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Let's Turn Pages Challenges - 2017
Put me in for 12,500 pages. This was last years goal and I fell short - more determination to exceed it this year.Book 1: The Street Lawyer by John Grisham Pg. = 348
Book 2: Tamarack County by William Kent Krueger Pg. = 320
Book 3: Jackpot by Bill Pronzini Pg. = 213
Book 4: Epitaphs by Bill Pronzini Pg. = 232
Book 5: Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger Pg. = 339
Book 6: You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero Pg. = 256
Book 7: Frozen Past by Richard Hale Pg. = 328
Total pages = 2,036 of 12,500
The Silent Companionsid like to aim for 60000 please. thanks emmaJanuary8
1. In the Light of What We See by Sarah Painter- 313 pages
2. Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall - 307 pages
3. The Last Dance: And Other Stories by Victoria Hislop - 160 pages
4. The Suicide Club] by Andrew Williams - 368pages
5. With This Curse by Amanda DeWees296
6.Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay - 294
7. Legend of the Mist by Veronica Bale - 224
total - 1962 pages
February
1. The Ghosts of Tullybrae House by Veronica Bale - 253
2. The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read: and Other Stories by Susan Hill -224
3. The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick - 270 pages
4. Winterbay Abbey: A Ghost Story by John Bladek - 247 pages
5. The Folcroft Ghosts by Darcy Coates - 248 pages
total - 1512
March
1. A Ghostly Diversion by Paul L Money - 176 pages
2. Blakemort - A Psychic Surveys Christmas Novella by Shani Struthers - 184 pages
3. The Haunting of Everett Manor by Will Hawthorne - 159pages
4. Whispering Corner by Mark Ronson - 313 pages
5. Crystal by Susan Hill - 20 pages
6. The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman - 368 pages
7. The Haunting of Hallow Church by Clarice Black - 78pages
8. The Haunting of Shadow Creek House by Clarice Black - 68 pages
9. The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan - 326 pages
10. Silent Child bySarah A. Denzil 416 pages
11. The Lighthouse by Alison Moore - 184
total - 2522
April
1. The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick - 263 pages
2. The Sanctuary by Cara Swann - 341 pages
3. A Woman in a Million by Monica Wood -34pages
4. The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood - 339
5. The Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez -352 pages
6. Harvest of Scorn 234 pages
7. The Lost buJonathan Aycliffe - 163
8. The Doll: A Jack Nightingale Short Story by Stephen Leather
20 pages
9. The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff - 368 pages
10. The Hopeless Life Of Charlie Summers by Paul Torday - 288 pages
total - 2597 pages
May
1. The witching hour by sarah england 168 pages
Total 168pages
June
1. Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay - 404pages
2. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks - 372
3. Strange Magic by Syd Moore -400 pages
4.The Missing Wife by Sheila O'Flanagan 480 pages
total 1656 pages
July
1. The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry - 432
2.The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter by J.S. Drangsholt - 224 pages
3. Kicking the Bucket List by Cathy Hopkins - 400
4. A Head Full of Ghosts -286pages
5. Tales of the Peculiar -168pages
6. Whispers in the Dark -416pages
7. The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins - 228pages
8. The Saltmarsh Murders by Gladys Mitchell- 288pages
9. Light in a Dark House by Jan Costin Wagner -336
10. From the Heart by Susan Hill - 224 pages
11. Disappearance at Devil's Rock: A Novel by Paul Tremblay - 327pages
12. Disappearance at Devil's Rock Paul Tremblay - 176
13. Two Cousins of Azov by Andrea Bennett 400pages
14. The Black Book / Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin - 320pages
15. Murder on Sea 320 pages
16. The Ghost of Molly Holt byAmy Cross -226 pages
17. A Fabulous Liar by Susann Pásztor - 224 pages
total - 4994
August
1. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner - 322pages
2. The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg - 512 pages
3. The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths - 352pages
4. Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party by Alexander McCall Smith - 144 pages
5. The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an IKEA Wardrobe by Romain Puértolas - 320
6. Last Bus to Coffeeville by J. Paul Henderson 384 pages
7. Uprooted by Naomi Novik - 435 pages
8. Starter House by Sonja Condit - 384 pages
9. Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue - 400pages
10. Otherworld Nights by Kelley Armstrong - 351 pages
11. The Vanishing by Sophia Tobin -400 pages
12. The Haunting of Crippleview House by Clarice Black -74 pages
13. The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood - 320 pages
14. Hekla's Children by James Brogden - 400 pages
15. The Missing Ones by Patricia Gibney - 424 pages
The Lavender Witch by Elizabeth Andrews - 170 pages
16. The Cunning Man by Elizabeth Andrews - 254 pages
17. The Secret of Spellshadow Manor by Bella Forrest - 410 pages
18. George Pearly Is A Miserable Old Sod by Steven Primrose-Smith - 292pages
total - 6347
September
1. The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown - 400 pages
2.IceUlla-Lena Lundberg - 448 pages
3. The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai 335
4. The Haunted Season by G.M. Malliet - 320 pages
5. The Soul Auction by Amy Cross - 390 pages
6. Crimson Snow: A Short Story by Meghan O'Flynn - 32pages
7. Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet - 297
8. Death of a Cosy Writer by G.M. Malliet - 256 pages
8. The Tell-Tale Heart by Jill Dawson - 256pages
9. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden - 322
10. Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King - 175 pages
total - 3231 pages
October
1. The Ghost Files by Apryl Baker - 275 pages
2. The Scandal Fredrik Backman - 400
3. Six Scary Stories by Stephen King - 74 pages
4. Phantoms by Dean Koontz - 448 pages
5. Ghost Stories: Selected and Introduced by Mark Gatiss - 182 pages
6. The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin - 287pages
7. Bad House by Sam West -112 pages
8. The Wolf Trial by Neil Mackay 352 pages
9. What Milo Saw by Virginia Macgregor -400 pages
10. The Hidden Village by Imogen Matthews - 362 pages
11.The Mask by Owen West - 320 pages
12. A Death at Fountains Abbey by Antonia Hodgson - 352
13. Eyes on You by Steven Jenkins - 322
14. The Haunting by Paul Doherty - 224
15. Little Exiles by Robert Dinsdale - 424 pages
total- 6528
november
1. We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter - 416 pages
2. The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell - 384 pages
3. In the Month of the Midnight Sun - 384 pages
4.The Vanishing Act by Mette Jakobsen - 218 pages
5. The Haunting of Stonegate Workhouse by Tabatha Cross - 81 pages
6. Pillars of Light by Jane Johnson - 479 pages
7. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel - 224 pages
8. The Strange Case at Misty Ridge by David Brian - 236 pages
9. Abandon by Meg Cabot - 521
10. A Long Day in Lychford - 144 pages
11. Hinterland - 268 pages
12. May Day Murder - 288 pages
13. Bellman & Black - 328 pages
14. Last Days in Hunting Camp by Eowyn Ivey - 29 pages
15. Carnivalesque by Neil Jordan -288
16. Fireside Gothic by Andrew Taylor - 256 pages
17. I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - 384
18. 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas - 261 pages
total - 5189 pages
December
1. The Seventh Miss Hatfield by Anna Caltabiano - 308 pages
2. The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden 384
3. Witch Hunt by S.M. Reine - 234
4. Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates - 480 pages
5. The Accidental Exorcist by Joshua Graham - 69 pages
6. Squall by Sean Costello - 178 pages
7. The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne - 215pages
8. Thin Air by Michelle Paver 240 pages
9. A Frightfully English Execution by Shamini Flint -368
10. Christmas at the Comfort Food Cafe by Debbie Johnson - 209 pagrs
total - 2685 pages
total - 38547 pages
I'm in with 20 000 pages!As of now I'm at 304 / 20 000
I hope to read 10 000 pages during 2017. I have no idea if that's even a reasonable amount or not, but I'll notice on the way I guess.Update May 2nd
✔️Jag, En, 229 pages
✔️Lyman Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 113 pages
✔️The Graveyard Book 289 pages
✔️Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 267 pages
✔️Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging 256 pages
✔️Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 382 pages
✔️Som eld 207 pages
✔️Ylvania - Sagan om ljusbäraren 320 pages
✔️A Study in Scarlet 127 pages
✔️The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 216 pages
✔️Hollow City 428 pages
✔️Slåss som en tjej 79 pages
✔️The Colour of Magic 287 pages
✔️I kroppen min: Resan mot livets slut och alltings början 330 pages
✔️The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes 240 pages
✔️Punkpapporna 82 pages
✔️Library of Souls 464 pages
✔️Hedvig! 152 pages
✔️Marina 296 pages
✔️Nattvandraren 444 pages
✔️Last Chance to See 256 pages
✔️Klass: Är du fin nog? 161 pages
Total: 5625/10 000 pages
I read over 12,000 pages last year, but am only putting down 10,000. It will be a busy year so not sure I can read as much as last year.
8,723/10,000Candy Cane Murder- 341 pages
Street Pharm - 297 pages
The Girl from Fort Wicked: A Novel - 176 pages
The Pillars of the Earth - 973 pages
Blue - 336 pages
Calling Me Home - 336 pages
The Snow Child - 330 pages
The Silent Sister - 353 pages
The Kind Worth Killing - 325 pages
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - 310 pages
Minding Frankie - 433 pages
The Rose Garden - 448 pages
Raven Black - 384 pages
Mistress of the Art of Death - 432 pages
Season of Fear - 448 pages
Stalked - 369 pages
Yellow Crocus - 253 pages
The Outcast - 401 pages
The Sound of Glass - 426 pages
True Colors - 393 pages
The Storyteller - 465 pages
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats - 286 pages
The Thirteenth Tale - 208 out of 416 pages. Gave up on this one.
Put me down for 10,000 pages please. Read so far:
Intertwined - 377 pages
Adulthood Is a Myth - 109 pages
489/10,000
I'm definitely in!! I'm gonna say 42,000 pages
UPDATE: Superman Rebirth, Son of Superman: 177 pages
Arrow Rebirth, Life and Death of Oliver Queen: 194 pages
I'm in for 15,000 pages!Progress 243/15,000
1. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (completed 01/18/17), 234 pages.
2 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (completed 01/19/17), 9 pages.
Ok, 12 books per annum, If it is a 500 page book. I aim to read approx. 12x500 = 6,000 pages per year. which is pretty much a challenge in itself, as far as challenging myself is concerned. Rest is upto my will power.
LET'S TURN PAGES CHALLENGEDuration: January 1 – December 31, 2017
I'm in for 30,000 pages!
Total pages read: 1334/30,000
Pages read in January:
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- 342 pages2.
- 320 pagesPages read in February:
Pages read in March:
1.
- 336 pagesPages read in April:
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- 336 pagesPages read in May:
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First books completed:The Jungle
The Rocking Horse Winner
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
454/19,000
I'll join too!I'm in for 30,000 pages!
Total: 833/30,000
January:
Everything, Everything - 306 pages
Crown of Midnight - 418 pages
Adulthood Is a Myth - 109 pages
Update to Message #58Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - 107 pages
Allegiant by Veronica Roth - 545 pages
Total: 652/25,000 pages
Count me in with a goal of 50,000 pages.Total pages: 3,966/50,000 pgs
Monthly breakdown:
January
Finnikin of the Rock, 417 pgs
Salt to the Sea, 378 pgs
The Warded Man, 453 pgs
The Star-Touched Queen, 342 pgs
Rebel Spring, 401 pgs
The Lies of Locke Lamora, 752 pgs
Passenger, 464 pgs
Siege and Storm, 435 pgs
Red Winter, 324 pgs
The Rose & the Dagger, 416 pgs
Flowers for Algernon, 311 pgs
Total: 4,693/50,000 pgs
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Update to message #187:Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple 330 pages
The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge 384 pages
Total for year: 714/50,000
Update to message 95. January:
1. Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham - 206 pages
2. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena - 308 pages
514/20,000
Can you put me down for 30,000 pages please x
I would like to participate in this challenge please. My goal is 1500 pages and so far I have read two books, The Little Paris Bookshop (359 pages) and Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers (307 pages).
Just finished Three Dark Crowns with 398 pages1605/50,000
Kadijah Michelle wrote: "Hello Kadijah!
First of all, Happy New Year!!!
In the beginning of my post I said I set my record last year for 15.000 pages but this year I want to put it for 17000. Can you please edit the number in the list, please?
Update to post 85:Emma by Jane Austen - 474
889/25,000
I'm in for 25000 pages! Total: 1156/25000
January: It by Stephen King- 1156 pages (starting big! XD)
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I'm in for 250,000.This is my first personal page counting challenge. I'm a voracious reader of business and empowerment books. I know may be biting off more than I can chew, but the way I see it, I'm not going to learn from a book I don't read :)
Here are the books at my yearly list: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
January: 19,562 (83 books)
February: 4,526 (21 books)
March: 3,935 (22 books)
April: 6,961 (29 books)
May: 3,992 (25 books)
June: 2,180 (11 books)
July: 5,104 (21 books)
August: 5,437 (30 books)
September: 8,156 (30 books)
October: 8,274 (33 books)
November: 7,336 (28 books)
December: 1,056 (5 books)
76,319 / 250,000 pages - 338 books
8. 07 Ghost vol. 15 - 192 pages9. 07-GHOST: 16 (ZERO-SUMコミックス) - 192 pages
10. 07-GHOST: 17 (ZERO-SUMコミックス) - 208 pages
1944/20,0000
I've never done a page counting challenge before, so let's give this a shot. I'm aiming for 10,000 pages this year!814/10000
January
Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown (246 pages)
The Twelve - Justin Cronin (568 pages)
Update: 450/25,000 The Dream Thieves: 450 pages.
Maca wrote: "I'm in with 15,000 pages"Update of 398 Pages!
Update to Original Post #27. First Book finished391/30000
01.01.17 - 01.07.1701 → Dare You To by Katie McGarry | 373 pages | ★★★
02 → Twinmaker by Sean Williams | 491 pages | ★★★
03 → Falling into Place by Amy Zhang | 304 pages | ★★★
pages read → 1,168
"Moms who Drink and Swear" by Nicole Knepper. 317 pages
Edited message 161.1224 / 38,000 pages
Thanks!
I'd like to sign up for this again! I'll set my goal for 18,000 since I didn't reach my goal last year.
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I have no idea how many pages I read or what a reasonable amount would be, but I'll aim for 10 000. I might count some picture books as weall when I get desperate.