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---total of 1541 pages
---grand total so far this year is 12853
1. NYPD 3-----359
2. Listen to the Silence----224
3. The living Great Lakes ----288
4. Wise and wild women of the Bible----136
5. Live and learn and past it on----160
6. The Eyre Affair-----374
Linda Ann

14,727/26,000 - 11,273 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
450 - The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

15,354/26,000 - 10,646 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
450 - The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
627 - Dragons of a Fallen Sun

I just edited message #13 (link above) with my progress to date. 56 books read, 23,145 of 40,000 pages.

1. Fire-heart, C.S. Marks - 07.03.15 - 643 pages
2. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James - 07.06.15 - 117
pages
3. The Perfume Garden, Kate Lord Brown - 07.15.15 - 416 pages
4. Den hemmelige historien, Donna Tartt - 07.22.15 - 584 pages
5. Summer, Edith Wharton - 07.22.15 - 216 pages
6. From Chaos Born, Michael R. Hicks - 07.30.15 - 261 pages
Total: 2237 pages
18463/25000 pages
22,631/ 40,000 pages
56.57% completed.
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Three more books finished.
00512 The Vorrh by Brian Catling
00129 The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
00448 Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography by Jack Hurst
my complete list
56.57% completed.
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Three more books finished.
00512 The Vorrh by Brian Catling
00129 The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
00448 Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography by Jack Hurst
my complete list

38. Game of the Thrones (835 pages)
Total: 14,835/ 50,000
(29.67% complete)

6202/10.000
17. 100 Ideas that Changed the World By Jheni Osman (16/07/2015) - 416p
18. Tour the france 2015 by Michael Boogerd, Manon Colson (17/07/2015) - 174p
19. Carrie By Stephen King (23/07/2015)-272p
20. Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches #2) By Terry Pratchett (25/07/2015) - 265p
21. Augustus by John Williams (20/08/2015) - 430p

38. Game of the Thrones (835 pages)
Total: 14,835/ 50,000
(29.67% complete)"
Payten wrote: "37. The Baby Trail by Sinead Moriarty (320 pages)
38. Game of the Thrones (835 pages)
Total: 14,835/ 50,000
(29.67% complete)"
Wow, didn't realize the Game of Thrones was so long. It is on my "to read list". Did you like it? Is it worth it?

I HIGHLY recommend that you give it a shot!!! I doubt you'll be let down. I'm totally addicted and starting the second book already! Haha.


Book 28: Monsters, Inc. Storybook Collection 304 pages (audio) – listened to with children
8,743/15,000 pages. (6,257 to go)

Pages turned for the month, July 2015 were:
Cat's Lair by Christine Feehan 448pgs
Hold Me by Susan Mallery 304 pgs
A New Hope by Susan Mallery 288 pgs
Family Tree by Barbara Delinski 358 pgs
Method 15/ 33 by Shannon Kirk 226 pgs
The Timekeeper by Mitch Ablom 224 pgs
The Wrong Hostage by Elizabeth Lowell 469 pgs
The Neighbor by Dean Koontz 33 pgs
Four Friends by Robyn Carr 384 pgs
A Lover's Vow by Brenda Jackson 416 pgs
A Man's Promise by Brenda Jackson 400 pgs
One Wish by Robyn Carr 366 pgs
Total pages read for the month: 3916, 12 novels!
Total read so far for the year: 20,776 / 35,000 (59.36% of my goal)
Now onto August!! My favorite for the month of July was definitely Barbara Delinski's, 'Family Tree'. 'Almost Moon' by Alice Sebold is also up there on my favs list, but I still have to complete it.

Me Before You: 480 pages
The Selection: 336 pages
Murder At The Vicarage: 288 pages
Inkheart: 534 pages
That brings the number up to: 13,739/25,000

Anna and the French Kiss 372 pages completed 8-5-15
The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop 326 pages completed 8-4-15


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
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler: 260 pages
Total page count: 13,015
Total pages left: 8,985

9,034/15,000 pages. (5,966 to go)

I just finished Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility at 409 pages. Which brings me to 6,927 out of 12,000. Thanks!

Book 31: Tigers at Twilight 72 pages – read with daughter
9,558/15,000 pages. (5,442 to go)
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