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Let's Turn Pages - 2018
Update to message 538.1. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan - 432 pages
2. Bonfire by Krysten Ritter - 288 pages
3. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen - 343 pages
4. I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara - 334 pages
5. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - 306 pages
6. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann - 287 pages
7. Lost Tribe of the Sith: Precipice by John Jackson Miller - 30 pages
2,020/20,000
Update to message 800:44). Letter from Birmingham Jail. Pages: 64.
Total Number of Pages Read: 12,340/25,000
Update to Message 175:Finished reading The Perks Of Being A Wallflower- 213 pages
8,784 pages read
41,216 pages remaining
ॐ Let's Turn Pages - Goal 14,000 pages5,535/14,000 pages [40%]
#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
#13 Dark Matter pp. 401 4/5
#14 A Mislaid Magic pp. 236 4/5 (re-read)
Message #313 updated:3,554/16,500 pages
1. Origin (461)
2. The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia (304)
3. The Lightning Thief (375)
4. Firestarter (428)
5. The Hobbit (303)
6. Memoirs of a Geisha (512)
7. Outlander (866)
8. You'll Grow Out of It (305)
Update:Hunted - 374 pages
Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire - 208 pages
Things Fall Apart - 225 pages
Cleopatra: A Life - 302 pages
The Dead Florentines - 278 pages
Da Vinci's Tiger - 287 pages
Julius Caesar - 63 pages
My Lady Jane - 512 pages
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials - 288 pages
Batman: The Killing Joke - 64 pages
Total so far: 6,829/25,000
Message #12 update!
29. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë - 702 pages
14,463/25,000
29. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë - 702 pages
14,463/25,000
Message #12 update!
30. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - 256 pages
14,719/25,000
30. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - 256 pages
14,719/25,000
2018 Update (January-April)The Address 354 pages
The Silver Chair 243 pages
The Last Battle 211 pages
Those Who Save Us 479 pages
Seven Days of Us 354 pages
The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding 361 pages
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet 244 pages
Thunderhead 504 pages
Still Me 388 pages
Winterhouse 370 pages
The Handmaid's Tale 311 pages
Escape from Aleppo 319 pages
The Wild Card: 7 Steps to an Educator's Creative Breakthrough 288 pages
The Shadow of the Wind 547 pages
I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888 124 pages
Save Me a Seat 216 pages
The Night the Lights Went Out 406 pages
Chocolate Fever 93 pages
Number the Stars 170 pages
Total to date: 5,982 pages
Message #12 update!
31. Жизнь коротка by Sergei Dovlatov - 160 pages
14,879/25,000
31. Жизнь коротка by Sergei Dovlatov - 160 pages
14,879/25,000
Message #12 update!
32. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - 489 pages
15,368/25,000
32. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - 489 pages
15,368/25,000
Update to message 1009.I've been busy reading and realized I forgot to update here:
1808: The Flight of the Emperor: How a Weak Prince, a Mad Queen, and the British Navy Tricked Napoleon and Changed the New World - 321 pages
Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World - 489 pages
Silent Spring - 368 pages
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind - 352 pages
Total: 6,689/15,500
April Update: (original message 78)Die magische Gondel - 333 pages
Allegiant - 526 pages
Rachsucht - 464 pages
Verwesung - 444 pages
Rebel Angels - 548 pages
Gone Missing - 276 pages
10876/25000 (44%)
This 11 % progress seems to be my thing. But i am okay with it, should make me reach my goal.
Message #12 update!
33. Love's Labor's Lost by William Shakespeare - 352 pages
15,720/25,000
33. Love's Labor's Lost by William Shakespeare - 352 pages
15,720/25,000
Update to Message 175:Just finished reading Tyler Johnson Was Here- 304 pages
9,091 pages read
40,909 pages remaining
LET’S TURN PAGES CHALLENGE (Post: Page 2 - Message 80)Books Read: 70 – Pages Completed: 15,788/30,000 *Revised 4/30/18*
See tracking @ Chetara’s Try Something Different 2018
Updated message 72 (my comment number keeps changing because I think some comments might have been deleted? so I'm not just changing the number I'm sorry)Total pages: 8,377/40,000
Update to message 1128.Just finished Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World - 416 pages.
7,105/15,500
Let's Turn Pages Challenge, January 1st, 2018 - December 31st, 2018
Goal: 28,441/60,000 - 47% - 96 total books
January:
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February:
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March:
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April:
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May:
♥Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by Sarah MacLean - 05/02 - 384 pages
♥When It's Real by Erin Watt - 05/04 - 413 pages
♥Secrets and Speed Dating by Leah Ashton - 05/06 - 192 pages
♥The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders - 05/08 - 569 pages
♥A Sweetheart for Jude Fortune by Cindy Kirk - 05/08 - 224 pages
♥Darkest Journey by Heather Graham - 05/10 - 368 pages
♥Behind the Film Star's Smile by Kate Hardy - 05/11 - 256 pages
♥Finding Our Forever by Brenda Novak - 05/13 - 224 pages
Goal: 28,441/60,000 - 47% - 96 total books
January:
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February:
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March:
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April:
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May:
♥Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by Sarah MacLean - 05/02 - 384 pages
♥When It's Real by Erin Watt - 05/04 - 413 pages
♥Secrets and Speed Dating by Leah Ashton - 05/06 - 192 pages
♥The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders - 05/08 - 569 pages
♥A Sweetheart for Jude Fortune by Cindy Kirk - 05/08 - 224 pages
♥Darkest Journey by Heather Graham - 05/10 - 368 pages
♥Behind the Film Star's Smile by Kate Hardy - 05/11 - 256 pages
♥Finding Our Forever by Brenda Novak - 05/13 - 224 pages
For some reason my original message was removed.... so I posted again above.
Monthly update:Goal: 7,529/25,000, 30.11% - 29 total books.
April - 12 books, 2,775 pages. 7,529 total pages.
18. Pnin - 208 pages
19. Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3) - 624 pages
20. Sirius - 194 pages
21. The Elementals - 288 pages
22. The Shrinking Man - 208 pages
23. Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8) - 296 pages
24. The Waves - 300 pages
25. Salvation of a Forsyte (The Forsyte Chronicles, #0.5) - 56 pages
26. Last Command (Fallen Empire, #0.5) - 73 pages
27. Honor's Flight (Fallen Empire, #2) - 223 pages
28. Saranth Three (Fallen Empire, #1.5) - 47 pages
29. The Fifth Head of Cerberus - 258 pages
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Finished:
Pines - 305 pages
Current Total: 7,489 pages