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Let's Turn Pages Challenge - 2015

January 2015:
1/3: Blood Gospel by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell 479pgs
1/4: The Courbet Connection by Estelle Ryan 324 pgs.
Innocent Blood 437pgs
Fair Game 308pgs
Killer Insight 288pgs.
The Ghoul Next Door 352 pgs.
Doom With a View 336pgs
A Glimpse of Evil 352pgs
1/30: Persuader by Lee Child 496pgs
1/31: Vision Impossible by Victoria Laurie 358pgs
February
2/6: The Christmas Bouquet by Sherryl Woods 288pgs
2/8: The Pucelle Connection by Estelle Ryan 312 pgs.
Her Last Whisper 352 pgs
Titan' s Curse 320 pgs
The Gingerbread Man 328pgs
My Dearest Cal 256pgs
Pretend You Don't See Her 305pgs
The Secret Affair 192pgs
2/27:The Immortal Who Loved Me by Lynsay Sands 384pgs
2/28: What's a Ghoul to Do? by Victoria Laurie 281pgs
Total pages so far of the 20 books (16% reading goal)-
6748/35000 / 19.28% completed
:-)
Now onto March

The Invisible Man - 154
Mr. Kiss and Tell - 330
Messenger - 169
3106/25000

Did a lot of reading this weekend in preparation for a book fair that is taking place where I live next weekend *much excite!*
The Color of Magic (210) 2/28/15
Eighth Grade Bites (182) 2/28/15
Ninth Grade Slays (278) 2/28/15
Tenth Grade Bleeds (292) 3/1/15
Eleventh Grade Burns (309) 3/1/15
Twelfth Grade Kills (325) 3/1/15
Brings me to 15586/50000!

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry = 133 pages (started in December)
Yes Please = 288 pages
Slaughterhouse-Five = 285 pages
When God Was a Rabbit = 338 pages
The Dead Of Summer = 240 pages
The Martian = 369 pages
We Should All Be Feminists = 23 pages
Seed = 460 pages
The Miniaturist = 427 pages
The Ocean at the End of the Lane = 246 pages
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban = 320 pages

Totals:
158 participants
4,344,529 pages pledged
545,780 pages read
8% done!
Since last month:
+15 participants
+497,750 pages pledged
+302,555 pages read

now at 35,427/55,000
And amazing statistics :), it is great to see how we all proceed.

'The Cutting Season' by Attica Locke 384pgs
Pages update: 7132/35,000 20.38%

Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo 233p.
Updated my message 140.

I think I will go with 5,000 pages. Again, I don't want to be overambitious to start.
Goal: 5,000; Progress: 4,479
1. Star of the Morning-Lynn Kurland: 324/324 (Completed: 04/20/15)
2. Talon-Julie Kagawa: 449/449 (Completed: 07/02/15)
3. The Mage's Daughter-Lynn Kurland: 388/388 (Completed: 08/09/15)
4. Princess of the Sword-Lynn Kurland: 360/360 (Completed: 09/29/15)
5. Rogue-Julie Kagawa: 444/444 (Completed: 10/07/15)
6. The Adventures of Sir and Babygirl-Kayla Lords: 132/132 (Completed: 10/31/15)
7. Envy (Luxe #3)-Anna Godbersen: 405/405 (Completed:12/02/15)
8. Wolf In White Van-John Darnielle: 191/224 (Completed:)
9. The Charm Bracelet-Melissa Hill: 172/394 (Completed:)
10. The Dovekeepers-Alice Hoffman: 29/508 (Completed:)
11. All the Queen's Players-Jane Heather: 122/455 (Completed:)
12. Master of Illusion, Book 1-Anne Rouen: 14/460 (Completed:)
13. Life After Life-Kate Atkinson: 0/548 (Completed:)
14. Color-A Natural History of the Palette-Victoria Finlay: 24/464 (Completed:)
15. Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands-Chris Bohjalian: 73/288 (Completed:)
16. All The Light We Cannot See-Anothy Doerr: 47/531 (Completed:)
17. Princess of the Midnight Ball-Jessica Day George: 280/280; (Completed: 12\23\15)
18. The Ripper's Wife-Brandy Purdy: 335/368
19. Frostfire (Kanin Chronicles #1)-Amanda Hocking: 195/321
20. Becoming Jinn (Becoming Jinn #1)-Lori Goldstein: 80/384
21. Zodiac (Zodiac #1)-Romina Russell: 74/319
22. The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)-Suzanne Collins: 325/374

Updated message 9.
5,952/20,000
5,952/20,000

Welcome, Anissa! Just so you know, any pages you've read this year count, even the ones before you joined the challenge.
Susan, you're actually right on track! You're about 15% done with your goal, and we're about 15% of the way through the year.

27. Allegiant 526pp
28. The Mystery of Mercy Close 505pp
29. Big Little Lies 460pp
30. Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology 176pp


19. Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard ★★★☆☆ 400 pages (01/03/15)
20. The Sin Eater’s Daughter - Melinda Salisbury ★★☆☆☆ 320 pages (06/03/15)
Total Pages Read: 7,952/35,000

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Goal Met So Far: 4,463/10,000 Pages.


Goal: 26000 - Progress: 3783 read, 22217 to go
211 - 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
275 - Fortune's Fool
39 - The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood / La Belle au bois dormant

I can't wait for this semester to be over so that I can really start reading!
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29. Onyx (01/03/15) 366p.
Page Total: 11,136/60,000