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Let's Turn Pages - 2020

Goal: 25,000
Progress: 6129/25000
January - 2466
The Sheen on the Silk - 518
Deception on His Mind - 616
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner - 596
A Traitor to Memory - 736
February - 1758
The Book Thief - 552
The Dilemma - 662
The Art Forger - 384
Bored of the Rings - 160
March - 1905
The Ice Queen- 211
American Wife - 555
Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade - 432
Original Sin - 416
Murder in the Palais Royal - 291
April

total progress: 3,245/10,000 pages
I'm late coming to this challenge, but I'm interested! Never done this before, so I'll set my goal at lowish mid-range and see where I la..."
Welcome to Let's Turn Pages, Kendra!
Congrats on starting out as a Sprite. :)
You can always raise or lower your challenge goal as the year progresses, so starting with a modest goal is never a problem.
Whenever you post your updated progress, be sure include your original (sign-up) msg # (which is #894).

Goal: 7,032/25,000, 28.13% - 25 total books.
March - 9 books, 2,945 pages. 7,032 total pages.
17. Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #17) - 352 pages
18. Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1) - 254 pages
19. Hell Hound - 150 pages
20. The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 657 pages
21. Julian - 528 pages
22. Fen - 208 pages
23. The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1) - 340 pages
24. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories - 280 pages
25. To Be Taught, If Fortunate - 176 pages

March:
#22) “The Cat Who Talked Turkey” by Lilian Jackson Braun – 240 (3/4/20) listened/CD - PAID
#23) “Before We Were Yours” by Lisa Wingate – 342 (3/8/20) read/hard copy - PAID
#24) “The Cat Who Went Bananas” by Lilian Jackson Braun – 292 (3/13/20) listened/CD – PAID
#25) “The Good Daughter” by Karin Slaughter – 656 (3/18/20) read/hard copy
#26) “Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man” by William Shatner – 278 (3/20/20) listened/CD
#27) “Night Pleasures” by Sherrilyn Kenyon – 309 (3/24/20) read/hard copy
#28) “One Potion in the Grave” by Heather Blake – 336 (3/28/20) listened/Overdrive
7 books, 2,453 pages
9,187/30,000

The progress of everyone who has posted an update so far has been updated on the Participants List on Page 1.
Please note that from this month onward, challenge stats will only reflect the progress of active participants, that is, of 136 participants out of the 205 who signed up.
Pages pledged: 3,536,617
Pages turned: 842,737 (23.8% of pages pledged)
Challenges started: 136
Completed: 0
We are making great progress as a group.
You can see we are close to having turned 25% of our total pages pledged by the end of the first quarter!
Let's keep this up!

Pages turned in March 1240
Year to date page total - 6595/20,000
I’m way down this month. What can I say, it’s been hard to focus on things, even my beloved reading! Hopefully April will bring more focus on things we can control, like pages turned!
Doe

Rachael, your original msg number is 11.
The easiest way to track your original message no. would be jot it down somewhere in your Member's Corner or Personal Challenge thread. 😊

In March (and at the very beginning of April), I read 6 books, for a total of 1523 pages.
Can you please up my goal to 8 000 pages? I think I can make it!

5472/15,000 pgs
The Great Alone - 438 pgs
Taking Aim - 204 pgs
Milepost 147: The Killing of Jack Yantis - 193 pgs

finished I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - 328 pages
pages read challenge total: 4,088/10,000 pages

I haven't finished any of the 4 books I'm currently reading, but I have finished reading some magic tree house books to my nephews and reading is reading lol
Currently Reading:
The Dirt: 205/431
Sorcerer’s Stone: 45/309 (rereading the series)
If You Tell: 27/428 (audio & reading)
1984: 16/500 (not loving this so far so I left it in my home state so there won't be progress on this one for a while)
Total Pages: 285/5,000
Random Harry Potter Facts: 56
Mummies in the Morning: 80
Night of Ninjas: 69
Pirates Past Noon: 80

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Total books = 138/500
Total pages = 33,360/100,000

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The Hunger Games - 374 pages
Catching Fire - 391 pages
Sense and Sensibility - 325 pages
Interpreter of Maladies - 198 pages
خاطرات سفیر - x 134 pages
Love From A to Z - 384 pages
Chain of Gold - 624 pages
Know My Name: A Memoir - 368 pages
And Then There Were None - 264 pages
A Christmas Carol - 56 pages
Tiger Lily - 292 pages
A Room with a View - 221 pages
A Door Between Us - 311 pages

Updated message 2
Goal: 7,000 pages
Progress: 3,328/7,000 (47%)
01. El judaísmo en la música 102 pages
02. El vendedor del silencio 486 pages
03. Vente conmigo 216 pages
04. Frankenstein 288 pages
05. Literatra Hebrea Moderna 263 pages
06. Crónica de una muerte anunciada 156 pages
07. El principito 096 pages
08. El amante polaco 259 pages
09. ¿Qué es ser ilustrado? 064 pages
10. La metamorfosis 125 pages
11. Toda buena obra 320 pages
12. Despistes y franquezas 256 pages
13. Cómo cambiar el mundo 097 pages
14. Where is God in a coronavirus world? 064 pages
15. Coronavirus and Christ 112 pages
16. Rebelión en la granja. 102 pages
17. Believing God. 139 pages
18. Las mil y una noches. Antología 183 pages.
TOTAL JUNE 3,328 pages
Books mentioned in this topic
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Authors mentioned in this topic
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Kurt Busiek (other topics)
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Progress: 3,257/14,000