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Update message 37: 17,487/25,000Forever and Always, Lara Jean: 336 pages.
Update message 37: 17,766/25,000 pages. Persuasion by Jane Austen: 288 pages.
4844/8000 + 215 (Go, Ivy, Go)= 5059/8000
Updated msg 249.Woohoo! Passed the 45,000 mark and still going strong! I doubt I'll reach my goal, but I'm learning a lot & loving it!
45,116 / 250,000 pages - 207 books
I never count pages and Audiobooks / Ebooks often don't include page counts - but I'm going to try this, because I realized I can get the page counts right here on Goodreads!I'm not sure how to estimate, this being my first attempt, so I will make my goal 20k pages or ~ 1667 pages per month. I usually shoot for 48 books + per year, so I think that should more or less fit with my books goal.
I'm in for 20k and will enter my updates here.
UPDATE - after counting pages:
I just checked 2017 so far and I have read 8525 pages to date. I see my estimation was a little off and 20k might be difficult. I might need to revise my goal to ~ 16k, but I'm going to see how it goes before changing anything yet.
UPDATE, 10-30 - it's been a while since the last update. I've gone from 10,216 as of 8-17 to 12,658 as of 10-28.
Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen - 258; total as of 7-31 = 8783
Florida Roadkill, Tim Dorsey - 388; total as of 8-5 = 9171
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak - 578; total as of 8-11 = 9749
The Long and Faraway Gone, Lou Berney - 467; total as of 8-17 = 10,216
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin - 464; total as of 8-25 = 10,680
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern - 387; total as of 9-4 = 11,067
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner - 576; total as of early October = 11,643
We are all Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory - 194; total as of 10-2 = 11,837
Rainbow's End, Vernor Vinge - 404; total as of 10-15 = 12,241
A Fatal Grace, Louise Penny - 417; total as of 10-28 = 12,658
The Help, Kathryn Stockett - 476; total as of 11-8 = 13,134
A Share in Death, by Deborah Crombie - 288; total as of 11-12 = 13,422
All the Light we Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr - 531; total as of 11-30 = 13,953
**milestone ** - 10,000 pages (+) as of 8-17!
** goal revised ** - It's apparent that 16k is more realistic given my current pace, so that's my new goal, as of 8-20
*Update to Message 11568292/20,000
24. There was an Old Woman - 304
June
25. The Walls Around Us - 336
26. The Killing Season - 111
27. Ship of Fate: The Story of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff - 66
28. Salt to the Sea - 402
29. The Gunslinger - 224
July
30. Poison Study - 431
31. Empire of Storms - 704
32. Frost Like Night - 496
Updated Total: 11,366/20,000
Update:27 155/ 50 000 pages completed to date
Page Total: 11,015/12,000 [92%]#1 I'm Travelling Alone pp. 524 4/5
#2 The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry pp. 306 5/5
#3 The Dandelion Years pp. 463 4/5
#4 The One Memory of Flora Banks pp. 303 4/5
#5 What I Was pp. 199 4/5
#6 The Driver's Seat pp. 107 4/5
#7 Paper Towns pp. 305 4/5
#8 The Loney pp. 360 3/5
#9 The Book of Tomorrow pp. 420 3/5
#10 The Woman in Cabin 10 pp. 344 4/5
#11 Dishing the Dirt pp. 294 1/5
#12 Bird Box pp. 381 4/5
#13 Ghastle and Yule pp. 92 3/5
#14 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society pp. 290 5/5
#15 Eeny Meeny pp. 437 3/5
#16 Thirteen Reasons Why pp. 288 3/5
#17 Show Me How pp. 320 2/5
#18 The Snow Child pp. 438 5/5
#19 The Perks of Being a Wallflower pp. 231 4/5
#20 Dark Places pp. 424 4/5
#21 Painting Classes pp.189 4/5
#22 The Peach Keeper pp. 314 4/5
#23 Sovereign pp. 662 4/5
#24 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children pp. 369 4/5
#25 The Rosie Project pp. 330 3/5
#26 A Month In The Country pp. 104 4/5
#27 The Quick pp. 517 4/5
#28 We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves pp. 323 5/5
#29 The Reading Group pp. 466 3/5 (generous)
#30 Elsewhere pp. 273 4/5
#31 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors pp. 226 5/5
#32 The Thing About Jellyfish pp. 343 3/5
#33 I Let You Go pp. 373 5/5
Update for Julie F. 8180.
Update to post 85:The Man in 3B by Carl Weber – 318
25,317/25,000 - COMPLETED!
Update to post 85:Denied, Detained, Deported by Ann Bausum– 112
25,429/25,000
Updated message 8241,169/50,000
The Catch 284 pages
Swink 243 pages
Carve the Mark 468 pages
Maca wrote: "I'm in with 15,000 pages"Update of 398 Pages!"
Update: +509"
update + 404
1311/15000 so far!"
Update: + 418
1729/15000 now!"
Update: 2294/1500"
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Update: 8,195/15,000
Read "The Gunslinger" by Stephen King. Edited msg 109.
I messed up how many pages I have read but that's ok I just finished Truly Madly Guilty 415 pgs4000/15000
Because I read a little over 11,000 pages last year, I think 15,000 would be a good goal to shoot for.So far I have read:
1. The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism, by Mark Zwonitzer (608 pages)
2. American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant, by Ronald C. White, Jr. (864 pages)
3. Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It, by Larrie D. Ferreiro (416 pages)
4. Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World, by Steven Johnson (304 pages)
5. Arbella: England's Lost Queen, by Sarah Gristwood (450 pages)
6. Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France, by Leonie Frieda (464 pages)
7. The Dinosaur Hunters, by Deborah Cadbury (374 pages)
8. The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World’s Greatest Empire, by Anthony Everitt (480 pages)
9. The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth, by Matthew Algeo (255 pages)
10. The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici, by Elizabeth Lev (352 pages)
11. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, by Anthony Everitt (359 pages)
12. The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels, by Janet Martin Soskice (316 pages)
13. How the Irish Saved Civilization, by Thomas Cahill (246 pages)
14. The Map That Changed the World, by Simon Winchester (329 pages)
15. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, by Ben Macintyre (426 pages)
16. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert (319 pages)
17. The Unnatural History of the Sea, by Callum Roberts (456 pages)
18. Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind, by Richard Fortey (332 pages)
19. A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth, by Samantha Weinberg (220 pages)
20. The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, by Dava Sobel (320 pages)
21. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, by Ed Yong (368 pages)
22. When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time, by Michael J. Benton (336 pages)
23. Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire, by Amanda Foreman (456 pages)
24. Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power, by Virginia Rounding (566 pages)
25. John James Audubon: The Making of an American, by Richard Rhodes (528 pages)
Martha Washington: An American Life, by Patricia Brady (288 pages)
Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur, by Carl Safina (400 pages)
Total as of today: 10,528
Read "The Edge of Everything" by Jeff Giles. Edited message 109. Man I was hoping to really love this book but I didn't :( Here's my review in case anyone is interested (spoiler free). https://amandadroverhartwick.wordpres...
Update to post 85:God Save the Queen – 342
25,771/25,000
COMPLETED!
Can you please update message 77 6,627/15,000
Just finished reading:Beautiful Broken Girls- 336 pages
This Is Where It Ends- 285 pages
23,789 pages read
26,211 pages remaining
Another 327 pages to add to my total.11159/15000
Page Total: 11,485/12,000 [96%]#1 I'm Travelling Alone pp. 524 4/5
#2 The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry pp. 306 5/5
#3 The Dandelion Years pp. 463 4/5
#4 The One Memory of Flora Banks pp. 303 4/5
#5 What I Was pp. 199 4/5
#6 The Driver's Seat pp. 107 4/5
#7 Paper Towns pp. 305 4/5
#8 The Loney pp. 360 3/5
#9 The Book of Tomorrow pp. 420 3/5
#10 The Woman in Cabin 10 pp. 344 4/5
#11 Dishing the Dirt pp. 294 1/5
#12 Bird Box pp. 381 4/5
#13 Ghastle and Yule pp. 92 3/5
#14 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society pp. 290 5/5
#15 Eeny Meeny pp. 437 3/5
#16 Thirteen Reasons Why pp. 288 3/5
#17 Show Me How pp. 320 2/5
#18 The Snow Child pp. 438 5/5
#19 The Perks of Being a Wallflower pp. 231 4/5
#20 Dark Places pp. 424 4/5
#21 Painting Classes pp.189 4/5
#22 The Peach Keeper pp. 314 4/5
#23 Sovereign pp. 662 4/5
#24 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children pp. 369 4/5
#25 The Rosie Project pp. 330 3/5
#26 A Month In The Country pp. 104 4/5
#27 The Quick pp. 517 4/5
#28 We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves pp. 323 5/5
#29 The Reading Group pp. 466 3/5 (generous)
#30 Elsewhere pp. 273 4/5
#31 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors pp. 226 5/5
#32 The Thing About Jellyfish pp. 343 3/5
#33 I Let You Go pp. 373 5/5
#34 Pretty Little Things pp. 470 4/5
Update message 14631. Over the edge by Jonathan Kellerman - 480 pages
2. Het Franciscus komplot by Dean Koontz - 365 pages
3. Bruiloft aan zee by Benali Adbelkader - 222 pages
4. White teeth by Zadie Smith - 542 pages
5. Moord onder water by Ian Fleming - 192 pages
6. Illusies by Ingeborg Bosch - 335 pages
7. Armed and fabulous by Camilla Chafer - 334 pages
8. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - 287 pages
9. Ik heb je nooit een rozentuin beloofd by Hannah Greene - 284 pages
10. Het hart van onze Nicky by Graham Swift - 91 pages
11. The Accidental Demon Slayer by Angie Fox - 320 pages
12. Cinder by Marissa Meyer - 434 pages
13. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 160 pages
14. H is for Homicide by Sue Grafton - 256 pages
15. Als op een winternacht een reiziger by Italo Calvino - 300 pages
16. Emma by Jane Austen - 367 pages
17. Scarlet by Melissa Meyer - 454 pages
18. Het volgende verhaal by Cees Nooteboom - 92 pages
19. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr - 275 pages
20. Persuasion by Jane Austen - 336 pages
Total: 6126/7500
Since Glitches and The Little Android will be in my TBR Stars Above, I've deleted them from my yearly challenge; will add Stars Above after having read all short stories pertaining to the Lunar Chronicles.
Monthly update:Goal: 20,726/30,000, 69.08% - 70 total books.
July - 11 books, 3,764 pages. 20,726 total pages.
60. Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) - 544 pages
61. Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett, #1) - 812 pages
62. Ice - 177 pages
63. The Sound and the Fury - 336 pages
64. Now Wait for Last Year - 259 pages
65. My Cousin Rachel - 352 pages
66. Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1) - 432 pages
67. The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2) - 448 pages
68. A Modest Proposal - 30 pages
69. Grendel - 194 pages
70. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time - 180 pages
Updated #62.Total pages read: 22,253 pages/38,000
Update to message 1007July: 6,579
Corsets & Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances by Trisha Telep et al = 449 pages
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough = 306 pages
Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton = 528 pages
Conditioned by Liz Crowe = 259 pages
Mission: Armor by A.D. Starrling = 150 pages
Rapture by Lauren Kate = 448 pages
The Problem with Forever by Jennifer L. Armentrout = 480 pages
Grey by E.L. James = 576 pages
Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst = 389 pages
Unforgiven by Lauren Kate = 400 pages
Amour Amour by Krista and Becca Ritchie = 396 pages
Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare = 699 pages
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly = 487 pages
Trust by Kylie Scott = 382 pages
How We Deal with Gravity by Ginger Scott = 244 pages
The Maze Runner by James Dashner = 386 pages
Completed: 22,168/30,000 *Revised on 8/1/17*
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