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Let's Turn Pages Challenge - 2015

Total pages read: 26,946
January
9 books read for a total of 2,044 pages
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February
4 books read for a total of 851 pages
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March
10 books for a total of 3,892 pages
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April
14 books for a total of 3,575 pages
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May
11 books for a total of 3,817 pages
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June
1 book for a total of 248 pages
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July
11 books for a total of 2,092 pages
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August
11 books for a total of 3,125 pages
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September
2 books for a total of 419 pages
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October
3 books for a total of 567 pages
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November
15 books for a total of 4,730 pages
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So far I have only completed (as far as finished books) 324 pages.

But I have 682 pages in progress on 10 other books. Most recently, I have been focusing the following books:






4/19/15: Bloodline by James Rollins , 464pgs
Doomsday Key by James Rollins, 448pgs
I'm a Vampire, That's Why by Michelle Bardsley 321 pgs
Blue Labyrinth by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, 416pgs
Total pages turned for April 2015: 1649 pgs
Year's Total: 11,766 / 35,000
Please update ....and onto May!!

Goal: 26000 - Progress: 7281 read, 18,719 to go
211 - God Blessedly 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
532 - For a Few Demons More
96 - The Snow Queen Hans Christian Andersen
48 - Walking
336 - The Snow Queen Mercedes Lackey
345 - The Sleeping Beauty
48 - Beauty and the Beast
329 - Beauty and the Werewolf
209 - Living in the Unlimited Universe
144 - Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
368 - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
560 - Gone Girl
483 - The Innocents Abroad

The Billionaire's Obsession Book 1 pages 288 read 5-2-15
Hopeless 410 pages read 5-3-15

Goal: 26000 - Progress: 7569 read, 18,431 to go
211 - God Blessedly 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
532 - For a Few Demons More
96 - The Snow Queen Hans Christian Andersen
48 - Walking
336 - The Snow Queen Mercedes Lackey
345 - The Sleeping Beauty
48 - Beauty and the Beast
329 - Beauty and the Werewolf
209 - Living in the Unlimited Universe
144 - Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
368 - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
560 - Gone Girl
483 - The Innocents Abroad
288 - The Bell Jar









With these updates I have now read 8,576 pages (as I saw from my stats in the Challenge)
8,576/ 20,000 I'm so happy with my progress!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke 310 pg.
Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs 411 pg.
2,877/10,000 pgs.

I've finished:
"Toddlers Are A**holes: It's Not Your Fault" 125 pages
"Sultanı Öldürmek" 528 pages

Peter Pan finished, 170 pages.
And I forgot to update on finishing My Man Jeeves - 256 pages.
Making me: 3077/5000
Also: Can I update my goal? I thik 8000 pages will be a little more challenging, and 5000 might be too easy.
So really: 3077/8000
Update post #496.
61. The Winner's Crime (04/05/15) 402p.
62. More Than This (06/05/15) 311p.
Total Pages: 23,513/60,000
61. The Winner's Crime (04/05/15) 402p.
62. More Than This (06/05/15) 311p.
Total Pages: 23,513/60,000
Somewhere along the line I screwed up my calculations...actual YTD total: 26,336 pages.


The next book on my to read list is The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson - NOT on the children's list ;)

12,667/32,000
Added this week:
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters 262 pages
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 208 pages
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 672 pages

Goal: 26000 - Progress: 8,177 read, 17,823 to go
211 - God Blessedly 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
532 - For a Few Demons More
96 - The Snow Queen Hans Christian Andersen
48 - Walking
336 - The Snow Queen Mercedes Lackey
345 - The Sleeping Beauty
48 - Beauty and the Beast
329 - Beauty and the Werewolf
209 - Living in the Unlimited Universe
144 - Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
368 - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
560 - Gone Girl
483 - The Innocents Abroad
288 - The Bell Jar
608 - Invisible Man


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
The Guynd: A Scottish Journal: 289 pages
Switched: 150 pages
Greek Gods and Heroes: 160 pages
Mayhem: 305 pages
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account: 222 pages
Total page count: 7692
Total pages left: 2308

We Have Always Lived in the Castle read 5/4/2015 146 pages
The Secret Garden read 5/6/2015 247 pages
Cold Comfort Farm read 5/10/2015 233 pages
Finished 22,836/40,000 pages
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