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Let's Turn Pages - 2020
To end of April:Message #31
7983/20,000 pages to Apr 30/2020
4 books
Thanks! Doe
Updated Message 135 on Page 3. (Update for the end of April.)(view spoiler)
April = 51 books, 12,057 pages
Total books = 189/500
Total pages = 44,937/100,000
Updated msg. 40As of April 30, 33,497/50,000
Hope that everyone is staying safe and healthy out there during these difficult times. Working from home means no audiobooks during my 45 mile drive to and from work. :(
Really miss having open libraries to get hard copy books to read. Kindle versions just aren't the same.
Lisa wrote: "2936/100001. Grenade/270
2. The Woman in the Window/455
3. The Tattooist of Auschwitz/262
4. Speak/202
5. The Woman in Cabin 10/341
6. A Lesson Before Dying/256
7. The Wishing Spell/438
8. Mudbou..."
Hello Lisa!
Welcome to Let's Turn Pages!
Since you are both new to our group and new to this challenge, please take a moment to review the challenge guidelines in this thread's first post.
For future update comments, your original message # is 1110.
Edited to add: Haha, I see you posted a second comment.
Your update comment is perfect. Thank you!
LET'S TURN PAGES: April StatsPages pledged: 4,163,617
Pages turned: 1,333,937 (32.0% of pages pledged)
Challenges started: 149
Challenges done: 0
The Participants List has been updated to reflect the progress of everyone who's posted an update comment! Great job, folks!
As you can see, we are almost perfectly on track as a group.
April 30 marks the end of the first third of 2020, and we've already turned 32% of the pages we've pledged.
Take care and happy reading!
SarahG wrote: "Hope that everyone is staying safe and healthy out there during these difficult times. Working from home means no audiobooks during my 45 mile drive to and from work. :(
Really miss having open l..."
Hope you are staying safe also Sarah! That's the one thing that has bummed me out. I've recently found out I can only do audiobooks for so long before I start getting a headache or my ears start to hurt from headphones. My local library has an online option to take out e-books. Maybe that's something your library offers?
Updated message #2217,427/30,000
Update to message 93:Total Pages read: 9,529/50,000.
9,823/10,000Trick Turn 524 pages
All Balls And Glitter: My Life 264 pages
The Oddfits 256 pages
The Extraditionist 430 pages
The Teacher 395 pages
The Forgotten Ones 345 pages
A Map of Days 496 pages
Archie Wilson & The Beasts of Loch Ness 245 pages
The Queen of New Beginnings 385 pages
Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum 166 pages
Odd Stacks: The First, Flowers, Zombies 442 pages
The Lost Girls of Paris 384 pages
In Her Shadow 358 pages
Dying To Tell 410 pages
Primed By The Past 360 pages
An Unfamiliar Murder 399 pages
Not a Sound 320 pages
Chasing the Dollar 231 pages
The Silent Patient 325 pages
Here To Stay 370 pages
Post Mortem 359 pages
The Truth and Other Lies 241 pages
Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a ****! 352 pages
Me Life Story: The funniest book of the year! 352 pages
Darker - Cinquante Nuances Plus Sombres par Christian 546 pages
The Visitor: 516 pages
Leah on the Offbeat 352 pages
I Am Watching You 302 pages
The Hate U Give 464 pages
The Seven Steps to Closure 410 pages
The Hunger Games 0: The Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes 439 pages
The Flat Share 400 pages
The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock 316 pages
Where the Crawdads Sing 384 pages
Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed. 304 pages
Evangeline 232 pages
Please update message 1127 5,859/10,000
Update of message 53415,171/40,000
SarahG wrote: "Hope that everyone is staying safe and healthy out there during these difficult times. Working from home means no audiobooks during my 45 mile drive to and from work. :(
Really miss having open libraries to get hard copy books to read. Kindle versions just aren't the samel..."
Thanks for reaching out to the rest of us, SarahG and Amy.
SarahG, wouldn't it be okay to set aside an hour each workday for your audiobooks?
Public Service AnnouncementThis is old news for many of you, but there's a quick and dirty way you can post your Let's Turn Pages progress by the 16th and last day of each month, in time for my updates. It only requires you to choose the right edition of your books. Here we go:
Step 1: Go to your profile and look at [your name]'s Bookshelves.
Step 2: Click on "Stats" at the bottom right of your list of Bookshelves.
Step 3: On the top row, the default setting is "Books." Click "Pages."
That's it! Now you can post an update before I update the entire Participants List and you can always fine-tune your page count later.
(Personally, i track my reads in an Excel spreadsheet but I appreciate that it's not for everyone....).
Update to post 132:Tell Me Lies by J.P. Pomare - 330
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson - 447
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner – 326
Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier - 400
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy – 302
A Murder of Manatees by Larry Correia – 110
The Man on the Mountaintop by Susan Trott - 316
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas – 229
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides - 325
In the Hall with the Knife by Diana Peterfreund – 298
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas - 816
Zodiac by Romina Russell – 325
12,749/30,000
Amy wrote: "Hope you are staying safe also Sarah! That's the one thing that has bummed me out. I've recently found out I can only do audiobooks for so long before I start getting a headache or my ears start to hurt from headphones. My local library has an online option to take out e-books. Maybe that's something your library offers?"Yes, my library does offer ebooks and they can be downloaded into the Kindle app on my iPhone or on my Kindle itself but, nothing beats holding a real book to read.
oshizu wrote: "Thanks for reaching out to the rest of us, SarahG and Amy.SarahG, wouldn't it be okay to set aside an hour each workday for your audiobooks? "
Working at home yesterday, I did find that listening to a book while working seemed to be okay. Not sure why I didn't think about it sooner (moved home to work April 10th). I usually cannot do that at my office as I'm not always at my desk.
Sometimes I will listen to my books when I go to bed but I don't retain much of the story when I do that. I oftentimes have to rewind and listen again anyways.
@EveryoneFor many of your, your original message # has changed because one of us accidentally deleted their sign-up post.
Please note that I will not be revising the message nos. on the Participant List for those of you who share the same name.
Please go ahead and use your "original" original message no. or your new one. My sincere apologies for the inconvenience.
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Updated message #60: 4,322/20,000
update to message 7: finished Francona: The Red Sox Years - 368 pages
pages read total: 5,553/10,000 pages
Update msg #37: 15,133/40,000May:
The Sea of Monsters: 288
Rolling in the Deep: 123
Carmilla: 103
The Tombs of Atuan: 180
The Hobbit: 316
Sense and Sensibility: 384
The Deep: 176
Dune (Дюна): 656
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: 865
The Fifth Season: 512
Update to msg #614Progress: 7,413/20,000
Update to Message 365:Finished reading:
The Breakdown- 328 pages
13,127 pages read
16,873 pages remaining
Updated message #2217,727/30,000
Update to (what is now) post 92: Total Pages Read: 9,831/50,000.
Update to Message 365:Finished reading:
You Must Not Miss- 304 pages
13,431 pages read
16,569 pages remaining
Update to message #102Pages read in April: 3513
Total progress: 13460/25.000
Goal: *Garuda: 30,000 pagesProgress so far: 28,189 pages
January:
The Last Wish 360p
Underground Kingdom 128p
Just So Stories 210p
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov 467p
Лирика 279p
Total: 1,444/30,000
February:
Время первых 320p
Sword of Destiny 384p
The Da Vinci Code 489p
Bloodsucking Fiends 300p
Total: 1,493
March:
The Shining 659p
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab 260p
Childhood's End 224p
The Lonesome Gods 545p
Interpreter of Maladies 198p
The Chemistry of Death 320p
Written in Bone 352p
Whispers of the Dead 319p
The Calling of the Grave 327p
Total: 3,204
April:
The Dinner 306p
Still Life 293p
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle 432p
A Nearly Normal Family 432p
The Diary of a Bookseller 310p
Total: 1,773
May:
Stalingrad: City on Fire 336p
The Year of Fog 369p
Leningrad Under Siege: First-hand Accounts of the Ordeal 210p
Разведчики 300p
Beautiful Disaster 319p
The Twelve Chairs 395p
The Whisperer 432p
Total: 2361
June:
Case Histories 389p
Чеширская улыбка кота Шредингера. Язык и сознание. 448p
A Midsummer Night's Dream 240p
Along Came a Spider 449p
Stillhouse Lake 301p
Killman Creek 343p
Wolfhunter River 330p
Total: 2500
July:
Full Dark, No Stars 368p
The Killer Next Door 387p
The Grown Up 67p
Quest for Fire 135p
The Importance of Being Earnest 76p
Prometheus Bound 144p
The Suppliants 52p
Total: 1,229
August:
The Master and Margarita 672p
Почти серьезно... 576p
What Is to Be Done? 445p
The Name of the Rose 538p
Кортик 253p
Total: 2,484
September:
Moth Girls 284p
In the Woods 589p
The Likeness 466p
Faithful Place 400p
Broken Harbor 450p
The Secret Place 453p
The Trespasser 464p
Foundation 244p
Foundation and Empire 256p
Second Foundation 256p
Total: 3,862
October:
Troubled Blood 944p
The God Delusion 374p
Marco Effekten 506 p
Annabelle 312p
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights 420p
Total: 2,556
November:
American Dirt 400p
A Killer's Mind 378p
In the Darkness 411p
Wolf Lake 375p
Eugene Onegin 240p
All Your Twisted Secrets 400p
One of Us Is Lying 360p
One of Us Is Next 377p
Total: 2,941
December:
Half of a Yellow Sun 433p
Ruslan and Ludmila 134p
The Little Tragedies 246p
The Captain's Daughter 124p
Monday Begins on Saturday 276p
A Hero of Our Time 185p
Total: 1,398
Updated message #60: 4,594/20,000
Updated message #25: 30,818/60,000
Update message 129 now (used to be 130)26,222/75,000
update to message 7:finished reading Bulletproof - 181 pages
pages read challenge: 6,230/10,000 (62.30%)
Elena wrote: "Goal: *Garuda: 30,000 pagesProgress so far: 8,619 pages."
@Elena
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