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Let's Turn Pages Challenge - 2015
From my ongoing list (message 185), I'm now up to 5,457 of 15,000 :-)Nice to be on track and even ahead of schedule!
Hi Cassandra,I would like to join,"Turn the Pages". Hope it isn't too late. Can I use my books read in Jan' 2015 as well??
Gwen.
Gwen, we'd love to have you join the challenge. Any books read in 2015 count. What do you want your goal to be?Kelsi, I really enjoyed it. It's not quite as good as the original trilogy, but I think it's worth reading. At the beginning I was thinking that Imriel really isn't as interesting of a character, but as he gets older and starts to unravel his terrible past, things get significantly better. It's also worth noting that Kushiel's Scion feels like a complete book with no huge cliffhanger at the end, so you don't need to commit to the whole trilogy right away.
Cassandra wrote: "Gwen, we'd love to have you join the challenge. Any books read in 2015 count. What do you want your goal to be?
Kelsi, I really enjoyed it. It's not quite as good as the original trilogy, but I th..."
Cool, I will definitely check it out then, thanks :)
Kelsi, I really enjoyed it. It's not quite as good as the original trilogy, but I th..."
Cool, I will definitely check it out then, thanks :)
Kelsi wrote: "Cassandra wrote: "I finished Kushiel's Scion which puts me at:8,074/40,000"
How was that Cassandra? Did you read the original Kushiel's Dart series? I am always hesit..."
The whole series, nine books, Namaah books too, are exellent! Just takes a bit time to get into new main characters :)
Moving slowly, but I finished another :) Shadow Spell by Nora Roberts 319p.Updated message 140
updated 728, had forgotten to add novella.
Update!!Finished Eleanor & Park (328), Looking for Alaska (221), and A Wrinkle in Time (256).
13990/50000
I've read six more books bring my total up to 8,986.
Updated Post #496.
27. In The Afterlight (26/02/15) 535p.
Page Total: 10,191/60,000
Yay, I made it past the 10,000 mark! :D
27. In The Afterlight (26/02/15) 535p.
Page Total: 10,191/60,000
Yay, I made it past the 10,000 mark! :D
Winter wrote: "Kelsi wrote: "Cassandra wrote: "I finished Kushiel's Scion which puts me at:
8,074/40,000"
How was that Cassandra? Did you read the original Kushiel's Dart series? I a..."
Awesome! I will definitely be checking them out :)
8,074/40,000"
How was that Cassandra? Did you read the original Kushiel's Dart series? I a..."
Awesome! I will definitely be checking them out :)
Message 551 updated. Completed 8,641/20,000 pages.
Finished Ready Player One and Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche bringing my end of the month total to 2689/15,000
Message 40 UpdatedGoal: 4748/25,000
Skinwalker 340 pages
The Normans: From Raiders to Kings 210 pages
Wool 58 pages
The Voice 66 pages
Suicide Squad, Vol. 2: Basilisk Rising 192 pages
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth 192 pages
Forever Evil 208 pages
Abandon Changes 49 pages
Aquaman, Vol. 1: The Trench 144 pages
Still Alice 320 pages
My Mom My Hero -Alzheimer's, A Mother and Daughter's Bittersweet Journey 200 pages
Bridge of Dreams 192 pages
Updated message 310. Total 7725/40000
1.Marta Perry – Heart of Christmas 89 pages
2.Patricia Davids – A Plain Christmas 100 pages
3.Virna DePaul -- Bedding the Wrong Brother 159 Pages
4.Mary Connealy – Out of Control 231 pages
5.Noelle Adams – One Night with her Boss 55 Pages
6.Margaret Daley – The Yuletide Rescue 161 Pages
7.Jean Brashear – Texas Refuge 199 Pages
8.Nora Roberts – Dark Witch 291 Pages
9.Jean Brashear – Texas Star 244 Pages
10.Jean Brashear – Texas Danger 183 Pages
11.Maggie Shayne – The Brands who came for Christmas 190 Pages
12.Nora Roberts – Unfinished Business 165 Pages
I'm totally in for 24,000 :)PROGRESS: 6,039/24,000
1/02 Carrie, Stephen King: 256p.
1/05 We were liars, E. Lockhart: 240p.
1/10 Mr Mercedes, Stephen King: 496p.
1/12 The avery shaw experiment, Kelly Oram: 230p.
1/14 Seduction and Snacks, Tara Sivec: 260p.
1/15 Lady Susan, Jane Austen: 80p.
1/15 Cooltureta, Raquel Córcoles: 127p.
1/16 The little prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: 96p.
1/16 El gato negro, Edgar Allan Poe: 24p.
1/27 Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn: 576p.
1/30 Never, Never, Colleen Hoover: 158p.
January Total: 2543
2/01 Diario de un loco, Nikolai Gogol: 24p.
2/02 Conferencia sobre la lluvia, Juan Villorio: 61p.
2/06 1408, Stephen King: 112p.
2/26 It, Stephen King: 1504p.
2/28 Rage, Richard Bachman: 131p.
February Total: 1832
3/11 Heridas abiertas (Sharp Objects), Gillian Flynn: 320p.
3/12 El marciano (The Martian), Andy Weir: 408p.
3/13 Where She Went, Gayle Forman: 264p.
3/18 Un cuarto propio (A Room Of One's Own), Virginia Woolf: 144p.
3/27 El club de los corazones solitarios (The Lonely hearts club), Elizabeth Eulberg: 336p.
3/30 The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum: 192p.
Marhc total: 1664
TOTAL: 6,039
Hi Cassandra,Please add me to the 'Let's Turn Pages' Challenge. My goal is for 35,000 pages.
Message 49 updated. Goal: 6,985/40,000, 17.46% - 26 total books.
February - 15 books, 4,076 pages. 6,985 total pages.
12. The Canterville Ghost - 38 pages
13. Stand On Zanzibar - 672 pages
14. Bel Canto - 352 pages
15. The Man of Property: The Forsyte Saga - 377 pages
16. In Chancery: The Forsyte Saga - 329 pages
17. The Stranger - 144 pages
18. The Sorrows of Young Werther - 180 pages
19. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - 170 pages
20. To Let: The Forsyte Saga - 318 pages
21. Mind At The End Of Its Tether - 34 pages
22. The Happy Turning - 50 pages
23. The Sheep Look Up - 398 pages
24. Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2) - 304 pages
25. The Enchanted - 256 pages
26. Skin Game (The Dresden Files, #15) - 454 pages
6331/30,000 Pages CompletedThe Sorcerer Heir by Cinda Williams Chima (512 Pages)
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett (323 Pages)
The Weakness by K.A. Applegate (129 Pages)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (200 Pages)
Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke (212 Pages)
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale (306 Pages)
The Martian by Andy Weir (384 Pages)
Night Film by Marisha Pessl (602 Pages)
"G" is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton (341 Pages)
Daja's Book by Tamora Pierce (232 Pages)
So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane (386 Pages)
Fairest by Marissa Meyer (222 Pages)
Glitches by Marissa Meyer (32 Pages)
Carswell's Guide to Being Lucky by Marissa Meyer (42 Pages)
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (211 Pages)
Irish Fairy Tales and Legends by Una Leavy (96 Pages)
Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters by Mallory Ortberg (226 Pages)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (374 Pages)
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos (353 Pages)
The Arrival (Animorphs, #38) by Katherine Applegate (148 Pages)
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (219 pages)
Carrie by Stephen King (253 Pages)
King Richard III by William Shakespeare (256 Pages)
Briar's Book by Tamora Pierce (272 Pages)
All the Light We Cannot See pgs. 530.
Edited Message 183 with February's books.11. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant ★★☆☆☆ 336 pages (01/02/15)
12. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel ★★★★★ 304 pages (04/02/15)
13. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë ★★★★★ 332 pages (11/02/15)
14. Me Before You - Jojo Moyes ★★★★☆ 385 pages (15/02/15)
15. Vicious - V.E. Schwab ★★★★☆ 366 pages (21/02/15)
16. Secrets of a Summer Night - Lisa Kleypas ★★★☆☆ 384 pages (21/02/15)
17. Dead Witch Walking - Kim Harrison ★★☆☆☆ 416 pages (24/02/15)
18. A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab ★★★★★ 400 pages (28/02/2015)
Total Pages Read: 7,232/35,000
I read 5,151 pages this month for a yearly total of 10,300/35,000 pages.
Somehow I read exactly 2 pages more than last month lol
Somehow I read exactly 2 pages more than last month lol
Updated message 310.Total 7853/40000
Just finished A Discovery of Witches4470/25000
Updated message 17Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking read 2/23/2015 264 pages
Insurgent read 2/24/2015 302 pages
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream read 2/25/2015 366 pages
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake read 2/26/2015 334 pages
Finished 13,213/40,000 pages
Updated message 1154,827/22,000
Added this week:
20. Crazy, VA by Shannon Hill 222 pages
21. The Southern Foodie's Guide to the Pig: A Culinary Tour of Fifty of the South's Best Restaurants and the Recipes That Made Them Famous by Chris Chamberlain 314 pages
22. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 118 pages
Total Page Count for FebruaryCriminal Confections by Colette London 314 pages
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore 233 pages
Ghettoside: A Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy 366 pages
Valentine Murder by Leslie Meier 268 pages
No More Confessions by Louise Rozett 173 pages
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley 368 pages
Epic Fail by Claire LaZebnik 295 page
Obsession in Death 404 pages
I Was Here by Gayle Forman 270 pages
The Sweetheart by Angelina Mirabella 342 pages
Chocolate Covered Murder by Leslie Meier 249 pages
French Pastry Murder by Leslie Meier 280 pages
English Tea Murder by Leslie Meier 265 pages
A Root Awakening by Kate Collins 324 pages
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 323 pages
Fry Another Day by J.J. Cook 304 pages
Death of a Policeman by M.C. Beaton 264 pages
Death of a Liar by M.C. Beaton 261 pages
The Secrets of Midwives678] by Sally Hepworth 308 pages
I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax by Scott Ian 392 pages
Awkward by Marni Bates 259 pages
Invisible by Marni Bates 274 pages
Alistair Grim's Odditorium by Gregory Funaro 412 pages
I'll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios 388 pages
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard 383 pages
Notable by Marni Bates 261 pages
Awkwardly Ever After by Marni Bates 292 pages
Planet of the Bugs: Evolution and the Rise of Insects by Scott Richard Shaw 240 pages
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami 72 pages
The Loch by Steve Alten 481 pages
Buried in a Book by Lucy Arlington 285 pages
Every Trick in the Book8719] by Lucy Arlington 294 pages
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1 by Anonymous, Translated by Malcolm Lyons, 974 pages
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline 237 pages
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean 284 pages
Books, Cooks, and Crooks by Lucy Arlington 295 pages
Played by the Book by Lucy Arlington 310 pages
Woof at the Door by Laura Morrigan 295 pages
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver 400 pages
Total for February: 12,439 pages
Total Pages for 2015: 25,870 pages
Updated message 611I'm currently at 4787/20000
Goal: 3469 pages read211 - God Bless America: Stories
244 - 101 Things You Didn't Know about Irish History: The People, Places, Culture, and Tradition of the Emerald Isle
748 - Brisingr
849 - Inheritance
473 - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
48 - The Little Mermaid
896 - Outlander
Four more completed: 6,152 out of 40,000 pages. 15.38% completed.
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00432 The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio
00165 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
00399 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
00092 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
my complete list
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00432 The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered by Laura Auricchio
00165 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
00399 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
00092 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
my complete list
I'm up to 7,835/30,000. If you're interested in what I've been reading you can check out my members corner. Thanks!
Update of msg 89Total pages 7931/ 40 000
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