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I would also like to amend my challenge total to 25,000 please
Update to message #7.
February:
1. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi - 228 pages
2. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett - 973 pages
3. Шакалиный восьмидневник by Mariam Petrosyan - 352 pages
4. Life of Pi by Yann Martel - 460 pages
5. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - 327 pages
6. Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training by Karen Pryor - 288 pages
7. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James - 528 pages
8. Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout - 338 pages
9. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - 1,168 pages
10. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - 475 pages
11. Подозрительные пассажиры твоих ночных поездов by Yōko Tawada - 192 pages
12. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare - 464 pages
10,683/50,000
February:
1. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi - 228 pages
2. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett - 973 pages
3. Шакалиный восьмидневник by Mariam Petrosyan - 352 pages
4. Life of Pi by Yann Martel - 460 pages
5. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - 327 pages
6. Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training by Karen Pryor - 288 pages
7. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James - 528 pages
8. Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout - 338 pages
9. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - 1,168 pages
10. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - 475 pages
11. Подозрительные пассажиры твоих ночных поездов by Yōko Tawada - 192 pages
12. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare - 464 pages
10,683/50,000

10. The Ship 336
11. Animal Magic 112
12. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 225
13. It Ends with Us 367
14. The Fireman 768
15. Writers of the Future: Volume 33 496
16. Behold the Dreamers 400
17. Animal Farm 122
18. Small Great Things 470

Book read: A Monster Calls (224 pages)
- Total progress: 2,236/10,000 pages.

February:
1. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi - 228 pages
2. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett - 973 pages
3. Шакалиный восьмидневник by Mariam Petrosyan - 35..."
WOW you had an amazing February for reading!

February
= 3 296
10. The Ship 336
11. Animal Magic 112
12. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 225
13. It Ends with Us 367
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I'm reading Small Great Things now, really liking it so far :)

February
= 3 296
10. The Ship 336
11. Animal Magic 112
12. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 225
13. It Ends with Us 367
14. [..."
I'm reading Small Great Things now, really liking it so far :)

I have chosen to try and get through 15 000 pages this year.
Here's what I've read so far in the year
January:
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June:
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December:
A Court of Thorns and Roses - 416
Inkheart - 543
History Is All You Left Me - 294
Month total: 1,253
TOTAL: 12,645/15,000

Year to Date: 4,538/16,000 pages
February Total: 2,676 pages
1) Beautiful Creatures, 563 pages, audio book
2) The Trial, 110 pages, audio book
3) Beautiful Darkness, 503 pages, audio book
4) Dream Dark, 75 pages
5) Beautiful Chaos, 516 pages, audio book
6) Heartless, 453 pages
7) Beautiful Redemption, 456 pages, audio book
Thank goodness for audiobooks!

February:
Kissing The Enemy by Leighann Dobbs- 271 pages(Finished 2/3/17)
Dangerous Waters by Sandra Robbins-288 pages(finished 2/12/17)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood-324 pages (Finished 2/19/17)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - 251 Pages(Finished 2/28)
February Total: 1,134 Pages
Total Progress:1,929/5000

Goal: 6,292/30,000, 20.97% - 25 total books.
February - 10 books, 2,397 pages. 6,292 total pages.
16. Sweetheart, Sweetheart - 256 pages
17. Memoirs of Hadrian - 347 pages
18. Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) - 304 pages
19. Leaving Las Vegas - 210 pages
20. Ethan Frome - 110 pages
21. An Ideal Husband - 90 pages
22. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1) - 306 pages
23. A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2) - 512 pages
24. The Bicentennial Man - 224 pages
25. The Colour Out of Space - 38 pages

Total February reads :
Slammed : 354
Code Breaker Vol 6 : 208
Throne of Glass : 432
Her Banished Lord : 382
Xenophobia : 219
The Alchemist : 196
Hart Broken : 319
Total pages for Feb : 2110
Total pages : 2110 + 2794 = 4904 / 8000
whew I should update my challenge lol xD

I read
Tschick - 254 pages
The Tell-Tale Heart - 9 pages
The Couple Next Door - 304 (-68) pages
Alice in Wonderland - 152 pagesGlücksmädchen - 314 pages
Splintered - 371 pages
Er trat aus den Schatten - 482 pages
The Selection - 336 pages
Uncle Shawn and Bill and the almost entirely unplanned adventure - 192 pages
Dornenkuss - 816 (-445) pages
I guess pages I read last year do not Count?
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18246 - 2717 = 15,531 to go;
4469 read

9187/20,000
Pages for February: 3673
Carve the Mark: 480
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics: 375
All the Light We Cannot See: 529
The Graveyard Book: 307
Armada: 368
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage: 288
When Breath Becomes Air: 229
We Are the Ants: 455
Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest: 304
Journey to the Centre of the Earth: 338

3,022pgs
February
1. Railhead (DNF) - 194pgs read
2. Beast (DNF) - 173pgs read
3. Fast Connection - 260pgs
4. The Visit: Fast Connection Bonus Scene - 0pgs
5. Love and First Sight - 272pgs
6. The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl - 200pgs
7. Every Breath - 335pgs
Do DNF books count? If not please let me know.

The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks (03/01/17) - 292 pages
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (03/02/17) - 552 pages
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (03/03/17) - 330 pages
Total: 8,383/25,000 pages

7. Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins - 352 pages
8. November 9 by Colleen Hoover - 320 pages
Total- 2,922/25,000

Pages read in January: 1596
Pages read in February: 1244
Pages read in March: 508
Running Total: 3,348










9. The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton Completed 10/2/17 248 pages
10. Dont You Want Me by India Knight Completed 11/2/17 260 pages
11. Hollow City by Ransom Riggs Completed 18/2/17 428 pages
12. The Blessing by Nancy Mitford Completed 25/2/17 222 pages
13. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Completed 28/2/17 367 pages
3,973/17,500

Book 5: Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger Pg. = 339
Total pages = 1,452 of 12,500

Update August: Raising my total to 20,000 because of the large number of Audible books I'm finishing (using the numbers from the first edition listed in Goodreads).
Total: 14,558/20,000
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candace Millard - 416 pages
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - 530 pages
A Passage to Shambhala by Jon Baird, Kevin Costner, Rick Ross (Illustrations) - 784 pages
A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout - 373 pages
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier (Anthea Bell translator) - 324 pages
Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis - 171 pages
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will by Judith Schalansky - 239 pages
Hell Before Breakfast: America's First War Correspondents Making History and Headlines, from the Battlefields of the Civil War to the Far Reaches of the Ottoman Empire by Robert H. Patton - 368 pages
A Murder in Time by Judy McElwain - 498 pages
Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer - 386 pages
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 240 pages
Above All Things by Tanis Rideout - 368 pages
Spell or High Water by Scott Meyer - 442 pages
The Very First Damned Thing by Jodi Taylor - 74 pages
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor - 296 pages
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - 452 pages
A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor - 334 page
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton - 368 pages
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor - 369 pages
Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin - 368 pages
An Unwelcome Quest by Scott Meyer - 432 pages
A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor - 298 pages
Roman Holiday by Jodi Taylor - 34 pages
When a Child is Born by Jodi Taylor - 21 pages
Dido's Crown by Julie K. Rose - 340 pages
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan - 524 pages
Fight and Flight by Scott Meyer - Audible pre-release, no page count yet
The Martian by Andy Weir - 369 pages
Back Channel by Stephen L. Carter - 464 pages
Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch - 303 pages
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing - 282 pages
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey - 582 pages
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II by Gregory A. Freeman - 336 pages
Finding Gobi: The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey by Dion Leonard - 272 pages
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - 374 pages
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan - 373 pages
Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch - 357 pages
Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch - 377 pages
Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks - 405 pages
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer - 288 pages
The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch - 144 pages
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield - 295 pages
The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin, Jr. by Debra Komar - 288 pages

653/10,000
1. Gods and Kings 317 pages ****
2. The Secret Life of Bees 336 pages ****

February
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared 393 pgs
Shopaholic on Honeymoon (Kobo e-reader edition) 45 pgs
Nail Your Novel Instant Fix: 100 tips for fascinating characters (Kobo e-reader edition) 23 pgs
Forever Innocent (Kobo e-reader edition) 543 pgs
A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii 337 pgs
Shadow's Claim (Kobo e-reader edition) 869 pgs
Girl with Guitar (Kobo e-reader edition) 441 pgs
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 223 pgs
The Wish List 481 pgs
The Color of Heaven (Kobo e-reader edition) 439 pgs
The Obsession (Kobo e-reader edition) 266 pgs
50 Haiku (Kobo e-reader edition) 18 pgs
Total of pages read so far: 5,950/30,000 pgs
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8,953/50,000