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Let's Turn Pages - 2020

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January
1. The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman 372 pages
2. Millions of Pebbles by Roberta Kagan 277 Pages
3. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 323 Pages
4. The Survivors: The Story of a War, Inheritance and Healing by Adam Frankel 277 Pages
5. Eyes Wide Open by Andrew Gross 357 Pages
6. Zenith Man by Jennifer Haigh 21 Pages
7. The Institute by Stephen King 572 Pages
8. Day Care by Tim Miller 61 Pages
9. Ajax Penumbra 1969 113 pages
10. Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear 277 pages
11. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell 320 pages
12. A Ghost of Her Own by Alessa Winters 202 pages
13. If You Tell by Gregg Olsen 415 pages
total for January 3961 pages
February
14. Dear Edward by Ana Napolitano 341 pages
15. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek 322 pages
16. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman 385 pages
17. After Long Silence by Helen Fremont 368 pages
18. The Voyage by Roberta Kagan 495 pages
19. The Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton 247 pages
total for February 2158 Pages
20.

Just finished reading Exposed- 255 pages
1,998 pages read
28,002 pages remaining

Just finished reading A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation - 448 pages.
1,752/35,000

Progress: 14,229/10,000
January:
Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus - 176
The Bookseller of Kabul - 288
Winter in Madrid - 549
A Brief History of Spain - 272
February:
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold - 415
Circe- 393
Harvest- 272
The Essex Serpent - 422
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do - 320
Heartstone - 634
March:
The Body: A Guide for Occupants - 450
All Quiet on the Orient Express - 240
Things Fall Apart - 209
The Song of Achilles - 378
Uprooted - 438
April:
The Year Without Summer - 416
The Storyteller's Tale - 120
Blood & Sugar - 448
May:
Homage to Catalonia - 264
The Overstory - 512
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know - 379
Neverwhere - 336
A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Parts - 287
The Beekeeper of Aleppo - 400
1984 - 328
June:
The Binding - 437
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - 308
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - 249
Brick Lane - 413
July:
Lamentation - 737
Tombland - 866
August:
Where My Heart Used to Beat - 336
The Confession - 480
The Dutch House - 337
September:
Reasons to Stay Alive - 264
Orfeia- 240
On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does - 464
The Thursday Murder Club - 336
October:
November:
December:

Goal: 25,000
Progress: 1730/25000
January
The Sheen on the Silk - 518
Deception on His Mind - 616
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner - 596

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Welcome to Let's Turn Pages, Michelle!
You've been added to the Participants list with your msg #, since you're our fifth Michelle. :D

Welcome, Nancy from NJ.
Your post above is the perfect way to sign up for a challenge, except that it's hard to tell if those page nos. indicated books you've already read or not. If those are pages read, please provide your total pages turned.
As explained on page 1, use the format below to share your current progress:
(Total pages of books read in 2020)/15,000
Please note that your original (sign-up) msg no. is #409.
Whenever you post an update comment, always include your message # and your current progress in the format above.
Happy reading!

Progress: 464/10,000.."
Welcome to Let's Turn Pages, Beth!
And happy reading in 2020!

And I'm seeing a lot more Sprites on my spreadsheet!
(Tom, you are so close it isn't funny!)
@Matt
Thank you for reposting your progress! :D

Recently finished:
1. The Palace of Lost Memories - 262 pages
2. The Echo of Broken Dreams - 283 pages
2,297/35,000


@Nancy from NJ
Glad to help out.
I'm sure every group has its own approach to running challenges, so take your time getting settled here.
Feel free to message me if you have other questions. (^_^)/

I'd like to read 40,000 pages (no hope hahah)
1. The Kind Worth Killing - 311 pages
2. Circe - 333 pages
3. The Strangers We Know - 336 pages
4. The Secrets We Keep - 433 pages
5. Gravity Is the Thing - 416 pages
6. Cleaning the Gold - 89 pages
7. I Owe You One - 384 pages
8. Asking For It - 344 pages
9. After I've Gone - 428 pages
10. Pig the Pug - 24 pages
11. Pig the Star - 32 pages
12. Pig the Grub - 24 pages
13. The Book with No Pictures - 48 pages
14. Pig the Tourist - 32 pages
15. The Pigeon Needs a Bath! - 40 pages
16. The Very Super Bear - 24 pages
17. The unscary book - 24 pages
18.Collecting sunshine - 32 pages
19. Anzac Ted - 32 pages
20. Beauty in Thorns - 464 pages
21. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - 40 pages
22. If You Give a Cat a Cupcake - 32 pages
23. Thelma the Unicorn - 28 pages
24. Beauty in Thorns - 464 pages
25. La Belle Sauvage - 592 pages
26. Sweet and Deadly - 304 pages
27. The Lost Symbol - 509 pages
28. Northern Lights - 325 pages
29. The Subtle Knife - 355 pages
30. The Amber Spyglass - 548 pages
31. Unearthly Things - 288 pages
32. Robot Stop - 32 pages
33. My First Fairy Tales, Rumpelstiltskin - 32 pages
34. George's Marvellous Medicine - 112 pages
35. Fantastic Mr Fox - 112 pages
36. The Leaf Reader - 240 pages
37. In the Dark - 464 pages
38. Mummy's Favourite - 283 pages
39. Troll Hunting: Inside the World of Online Hate and its Human Fallout - 304pages
40. This Side of Murder - 289 pages
41. Already Dead - 480 pages
42. The look on her face - 100 pages
43. The Fairy-Tale Detectives - 284 pages
Progress: 10,067/40,000 (updated 03/08/2020)

Please repost your message to include your current progress.
In the interest of updating this challenge twice a month, I will not be checking your original posts.
Thanks!

I'd like to read 40,000 pages (no hope hahah)
1. The Kind Worth Killing - 311 pages
2. Circe - 333 pages
3. [book:The Stranger..."
Aimée, welcome to Let's Turn Pages!
I've added you to the Participants list on page 1. Happy reading!

I’m a school teacher (start of the new school year tomorrow) and I read books to my students every day. I have already decided not to count these towards my 2020 reading challenge but what are people’s thoughts on including them as part my total for this challenge?
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