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message 2101: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie (thelittlebookishnerd) | 302 comments Updated message #60: 11,104/20,000


message 2102: by Caro (new)

Caro (karopi) | 995 comments I plan to read 16000 Pages.

Current Pages: 19534/16000

January:

1. Frankenstein in BaghdadPages: 272
2. Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People Pages: 280
3. The Sun and Her Flowers Pages: 248
4. The Stationery Shop Pages 312
5. The Lying Game Pages 374
6. Cleopatra: A Life Pages 385

February

1. Nothing to See Here Pages 272
2. The Kiss Quotient Pages: 333
3. The Ten Thousand Doors of January Pages 374
4. The Word Exchange Pages: 384
5. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors Pages: 313

March:

1. The Bride Test Pages: 320
2. The Indignities of Being a Woman Pages: 240
3. One Love:: Pages: 32
4. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays: Pages: 224
5. Don't Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life Pages: 224
6. In the Woods Pages: 612
7. Insólitas Pages: 488

April:

1. The Space Between Us Pages 352
2. Sobre los huesos de los muertos Pages: 299
3. Girl Pages: 240
4. La chica de nieve Pages: 450

May

1. When You Are Engulfed in Flames Pages: 310
2. Actress Pages: 272
3. The Bromance Book Club Pages: 352
4. Oona Out of Order Pages: 357
5. Los informantes Pages: 376
6. Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures Pages: 415
7. Arid Dreams Pages: 210

June

1. Lovely War Pages: 480
2. Temporada de huracanes Pages: 224
3. America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster Pages: 216
4. The Bookshop on the Shore Pages: 410
5. The Memory Police Pages: 288
6. From the Abyss: Short Stories and Poems of Descent & Redemption Pages: 118

July

1. The Trials of Morrigan Crow Pages: 468
2. The Last Train to Key West Pages: 320
3. Undercover Bromance Pages: 320
4. Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain Pages: 288
5. The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite Pages: 184
6. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Pages: 320

August

1.Wild Woman Pages: 222
2.The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas Pages: 192

September

1. Faces on the Tip of My Tongue Pages: 136
2. His & Hers Pages: 320
3. The Fragility of Bodies Pages: 381
4. With the Fire on HighPages: 400
5. Transfer WindowPages: 92

October

1. Cementerios de neón Pages: 199
2. Be PreparedPages: 256
3. RamificationsPages: 197
4. Bites of Terror: 10 Frightfully Delicious Tales by Cuddles and RagePages: 144
5. MandíbulaPages: 288
6. The House in the Cerulean Sea Pages: 393
7.Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow Pages: 545
8. Minor Detail Pages 112

November

1. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Pages: 448
2. The Pear Field Pages: 163
3. Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema Pages: 200
4. El tiempo de las amazonas Pages: 364
5. The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction Pages: 144
6. The Institute Pages: 576
7. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Pages: 413
8. The Fig Tree Pages: 328

Updated Post 92


message 2103: by Laureen (new)

Laureen | 1054 comments Update Message #1239
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (208 pages)
19,830/20,000


message 2104: by oshizu (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Update to msg #20

Progress: 63,401/50,383


message 2105: by Elena (new)

Elena Akgül | 137 comments Updated message #1151: 26,791/30,000


Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!* (marcthedarc) | 660 comments Update to message 49:

38,220 of 40,617 pages

It looks like I'm going to make it.


message 2107: by Amy (new)

Amy (amy_graves) | 647 comments update to message 7:
finished reading Target: Alex Cross - 414 pages
pages read challenge total: 18,635/20,000 pages


message 2108: by oshizu (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Marc *Dark Reader of the Woods* wrote: "All is forgiven! I'm sure you know I was just giving you a hard time. I don't envy the task of leading a challenge of this size..."

thank you for your compassion and generosity, sir!
When I saw your update, I remembered having seen your recent update for Prince of Thorns which has been on my TBRs.
So, of course, I had to go check the book's page again and wonder if I can just kip that trilogy and start from The Red Queen's War trilogy instead I completely forgot all about your garuda.
How is Prince of Thorns?


message 2109: by oshizu (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Barry wrote: "Updated Post #280

Book #28 - Quick & Dirty by Stuart Woods - Pg. 317

Total pages = 10,810 of 14,000

Don't believe I'm going to make my total page goal, but I did surpass my books read goal. I lost a lot of reading time during the early stages of this COVID-19 mess. Most of my focus was on learning everything I and my teammates could about it and then helping supply all of our sites, especially those I am responsible for, the proper guidelines to keep everyone as safe as possible. We have had no major outbreaks and managed to continue operations throughout this pandemic, so I will take a loss of pages read..."


@Barry
Considering all you and your teammates have accomplished since the COVID-19 outbreak, falling only slightly short of a reading challenge goal is a mere trifle. I'm sure your community appreciates all you've done for their welfare.
Congrats on reaching your Goodreads book goal!


message 2110: by oshizu (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Fran wrote: "update message #145 50,525/50,000

Complete!!!! Yippee!"


@Fran
Way to go! Just in time to start preparing for 2021! :D


message 2111: by oshizu (last edited Nov 29, 2020 06:32PM) (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments La_mariane wrote: "Update msg #521

I DID IT!!!!!

10, 562/ 10, 500

I know some people in this group read much more than I do, but it's the most pages I've turned in years :)"


@la mariane
Great job on reaching your recently increased challenge goal!


message 2112: by Deidre (new)

Deidre Long | 107 comments Update Message 87

17,630/25,000 pages


message 2113: by Rachael (new)

Rachael (allons-y-bookworm) | 4775 comments November update: 38,040/30,000 pages turned. I do believe I may become a dragon by the end of the year 🐲


message 2114: by Doe (new)

Doe (loves2walk) | 131 comments Update to Message #31

2020 Lets turn pages challenge, 25,000 pages is my revised goal as of last month.

Total of 24,029/25,000 pages to Nov 30/20.

I was concerned I wouldn’t come close to my revised goal....but I am now hoping to make it, whew.

Keep turning pages!


message 2115: by Eggp (new)

Eggp | 487 comments Monthly update:
Goal: 29,006/25,000, 116.02% - 100 total books.

November - 10 books, 3,609 pages. 29,006 total pages.

91. Solutions and Other Problems - 520 pages
92. Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis - 512 pages
93. Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets - 224 pages
94. Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1) - 416 pages
95. A Few Quick Ones (Jeeves, #11.5) - 224 pages
96. The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2) - 272 pages
97. Carry on, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3) - 288 pages
98. Binscombe Tales - The Complete Series - 658 pages
99. Very Good, Jeeves (Jeeves, #4) - 320 pages
100. The Castle of Otranto - 175 pages


message 2116: by Maria (new)

Maria (mariah90602) | 2287 comments Update message 129

74,281/75,000


message 2117: by Amanda (new)

Amanda | 55 comments Update to messgae #804

Progress: 10,772/ 15,000

The Hobbit - 366 pgs
The Alchemist - 197 pgs
The Golden Compass - 399 pgs


message 2118: by Marta (new)

Marta (mrsmdma) | 90 comments Update Msg #160

Goal: 25,000
Progress: 22,201/25,000

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 - 3258
Sepulchre (Languedoc, #2)- 565
A Place of Hiding (Inspector Lynley, #12) - 514
City of Girls - 496
The Heist (Gabriel Allon, #14) - 467
The Barefoot Queen - 656
What Came Before He Shot Her (Inspector Lynley, #14) - 560

May - 2609
First Lady - 430
Cane River - 432
Careless in Red (Inspector Lynley, #15) - 640
A Cup of Friendship - 291
I Saw Him Die - 400
An Obvious Enchantment - 416

June - 2207
The Royal Governess- 368
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - 301
This Body of Death (Inspector Lynley, #16) - 704
Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls - 224
Believing the Lie (Inspector Lynley, #17) - 610

July - 841
Hornet's Nest (Andy Brazil, #1) - 377
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America - 464

August - 1548
Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings - 335
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man - 225
Poland - 620
The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile - 368

September - 1716
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution - 412
Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York - 400
The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier - 272
Old Sins - 632

October - 2462
Resurrection - 416
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - 245
The Mangrove Coast (Doc Ford Mystery, #6) - 336
Hello, Darkness - 476
Maria Fitzherbert: The Secret Wife of George IV - 320
D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4) - 320
Crescent - 349

November - 1431
The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1) - 511
Wives of Frankie Ferraro - 416
The Dovekeepers - 504


message 2119: by Marja (new)

Marja | 163 comments Update to message #169

13,149/14,000

November reads:
47.The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - 410 pages
48. Beloved - 275 pages
49. Eksyneitten valtakunta - 95 pages
50. Sydämiä seireeneille - 345 pages
51. O Pioneers! - 185 pages
52. Seconds - 336 pages
53. The Yellow Wallpaper - 42 pages


message 2120: by Fran (new)

Fran | 306 comments update message #145. 51,322/50,000


message 2121: by Janet (new)

Janet (ajby) Update to message 1261
25,790/25,000


message 2122: by Marta (new)

Marta (mrsmdma) | 90 comments Update Msg #160

Goal: 25,000
Progress: 22380/25,000

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 - 3258
Sepulchre (Languedoc, #2)- 565
A Place of Hiding (Inspector Lynley, #12) - 514
City of Girls - 496
The Heist (Gabriel Allon, #14) - 467
The Barefoot Queen - 656
What Came Before He Shot Her (Inspector Lynley, #14) - 560

May - 2609
First Lady - 430
Cane River - 432
Careless in Red (Inspector Lynley, #15) - 640
A Cup of Friendship - 291
I Saw Him Die - 400
An Obvious Enchantment - 416

June - 2207
The Royal Governess- 368
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - 301
This Body of Death (Inspector Lynley, #16) - 704
Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls - 224
Believing the Lie (Inspector Lynley, #17) - 610

July - 841
Hornet's Nest (Andy Brazil, #1) - 377
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America - 464

August - 1548
Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings - 335
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man - 225
Poland - 620
The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile - 368

September - 1716
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution - 412
Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York - 400
The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier - 272
Old Sins - 632

October - 2462
Resurrection - 416
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - 245
The Mangrove Coast (Doc Ford Mystery, #6) - 336
Hello, Darkness - 476
Maria Fitzherbert: The Secret Wife of George IV - 320
D is for Deadbeat (Kinsey Millhone, #4) - 320
Crescent - 349

November - 1610
The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1) - 511
Wives of Frankie Ferraro - 416
The Dovekeepers - 504
Dept. of Speculation - 179


message 2123: by Carmen (new)

Carmen | 8125 comments Update to message #66

PROGRESS: 103,901/75,000 🐉🐉

JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER


message 2124: by Erica (last edited Nov 30, 2020 09:05PM) (new)

Erica Freedman  | 91 comments Updated msg #1202: 9,201/10,000

Lowering my goal to 10,000, merfolk tier.

July Update

This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone - 201 pages

October Update

Golden Son, Pierce Brown - 442 pages

November Update

DietVale, Andrene N Low - 305 pages
The Book of the Sword, Carrie Asai - 209 pages
The Sluts, Dennis Cooper - 262 pages


message 2125: by Jenn (new)

Jenn M | 266 comments Update to message # 1451--- 36,115/50,000


message 2126: by CrazyAsACupcake (new)

CrazyAsACupcake | 438 comments Updated message 97: 14,118/25,000


message 2127: by oshizu (last edited Dec 25, 2020 01:02PM) (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Eggp wrote: "Monthly update:
Goal: 29,006/25,000, 116.02% - 100 total books.

November - 10 books, 3,609 pages. 29,006 total pages.

91. Solutions and Other Problems - 520 pages
92. [book:Time i..."


Eggp
Congratulations on reaching your Let's Turn Pages goal! Well done!


message 2128: by oshizu (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Janet wrote: "Update to message 1261
25,790/25,000"


Janet
Way to go! You've been moved to the Completed list! :D


message 2129: by oshizu (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Erica wrote: "Updated msg #1202: 9,201/10,000
"


Erica
Your goal has been revised as requested.


message 2130: by oshizu (last edited Dec 01, 2020 08:13AM) (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments LET'S TURN PAGES: November Report

I've updated the progress of everyone who's posted comments these past two weeks. If you notice a mistake in your entry, please let me know.

Here's our group progress over the past eleven months.
It's wonderful to see how many of you have finished and how many more are steadily nearing your goal for this challenge!

Pages pledged 4,976,500
Pages turned 3,197,255 (64.2% of pages pledged)
Challenges started 168 active participants
Challenges done 38 completed (22.6%)

Best wishes for a fabulous December, folks!


message 2131: by Tomethee Chalamet (last edited Dec 05, 2020 10:14AM) (new)

Tomethee Chalamet (likeactualsoulmates) | 269 comments Update message 585
Little late on this update but I forgot to do this before!! (edited because i read another book)

Goal: 6.301/4.000 New participant!

18. Sorcery of Thorns Finished October 7th 480 pages
19. Mockingjay Finished December 5th {458 pages}


message 2132: by Heather (new)

Heather (bigaitchc) Updated msg #23: 44,938/50,000


message 2133: by Samantha (new)

Samantha King | 415 comments Update Message #33

Progress: 25,704/20,000


message 2134: by Suzanne (new)

Suzanne (esmerelda1) | 442 comments Update to msg #192:

October's Read Books = 3,783
(view spoiler)

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Plate Tectonics An Illustrated Memoir by Margaux Motin Manga Classics The Jungle Book by Crystal S. Chan The Language of Good-bye by Maribeth Fischer The Rules of Magic (Practical Magic, #0.2) by Alice Hoffman Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1 1970s-1981 by Ed Piskor Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Cao #1) by Qiu Xiaolong The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna Cartwheels in a Sari A Memoir of Growing Up Cult by Jayanti Tamm White Trash Zombie Apocalypse (White Trash Zombie, #3) by Diana Rowland The Girl With All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1) by M.R. Carey


message 2135: by Suzanne (new)

Suzanne (esmerelda1) | 442 comments Update to msg #192:

November's Read Books = 1,607
(view spoiler)

The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay Stealing Tranquility (Dragon Descendants, #1) by J.L. Weil Death Overdue (The Haunted Library Mysteries, #1) by Allison Brook Showtime at the Apollo The Epic Tale of Harlem’s Legendary Theater by Ted Fox Death at First Sight (Bay Island Psychic Mystery #1) by Lena Gregory Ice Cream Man, Vol. 1 Rainbow Sprinkles by W. Maxwell Prince


message 2136: by Nicky (new)

Nicky (woosha) | 55 comments Update to Msg 199:


17,789/20,000


message 2137: by Amy (new)

Amy (amy_graves) | 647 comments update to message 7:
finished reading Sisterhood Everlasting - 349 pages
pages read challenge total: 18,984/20,000 pages


message 2138: by Susan (dalmatian21) (new)

Susan (dalmatian21) (dalmatian21) | 405 comments Updated message #157

Progress 26,827/30,000 pages

Hoping I can finish all the books I'm in the middle of before the end of the year!! I may hit may goal


message 2139: by Laureen (last edited Dec 05, 2020 07:09PM) (new)

Laureen | 1054 comments Updated Message #1239
Challenge Completed! 20,201/20,000
Here are my books from May - Dec:
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) by Margaret Atwood In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) by Tana French Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1) by Alan Brennert The Whisper Man by Alex North The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Circe by Madeline Miller Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) by Ken Follett And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie The Alice Network by Kate Quinn A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2) by George R.R. Martin
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1) by Madeleine L'Engle Catch and Kill Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières The Outsider by Stephen King American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Snow (St. John Strafford, #1) by John Banville The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #1) by Carolyn Keene Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) by Ernest Cline This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves, #1) by Jean Craighead George The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) by Douglas Adams The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré


message 2140: by Beverly (new)

Beverly (zippymom) | 1486 comments Updated message #25: 90,693/60,000


message 2141: by Fran (new)

Fran | 306 comments update message #145 52,650/50,000


message 2142: by Laureen (new)

Laureen | 1054 comments Update message #1239
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (343 pages)
20,544/20,000


message 2143: by Maria (new)

Maria (mariah90602) | 2287 comments Update message 129

75,977/75,000


message 2144: by Amanda (new)

Amanda | 410 comments Update to Message 364:

Finished reading:

Deposing Nathan- 393 pages
Falling Away (Fall Away #3)- 429 pages
Riot Baby- 176 pages
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire- 734 pages

36,856/30,00


message 2145: by oshizu (last edited Dec 08, 2020 05:42PM) (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Suzanne wrote: "Update to msg #192:

November's Read Books = 1,607
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay - ***** - 11/4/2020 - 426 Pages
Stealing Tranquility by [..."


Suzanne
Please post a new comment with your current progress for the January-November period.
Seeing only the page count for individual months, I cannot update your overall progress on the Participants' List.
Thanks!


message 2146: by oshizu (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Laureen wrote: "Updated Message #1239
Challenge Completed! 20,201/20,000."


Congratulations on finishing, Laureen!


message 2147: by oshizu (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Maria wrote: "Update message 129

75,977/75,000"


Awesome job, Maria! That's a lot of pages!


message 2148: by Maria (new)

Maria (mariah90602) | 2287 comments oshizu wrote: "Maria wrote: "Update message 129

75,977/75,000"

Awesome job, Maria! That's a lot of pages!"


Thank you!


message 2149: by Beverly (new)

Beverly (zippymom) | 1486 comments Updated message #25: 92,167/60,000


message 2150: by Cássia (new)

Cássia Sousa | 111 comments Updated message #138

19,638/20,000


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