1 Million Group Challenge!! Showing 751-800 of 1,271

[Lesley]

391 322 253 267
Read between May 6-May 14

398,993+391+322+253+267=400,226 new total

[Amber]

Killer Kung Pao
(Noodle Shop Mystery #6)
304 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... )
Dater Finished:5/15/2022 (yesterday)

Group Total Pages:: 304+400,226=400,530 pages

[Amber]

Action Presidents #1: George Washington!
(Action Presidents #1)
128 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... )
Date Finished: 5/18/2022

and Magic Menus for People with Diabetes
252 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... )
Date Finished: 5/18/2022

My Total pages: 380 pages
Group Total Pages: 380+400,530=400,910 pages

[Lesley]

384 443

Read between May 16-May 19

400,910+384+443=401,737 new total pages read

[La Tonya]

Strangers We Know
Date Finished: 5/16/2022
Pages Read: 271
Total Group Pages: 402,008

[Amber]

The Silence of the Library
(Cat in the Stacks #5)
298 pages*
*In my copy, the story concluded on this page and there were preview on pages 299 through 305 and I don't count those.
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... )
Date Finished: 5/21/2022 (today)

and Raid of No Return
(Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #7)
128 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... )
Date Finished: 5/21/2022 (today)

My Total Pages: 426 pages
Group Total Pages: 426+402,008=402,434 pages

[Jim]

Shape of a Boy: Family Life Lessons in Far Flung Places by Kate Wickers. Finished unabridged audiobook 21 May 2022. 256 pages.

Total Group Pages to Date: 402,434 + 256 = 404,690

[Amber]

Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
34 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... )
Date Finished: 5/24/2022 (today)

Group Total Pages: 34+404,690=404,724 pages

[Jim]

The house on K street (1965) by Lionel White. Finished the first novel in a three-mystery hardcover Detective Book Club omnibus 2 May 2022. 127 pages.

Shape of a Boy: Family Life Lessons in Far Flung Places (2022) byKate Wickers. Finished unabridged audiobook 21 May 2022. 256 pages.

The Master and Margarita (posthumously published 1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940). Finished unabridged audiobook 24 May 2022. 372 pages.

Total Pages This Post: 755
Total Group Pages To Date: 404,724 + 755 = 405,479

[Amber]

Due to recent health issues, today's the first time I've been here since last week. Goodreads is being wonky and I can't fully update my books.

[La Tonya]

Amber wrote: "Due to recent health issues, today's the first time I've been here since last week. Goodreads is being wonky and I can't fully update my books."


I am sorry to hear this. I hope you are feeling better. Yes, Goodreads is not having a good day. Enjoy Reading, 📚

[La Tonya]

Five Total Strangers
Date Finished: 5/29/2022
Pages Read: 302
Total Group Pages: 405,781

[Amber]

Thanks, LaTonya. I'm feeling much better. I had a breakthrough COVID infection. Last I heard, the CDC said that breakthrough infections in those fully vaxxed and boosted only required a quarantine of four days, which for me ended on Memorial Day but library was closed for the holiday.

Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop
(Beacon Bakeshop #1)
348 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... )
Date Finished: 5/28/2022

Darth Plagueis: Star Wars Legends
(Star Wars Legends)
423 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... )
Date Finished: 5/29/2022

Major Impossible
(Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #9)
128
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...)
Date Finished: 5/31/2022

Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase
(Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #10)
128 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...)
Date Finished: 5/31/2022

and Academ's Fury
(Codex Alera #2)
534 pages*
*My copy
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... )
Date Finished: 6/1/2022

My Total Pages: 1,561 pages
Group Total Pages: 1,561+405,781=407,342 pages

[Jim]

A Girl's Ride in Iceland (1895) by Ethel Alec-Tweedie (1862-1940). E-book finished 2 June 2022. 238 pages.

Total Group Pages to Date: 405,781 + 1,027 (previous post) + 238 = 407,046

[Amber]

Jim, you're going to have to adjust your count once I edit my previous post because I didn't get to finish it yesterday.

[Amber]

I'll do it for you.

My Previous Total: 407,342 Pages
Jim's Previous book: 238 pages
Previous Total: 407,342+238=407,580 pages

The Breath of a Wok
256 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... )
Date Finished: 6/6/2022 (yesterday)

The Way of the Hive: A Honey Bee's Story
160 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... )
Date Finished: 6/7/2022 (today)

1066: The Year of the Conquest
208 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... )
Date Finished: 6/7/2022 (today)

and Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder
(Hannah Swensen #27)
337 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... )
Date Finished: 6/7/2022 (today)

My Total Pages: 961
Group Total: 961+407,580=408,541 pages

[Jim]

The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas (1802-70). Finished unabridged audiobook 9 June 2022 (today). 625 pages.

Total Group Pages to Date: 409,166

[Amber]

Cold War Correspondent (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #11): A Korean War Tale
128 pages
Date Finished: 6/8/2022

Group Total Pages: 409,166+128=409,294 pages

[Lesley]

351 384 305 320 336 384 336 352 320 416 292 288

These books read between May 20-June 11

409,294+351+384+305+320+336+384+336+352+320+416+292+288=413,378

[Jim]

He Who Comes by Stuart G. Yates. Finished e-book 11 June 2022. 218 pages.

Total Group Pages to Date: 413,378 + 218 = 413,596

[Amber]

My Prairie Cookbook: Memories and Frontier Food from My Little House to Yours
208 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... )
Date Finished: 6/18/22

and She Raised Her Voice!: 50 Black Women Who Sang Their Way Into Music History
168 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... )
Date Finished: 6/18/22

My Total Pages: 376 pages
Group Total Pages: 376+413,596=413,972 pages

[La Tonya]

The Sound of Wings
Date Finished: 6/20/22
Pages Read: 273
Total Group Pages: 414,245

[Lesley]

288 272 480

Read between June 12-20

414,245+288+272+480=415,285 pages

[Amber]

La Tonya and Lesley, you're both gonna have to change your posts after I finish my previous post.

I ran out of time to finish two days ago.

[Amber]

La Tonya/Lesley: Thank you for correcting your totals after I finished my last progress report!

Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
303 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... )
Date Finished: 6/21/22

and Caramel Pecan Roll Murder
(Hannah Swensen #28)*
*Large Print edition
421 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... )
Date Finished: 6/24/22

My Total Pages: 724
Group Total Pages:724+415,285=416,009 pages

[La Tonya]

Family Money
Date Finished: 6/28/2022
Pages Read: 229
Total group pages: 416,238

[Jim]

The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America (2019) by Bill O'Reilly.
Date Finished: 6/27/2022
Pages Read (Audio): 302

Total Group Pages: 416,540

[Amber]

Rest in Pieces
(Mrs. Murphy #2)
292 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... )
Date Finished: 6/25/22

and Arsenic and Old Books
(Cat in the Stacks #6)
304 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... )
Date Finished: 6/27/22

My Total Pages: 596 pages
Group Total Pages: 596+416,540=417,136 pages

[Jim]

Desert Solitaire (1968) by Edward Abbey (1927-89). Finished unabridged audiobook 11 June 2022. 337 pages.

Middlemarch (1872) by George Eliot aka Marion or Mary Ann Evans (1819-80). Finished unabridged audiobook 22 June 2022. 904 pages.

Total Pages This Post: 1,241
Total Group Pages to Date: 1,241 + 417,136 = 418,377

[Jim]

Police Blotter (1965) by Robert L. Pike (1912-81). Finished hardcover, the third novel in a three-mystery Detective Book Club omnibus, 30 June 2022. 132 pages.

Total Group Pages to Date: 132 + 418,377 = 418,509

[Jim]

Finished the unabridged audiobook of The Best of Richard Matheson (2017) by Richard Matheson (1926-2013) on 2 July 2022. I won the paperback of this 32-short story anthology in a Goodreads giveaway a few years ago. Matheson wrote all of these stores between 1950 and 1970. 407 pages.

Total Group Pages to Date: 418,916

[La Tonya]

When It Falls Apart
Date Finished: 7/4/2022
Pages Read: 337
Total Group Pages: 419,253

[Jim]

The House on the Strand (1969) by Daphne du Maurier (1907-89). Unabridged Audiobook.
Date Finished: 4 July 2022
Pages Read: 372
Total Group Pages: 419,625

[Amber]

Everything the Light Touches
(The Dresden Files #15.?)
5 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... )
Date Finished: 6/29/22

The Good People
(The Dresden Files #17.2)
6 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... )
Date Finished: 6/29/22

J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth
219 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... )
Date Finished: 7/2/22

Robinhound Crusoe
(Adventures of Wishbone #4)
128 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... )
Date Finished: 7/2/22

and Waiting for the Biblioburro
32 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9... )
Date Finished:7/5/22 (today)

My Pages: 390 pages
Group Total Pages: 390+419,625=420,015 pages

[Jim]

84, Charing Cross Road (1970) by Helene Hanff (1915-97). Unabridged audiobook finished 5 July 2022. 2 pages.

Total Group Pages to Date: 2 + 420,015 = 420,217.

[Amber]

TekWar
(TekWar #1)
307 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... )
Date Finished: 7/6/22

Group Total Pages: 307+420,217=420,524 pages

[Jim]

To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) (1971) by Philip José Farmer (1918-2009). Unabridged audiobook finished 6 July 2022. 220 pages.

Group Total Pages to Date: 220 + 420,524 = 420,744

[Jim]

The Travel Hacker HandBook - How To Enjoy Luxury Vacation While Spending Less Money And Having More Fun: A Road Trip Essential Book To Plan Correctly Your Dream Vacation (2022) by Melanie Kent. Finished e-book 8 July 2022. 84 pages.

Group Total Pages to Date: 84 + 420,744 = 420,828.

[Amber]

Plum Deadly
(Pie in the Sky Mysteries #1)
296 pages*
*My copy
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... )
Date Finished: 7/10/22 (yesterday)

Group Total Pages: 296+420,828=421,124 pages

[Lesley]

385 345 292 352 416 283 +368 304 253 370 320

Books read between June 21-July 10
385+345+292+352+416+283+368+304+253+370=new total 424,492 pages read

we have read a total of 1433 books to date (Just Fun fact)

[Lesley]

310 read June 11

310+424,492=424,802 total pages

(1434 books)

[Jim]

A Pie to Die for (2016) by Stacey Alabaster. Finished e-book 9 July 2022. 161 pages.

Total Group Pages to Date: 161 + 424,802 = 424,963

[Amber]

Revolutionary Prudence Wright: Leading the Minute Women in the Fight for Independence
48 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... )
Date Finished: 7/14/22

and Alexander Von Humboldt: Explorer, Naturalist & Environmental Pioneer
40 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... )
Date Finished: 7/14/22

My Pages: 88 pages
Group Total Pages: 88+424,963=425,051 pages

[La Tonya]

Queenie
Date Finished: 7/14/2022
Pages Read: 328
Total Group Pages: 425,379

[Jim]

Practical Percentages by Sarah Allen. Date Finished: 7/13/2022. Pages Read: 99. Total Group Pages to Date: 425,478

[Amber]

The Medieval Cookbook
140 pages*
*The last 4 pages are an Index and I don't count them.
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... )
Date Finished: 7/16/22

and They Changed the World: Copernicus-Bruno-Galileo*
*My copy included Giordano Bruno in the title, so I included his name on this post.
88 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... )
Date Finished: 7/16/22

My Total: 228
Group Total: 228+425,379=425,607 pages

[Jim]

I apologize. Even with Desktop Site enabled, my phone won't let me post links, images or edits. Here goes. Captains and the Kings (1972) by Taylor Caldwell (1900-85). Unabridged audiobook. Date Finished: 16 July 2022. Pages Read: 816. When Food is Food and Love Is Love (2005) by Geneen Roth. Unabridged audiobook, the only format. Date Finished: 18 July 2022. Pages Read (@ 37 pages/hour for 7 hours): 259. Amber's Total: 228. My Total this post: 1,075. Corrected Group Total Pages to Date: 228 +1,075 + 425,478 =426,781.

[Amber]

It happens, Jim.

[Amber]

Clinton St. Baking Company Cookbook: Breakfast, Brunch Beyond from New York's Favorite Neighborhood Restaurant
224 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8... )
Date Finished: 7/21/22 (today)

and No Cats Allowed
(Cat in the Stacks #7)
275 pages
( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... )
Date Finished: 7/21/22 (today)

My Total Pages: 499 pages
Group Total Pages: 499+426,781=427,280 pages

[La Tonya]

Ordinary Grace
Date Finished: 7/20/2022
Pages Read: 307
Total Group Pages: 427,587