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Let's Turn Pages Challenge - 2015
Updated message 17Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods read 6/28/2015 229 pages
Knives at Dawn: America's Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d'Or Competition read 7/4/2015 304 pages
The Girl on the Train read 7/5/2015 269 pages
Bridge of Sighs read 7/12/2015 642 pages
Finished 29,815/40,000 pages
UPDATE:13,991/26,000 - 12,009 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
336 - Station Eleven
after a month long break from reading, i'm back with yes please by amy poehler and 16.865 / 25.000 pages
4'881/15'000The Stolen Throne 400pages
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination 80 pages
Mãn 152 pages
Where She Went - 264The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - 178
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems - 49
Reflecting on the Serenity Prayer - 86
You Had Me At Hello - 436
9183/25000
Please update 40,057/50,000Maybe Someday 367 pages
Effortless 496 pages
Thoughtful 560 pages
Reckless 546 pages
Finding Cinderella 105 pages
Unruly 271 pages
A Discovery of Witches 579 pages
Can you update me for 11,964/50,000 please?
Updated message 139 Finished In the Woods by Tana French 429 p.
Congratulations Carrie! I don't think I congratulated you for reaching your goal.
Updated message 307. Total 20303/40000
(reposting my original comment)i'd like to participate in the challenge :) my goal will be 25.000 pages!
what i've read so far:
January - 2.436 pages
February - 5.100 pages
March - 3.058 pages
April - 2.636 pages
May - 3.303 pages
July - 2.208 pages
August - 4.599 pages
September - 1.641 pages
October - 4.065 pages
77. The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling (503p)
first goal of 25.000 reached!
78. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin (296p)
79. The Martian by Andy Weir (387p)
[79a. Introduction and A Study in Scarlet (102p) - part of The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle]
80. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (487p)
81. The Burning Wire by Jeffery Deaver (462p)
82. Drachenfeuer by W. and H. Hohlbein (507p)
[82a. The Sign of the Four (76p) - part of The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle]
83. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (319p)
84. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison (255p)
85. How to Make Any Twit Fall in Love With You by Louise Rennison (no page count because this is an ebook only available online)
86. Through the Woods by Emily Carroll (208p)
87. It's OK, I'm wearing really big knickers! by Louise Rennison (255p)
88. Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas by Louise Rennison (208p)
November - 3.472 pages
89. Little Bee by Chris Cleave (288p)
90. Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants by Louise Rennison (239p)
91. And That’s When It Fell Off in My Hand by Louise Rennison (303p)
92. Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers by Louise Rennison (335p)
93. Binge by Tyler Oakley (307p)
94. Startled by His Furry Shorts by Louise Rennison (287p)
95. Luuurve Is a Many Trousered Thing by Louise Rennison (271p)
96. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (389p)
97. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (531p)
98. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (522p)
December - 1.047 pages
99. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak (359p)
[99a. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (50p)]
[99b. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (182p)]
final goal of 33.000 pages reached!
100. Stop in the Name of Pants! by Louise Rennison (304p)
[100a. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (152p)]
by my count that's 33.563 / 33.000 pages :)
It's been forever since I last updated this list, but here's my second section of books (I split them after the 10,000 page mark because the list was getting too long).Completed 17,507/30,000
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)
The Journey by Katherine Applegate (160 Pages)
Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Rift, Part 3 by Gene Luen Yang (76 Pages)
The Magician King by Lev Grossman (400 Pages)
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie (219 Pages)
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (337 Pages)
Coffin And The Paper Man by Gwendoline Butler (250 Pages)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Core by Andrew Chambliss (160 Pages)
The Test by Katherine Applegate (144 Pages)
The Unexpected by Katherine Applegate (160 Pages)
The Revelation by Katherine Applegate (144 Pages)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (256 Pages)
Ask Jane by Victoria Hinshaw (224 Pages)
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (251 Pages)
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie (288 Pages)
Fables: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham, James Jean, and Alex Maleev (144 Pages)
Street Magic by Tamora Pierce (300 Pages)
Bossypants by Tina Fey (290 Pages)
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (212 Pages)
The Deception by Katherine Applegate (118 Pages)
The Resistance by Katherine Applegate (160 Pages)
The Ellimist Chronicles by Katherine Applegate (208 Pages)
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (374 Pages)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (324 PageS)
The Return by Katherine Applegate (148 Pages)
Cold Fire by Tamora Pierce (355 Pages)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (294 Pages)
Update of message 89: 26, 669/40000 pages read.At 2/3 done.
update to message 1508
1.Reasonable Doubt: Volume 1 78 pages
2.Seducing Cinderella 155 pages
3.Hate F*@ck: Part One 82 pages
4.Hate F*@k: Part Two 102 pages
5.Hate F*@k: Part Two 105 pages
6.Cartel336 pages
7.Wreckage305 pages
8.The Bell Jar 244 pages
9.Coda pages 201
10.Pleasure Extraordinaire 1 198 pages
11.My Time in the Affair 292 pages
12. Seven Sons 112 Pages
13.Six Brothers 92 pages
14.Five Miles 94 pages
15.Four Score 88 pages
16. Three Years 104 pages
17.Two Roads 101 pages
18. One Love 122 pages
19.Invitation to Seduction 131 pages
20.Invitation to Pleasure 110 pages
21.Invitation to Passion 91 pages
22.Consensual 282 pages
23.Broken Bonds 375 pages
24.Maliciously Obedient 245 pages
25.A Quick Bite 360 pages
26.Bloodstorm 190 pages
27.Degradation 310 pages
28.Separation 250 pages
29.Reparation 271 pages
30.Completion 171 pages
31.Spellbound 192 pages
32Blood's Fury 244 pages
33.Hero 404 pages
34.Steal the Light 288 pages
35.Léopold’s Wicked Embrace 283 pages
36.The Dead Virgins 318 pages
37.Crimson Sin 246 pages
38. Heart Collector447 pages
39.Fearless 268 pages
40.Beautiful Redemption 260 pages
41.Bone Cold 270 pages
42.Shiver 432 pages
43.Mine for Tonight 93 pages
44.Shuttered Affections 406 pages
45.Exposed Affections 471 pages
46.One Night Stand 223 pages
47.Cold Blooded 481 pages
48.Breathless 246 pages
49.Logan's Acadian Wolves 456 pages
50.Tristan's Lyceum Wolves348 pages
51.What Dreams May Come 292 pages
52. Step on a Crack 384 pages
53.Reasonable Doubt: Volume 2 67 pages
54.Reasonable Doubt: Volume 3 183
pages
55.Mirage 286 Pages
56.Rules of Entanglement 320 pages
57. Dark Elves: Taken 136 pages
58.A Living Nightmare 272 pages
59.The Vampire's Assistant 256 pages
60.Tunnels of Blood 240 pages
61. Forget About Midnight 288 pages
62.Lick 304 pages
63. His Name Is Sir 340 Pages
64.
218 pages65
400 pages66.
881 pages 67.
254 pages68.
167 pages69. The Name of the Wind 736 pages
70.
337 Pages71.Lover Eternal 468 pages
72. The Shining 624 pages
73. The Help 545 pages
74. Wicked Ties 352 pages
75. Breaking Leila 272 pages
76. Thoughtless 544 pages
77. Love Unscripted 670 pages
78. Beautiful Sacrifice 284 pages
79.Inception 147 pages
80. Backstage Pass 384 pages
81. Fifty Shades of Grey 530 pages
82.The Man Without Rules 362 pages
83.Water for Elephants 429 pages
84. The Wise Man's Fear 1009 pages
85.The Fault in Our Stars 337 pages
86. On Dublin Street 415 pages
87.Rock Hard 448 pages
88.Taint 288 pages
I'm now at 20,954/35,000
Have got behind on updates, but ahead on reading!TOTAL SO FAR:
97/140 books
37636/40,000 pages
Please update 40,641/50,000Shadow of Night 584 pages read 7-16-15
I've finished a Feast for Crows (fiiiinally) and Cinder, which brings my number up to 11,549/25,000
Updated message 307. Total 20586/40000
Update: Met my goal of 10,000. Will be adding another 12,000 for a total of 22,000 for the year.
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
That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us: 223 pages
Living Dead in Dallas: 289 pages
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: 364 pages
Total page count: 12,755
Total pages left: 9,245
21,542 out of 40,000
Six more books:
00384 Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
00456 Take It or Leave It by Raymond Federman
00304 Stoner by John Williams
00384 One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon by Tim Weiner
00599 The Lost Country by J.R. Salamanca
00164 Gila! by Kathryn Ptacek
my complete list
Six more books:
00384 Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
00456 Take It or Leave It by Raymond Federman
00304 Stoner by John Williams
00384 One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon by Tim Weiner
00599 The Lost Country by J.R. Salamanca
00164 Gila! by Kathryn Ptacek
my complete list
UPDATE:14,277/26,000 - 11,723 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
336 - Station Eleven
286 - Sword-Dancer
Just back from a great vacation to the Pacific Northwest. Didn't get to read much, but I'm getting back on track now that I'm home. Challenge Update....37,754 / 50,000
See Message 103 for titles/page numbers.
Please updated 41,268 / 50,000Reasonable Doubt 1 78 pages
reasonable Doubt 2 76 pages
reasonable doubt 3 183 pages
In the Cards 290 pages
The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson 8 Pages27002/35000
Updated message 307. Total 21002/40000
Let's Turn Pages Challengethis is a continuation of message 259
goal: 35,000
completed: 27,608
287 pages Darkness the Color of Snow (9/29/15)
313 pages The Suffering (9/25/15)
294 pages Butter (9/21/15)
275 pages You and Me and Him (9/19/15)
229 pages Jenna & Jonah's Fauxmance (9/17/15)
327 pages The Body Finder (9/15/15)
254 pages An Uncertain Choice (9/13/15)
308 pages Never Always Sometimes (9/13/15)
310 pages In a Dark, Dark Wood (9/10/15)
325 pages Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls (9/5/15)
310 pages The Coincidence of Coconut Cake (9/3/15)
240 pages You Are My Only (8/29/15)
237 pages How to Be a Grown-up (8/23/15)
335 pages Swerve (8/22/15)
253 pages The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia (8/14/15)
299 pages Goodbye, Rebel Blue (8/10/15)
201 pages The Dead I Know (8/9/15)
288 pages Paperweight (8/7/15)
292 pages Tiger Lily (8/4/15)
200 pages Stained (7/27/15)
248 pages Gamer Girl (7/26/15)
182 pages Beneath a Meth Moon (7/23/15)
217 pages The Girl in the Park (7/23/15)
updated message 1675!18.040 / 25.000 pages
Updated message 1799. A Town Like Alice read 7/13/2015 289 pages
100. Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See read 7/15/2015 247 pages
101. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil read 7/16/2015 211 pages
102. Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S. read 7/18/2015 242 pages
103. Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: A True Story of Bad Breaks and Small Miracles read 7/20/2015 220 pages
Finished 31,024/40,000 pages
I read The Girl on the Train and The Perks of Being a Wallflower so that brings my number up to 12,101/25,000 pages.
Only Ever Yours - 406Boy-Crazy Stacey - 138
Broken Harbor - 450
10177/25000
Not sure I'll hit my goal. :-(
Please update 42,399/50,000 pagesThe Girl on the Train 323 pages read 7-24-15
The Book of Life 561 pages
Insatiable 127 pages
Insatiable #2 108 pages
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