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Let's Turn Pages Challenge - 2015

3/4/15: The Cutting Season 384 pgs
Bachelor Unclaimed 224pgs
The Beekeeper' s Ball 368 pgs
Takedown Twenty pgs 307
The Apple Orchard 432 pgs
Joshua and the Cowgirl 256pgs
Death Perception 314 pgs
Lethal Outlook 353 pgs
Hitched 242 pgs
Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun 320 pgs
Black Wolf's Revenge 119 pgs
Blood Brother 50pgs
Total pages turned : 3369 pgs...
Total for the 2015 year, so far: 10,117 pgs.
Now onto April 2015

and Of Mice and Men at 117.
That brings me to 3,106/12,000



2.Romeo and Juliet (283) 3/6/15
3. We Were Liars (227) 3/6/15
4. If I Stay (201) 3/18/15
5.The Distance Between Us (312) 3/29/15
1,306/9,000 pages
10,127 out of 40,000. I’m more or less on track.
Another six books finished:
00093 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
00431 Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen
00353 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
00352 Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell
00464 City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
00208 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
my complete list
Another six books finished:
00093 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
00431 Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen
00353 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
00352 Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell
00464 City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
00208 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
my complete list

Pages Read: This Week -- 1,159 // This Month -- 896
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10,841/25,000 as of May 22, 2015
1. 409/409 Mean Streak
2. 384/793 Sizzling Sixteen
3. 324/1,117 Smokin' Seventeen
4. 305/1,422 Explosive Eighteen
5. 374/1,796 The Hunger Games
6. 498/2,294 Twilight
6.5 28/2,322 Pros and Cons
7. 835/3,157 A Game of Thrones
8. 405/3,562 Catching Fire
9. 302/3,864 Notorious Nineteen
10. 227/4,091 Fahrenheit 451
11. 342/4,433 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
12. 208/4,641 Ice
13. 307/4,948 Takedown Twenty
14. 95/5,043 Julius Caesar
15. 313/5,356 Wicked Appetite
16. ]305/ 5,661 Top Secret Twenty-One
17. 400/6,061 Mockingjay
18. 260/6,321 Magic Bites
19. 778/7,099 A Clash of Kings
20. 416/7,515 The Raven Boys
21. 446/7,961 Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
22. 299/8,260 Wicked Business
23. 487/8,747 Divergent
24. 201/8,948 The Metamorphosis
25. 288/9,236 Malice: A Mystery
26. 216/9,452 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
27. 179/9,631 The Giver
28. 446/10,077 Odd Thomas
29. 374/10,451 The Maze Runner
30. 390/10,841 Cinder

The Quickie by James Patterson 357 pg.
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys 344 pg.
Trial by Fire by Terri Blackstock 347 pg.
Night by Elie Wiesel 119 pg.
Line of Duty by Terri Blackstock 400 pg.
Dawn by Elie Wiesel 81 pg.
The Accident by Elie Wiesel 109 pg.
Invisible by James Patterson 399 pg.
2,156/10,000 pgs


Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 (pg. 160)
Hush, Hush (pg. 391)
To Kill a Mockingbird (pg.324)
The Maze Runner (pg. 374)
Total: 2043/40000

Welcome to the challenge, Tracy and Kim!

Bringing me up to a total of 18602 so far this year
31. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 319pp
32. Tell the Wolves I'm Home 360pp
33. The Miniaturist 416pp
34. Edge of Eternity 1098pp
35. Sharp Objects 272pp
36. Children of Liberty 432pp
37. The Count of Monte Cristo 1276pp
38. A Breath of Snow and Ashes 1410pp
39. Time and Time Again 400pp
40. The Silver Linings Playbook 289pp
41. Canterbury tales 158pp

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides read 4/8/15 (529 pages)
This one took me longer than I expected but was a good read. Not something you could read fast though.

63. The Witch Must Burn (100) 4/4/15
64. The Wizard Returns (100) 4/4/15
65. Dorothy Must Die: Stories (352) 4/4/15
66. Heart-Shaped Box (376) 4/5/15
67. My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut (240)4/7/15
68. Speak (208) 4/7/15

Happenstance read 4/8 100 pages
Happenstance part 2 read 4/9 106 pages
Happenstance part 3 read 4/9 246 pages

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Sorry saw this now. It's a novella. I'm sure it's in another book, but I read it for itself. It's very small, maybe two pages :P Faderen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. Reagarded as on of our four great in Norway :)

Pages Read: This Week -- 1,459 // This Month -- 2,355
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I updated your goal, Laurie! Good on you for raising it. :)