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We are 55 pages away from 500,000!
Tracked to here.
Read From 08-01 to 08-10: TOTAL ~ 1307At First Sight, by Patrice Wilton ~ 245 Pages
Wolf Kiss, by Christine DePetrillo ~ 356 Pages
Say You're Sorry, by Melinda Leigh ~ 336 Pages
Wolf Fire, by Christine DePetrillo ~ 370 Pages
Lanelle wrote: "These past two days of reported pages totaled 26,422. When you add that to the old total of 472,623, you get... are you ready?... 499,045... We are 55 pages away from 500,000!
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Wow, how great is that? And still several weeks to go in the challenge.
Week 10, Aug 4 - Aug 10-Portion of How Not to Die Alone, 167 pgs (Hardcover)
- Because You're Mine, 358 pgs (Kindle)
- Things You Save in a Fire, 320 pgs (Kindle)
Week 10 Total: 845 pgs
August 3 - August 9Finished: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - 214 pages
Moby-Dick, or, the Whale - 367 pages
When We Were Orphans - 352 pages
Challenger Deep - 320 pages
In Progress: Valley Forge - 25 pages
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King - 279 pages
Total: 1,557 pages
On post #511 I added wrong. I didn't include the partial book I ended the week reading to my weekly total.Instead of 1064 my total should have been 258 more at 1322.
Do you want to adjust the total as you go or should I include it with next week's total that I post later this week?
Week 10August 3 - August 9
☑ Loyalty in Death (8/3) ★★★★★
Page Count 358
☑ Wolf with Benefits (8/4) ★★★★
Page Count 433
☑ Play Dead (8/5) ★★★★★
Page Count 223
☑ Two Weeks and a Day (8/5) ★★★★
Page Count 212
☑ Dreams of a Dark Warrior (8/6) ★★★★
Page Count 515
☑ A Helping of Love (8/7) ★★★
Page Count 200
☑ Born of Fury (8/9) ★★★★★
Page Count 564
☑ Finding Trust (8/9) ★★★★
Page Count 148
In This Post: 2653
Personal Total To Date: 20939
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Past Due 8/4/19 *** (246 pages)
Witch Hunt 8/5/19 *** (306 pages)
Hush Little Baby 8/6/19 ** (213 pages)
Half Past 8/6/19 *** (250 pages)
Past Life 8/7/19 *** (228 pages)
Somewhat Scandalous 8/9/19 (405 pages)
for a total of 1,852 pages
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Instead of 1064 my total should have been 258 more at 1322.
Do you want to adjust the tot..."
I think it will be fine to add those pages to this week's total.
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Can we reach 550,000? I'll bump the thermometer up to that level.
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Lanelle wrote: "JoAnne wrote: "On post #511 I added wrong. I didn't include the partial book I ended the week reading to my weekly total.Instead of 1064 my total should have been 258 more at 1322.
Do you want to..."
thanks will do
Lanelle wrote: "Well, we've cleared 500,000! The number of pages reported today was 8,214. The new grand total is 507,259. And we have a little over 1/2 of the month until the end of this challenge.Can we reach ..."
We're good :-)
Death of a Kitchen Diva Lee Hollis 8/11/19, 352 pages (from last week)Death of a Country Fried Redneck Lee Hollis 8/12/19, 304 pages
Total: 656 pages
August 3-9The Orphan Daughter 362 pages
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 315 pages
Cinnamon and Gunpowder 318 pages
Not Quite Dating 258 pages
Total pages: 1,253
Read Siren's Debt 258 page
Subtotal 258 pages
Total for Week 9: 2514 pages
Read
Among Heroes 229 pages https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Blood & Thunder 368 pages https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Closer to Home 361 pages
Total for week 10: 958 pages
Total this post: 1216 pages
Total to date: 27048 pages
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Tracker to here.
Class Reunions Are Murder 407p
Ditched 4 Murder 352p
Veil of Night 402p
Murder in the Locked Library 289p
Flip the Witch Switch 327pTotal pages: 1777
Week 10 Aug 4-10 36 pgs worth of I Know You Remember hardcover is 336 pgs
All 112 pgs of Giant Days, Vol. 1
157 pgs worth of My Favorite Half-Night Stand hardcover is 394 pgs
8 pgs of Children of Blood and Bone
Total pgs read: 313 pgs
ReportStarted and finished Leviathan | 07.17 - 08.07 | 472 pages | 5stars
Started and finished The Rebellious Sister | 08.01 - 08.08 | 280 pages | 4stars
Started and finished A Life Without Water | 08.01 - 08.12 | 264 pages | 4stars
Total Pages: 1,016
Aug 3-9 - Books/Pages
- 8/3 - 418 p.
- 8/4 - 384 p.
- 8/6 - 316 p.
- 8/6 - 340 p.
- 8/7 - 353 p.
- 8/9 - 330 p.
- 8/9 - 284 p.Total Pages - 2,425
8/3-8/12 ReadingBitter Sweet176 pages
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763184 pages
The Chocolate Touch 126 pages
The Coming Storm 135 pages
Carrie 245 pages
For a Total of 866 pages
July 15-August 13(My apologies for not reporting weekly)
Read:
The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage 267 pgs
Heart of Fire 320 pgs
Written on His Skin 114 pgs
Until December 197 pgs
Until Harmony 195 pgs
Total Read: 1,093
I haven’t posted in a long time because I’ve been in the middle of a move. I unfortunately am just leaving those missing weeks behind and starting with my current reads.August 1-6
Goldie Vance Vol. 2 114 pages
Escaping from Houdini 140 pages
Dark Matter 10 pages
The Diviners 96 pages
The Prince and the Dressmaker 288 pages
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 15 pages
Total 663 pages
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The Drowned Girl by Sara Blaedel 8.11.19 432 pagesSleeping in the Ground by Peter Robinson 8.14.19 336 pages
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor 8.15.19 207 pages
An Echo of Murder by Anne Perry 8.16.19 286 pages
Falling Up by Shel Silverstein 8.16.19 171 pages
Total: 1,432 pages
10-16 Aug: 1. 171; The Duke's Bride in Disguise by Claudia Stone; 08/12/2019
2. 200; The Duke's Governess in Disguise by Claudia Stone; 08/15/2019
TOTAL: 371 pages
August 10-16Lolita - 317 pages
Field of Bones - 381 pages
Leah on the Offbeat - 352
A Dangerous Act of Kindness - 429 pages
Nailed Down- 258 pages
The Light Between Oceans - 343 pages
Total: 2080 pages
A Bias for Murder Sally Goldenbaum 8/13/19, 176 pages (had to use Amazon listing)Murder in the Secret Garden Ellery Adams 8/15/19, 302 pages
And Then They Were Doomed: A Little Library Mystery Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli 8/16/19, 323 pages (had to use Amazon listing for Kindle)
Total: 801 pages
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The Tale of Holly How 8/12/19 *** (330 pages)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 8/13/19 **** (116 pages)
Beyond Wild Imaginings 8/14/19 *** (203 pages)
for a total of 857 pages
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Last weeks completed books:Fixing Perfect (258)
The Waiting Place (64 - calculated [250 words/pg & 16,090 words])
Scent of a Mystery (194)
The Great Exchange (25 - calculated [250 words/pg & 6,150 words])
While I'm Waiting: Going from despair to hope while praising God and choosing contentment during trials (103)
Sea, Sky, & Skeleton (157)
Sorry, wir haben uns verfahren: Kurioses aus der Bahn (70 - estimated) lit. transl: Sorry, We Lost Our Way: Train (Travel) Oddities
Murder in Cherry Hills (175)
Weddings Can Be Murder (369)
Death at the Summit (193)
=> 1,608
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The Boy on the Beach - 272
Livestream - 468
Come Unto These Yellow Sands - 208
Too Like the Lightning - 432
And to All a Good Night - 28
Getting It Right - 14
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - 298
Tier One - 105 (finished)
Breaking Cover - 320
Home Work - 356
Compensations - 26
Null Linie - 434
Any Way the Wind Blows - 20
Enemies: A History of the FBI - 537
In Sheep's Clothing - 450
Oscar: A Biography - 512 (finished)
My Sister's Grave - 332 (/416)
An Eye For An Eye - 352
The Housekeeper + The Professor - 180
Weekly Total: 5344
LaurLa's Read-A-Palooza
Report ~ Week 11
Book: The Perfect Play ~ 08.10 ★★★★
Pages: 336
Book: Hallowed Bones ~ 08.12 ★★★★
Pages: 368
Book: Protecting His Best Friend's Sister ~ 08.12 ★★★
Pages: 163
Book: Grizzly Love ~ 08.13 ★★★
Pages: 174
Book: Bones To Pick ~ 08.14 ★★★★
Pages: 305
Book: Once Upon a Ghost ~ 08.15 ★★★
Pages: 241
Book: Last Summer ~ 08.16 ★★★
Pages: 248
Total Pages: 1,835
August 10 - 16Finished Motives for Murder: A Celebration of Peter Lovesey; On His 80th Birthday by Members of the Detection Club, 146p
Read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 759p
Read Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance, 346p
Read Love Medicine, 367p
Total pages: 1,618
ReadCloser to the Heart 330 pages
Closer to the Chest 376 pages on worldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/title/closer...
Slide 332 pages
Love Conventions 256 pages
Lightning Strikes 125 pages per Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Total for week 10: 2377 pages
Total this post: 1419 pages
Total to date: 28467 pages
Week 11, Aug 11 - Aug 17- The Bookshop on the Shore, 416 pgs (Paperback)
- The Whisper Man, 368 pgs (Kindle)
Week 11 Total: 784 pgs
Total for 8/10 - 8/16 - 2087278 pg The House of Closed Doors 8/10/19
224 pg Storms of Change 8/10/19 listened to audio version - pg count based on paperback
420 pg - Venom 8/12/19
337 pg - Violet Dawn 8/13/19
368 pg - Lost Truth 8/16/19 - listened to audio version - pg count based on paperback
460 pg - Accidental Knight 8/16/19
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Total pages read: 248
Incomplete
, pages 136 - 200 (total pages read 65)
, pages 138 - 282 (total pages read 145)
, pages 1 - 38
10-16 Aug: 4+ books/1240 pages but reporting 1498 pages since I had to add 258 pages to total this week due to inclusion in books read last week but did not add # of pages into total)1498 pages for 4+ books
The Bakeshop at Pumpkin and Spice 110 pages to finish it
Careful What You Wish For 304 pages
The Lightkeeper's Lover 126 pages per author
An Alaskan Christmas 384 pages
The Empty Nesters 316 pages
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ReportStarted and finished Historias de la Universidad Azul | 08.15 - 08.15 | 264 pages | 3stars
Started and finished La Temporada de los Accidentes | 08.13 - 08.16 | 288 pages | 4stars
Total Pages: 552
Week 11 Aug 11-17227 pgs worth of My Favorite Half-Night Stand hardcover is 394 pgs
202 pgs worth of Lock Every Door hardcover is 368 pgs
171 pgs worth of Children of Blood and Bone hardcover is 527 pgs
308 pgs worth of Spellslinger hardcover is 400 pgs
Total pgs read: 908
Aug 10-16 - Books/Pages
- 8/10 - 120 p.
- 8/11 - 368 p.
- 8/13 - 321 p.
- 8/15 - 291 p.Total Pages - 1,100
August 14-August 18 Read:
Until Cobi 191 pgs
Running into Love 224 pgs
Stumbling into Love 200 pgs
Tossed Into Love 208 pgs
Drawn into Love 214 pgs
Total: 1,037 pgs
By Cook or by Crook Maya Corrigan 8/17/19, 320 pages (from last week)Motorhomes, Maps, & Murder Tonya Kappes 8/18/19, 300 pages
Total: 620 pages
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August 10-16I read What Rose Forgot 8/10 304 pgs
Threads West: An American Saga 8/13 337 pgs
Something Wicked This Way Comes 8/14 293 pgs
Total= 934
Mama's Completion Post Week # 10 - August 7th - 14th
The Darkest Whisper 5* ✔️ 8/7/19
406 pages
Published September 1st 2009
Devastate 4.5* ✔️ 8/11/19
252 pages
Published February 6th 2018
Upon the Midnight Clear
Upon the Midnight Clear 2.5* ✔️ 8-13-19
288 pages
Published April 1st 2010
406 + 252 + 288 = 946 Pages
8/13-8/19 ReadingLone Wolf 240 pages
Spartacus: Morituri 320 pages
Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Vols. 1-3 864 pages
The Outsiders 192 pages
For a Total of 1,616 pages
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