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Let's Turn Pages Challenge - 2016

Wise Craft: Turning Thrift Store Finds, Fabric Scraps, and Natural Objects Into Stuff You Love by Blair Stocker (184)
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman (209)
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (326)
Lesley Castle by Jane Austen (48)
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. & Ernestine Gilbreth (224)
Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns by Ruth Heller (42)
Total: 25,798 / 28,000
Update to message #1545.
98. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - 592 pages
35,031/20,000
98. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - 592 pages
35,031/20,000

#244. Ajax by Sophocles - 120 pages
#245. The Massacre At Paris: With The Death Of The Duke Of Guise by Christopher Marlowe - 80 pages
#246. Shadow and Bone (The Grisha, #1) by Leigh Bardugo - 358 pages
#247. Siege and Storm (The Grisha, #2) by Leigh Bardugo - 435 pages
#248. The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai - 175 pages
56,331/ 60,000

Running total - 27,085/25,000

Update: 40 591/ 40 000 pages completed to date
I'll see how many more I can do before the end of the year. So fun!

Girl, Interrupted by Georgina Kaysen - 169
Small Island by Andrea Levy - 444
24,314/15,000

Running Total: 27,434/25,000

17183/25000
436 - Mr. Mercedes
1120 - The Gathering Storm
400 - A Darker Shade of Magic
240 - Gathering Blue
256 - Foundation
577 - The Lost Hero
933 - Towers of Midnight
170 - Messenger
544 - The Outlaw Demon Wails
256 - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
305 - The Age of Innocence
90 - The Dogs I Have Kissed
40 - Letters From People Who Hate Me
36 - The Fall of the House of Usher
423 - New Spring
1006 - A Memory of Light
485 - Blood of Tyrants
880 - Drums of Autumn
150 - The Copy
380 - League of Dragons
160 - X Out Of Wonderland
256 - Foundation and Empire
448 - Finders Keepers
198 - A Tangled Web
835 - A Game of Thrones
512 - A Gathering of Shadows
369 - The Martian
761 - A Clash of Kings
392 - Son
162 - Coraline
113 - Dragonholder: The Life and Dreams (So Far) of Anne McCaffrey
295 - The Color Purple
178 - God Help the Child
192 - Our Souls at Night
209 - Mary Poppins
226 - Ubik
194 - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
250 - The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska
335 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
633 - The Final Empire
191 - Cowgirl Poetry: One Hundred Years of Ridin' and Rhymin'
520 - The Time Traveler's Wife
248 - Lullabies
480 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
382 - Red Rising

63. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Completed 18/10/16 116 pages
64. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Completed 23/10/16 446 pages
65. Misery by Stephen King Completed 23/10/16 352 pages
16,194/17,500
Update #1545.
100. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - 512 pages
35,543/20,000
100. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - 512 pages
35,543/20,000

Book 15: Northwest Angle By William Kent Krueger -- Pg. = 357
Book 16: The King of Lies By John Hart -- Pg. = 320
Book 17: Cover By Jack Ketchum -- Pg. = 308
Total YTD: 6,413 of 12,500

Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists
The Spook's Curse
9.619/10.000

October: Month Total: 1,392 pages
1) Eleven Days: An Unexpected Love, 232 pages
2) Grumpy Old Wizards, 372 pages
3) Where Their Hearts Collide, 224 pages
4) Body Movers, 384 pages, audio book
5) Sweet Girl, 180 pages

Woops, haven't updated this in a while! I've surpassed my new goal so now I'll just keep adding to see how far I get!
28,963/25,000 pages read.

January:
1. The Mrs. Dalloway Reader-341 p.
2. Whose Body?-198p
3. A Dangerous Place-267p
4. Death and Taxes-205 p
5. The Lake House-492p
6. The Ten Thousand Things-208p
February
7. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry-372p
8. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend-388p
9. Murder on Astor Place-224p
10. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Novel for Serious People-159p
11. Secret Agent Grandma-100p
12. 84, Charing Cross Road-97p
13. The Maltese Falcon-217p
14. Chess Story-84 p
15. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott-176p
16. The Tao of Pooh
17. The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?-40p
18. Bad Latch: For New Mothers, New Growing Pains- ?p
19. Go Set a Watchman-278p
20. Home by Nightfall-278p
21. A Room of One's Own-144p
22. The Sleeper and the Spindle-66p
23. Roses-609p
March
24. House of Cards-391p
25. The Isle of the Lost-320p
26. Orhan's Inheritance-340p
27. Career of Evil-497p
28. Brooklyn on Fire-344p
29, Suraiya Jafari: An American President-348p
30. Wings Of Fire-286p
31. Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds-194p
32. The 351 Books of Irma Acuri-289p
April
33. The Gilded Hour-724p
34. The Fairy Nurse-5p
35. Together Tea-265p
36. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America-228p
37. Matilda-240p
38. Miller's Valley-272p
39. The Fifth Season-449p
40. Five Quarters of the Orange-307p
41. The Girl on the Train-325p
MAY
42. When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II-207p
43. The Problem of the Missing Miss-282p
44. The Buddha in the Attic-144p
45. The Screwtape Letters-272p
46. The Keeper of Secrets-343p
47. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax-220p
48. The Round House-279p
49. Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys-288p
50. Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon-337p
51. Me Before You-369p
JUNE
52. The Women's Room-466p
53. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County-308p
54. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics-94p
55. The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem-374p
56. Everything I Never Told You-302p
57. The Bookseller-225p
58. Legend-305p
59. The Graveyard Book-307p
60. No Place Like Oz-135p
61. The Witch Must Burn-73p
62. The Madwoman Upstairs-352p
JULY
63. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch-364p
64. The Last Anniversary-400p
65. Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade-263p
66. The Nao of Brown-204p
67. Be Frank With Me-304p
68. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader-162p
69. Pomegranate Soup-222p
70. White Nights and Other Stories-182p
71. The Franchise Affair-304p
72. Stabbing in the Senate-236p
73. Homicide in the House-243p
74. Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series-144 p
AUGUST
75. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August-405p
76. The Good Girl-352p
77. The Mysterious Affair at Styles-196p
78. The Improbability of Love-408p
79. The Persian Pickle Club-208p
80. The Yiddish Policemen's Union-414p
SEPTEMBER
81. Housebreaking-288p
82. Storm Front-336p
83. Eight Hundred Grapes-260p
84. Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis-439p
85. Kafka on the Shore-500p
86. The Book with No Pictures-48p...read in February
87. Code Name Verity-441p
88. Murder at the Academy Awards: A Red Carpet Murder Mystery-320p
89. After You-352p
90. First Frost-291p 3,275 to here
91. Queen Sugar -372p
OCTOBER
92. Memory Man-403p
93. Noises Off-176p
94. Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone-160p
95. The Girl Who Wrote in Silk-391p
96. Ugenia Lavender-146p
97. The Rose in the Wheel-226p
98. Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box-176p
99. The Age of Miracles-294p
100. Hamilton: The Revolution-288p
101. The Boston Girl-304p
102. When the Moon is Low-375p
103. The Secrets of Wishtide-352p

Battlefield Earth:A Saga of the Year 3000 1050 pages
Benched 505 pages
Twilight 498 pages
Catching Fireflies 298 pages
New Moon 563 pages

Goal: 41,189/45,000, 91.53% - 138 total books.
October - 11 books, 3,308 pages. 41,189 total pages.
128. The Children of Men - 306 pages
129. Breakfast at Tiffany's - 192 pages
130. Usher's Passing - 410 pages
131. The Fold - 384 pages
132. Bloodchild and Other Stories - 224 pages
133. Fletch (Fletch, #1) - 208 pages
134. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1) - 519 pages
135. Unexpected Stories - 95 pages
136. Dandelion Wine (Green Town, #1) - 298 pages
137. Good Morning, Midnight - 272 pages
138. The Android's Dream - 400 pages

The Well of Loneliness - 476
The Woman in White - 672
Anna Karenina - 690
L'ospite di Dracula - 125
BPD Voices Project Vol. 1 - 279
Total so far: 27,458/30,000

October: Month Total: 1,392 pages
1) Eleven Days: An Unexpected Love, 232 pages
2) Grumpy Old Wizards, 372 pages
3) Where Their Hearts Collide, 224 pages
4) Body Movers, 384 pages, audio book
5) Sweet Girl, 180 pages
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70,332/50,000