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Let's Turn Pages Challenge - 2015

Book 21: Ashes of Midnight 368 pages (audio)
6,167/15,000 pages. (8833 to go)

1. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes, Anonymous - 06.02.15 - 146 pages
2. Ronja Røverdatter, Astrid Lindgren - 06.03.15 - 255 pages
3. Huset i Eldafjord, Margit Sandemo - 06.04.15 - 254 pages
4. The Skull Ring, Scott Nicholson - 06.07.15 - 330 pages
5. Selvfølelse nå!, Mia Törnblom - 06.11.15 - 203 pages
6. The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe - 06.13.15 - 706 pages
7. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt - 06.18.15 - 771 pages
8. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle - 06.23.15 - 211 pages
9. The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly - 06.28.15 - 310 pages
Total: 3186 pages
16226/25000 pages
19,251 out of 40,000
I haven't posted an update in a while. Going into the second half of the year, I realize I'm about 750 pages short of goal. There is still time to catch up, but I'll need to find a few quick easy books to pick up the pace.
New Reads:
00814 Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
00254 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
00152 Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish
00368 Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita by Robert Roper
00736 Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 by Brenda Wineapple
00576 Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
00519 The Secret Place by Tana French
00536 The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
my complete list
I haven't posted an update in a while. Going into the second half of the year, I realize I'm about 750 pages short of goal. There is still time to catch up, but I'll need to find a few quick easy books to pick up the pace.
New Reads:
00814 Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
00254 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
00152 Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish
00368 Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita by Robert Roper
00736 Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 by Brenda Wineapple
00576 Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
00519 The Secret Place by Tana French
00536 The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
my complete list

I just finished Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People at 175. That puts me at 6,129 out of 12,000.
Thanks!


I upped your goal, Jackie! Way to go. :)
Congratulations Kiwi for finishing your challenge.

Read: 4,480 / 10,000 pages. 14 books read with an average page count of 299 pages.
01. Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India - 178 pages
02. The Ocean at the End of the Lane - 272 pages
03. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - 279 pages
04. Tuesdays with Morrie - 224 pages
05. Riot - 272 pages
06. The Nowhere Men - 400 pages
07. The Taj Conspiracy - 412 pages
08. The Old Man and the Sea - 99 pages
09. God Hates Us All - 208 pages
10. Fury - 259 pages
11. The Stranger - 146 pages
12. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (re-read) - 816 pages
13. Rahul Dravid: Timeless Steel - 256 pages
14. Women - 304 pages
15. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - 355 pages

13,124/26,000 - 12,876 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
423 - My Sister's Keeper
337 - Crucible of Gold
340 - The God of Small Things
743 - Dragonfly in Amber
222 - Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
96 - Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
268 - Like Water for Chocolate
1,168 - Atlas Shrugged
128 - Searching for Chipeta: The Story of a Ute and Her People
140 - Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
256 - Pebble in the Sky
180 - The Giver
485 - City of Bones
431 - This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

Making me: 4596/8000

Welcome to the challenge, Ashish!
I'm leaving for a convention and may not have reliable computer access. I'll be checking my personal messages (so use that if you want to get in touch) but won't be updating challenges until I get back. Feel free to post away, though - I'll catch up!

Curious George Takes a job 47 pages
Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan 780 Pages
26474/35000
Forgot to do my update at the end of last month. I read 8,971 pages last month for a yearly total of 42,081/55,000.


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
The Secret Agent: 172 pages
Animal Farm: 140 pages
Every Fifteen Minutes: 432 pages
Peril at End House: 249 pages
Cards on the Table: 249 pages
The Secret History: 559 pages
The Killer Next Door: 387 pages
The Martian: 369 pages
1st goal of 10,000 completed
Finders Keepers: 448 pages
Dead Until Dark: 312 pages
Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen: 250 pages
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: 235 pages
Half Upon a Time: 385 pages
Total page count: 11,879
Total pages left: 10,121

13,655/26,000 - 12,345 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
423 - My Sister's Keeper
337 - Crucible of Gold
340 - The God of Small Things
743 - Dragonfly in Amber
222 - Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
96 - Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
268 - Like Water for Chocolate
1,168 - Atlas Shrugged
128 - Searching for Chipeta: The Story of a Ute and Her People
140 - Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
256 - Pebble in the Sky
180 - The Giver
485 - City of Bones
431 - This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
531 - All the Light We Cannot See

Hidden Summit by Robyn Carr 347pgs
Promise Canyon by Robyn Carr
342 pgs
Angel's Peak by Robyn Carr
373 pgs
Never Too Late by Robyn Carr 347pgs
Baby, Hold On by Stephanie Bond 78pgs
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert 319pgs
Crouching Tiger, Forbidden Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks 372 pgs
Alone (The Girl in the Box) by Robert J. Crane 182pgs
Untouched (The Girl in the Box) by Robert J. Crane 235pgs
Soulless (The Girl in the Box) by Robert J. Crane 182pgs
Total Pages turned June: 2,782pgs
Pages turned for the year so far: 16,860 / 35,000 (48.17%)
Please update.
The Summer reading-wise has improved tremendously!

4645/10.000
12. Grijs gebied By Marion Pauw (05/06/2015) - 96p
13. Harvest Moon By Krista D. Ball(25/06/2015) - 32p
14. Animal Farm By George Orwell (9-07-2015) - 152p
15. Priester (Het Tijdperk van de Vijf, #1) By Trudi Canavan (10/07/2015) - 544p
16. Draag nooit een gele trui By Alex van der Hulst (11/07/2015) - 206p
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