553.
25. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev - 287 pages
8,564/20,000
25. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev - 287 pages
8,564/20,000
[update]The Hidden Oracle - 384 p.
Total : 19,565 pages
updated message 126029,288/55,000
1649/10000 + 527 (A Post-Birthday World)=2176/10000
[update]Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades - 196 p.
Total : 19,761 pages
Let’s Turn the Pages 2,469/8,000
February
CEO's Pregnant Lover - Leslie North - 88 Pages
The Marine's Virgin Lover - Leslie North - 79 Pages
FBI Agent's Reluctant Lover - Leslie North - 76 Pages
Navy Seal's Innocent Italian - Leslie North- 80 Pages
323 Pages
March
All I Want Part 1 - Renna Peak - 82 Pages
All I Want Part 2 - Renna Peak - 85 Pages
All I Want Part 3 - Renna Peak - 82 Pages
After the Storm - Linda Castillo - 293 Pages
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling 309 Pages
The Sheikhs Pregnant Bride - Leslie North - 83 Pages
Valentines in Sweetwater County - Ciara Knight - 140 Pages
4th of July in Sweetwater County - Ciara Knight - 117 Pages
1,191 Pages
April
A Will and a Way - Nora Roberts - 180 Pages
Submerged (Book 1) Alaskan Courage Series - Dani Pettrey- 278 pages
A Real Cowboy Never Says No (Book 1) Wyoming Rebels- Stephanie Rowe - 196 Pages
A Real Cowboy Knows how to Kiss (Book 2) Wyoming Rebels - Stephanie Rowe - 184 Pages
838 Pages
May
A White Cougar Christmas - Eliza Gayle - 33 Pages
Good Neighbors - Sheila Roberts - 84 Pages
117 Pages
I'll try for (2016) Let's Turn Pages Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2016 – December 31, 2016
GOAL: 40,000 pages
PROGRESS: (72,637/55,000)
(JANUARY)
1.The Alchemist - 197
2.Hidden Prey - 440
3.Broken Prey - 481
4.Invisible Prey - 384
5.Phantom Prey - 384
6.The Right Thing to Do - 42
7.Wicked Prey - 416
8.The Illustrated Man - 186
Total pages: 2,530=2,530
(FEBRUARY)
9.Storm Prey - 420
10.The Levee: A Novel of Baton Rouge - 230
11.Twilight - 498
12.Swag - 240
13.Buried Prey - 390
14.Unlocked - 176
15.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - 244
16.The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - 191
17.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - 225
18.Stolen Prey - 402
19.Silken Prey - 406
20.Death of a Salesman - 117
21.Field of Prey - 392
22.A Midsummer Night's Dream - 204
Total pages: 4,135+2,530=6,665
(MARCH)
23.Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void - 263
24.Paradise Lost - 338
25.Gathering Prey - 407
26.Forensic Science: A Very Short Introduction - 135
27.Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald - 384
28.Animal Farm - 141
29.Second House from the Corner - 304
30.The Murder Complex - 398
31.Never Die Alone - 480
32.The Last Picture Show - 280
33.The Color Purple - 295
34.The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: with Related Documents - 208
35.12th of Never - 368
36.Northanger Abbey - 251
37. {Laws of Depravity - 226
***{Laws of Innocence: The Prequel - 24
38.Open Season - 337
39.X Minus One Project - 250
Total pages: 5,089+6,665=11,754
(APRIL)
40.A Lesson Before Dying - 256
41.God Wants You Happy: From Self-Help to God's Help - 224
42.If You Ask Me - 258
43.Nigeria & West Africa - 150
44.The Gods of Guilt - 389
45.Florida Is Closed Today - 304
46. {The Advocate - 308
***{Deadly Secrets - A JP Short Story - 25
47.Shutter Island - 369
48.Post Office - 208
49.Bandits - 448
50.Jack Daniels Stories - 299
51.Addicted - 336
52.Hollywood - 319
53.Naked in Death - 320
54.Praying for Sleep - 512
55.Until Proven Guilty - 352
56.The Innocence of Father Brown - 232
57.A Good Yarn - 380
58.Extreme Prey - 406
59.Axeman's Jazz - 372
60.Plagued By Quilt - 352
Total pages: 6,817+11,754=18,571
(MAY)
61.Be Cool - 368
62.The Husband's Secret - 406
63.The Steel Kiss - 496
64.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - 156
65.Martin Misunderstood - 176
66. {Three Twisted Stories - 122
***{Necessary Women - 15
***{The Mean Time - 8
***{Cold Cold Heart - 30
***{The Blessing of Brokenness - 33
67.Dopefiend - 320
68.The 5th Wave - 457
69.Welcome to the Monkey House - 331
70.The Halloween Tree - 192
71.The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel - 136
72.By Any Means Necessary - 191
73.The Crossing - 400
74.Full Black - 400
75.Natchez Burning - 791
76. {The Unremarkable Heart - 42
***{The Deliveryman - 75
***{Where the Evidence Lies - 36
77.The Yellow Cat Mystery - 200
78.Calico Joe - 198
79.Tales of the City - 269
80.Pitching in a Pinch: or Baseball from the Inside - 320
81.Mr. Majestyk - 240
82.The Revenge of John W - 254
Total pages: 6,362+18,571=24,933
(JUNE)
83.The Prince - 208
84.Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul - 256
85.Nineteen Eighty-Four - 355
86.Red Harvest - 224
87.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 317
88.Cat in an Alien X-Ray - 352
89.A Perfect Evil - 461
90.Our Dumb World - 254
91.The Face Out Front - 176
92.Black Girl Lost - 208
93.Books - 259
94.The Wrinkle Cure - 224
95.The Moment She Was Gone - 304
96.Brave Enough - 288
97.Under the Sunset - 208
98.Slated for Death - 304
99.The Purple Bird Mystery - 223
100.The Zig Zag Girl - 384
101.The Monkey Wrench Gang - 560
102.The Mystery of the Vanished Victim - 206
103.McNally's Luck - 324
104.A Stab in the Dark - 304
Total pages: 6,399+24,933=31,332
(July)
105.Joshua - 288
106.Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color - 400
107.After the Fire: A Memoir in Poetry and Prose - 128
108.Deep Waters - 400
109.The Second Super - 304
110.Out of Sight - 368
111.Innocent in Las Vegas - 200
112.Another Time - 129
113.50 Lessons I Learned from the World's #1 Goal Achiever - 150
114.Time and Again - 399
115.The Visitation - 608
116.Girls with Swords: Why Women Need to Fight Spiritual Battles - 204
117.The Way to Stay in Destiny - 192
118.Cimarron Rose - 420
119.The Mystery of the Merry Magician - 187
120.The Last Chance Cafe - 384
121.Tar Baby - 320
122.Queen of the Night - 368
123.Casanegra - 336
124.Grifter's Game - 205
125.A Gathering of Old Men - 204
126.Don't Mess With the Princess: How a Woman Makes It in a Man's World
***129
127.The Lords of Discipline - 512
Total pages: 6,835+31,332=38,167
(AUGUST)
128.Lethal Injection 160
129.The Ritual Bath - 352
130.Fahrenheit 451 - 227
131.The Outsiders - 208
132.The Neon Lawyer - 178
133.Forty Thieves - 368
134.Ham on Rye - 288
135.Sacred and Profane - 374
136.Milk and Honey - 436
137.The Winner - 524
138.Z - 288
139.Forty Lashes Less One 272
140.Irreplaceable 306
141.Kane and Abel - 540
142.Two-Way Street - 288
143.Sacred Hunger - 630
144.Happy Princess - 128
145.The Dark Strangler: Earle Leonard Nelson - 150
146.Hush - 225
147.As Death Draws Near - 342
148.The Other Side of Silence - 373
149.The Dante Connection - 363
150.Kill Switch: A Vigilante Serial Killer Action Thriller 160
151.Whiskey Sour - 292
Total pages: 7,472+38,167=45,639
(SEPTEMBER)
152.One Mile Under - 524
153.A Diet of Treacle - 205
154.CLASH BY NIGHT - 244
155.End of Day - 424
156.Diablerie - 160
157.Murder at Cape Three Points - 336
158.The Drop Box: How 500 Abandoned Babies, an Act of Compassion, and a Movie Changed My Life Forever - 208
159.The Mysterious Affair at Styles - 272
160.The Secret Adversary - 268
161.Under Suspicion: The Legend of D.B. Cooper - 399
162.Hellcats: The Epic Story of World War II's Most Daring Submarine Raid -
*** 336
163.The Thin Man - 201
164.The Witnesses - 136
165.The Moving Finger - 299
166.History of the Conquest of Mexico - 640
167.The Maltese Falcon - 230
168.Follow You Home - 381
169.The Switch - 304
170.Mystery Writers of America Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories about Love, Lust, and Murder - 352
171.Hide 'N Seek - 254
172.Once Gone - 204
173.Yes Please - 352
Total pages: 6,749+45,639=52,368
(OCTOBER)
174.Day of Atonement - 373
175.I Hate That You Bloody Left Me - 313
176.Psycho - 208
177.Unforeseen - 273
178.The Girl on the Train - 336
179.Candyland - 352
180.Strangers on a Train - 281
181.Catherine Carmier - 256
182.Return of the Thin Man - 256
183.The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories - 224
184.The Souls of Black Folk - 288
185.The Song of Roland - 208
186.The Under Dog and Other Stories - 221
187.POTUS and the Gods of Mars - 250
188.Toys - 364
189.Black Water - 160
190.Run - 265
191.Up from Slavery: An Autobiography - 364
192.Home - 400
193.Something Wicked This Way Comes - 293
194.Bloody Mary - 384
195.I Shudder at Your Touch - 408
196.I, the Jury - 246
197.The Evil Eye - 226
Total pages: 6,693+52,368=59,061
(NOVEMBER)
198.The Man in My Basement - 272
199.The Kept Woman - 560
200.The Bone Tree - 804
201.American Sniper - 400
202.Never Go Back - 417
203.South of No North - 192
204.The Killing Man - 200
205.Noble Intentions: Season One - 470
206.The Convict and Other Stories - 240
207.The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives - 407
208.A Christmas Guest - 204
209.Ready to Die - 432
210.The Wrong Side of Goodbye - 388
211.The Advocate's Betrayal - 321
212.Mostly Void, Partially Stars - 304
213.Shadowed Souls - 352
214.Luck Be a Chicken - 342
215.Rusty Nail - 292
Total pages: 6,597+59,061=65,658
(DECEMBER)
216.A Christmas Promise - 176
217.Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories - 224
218.Wishin' and Hopin' - 268
219.A Christmas Hope - 197
220.Christmas on Mill Street - 133
221.All-Butter ShortDead - 200
222.Jake & The Gingerbread Wars - 191
223.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 339
224.Cold As Ice - 163
225.The Twelve Deaths Of Christmas - 170
226.Night School - 416
227.Christmas Tree Catastrophe - 184
228.A Christmas Bride in Pinecraft - 288
***(CONTINUED TO MESSAGE #3034 PAGE #61)***
Update to post 106:World Without End by Ken Follett - 1014
9597/15,000
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari ~ read 2/516 ★★★ ~ 277 pagesSomeone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson ~ read 5/5/16 ★★★★★ ~ 336 pages
New Sub total = 12,722 / 40,000 pages
Updated message 9. Total 7601/30000
Updated Message 1590The Cold Dish Craig Johnson 354 pages
Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems Bob Raczka (MCA) 48 pages
When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons Julie Fogliano (MCA) 56 pages
You Never Heard of Casey Stengel?! Jonah Winter (MCA) 40 pages
The White Cat and the Monk: A Retelling of the Poem “Pangur Bán” Jo Bogart (MCA) 32 pages
Total for the Year: 27803 out of 50,000
Please Update.3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson, pages 384
4. The Wisdom of Perversity, by Rafael Yglesias 384 pages
5. The Lost Girl Fear Street Relaunch #3 by R.L. Stine 261 pages
6. The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century, by George Friedman 274 pages
7. Blood on Snow, by Jo Nesbo 207 pages
8. Armada, by Ernest Cline 368 pages
9. The Book of Speculation, by Erika Swyler 352 pages
10. The Wells Bequest, by Polly Shulman 260 pages
11. Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome, by Robert Harris 305 pages
3,746 pages
Welcome to the challenge, Linda! You're doing great already.
Updated message 218,797/25,000 pages read
Update: I just finished "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak for another 552 pages. I am up to 14,835/25,000.
update:Goal: 7,016 / 13,000 pages
15. Orasul de Cenusa by Cassandra Clare (415 p)
16. En mann ved navn Ove by Fredrik Backman (323 p)
Updated #54. Completed: 12,645/15,000
36. The Death Cure - 325 pages37. Things Fall Apart -209 pages
38. Career of Evil - 512 pages
39. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - 258 pages
40. Leaving Time - 398 pages
41. Plum Spooky - 384 pages
42. The Crossing - 401 pages
- 16,260/20,000 pages done
Please update for April 2016: 3books/ 1128pgs turnedThe Vecellio Connection by Estelle Ryan 342pgs Publ. 2016
The Friends We Keep by Susan Mallery 402pgs Publ. 2016
Best of My Love by Susan Mallery 384 pgs Publ. 2016
Total so far for 2016 Pages Turned:
8522 /25,000!
Update to message #1553.
26. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare - 718 pages
9,282/20,000
26. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare - 718 pages
9,282/20,000
31,645/75,000All the Bright Places 400 pages
Outlander 896 pages
Beautiful Distraction 430 pages
The Raven 46 pages
Surrender Your Love 324 pages
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, First Series 294 pages
Conquer Your Love 350 pages
Nightmare in Night Court 37 pages
Update to post 106:Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - 425
10,022/15,000
Updated message 9. Total 8056/30000
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#90. Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1) by Jim Butcher -- 355 pages
#91. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez -- 115 pages
#92. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl -- 120 pages
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19,521 /20,000