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14,252/30,000 pages
Added 3 more books:
#44) "Spider Web" (Benni Harper #15) by Earlene Fowler - 320 (5/8/19)
#45) "Lie To Me" by JT Ellison - 413 (5/14/19)
#46) "Written in Red" (The Others #1) by Anne Bishop - 433 pages (5/18/19)

7,276/11,000 pages
---- Shards of Alderaan by Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta - 240 pages

Finished reading:
Pet Sematary- 580 pages
9,347 pages read
30,653 pages remaining

I would like to join this challenge and hope to read at least 25,000 pages during 2019. (This may be a bit too optimistic...)
As of May 24: 10, 634 pages read! :)
We Are Okay
January 2--5/5stars--236 pages
The Reading Circle
January 6--5/5 stars--256 pages
The Shape of Water
January 12--5/5 stars--315 pages
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
January 20--4/5 stars--438 pages
The Dry
January 21--5/5 stars--328 pages
The Fire Next Time
January 27--5/5 stars--106 pages
Giovanni's Room
January 28--5/5 stars--159 pages
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
January 30--5/5 stars--408 pages
They Were Sisters
February 3--5/5 stars--464 pages
Less
February 12--5/5 stars--272 pages
The Book of Hidden Things
February 12--2/5 stars--385 pages
The Atomic Weight of Love
February 14--5/5 stars--352 pages
The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
February 17--5/5 stars--291 pages
James Herriot's Cat Stories
February 17--5/5 stars--161 pages
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
February 23--4/5 stars--146 pages
Two Can Keep a Secret
March 3--5/5 stars--336 pages
Chocolat
March 11--5/5 stars--306 pages
Wait For Me, Jack
March 17--5/5 stars--320 pages
Beartown
March 26--5/5 stars--415 pages
The Night Circus
April 11----5/5 stars--387 pages
Uprooted
April 13--3/5 stars--435 pages
Call Me By Your Name
April 14--5/5 stars--248 pages
The Witch Elm
April 28--5/5 stars--528 pages
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
May 7--4/5 stars--212 pages
Don't Call Us Dead
May 7--5/5 stars--96 pages
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
May 7--5/5 stars--257 pages
The Dog Who Knew Too Much
May 7--5/5 stars--320 pages
Beautiful Bad
May 8--5/5 stars--368 pages
The Truth According to Us
May 11--5/5 stars--486 pages
Nose Down, Eyes Up
May 12--3/5 stars--305 pages
One Crazy Summer
May 15--5/5 stars--224 pages
Emlyn's Moon
May 16--4/5 stars--176 pages
Artemis Fowl
May 18--5/5 stars--396 pages
Pachinko
May 19--5/5 stars--502 pages

One Day In December 393 pages
Secrets of a Charmed Life 388 pages
Shortest Way Home 333 pages
A Gentle Rain 360 pages
People of the Book 372 pages
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 759 pages
Best Friends Forever 330 pages
The Wife 340 pages
Tear Me Apart 481 pages
The Sugar Queen 275 pages
Murder With Peacocks 332 pages
On The Fence 296 pages
When All Is Said 326 pages
Watching You 325 pages
The Silent Patient 325 pages
Before She Knew Him 309 pages
We Hope For Better Things 393 pages
My Lively Wife 374 pages
Where The Mountain Meets The Moon 278 pages
16,501 read
7,499 remaining

The Way of All Flesh
Heaven's My Destination
The Longest Day
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
Secrets
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Around the World in Eighty Days
9723/15000

January
Books Read: 5
Pages Read: 1,164
February
Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 666
March
Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 582
April
Books Read: 4
Pages Read: 998
May
Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 399
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

8,086/11,000 pages
---- Diversity Alliance by Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta - 232 pages
---- Far from Agrabah by Aisha Saeed - 336 pages

Ivy and Bean
May 25--5/5 stars--120 pages
Soul on Ice
May 26--5/5 stars--242 pages
Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
May 26--4/5 stars--197 pages
This is How It Always Is
May 27--5/5 stars--336 pages
10,634 + 895 = 11,529 pages


8,326/11,000 pages
Delusions of Grandeur by Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta - 240 pages

Goal: 11,522/20,000, 57.61% - 38 total books.
May - 10 books, 2,727 pages. 11,522 total pages.
29. The Loser - 198 pages
30. The Day of the Jackal - 416 pages
31. After the Apocalypse: Stories - 264 pages
32. The Great Forgetting - 352 pages
33. The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens - 107 pages
34. The Rogue Prince, or, a King's Brother - 50 pages
35. Skin and Other Stories - 219 pages
36. Semiosis (Semiosis Duology, #1) - 336 pages
37. The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones - 336 pages
38. Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1) - 449 pages

Book #19 -- Stock Market Rules: The 50 Most Widely Held Investment Axioms Explained, Examined, and Exposed, Fourth Edition by Michael Sheimo - Pg. 391
Total: 6,149 of 12,500 pages

March. The Bible. 1,200 pages
El cementerio de Praga 549 pages
April
El Profesor 606 pages
Qué es ser ilustrado 64 pages
Ciudad Real 219 pages
Futbol 146 pages
May
Oficio de tinieblas. 374. pages
Confesión de Fe de Westminster. 430 pages
Julian Assange. 280 pages
TOTAL 3,868 pages
#945 updated for May's pages :)
Pages Read: 5,675/16,000 page goal
Pages Read: 5,675/16,000 page goal

I ended up reading 99 pages of Eligible by Curtis Sittenfield in April.
May:
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfield- 389 pages
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory- 327 pages
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang- 296 pages
Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren- 306 pages
What If It’s Us by Becky Albertelli and Adam Silvera- 437 pages
The Distance Between Us by Kasie West- 320 pages
Current Total: 10,667 pages
Plan for June:
Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark- 304 pages
Sweet Tea and Sympathy by Molly Harper- 321 pages
Peachy Flippin’ Keen by Molly Harper- 75 pages
By Your Side by Kasie West- 346 pages
The Last Best Story by Maggie Lehrman- 352 pages
Field Notes on Love by Jennifer E. Smith- 271 pages
Just the Essentials by Shari L. Tapscott- 308 pages
Midnight At the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson- 259 pages
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