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Let's Turn Pages - 2018

Joined late...my January to March pages...
1, The Good Liar by Catherine McKenzie *****380
2. The One by John Marrs *****416
3. Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2) by Stephen King ****431
4. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah *****435
5. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell ****304
6. Invisible by James Patterson ****399
7. The Liar's Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard ****330
8. Pretty Dead Girls by Monica Murphy ****336
9. The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara ****416
10. Gwendy's Button Boxby Stephen King ****171
11. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
by Kate Moore ****480
12, The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn *****427
13. The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor *****280
14. The Wife Between Us: A Novel by Greer Hendricks ***346
15. UNSUB (UNSUB, #1) by Meg Gardiner ****366
16. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ***449
17. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka ***]201
18. Girl A by Girl A ****352
19. Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson *****335
20. Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King *****702
21. Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline ***338
22. Through a Glass Darkly (Tamworth Saga #2) by Karleen Koen ****674
23. Beware the Past by Joy Ellis *****369
24. The Snowman by Jo Nesbø *****383
25. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi *****300
26. Losing Cadence by Laura Lovett ***** 252
April 2018
27.Trespassing by brandi reeds ****384
28, The Racketeer by John Grisham ***340
29. Ghost House 232
30. Serial Wives 204
32. Rock Chick #1 412
33. The Haunting of Brynlee House 249
34. The Riuned Wife 284
35. then she was gone 368
36. Arranged 416
37. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 352
May 2018
38.
13,113/20,000

January: 2,593 pages
336 The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
352 Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
405 Uncommon Type: Some Stories
288 Never Let Me Go
273 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
228 Cobalt Blue: A Novel
384 Every Day
327 Another Day
February: 1,292 pages
303 White Fur
167 Go
287 Kindred
371 The Marriage of Opposites
112 Adulthood Is a Myth
52 We Should All Be Feminists
March: 2,208
155 Black Jesus and Other Superheroes
125 Big Mushy Happy Lump
502 Memoirs of a Geisha
240 Book of Longing
107 in the absence of the sun
127 Almost Midnight
420 Daughter of Smoke & Bone
26 Xingu
108 Herding Cats
398 Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations
April: 446
446 White Oleander

40). Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum. Pages: 432
Total Pages Read: 9,090/25,000


1. War and Peace- 1810 pages
2. ...And then there were Cracks- 80 pages
3. Baby Bonanza- Maureen Child- 117 pages
4. Cabin Heat- 289 pages
5. Leo the Lop- 28 pages
6. Leo the Lop (Tale 2)- 28 pages
7. Leo the Lop (Tale 3)- 28 pages
8. Dracula- 354 pages
9. Resisting Happiness- 186 pages
10. V-Card- 133 pages
3053/5000

5,518/8,000 pages completed
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (368 pages)
Original message: message 203

233. - 1/4/18 448p ** - How to Be Alive: A Guide To The Kind of Happiness That Helps The World by Colin Beavan
234. - 1/4/18 304p *** - Copyfight by Phillipa McGuinness
235. - 2/4/18 249p ***** - Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World by Benny Lewis
236. - 2/4/18 320p ** - On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future by Karen Elliott House
237. - 2/4/18 212p ***** - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker
238. - 2/4/18 320p ** - Why Mindfulness is Better than Chocolate: Your guide to inner peace, enhanced focus and deep happiness by David Michie
239. - 3/4/18 388p *** - Open by Andre Agassi
240. - 3/4/18 480p *** - Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein
241. - 3/4/18 272p *** - Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets by Al Ramadan
242. - 3/4/18 225p ** - Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson
243. - 3/4/18 66p ** - Finding Purpose by L.Leonard Taylor
244. - 3/4/18 304p ** - 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage by Karl Pillemer
245. - 3/4/18 400p ** - The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power by Keith Barnham
246. - 4/4/18 384p **** - Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life by Donald J. Trump
247. - 6/4/18 378p *** - Let’s Go Invent Tomorrow: A Year’s Worth of Quotes, Wisdom, and Insight from the World’s Most Successful Business Leaders by Jessica Easto
248. - 6/4/18 39p ** - Effective Logo Design: Guidelines for Small Business Owners, Bloggers, and Marketers by Anita Nipane
249. - 6/4/18 274p ** - An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff
250. - 7/4/18 224p ** - Zen in Plain English: Experience the Essence of Zen by Stephan Schuhmacher
251. - 7/4/18 208p * - You Are What You Think by David Stoop
252. - 7/4/18 215p *** - Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits about (Mostly) Everything by Erin Barrett
253. - 7/4/18 200p *** - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
254. - 7/4/18 256p ** - A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive by Ted Coiné
255. - 7/4/18 269p *** - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Total Books: 255
Total Pages: 75,052

Just finished reading Gasp (Visions #3)- 256 pages
7,420 pages read
42,580 pages remaining

Breakaway - 192 pages
TOTAL: 3636/10000
If this is the second time I have posted this, sorry; I couldn't find the first one. :(

Recently finished Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor - 352 pages.
5,144/15,500
Message #12 update!
23. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1008 pages
11,254/25,000
23. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1008 pages
11,254/25,000

4,898/14,000 pages [35%]
#1 The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto pp. 496 4/5
#2 Coming Home pp. 785 4/5
#3 First Frost pp. 314 5/5
#4 Rocket Science for Babies pp. 24 3/5
#5 Night Film pp. 637 4/5
#6 Doctor Sleep pp. 485 3/5
#7 The Miniaturist pp. 433 4/5
#8 Starseeker pp. 323 5/5
#9 The Rules of Magic pp. 367 5/5
#10 I See You pp. 372 4/5
#11 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake pp. 325 3/5
#12 The Shipping News pp. 337 4/5

Just finished reading The Red Notebook- 159 pages
7,579 pages read
42,421 pages remaining

We have passed 1000 comments for this challenge, so it's more important than ever that you all make sure you post your total number of pages read with your updates.
Message #12 update!
24. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - 571 pages
11,825/25,000
24. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - 571 pages
11,825/25,000
Message #12 update!
25. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell - 656 pages
12,481/25,000
25. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell - 656 pages
12,481/25,000

6,319/8,000 pages completed
"Hope's Boy" by Andrew Bridge (336 pages)
"Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo (465 pages)

Cherry Blossoms After Winter 226 pages
Celtic Tales, Told to the Children 76 pages
Classmates Doukyuusei 120 pages
近くて遠い Chikakute Tooi 159 pages
Only the Flower Knows 180 pages
Blue Drop 1 192 pages
Blue drop 2―天使の僕ら 192 pages
ヤリすぎパーリィナイ! Yarisugi Party Night! 165 pages
= ... 11,290 pages

Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality: A Field Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and Tomfoolery - 272 pages

Really Truly Ruthie - 75 pages
Meet Cécile - 120 pages
Marie-Grace and the Orphans - 104 pages
3935/10000
Thank you

Finished as of 4/16:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -870 pages
Night Film - 592 pages
New Total: 6,165 pages

21,069/75,000
Lives Collide 317 pages
Dreams Collide 303 pages
All of It 321 pages
Unraveling You 300 pages
Raveling You 258 pages
Awakening You 264 pages
Inspiring You 135 pages
I Am Watching You 302

Finished reading Dash & Lily's Book Of Dares- 260 pages
7,839 pages read
42,161 pages remaining
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26. The Living Dead: Switched Off, Zoned Out - The Shocking Truth about Office Life by David Bolchover - 150 pages
12,631/25,000
26. The Living Dead: Switched Off, Zoned Out - The Shocking Truth about Office Life by David Bolchover - 150 pages
12,631/25,000
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Total: 5,099/40,000