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Let's Turn Pages - 2019
Updated message #6435,119/36,500
Message 151 Updated183,723/50,000
CHALLENGE COMPLETED
For this one I hope to read 15000 pages ....January
1.Exit Strategy Pages: 176
2. Camas y famas: Las más raras y genuinas historias de amor Pages: 404
3. Distancia de rescate Pages: 128
4. La forma de las ruinas Pages: 560
5. The Bookshop on the Corner Pages: 364
6. Kitchen Pages: 110
7. Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love Pages: 250
8. Sometimes I Lie Pages: 262
9. Diario de una volátil Pages: 160
10. My Sister, the Serial Killer Pages: 223
11. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Pages: 277
12. Pájaros en la boca Pages: 139
13. NOS4A2 Pages: 686
Total this month: 3739
This means I have read 25% of my goal !!! Cheers for me
February:
1. The Hazel Wood Pages: 359
2. Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World Pages: 320
3. Exit West Pages: 220
Total this month: 899
Total at the moment: 4638 / 15000 This is 30,92% of my goal
March
1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Pages: 206
April
1. The Goldfinch Pages: 771
May
1. The Silence of the Girls Pages: 325
2. The BFG Pages: 199
June
1. The Widows of Malabar Hill Pages: 385
2. The Woman in the Window Pages: 427
3. The Art of Racing in the Rain Pages: 338
4. Satanás Pages: 136
5. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE Pages: 400
6. Franklin's Flying Bookshop Pages: 32
7. My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues Pages: 256
8. Heart Berries: A Memoir Pages:178
9. Kentukis Pages: 224
July
1. Bottled Goods Pages: 190
2. The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir Pages: 336
3. Wraith Pages: 172
4. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood Pages 285
5. The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories Pages: 224
6. El día que se perdió la cordura Pages: 456
7. Why My Cat Is More Impressive Than Your Baby Pages:160
August
1. Ghost Wall Pages: 144
2. Little Fires Everywhere Pages: 338
3. I Know Who You Are Pages: 304
4. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Pages: 388
September
1. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Pages: 689
2. El día que se perdió el amor Pages: 426
3. Franklin and Luna Go to the Moon Pages: 32
October
1. In the Tall Grass Pages: 62
2. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold Pages: 416
November
1. It Pages: 1169
2. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death Pages: 208
3. Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation Pages: 149
4. Al otro lado del mar Pages: 253
December
1. The Emissary Pages: 138
2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Pages: 256
3. Joaquina Centeno Pages: 176
4. How Reading Changed My Life Pages: 84
5. Cuentos macabros Pages: 224
Total Pages at the moment: 15768
This is 105% of what I was expected to read this year.
Let’s Turn Pages ChallengeDuration: January 1, 2019-December 31, 2019
I know I am a little late in making a decision to join this challenge but I thought I would just throw a page amount out there and see how close I can get by the end of the month. Therefore, I would like to join for 5,000 pages.
Goal: 5,000 ; Progress: 5,438/5,000
1. The Dancing Master: 381/381 (318 pages (2018)+381 pages (2019)=699 pages; Completed: 01/21/19)
2. Married by Morning: 414/414 (Completed: 06/04/19)
3. Love in the Afternoon: 398/398 (Completed: 06/25/19)
4. Stars of Fortune: 469/469 (Completed: 07/30/19)
5. Bay of Sighs: 490/490 (Completed: 08/20/19)
6. Then She Was Gone: 483/483 (48 pages (2018)+483 pages (2019)=531 pages, Completed:09/24/19)
7. Seducing an Angel: 371/371 (144 pages (2018)+371 pages (2019)=515 pages; Completed: 10/20/19)
8. Love Only Once: 344/344 (Completed: 11/18/19)
9. Dark Witch: 533/533 (Completed: 11/19/19)
10. Into the Water: 386/386 (Completed: 12/31/19)
11. Shadow Spell: 387/483
12. Crystal Gardens: 289/475
13. Wicked Intentions: 226/382
14. Tender Rebel: 83/372
15. Scythe: 44/435
16. What the Duke Doesn't Know 140/384
Update to Message 205:Finished reading:
Heroine- 419 pages
The Chain- 357 pages
25,027 pages read
Updated message #6435,423/36,500
Updated Message #1875Progress: 4,859/5,000
11. Shadow Spell: 193/483
12. Crystal Gardens: 158/475
16. What the Duke Doesn't Know 140/384
Oops, a second update to post #9815,100/18/000
A VERY long overdue update to post #1116 now (used to be different number, apparently, some messages got removed). My challenge is pretty much non-salvageable now. Still, better luck next year!Detailed updates in here.
Overall: 20965 / 50000
update msg #1138,000/10,000 pages
(2,000 to go)
Update to message 9:Total Pages Read: 45,842/40,000
2019 Turning Pages ChallengeYear to date total: 23,869/20,000 to end of November
(November page total was 2455, included in above)
Doe
Updated message #6435,753/36,500
Updated message #6436,088/36,500
Updated message #74 60,576/60,000 COMPLETED!!
Updated message #6436,334/36,500
Update message #206TOTAL: 26,442/20,000
Challenge completed!
Books: 18/20 [90%]Pages: 5,227/6,000 [87%]
1. The Body in the Library p.191 3/5
2. The Empty House p.182 3/5
3. Murder at the Vicarage p.189 4/5
4. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry p.365 3/5
5. The Bluest Eye p.164 3.5/5
6. The Windvale Sprites p.203 4/5
7. A Man Called Ove p.295 4/5
8. Marnin' Moonrakers! p.80 4/5
9. The Vision p.270 3/5
10. Let Me Lie p.390 3/5
11. The Woman Next Door p.297 3/5
12. The Keeper of Lost Things p.309 5/5
13. The Forgetting Time p.417 3/5
14. Troubled Waters: Memoirs of a Canal Boatwoman p.204 4/5
15. The Woman in the Window p.464 3/5
16. Ghost Story p.507 4/5
17. Hubble Bubble (re-read) p.313 4/5
18. Inspection p.387 5/5
Update to Message 205:Finished reading:
Hello Girls- 325 pages
25,352 pages read
Updated message #6436,640/36,500
COMPLETE
Message #384 – update1. Rock the Heart (Black Falcon #1.0) by Michelle A. Valentine = 240
2. Rock the Band (Black Falcon #1.5) by Michelle A. Valentine = 110
3. Rock My Bed (Black Falcon #2.0) by Michelle A. Valentine = 330
4. Rock My World (Black Falcon #2.5) by Michelle A. Valentine = 122
5. Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim = 201 (only 201 pages are readable out of 272)
6. A Trace of Revenge Crime Thriller by Lyle Howard = 498
7. The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage by Mel Robbins (**audible version**) = 267
8. The Confidence Gap by Russ Harris (**audible version**) = 292
9. Ark (Forward Collection #1) by Veronica Roth (**audible version**) = 39
10. Becoming Your Own Best Friend: How to Love, Affirm, and Support Yourself by Thomas A. Whiteman, Randy Peterson = 180
11. Summer (Forward Collection #2) Frost by Blake Crouch (**audible version**) = 75
12. Emergency Skin (Forward Collection #3) by N.K. Jemisin (**audible version**) = 33
13. You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Forward Collection #4) by Amor Towles (**audible version**) = 46
14. The Last Conversation (Forward Collection #5) by Paul Tremblay (**audible version**) = 56
15. Randomize (Forward Collection #6) by Andy Weir (**audible version**) = 28
ADDING:
16. Storm Glass (Harbinger #1) by Jeff Wheeler – pg. 353
17. The Neuroscience of Change: A Compassion-Based Program for Personal Transformation by Kelly McGonigal – pg. 304
18. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin - pg. 32
19. The Yellow Wallpaper by Chalotte Perkins Gilman - pg. 36
20. I'm Fine and Neither Are You by Camille Pagán - pg. 266
21. Wicked Games (Queen City Rogues, #2) by Aimee Nicole Walker - pg. 243
Total pages: 3,751 / 10,000
As of 12/23/19
Updated message 77(10,008/20,000) pages completed
It is incredible how fast this year has flown by, there is only a week left to complete this challenge! Best of luck with the last straws and happy holidays :)I'll post a final update for this challenge in the 2nd week of January.
Updated message #2720,404/20,000 - COMPLETED
COMPLETED!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
June
La Lentitud. 168 pages
July
El Extranjero. 124 pages
Dos años, ocho meses y veintiocho noches. 396 pages
August
El ùltimo Hombre. Daniel Baldacci. 571 pages
September
Discusiones Filosóficas. L. Wittgenstein. 485 pages
Crónica de una muerte anunciada. Gabríel García Márquez. 156 pages
October
Guerra de palabras. Paul Tripp. 240. pages
Peter Camenzind. Herman Hesse. 202 pages
El Principito. Antoine de Saint-Exupery. 99 pages
El visitante. Stephen King. 585 pages
November
Política. David Runciman. 191 pages
El contrato social. Juan J. Rousseau. 160 pages.
December
Crimen y Castigo. Dostoyevsky. 382 pages
Figuraciones mías. Savater. 144 pages
Los de Abajo. Mariano Azuela. 144 pages.
TOTAL 7,915 pages
Update: 16,680 / 14,000 (completed)A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury - 336 pages
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert - 313 pages
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert - 480 pages
Zac and Mia by A.J. Betts - 288 pages
Le petit prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – 123 pages
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker - 315 pages
The Watchmaker's Daughter by C.J. Archer - 302 pages
Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury - 288 pages
Update message 18075,056/75,000 (finally reached my goal, just in time!)
Edit Msg 85 Read 28,317/20,000
CHALLENGE COMPLETED!
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Anyways - Updated message 1075 (was 1080)
November: 12 books, 30925/30000 – COMPLETED!!
#84) “The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal” (The Cat Who #12) by Lillian Jackson Braun – 240 (11/2/19) L
#85) “The Cat Who Moved a Mountain” (The Cat Who #13) by Lillian Jackson Braun – 272 (272) L
#86) “Busted” (Will Trent #6.5) by Karin Slaughter – 68 (11/5/19) L
#87) “The Mother-in-Law” by Sally Hepworth – 340 (11/7/19) R
#88) “Nothing to Lose” (Ziba MacKenzie #2) by Victoria Selman – 356 (11/12/19) R
#89) “Cats’ Eyes” (Crazy Cat Lady #1) by Mollie Hunt – 243 (11/13/19) R
#90) “Unseen” (Will Trent #7) by Karin Slaughter – 379 (11/15/19) L
#91) “The Cat Who Wasn’t There” (The Cat Who #14) by Lillian Jackson Braun – 288 (11/19/19) L
#92) “The Turn of the Key” by Ruth Ware – 337 (11/20/19) R
#93) “The Cat Who Went into the Closet” (The Cat Who #15) by Lillian Jackson Braun – 276 (11/23/19) L
#94) “Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality” by Jacob Tomsky – 247 (11/29/19) L
#95) “The Better Sister” by Alafair Burke – 311 (11/29/19) R