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Let's Turn Pages Challenge - 2015

Laurie, War and Peace is a big undertaking! I can't wait for you to be able to count all those pages. :)
Here's the January recap for this challenge:
143 participants
3,846,779 pages pledged
243,225 pages read
6.3% done!
That's super close to being on track as a group, but there are quite a few members that I'm sure are reading up a storm but haven't reported back yet. Can you BELIEVE how many pages we've all pledged together? Almost four million! You all amaze me.


Goal: 2,909/40,000, 7.27% - 11 total books.
January - 11 books, 2,909 pages.
01. A Clockwork Orange - 165 pages
02. The Man in the High Castle - 248 pages
03. I Am Pilgrim (Pilgrim, #1) - 732 pages
04. The Hellbound Heart - 176 pages
05. The Importance of Being Earnest - 66 pages
06. Cranford - 224 pages
07. Chronicle of a Death Foretold - 128 pages
08. Wakening the Crow - 256 pages
09. Gulliver's Travels - 351 pages
10. Starship Troopers - 352 pages
11. Midnight Cowboy - 211 pages

6286 pages
16 books
1. The Pact 512pp
2. The Rosie Project 295pp
3. The Slap 570pp
4. Sweet Tooth 320pp
5. The Ocean at the End of the Lane 181pp
6. Winter of the World 940pp
7. The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made 270pp
8.Burial Rites 336pp
9.China Dolls 376pp
10.The Girl Who Chased the Moon 269pp
11.Does My Head Look Big In This? 360pp
12. The Book of Strange New Things 500pp
13. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch 413pp
14. Us 400pp
15. Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion de desesperada y cien sonetos de amor 160pp
16. The Martian 384pp



The Long Walk- 370 pages
The Great Gatsby- 180 pages
Ways to Live Forever- 215 pages
Seduction and Snacks- 260 pages
Futures and Frosting- 321 pages
We Were Liars- 227 pages
Mr. Mercedes- 436 pages
1984- 326 pages
The Maze Runner- 374 pages
The Scorch Trials- 360 pages
The Death Cure- 325 pages
Landline- 320 pages
To Kill a Mockingbird- 324 pages
The Stranger- 123 pages
Prince of Thorns- 384 pages
King of Thorns- 449 pages
Emperor of Thorns- 434 pages
Beloved- 324 pages
The Girl on the Train- 336 pages
Kiss an Angel- 384 pages
Different Seasons- 560 pages
The Silver Linings Playbook- 289 pages
City of Bones- 485 pages

That brings me to 999/12000.
Eeek...I'm a little behind.

Book 2: Top Secret Twenty-One 305 pages
Book 3: Princess in Pink 275 pages
Book 4: Lord John and the Private Matter 368 pages
Book 5: The Custom of the Army 76 pages
1296/15000

Paper Roses 378
The Edge of Light 318
The Passion of Patrick MacNeil 250
Pearl of Promise 69
Edge of the Heat 1 149
Rafael 188
Maggie for Hire 286
Immortal Blood 407
Naughty or Nice? A HarperImpulse Christmas Anthology 229
A Nightmare Affair 367
2,665/20,000





My score is now: 669 / 5,000

The Ghost and Mrs. Mewer, 301 pages
The Filthy Truth, 340 pages
Twisted Threads, 312 pages
Shovel Ready, 243 pages
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones, 444 pages
Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge, 310 pages
Vivien's Heavenly Ice Cream Shop, 349 pages
The Conspiracy of Us, 330 pages
All or Nothing: One Chef's Appetite for the Extreme, 260 pages
Take Me On, 544 pages
The Great Zoo of China, 392 pages
Snow Way Out, 292 pages
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, 418 pages
Nightmares Can Be Murder, 292 pages
Nightingales on Call:, 448 pages
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite, 291 pages
Murder, She Barked, 290 pages
Murder and Marinara, 326 pages
Back of the House: The Secret Life of a Restaurant
, 302 pages
Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein, 166 pages
When, 336 pages
Mr. Monk and the New Lieutenant, 276 pages
Ice Creams at Carrington’s, 384 pages
Grasshopper Jungle, 388 pages
Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris, 352 pages
Firefight, 419 pages
Shark Skin Suite, 322 pages
The Wedding Soup Murder, 326 pages
Vivian Apple at the End of the World, 262 pages
The Nightingale Nurses, 608 pages
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?, 228 pages
By Cook or by Crook, 310 pages
The Nightingale Girls:, 504 pages
Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World of Food: Brains, Bugs, and Blood Sausage, 208
All the Bright Places, 388 pages
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany, 318 pages
A Nightingale Christmas Wish, 410 pages
The Nightingale Sisters:, 448 pages
Death Is Like a Box of Chocolates, 294 pages
Total Pages for January: 13,431/125,000 pages
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2932/20,000