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I'll be able to do another stats recap this month (I missed last month, unfortunately), so if you get your updates in by April 30, I'll do the update the next morning. :)
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10,508/20,000
10,508/20,000

68. Speak (208) 4/7/15
69. Lock and Key (422) 4/9/15
70. The Husband's Secret (394) 4/9/15
71. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (465) 4/10/15
72. Siege and Storm (435) 4/11/15
73. Ruin and Rising (422) 4/12/15
74. The Selection (336) 4/13/15
75. The Girl Who Played with Fire (503) 4/21/15
76. Dark Places (349) 4/22/15
77. The Book of Strange New Things (512) 4/23/15
78. The Arrivals (274) 4/23/15
79. The Only Thing to Fear (280) 4/25/15
80. Watchmen (436)4/25/15
81. Made for You (356) 4/26/15
82. Anna and the French Kiss (372) 4/28/15
30838/50000

Congratulations on hitting 30,000 pages, Stephanie! You've read almost twice as many pages as I have. ;) What did you think of Watchmen? It's on my list of books to read next.

Amulet, Vol. 1: The Stonekeeper (Amulet, #1) (192) 4/18/15
Amulet, Vol. 2: The Stonekeeper's Curse (Amulet #2)(224) 4/23/15
Amulet, Vol. 3: The Cloud Searchers (Amulet #3) (199) 4/24/15
Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye (Geronimo Stilton #1)(116) 4/25/15
Who Is AC?(176) 4/25/15
Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)(80) 4/27/15
2,986/5,000 pages

Sharp Objects 254 pages
The Mummy at the Dining Room Table: Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Unusual Cases and What They Teach Us about Human Behavior 325 pages
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 352 pages
The Fifth Child 133 pages
Evidence of Life 304 pages
China Mountain Zhang 313 pages
Stay 320 pages
What's Right with You: Debunking Dysfunction and Changing Your Life 250 pages
A Canticle for Leibowitz 335 pages
Adding 2586 to my previous total of 2734 brings me to 5320 pages.


The Mist: 230 pages
Bleak House: 989 pages
Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries: 432 pages
Being There: 140 pages
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science: 316 pages
You: 432 pages
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love: 368 pages
Gray Matter: 480 pages
A High Wind in Jamaica: 241 pages
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: 512 pages
Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany: 464 pages
The Bone Season: 452 pages
The Rats: 208 pages
Dictionary of the Khazars: 333 pages
Zits: Chillax: 256 pages
So You've Been Publicly Shamed: 290 pages
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi: 307 pages
Defending Jacob: 421 pages
Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine: 198 pages
The Wasp Factory:184 pages
Total page count: 7261
Total pages left: 2739

Divergent****487 pages
Tarkin**288 pages
Insurgent****463 pages
Allegiant***526 pages
The Jungle***335 pages
12,182/40,000 pages read

10 Years Later: a Second Chance Romance (257 pages) read 4-25
The Light Between Oceans (343 pages) read 4-29

Completed 11,510/30,000
Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce (272 Pages)
The Other by Katherine Applegate (130 Pages)
The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (387 Pages)
Back to Before by Katherine Applegate (179 Pages)
The Familiar by Katherine Applegate (143 Pages)

29. Ceremony in Death - J.D. Robb ★★★☆☆ 327 pages (03/04/15)
30. The Ocean at the End of the Lane- Neil Gaiman ★★★★☆ 255 pages (04/04/15)
31. The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah ★★★★☆ 416 pages (08/04/15)
32. Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas ★★★☆☆ 416 pages (17/04/15)
33. Crown of Midnight - Sarah J. Maas ★★★★★ 433 pages (20/04/15)
Total Pages Read: 13,794/35,000
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1845/10.000
5. Retro By Mart Smeets (29/04/2015) - 207 p
6. Pride And Prejudice By Jane Austen (30/04/2015) - 366 p
Monthly update:
I read 8,102 pages this month for a yearly total of 31,737/35,000.
I read 8,102 pages this month for a yearly total of 31,737/35,000.

Goal: 16,450/40,000, 41.13% - 65 total books.
April - 14 books, 4,386 pages. 16,450 total pages.
52. Beowulf - 256 pages
53. The Age of Innocence - 334 pages
54. The Painted Veil - 280 pages
55. The Gods of Guilt (Mickey Haller, #5) - 306 pages
56. I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1) - 272 pages
57. Ready Player One - 384 pages
58. The Cyberiad - 312 pages
59. Pines - 315 pages
60. The Terrible Old Man - 6 pages
61. Relic (Pendergast, #1) - 480 pages
62. The Monk - 353 pages
63. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) - 240 pages
64. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - 560 pages
65. American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot - 288 pages
Update Post #496.
59. Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice (29/04/15) 128p.
60. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (30/04/15) 432p.
Page Total: 22,800/60,000
59. Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice (29/04/15) 128p.
60. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (30/04/15) 432p.
Page Total: 22,800/60,000

I just finished Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain at 271 pages.
That puts me at 4,031/12,000.
For the first time so far, I'm actually on track!
Thanks.

April:
1. Jernjomfruen, Ann-Christin Gjersøe - 04.03.15 - 395 pages
2. Persuasion, Jane Austen - 04.05.15 - 239 pages
3. A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift - 04.05.15 - 28 pages
4. The Weight of Blood, David Dalglish - 04.05.15 - 228 pages
5. Oroonoko, Aphra Behn - 04.12.15 - 64 pages
6. Alberte og Jacob, Cora Sandel - 04.12.15 - 205 pages
7. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess - 04.13.15 - 213 pages
8. Dead Soul, Michael R. Hicks - 04.16.15 - 260 pages
9. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 04.17.15 - 40 pages
10. Haugtussa, Arne Garborg - 04.18.15 - 194 pages
11. Almost Heaven, Chris Fabry - 04.21.15 - 385 pages
12. Forest of Secrets, Erin Hunter - 04.28.15 - 336 pages
13. Drop City, T.C. Boyle - 04.28.15 - 464 pages
Total: 3051 pages
9995/25000 pages


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1. Helen of Sparta by Amalia Carosella. 416 pages
2. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey. 326 pages
3. The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey. 304 pages
4. Chocolat by Joanne Harris. 306 pages
5. Tainted Blood by M.L. Brennan. 306 pages
6. Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumors by Zoë Howe 404 pages
7. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. 303 pages
8. Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac: The Autobiography by Mick Fleetwood. 323 pages
9. Antony And Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy. 470 pages
10. One Potion in the Grave by Heather Blake. 325 pages
11. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman. 328 pages
12. Summer at the little beach street bakery by Jenny Colgan. 464 pages
13. Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story by J. Maarten Troost. 262 pages
14. The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adria's Elbulli by Lisa Abend. 295 pages
15. The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen by Jacques Pépin. 318 pages
16. The Bees by Laline Paull. 338 pages
17. The Pretty App by Katie Sise. 342 pages
18. So That Happened: My Unexpected Life in Hollywood by Jon Cryer. 352 pages
19. All the Rage by Courtney Summers. 321 pages
20. Lemon Pies and Little White Lies by Ellery Adams. 292 pages.
21. Exile by Kevin Emerson. 304 pages
22. Dark Chocolate Demise by Jenn McKinlay. 295 pages
23. Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander. 316 pages
24. 99 Days by Katie Cotugno. 384 pages
25. Things We Know by Heart by Jessi Kirby. 291 pages
26. Shark's Fin And Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop. 320 pages
27. Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz. 260 pages
28. Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson. 343 pages
29. My Faire Lady by Laura Wettersten. 342 pages
30. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. 446 pages
31. The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey. 361 pages.
32. Encore to an Empty Room by Kevin Emerson. 313 pages
33. Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley. 309 pages
34. Cold Burn of Magic by Jennifer Estep. 340 pages
35. Ashes to Ashes by Melissa C. Walker. 325 pages
36. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. 352 pages
37. The Secrets of Attraction by Robin Constantine. 384 pages
38. The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough. 329 pages
Total Pages Read in April: 12,809 pages
Total for 2015: 56,315 pages (of 125,000)

So far I have read:
Anglefall - Susan Ee - 326 pages
Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell - 460 Pages
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer - 316 pages
The Titan's Curse - Rick Riordan - 320 pages
The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan - 288 pages
The lightning Thief - Rick Riordan - 377 pages
2,087/20,000

11,525/32,000
Added this week:
40. Bruno, Chief Of Police by Martin Walker 262 pages
41. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor 252 pages

5885/25000"
How did you like it?
It was one of my favorite read last year.

5885/25000"
How did you like it?
It was one of my favorite read last year."
It's definitely my favorite book I've read this year and one of my favorite books ever! Kinda sad that I finished it haha. I wrote a review, you can read it here https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

1,102,661 pages read
4,679,779 pages pledged
24% done!*
Since the end of February:
+18 participants
+556,881 pages read
+335,250 pages pledged
* Some of you are much closer on your individual challenges, and not everyone has been reporting their progress to me, but this is still a super great number! I'm so proud of all of you.
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Total 13618/40000