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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants****332 pages
Feed****599 pages
Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: Neverland***pages 230
Jane Eyre*****507 pages
Crime and Punishment***545 pages
Goal: 27,854/40,000

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr - 198p
Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch - 375p
After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross - 296p
Isolation by Katherine Applegate - 176p
Triskellion by Will Peterson - 388p
64,992/67,500

Book 38: Fairest 220 pages
Book 39: Mean Streak 409 pages – audio book
11,150/15,000 pages. (3,850 to go)

4,831/15,000
1. Marta Perry – Heart of Christmas 89 pages
2. Patricia Davids – A Plain Christmas 100 pages
3. Virna DePaul -- Bedding the Wrong Brother 159 Pages
4. Mary Connealy – Out of Control 231 pages
5. Noelle Adams – One Night with her Boss 55 Pages
6. Margaret Daley – The Yuletide Rescue 161 Pages
7. Jean Brashear – Texas Refuge 199 Pages
8. Nora Roberts – Dark Witch 291 Pages
9. Jean Brashear – Texas Star 244 Pages
10. Jean Brashear – Texas Danger 183 Pages
11. Maggie Shayne – The Brands who came for Christmas 190 Pages
12. Nora Roberts – Unfinished Business 165 Pages
13. Susan Mallery – The Girls of Mischief Bay 304 Pages
14. Emma Cane – A Town Called Valentine 250 Pages
15. Tracy Wolff – About the Baby 206 Pages
16. Pamela Kelley – Six Months in Montana 124 Pages
17. Noelle Adams – Engaging the Boss 132 Pages
18. Emma Cane – True Love at Silver Creek Ranch – 256 Pages
19. Emma Cane – A Wedding in Valentine – 109 Pages
20. Emma Cane – The Christmas Cabin – 47 Pages
21. Amanda Torrey – Not Over You – 160 Pages
22. Linda Castillo – A Hidden Secret – 64 Pages
23. Duane “Dog” Chapman-- You Can Run but You Can’t Hide – 337 Pages
24. Maggie Shayne – The Littlest Cowboy – 187 Pages
25. Pamela Kelley – Mistletoe in Montana – 132 Pages
26. Marie Force – Treading Water – 281 Pages
27. Eve Langlais – Kodiak’s Claim – 175 Pages

Just read Moab Is My Washpot which takes me up to 8,817/15,000
Full list in my corner.

With a Little Help by Cory Doctorow - 365p
The Last Dodo by Jacqueline Rayner - 248p
65,605/67,500

Shower of Stars 322 pages
About That Fling 321 pages
Capture 242 pages
About Last Night 329 pages
Sincerely, Arizona 50 pages
Music of the Night 348 pages
Robinson Crusoe 394 pages
Summer Secrets 308 pages
Draw 385 pages
Risk 302 pages
Game 332 pages
Fall 239 pages
One Lavender Ribbon 336 pages
Hard Love 368 pages

4,977/15,000
1.Marta Perry – Heart of Christmas 89 pages
2.Patricia Davids – A Plain Christmas 100 pages
3.Virna DePaul -- Bedding the Wrong Brother 159 Pages
4.Mary Connealy – Out of Control 231 pages
5.Noelle Adams – One Night with her Boss 55 Pages
6.Margaret Daley – The Yuletide Rescue 161 Pages
7.Jean Brashear – Texas Refuge 199 Pages
8.Nora Roberts – Dark Witch 291 Pages
9.Jean Brashear – Texas Star 244 Pages
10.Jean Brashear – Texas Danger 183 Pages
11.Maggie Shayne – The Brands who came for Christmas 190 Pages
12.Nora Roberts – Unfinished Business 165 Pages
13.Susan Mallery – The Girls of Mischief Bay 304 Pages
14.Emma Cane – A Town Called Valentine 250 Pages
15.Tracy Wolff – About the Baby 206 Pages
16.Pamela Kelley – Six Months in Montana 124 Pages
17.Noelle Adams – Engaging the Boss 132 Pages
18.Emma Cane – True Love at Silver Creek Ranch – 256 Pages
19.Emma Cane – A Wedding in Valentine – 109 Pages
20.Emma Cane – The Christmas Cabin – 47 Pages
21.Amanda Torrey – Not Over You – 160 Pages
22.Linda Castillo – A Hidden Secret – 64 Pages
23.Duane “Dog” Chapman-- You Can Run but You Can’t Hide – 337 Pages
24.Maggie Shayne – The Littlest Cowboy – 187 Pages
25.Pamela Kelley – Mistletoe in Montana – 132 Pages
26.Marie Force – Treading Water – 281 Pages
27.Eve Langlais – Kodiak’s Claim – 175 Pages
28.Ciara Knight – Winter in Sweetwater County – 146 Pages

5,113 /15000
Marta Perry – Heart of Christmas 89 pages
Patricia Davids – A Plain Christmas 100 pages
Virna DePaul -- Bedding the Wrong Brother 159 Pages
Mary Connealy – Out of Control 231 pages
Noelle Adams – One Night with her Boss 55 Pages
Margaret Daley – The Yuletide Rescue 161 Pages
Jean Brashear – Texas Refuge 199 Pages
Nora Roberts – Dark Witch 291 Pages
Jean Brashear – Texas Star 244 Pages
Jean Brashear – Texas Danger 183 Pages
Maggie Shayne – The Brands who came for Christmas 190 Pages
Nora Roberts – Unfinished Business 165 Pages
Susan Mallery – The Girls of Mischief Bay 304 Pages
Emma Cane – A Town Called Valentine 250 Pages
Tracy Wolff – About the Baby 206 Pages
Pamela Kelley – Six Months in Montana 124 Pages
Noelle Adams – Engaging the Boss 132 Pages
Emma Cane – True Love at Silver Creek Ranch – 256 Pages
Emma Cane – A Wedding in Valentine – 109 Pages
Emma Cane – The Christmas Cabin – 47 Pages
Amanda Torrey – Not Over You – 160 Pages
Linda Castillo – A Hidden Secret – 64 Pages
Duane “Dog” Chapman-- You Can Run but You Can’t Hide – 337 Pages
Maggie Shayne – The Littlest Cowboy – 187 Pages
Pamela Kelley – Mistletoe in Montana – 132 Pages
Marie Force – Treading Water – 281 Pages
Eve Langlais – Kodiak’s Claim – 175 Pages
Ciara Knight – Winter in Sweetwater County – 146 Pages
Ciara Knight – Spring in Sweetwater County – 136 Pages

Mother, May I? by Katherine Applegate - 160p
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro - 535p

126. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History read 9/24/2015 452 pages
127. The Perks of Being a Wallflower read 9/24/2015 172 pages
128. The Apartment read 9/28/2015 130 pages
Finished 38,268/40,000 pages

Goal: 40,472/40,000, 101.18% - 136 total books.
September - 10 books, 3,961 pages. 40,472 total pages.
127. Influx - 417 pages
128. Secondhand Souls (Grim Reaper, #2) - 352 pages
129. The Son - 383 pages
130. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce, #7) - 416 pages
131. The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse (Flavia de Luce, #6.5) - 22 pages
132. Remains Of The Day - 252 pages
133. Noctuary - 207 pages
134. Don Quixote - 1072 pages
135. The Graveyard Book - 228 pages
136. Sinuhe the Egyptian - 612 pages

5,244 /15000
Marta Perry – Heart of Christmas 89 pages
Patricia Davids – A Plain Christmas 100 pages
Virna DePaul -- Bedding the Wrong Brother 159 Pages
Mary Connealy – Out of Control 231 pages
Noelle Adams – One Night with her Boss 55 Pages
Margaret Daley – The Yuletide Rescue 161 Pages
Jean Brashear – Texas Refuge 199 Pages
Nora Roberts – Dark Witch 291 Pages
Jean Brashear – Texas Star 244 Pages
Jean Brashear – Texas Danger 183 Pages
Maggie Shayne – The Brands who came for Christmas 190 Pages
Nora Roberts – Unfinished Business 165 Pages
Susan Mallery – The Girls of Mischief Bay 304 Pages
Emma Cane – A Town Called Valentine 250 Pages
Tracy Wolff – About the Baby 206 Pages
Pamela Kelley – Six Months in Montana 124 Pages
Noelle Adams – Engaging the Boss 132 Pages
Emma Cane – True Love at Silver Creek Ranch – 256 Pages
Emma Cane – A Wedding in Valentine – 109 Pages
Emma Cane – The Christmas Cabin – 47 Pages
Amanda Torrey – Not Over You – 160 Pages
Linda Castillo – A Hidden Secret – 64 Pages
Duane “Dog” Chapman-- You Can Run but You Can’t Hide – 337 Pages
Maggie Shayne – The Littlest Cowboy – 187 Pages
Pamela Kelley – Mistletoe in Montana – 132 Pages
Marie Force – Treading Water – 281 Pages
Eve Langlais – Kodiak’s Claim – 175 Pages
Ciara Knight – Winter in Sweetwater County – 146 Pages
Ciara Knight – Spring in Sweetwater County – 136 Pages
Ciara Knight – Summer in Sweetwater County – 131 Pages

The Shining****512 pages
Lords of the Sith***320 pages
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series****328 pages
29,014/40,000


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
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69. The Name of the Wind 736 pages
70.

71.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
July
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
89.Americanah 477 pages
90.Fifty Shades Darker 546 pages
91.Heartsick 436 pages
92.If I Were You 384 pages
93.Untamed 204
94. Raw 7/30/15
August
95.The Edge of Never 8/1/15
96.Lover Awakened 8/3/15
97.14th Deadly Sin 8/4/15
98.Fifty Shades Freed 8/5/15
99.Beyond Innocence 8/8//15
100.Grey 8/9/15
101.Spin 8/13/15
102.Night Pleasures 8/14/15
103.Doctor Sleep 8/16/15
104.No Time for Goodbye 8/19/15
105.Dimitri 8/22/15
106.The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared 8/22/15
107. Ruin (Songs of Corruption #2) by C.D. Reiss8/25/15
108.It Had to Be Him 8/28/15
109.A Wicked Lie 8/29/15
September
110.The Manhattan Hunt Club 9/2/15
111.The Good Neighbor 9/2/15
112.A Game of Thrones 9/4/15
113.Jezebel 9/7/15
114.Lying in Wait 9/9/15
115.A Wicked Kiss 9/9/15
116.Outlander 9/10/15
117. Child 44 9/10/15
118. Storm Front 9/15/15
119.. Ignition 9/15/15
120Absolute Fear 9/19/15
121. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 9/19/15
122.Lost and Found 9/19/15
123. Blue Bloods
124. Breaking Joseph
125. Along Came a Spider
126. Beyond Happily Ever After: Closed Doors
127. Masquerade
October
128. The Longest Ride
129. Kiss the Girls
Ive been reading but forgot to stop here to let everyone know how i am doing. I hope Everyone is making progress and enjoying thier choices!

I'm changing my goal to 30,000 since my work schedule as prevented me from reading as much as I'd like the last few months.
Total 24966/30000

I finished Howl's Moving Castle at 340 pages
and
Going North Thinking West: The Intersections of Social Class, Critical Thinking, and Politicized Writing Instruction at 140 pages.
That puts me at 9,090 out of 12,000 pages.
Thanks!

12,130/15,000 pages. (2,870 to go)
Time to get some quick reads in, book count is falling sadly behind!

this is a continuation of message 1698
goal: 35,000
completed: 35,126
403 pages Burn Mark (11/30/15)
376 pages Love and Other Theories (11/23/15)
227 pages Nothing (11/22/15)
517 pages Carry On (11/21/15)
238 pages Slade House (11/17/15)
194 pages How I Live Now (11/15/15)
291 pages The Anatomical Shape of a Heart (11/13/15)
183 pages Orbiting Jupiter (11/12/15)
342 pages Tonight the Streets Are Ours (11/12/15)
221 pagesLooking for Alaska (11/10/15)
244 pages Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects (11/10/15)
313 pages Diary of a Haunting (11/6/15)
277 pages The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend (11/2/15)
180 pages Absent (10/31/15)
250 pages Slide (10/29/15)
388 pages One (10/27/15)
371 pages Dumplin' (10/26/15)
309 pages Not a Drop to Drink (10/25/15)
72 pages The Sleeper and the Spindle (10/22/15)
321 pages What We Saw (10/22/15)
231 pages Daughters unto Devils (10/18/15)
306 pages Everything, Everything (10/16/15)
248 pages Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (10/14/15)
338 pages Luckiest Girl Alive (10/10/15)
291 pages The Accident Season (10/3/15)
387 pages The Creeping (10/2/15)

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky - 431p
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - 685p
No Place Like Home by Katherine Applegate - 176p
67,548/67,500

8734/10.000
27.The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye By Matthew Kressel
(05-09-2015) - 10 p
28. Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw (29-09-2015) - 112 p
29. Kunnen muggen dronken worden? (100 alledaagse mysteries)by NRC-next (29-09-2015) - 224 p
30. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
(30-09-2015) - 213 P

i reached my goal of 25.000 pages and would like to up it to 27.000 :)
25.780 / 27.000

Also, I've updated message 1,833 with Small Gods by Terry Pratchett - 400p
67,948/67,500
29,516 out of 40,000 completed.
I’ve being reading a lot, but updating infrequently.
00203 If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
00640 Being Nixon: A Man Divided by Evan Thomas
00305 The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Robin
00280 Tales of Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany
00336 Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible by Jerry A. Coyne
00203 Tyrant Banderas by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán
01286 Gai-Jin by James Clavell
00128 Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
00768 Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
my complete list
I’ve being reading a lot, but updating infrequently.
00203 If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
00640 Being Nixon: A Man Divided by Evan Thomas
00305 The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Robin
00280 Tales of Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany
00336 Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible by Jerry A. Coyne
00203 Tyrant Banderas by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán
01286 Gai-Jin by James Clavell
00128 Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
00768 Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
my complete list

Just finished The Shadow of the Wind which takes me up to 9,323/15,000
Full list in my corner.

And I thought that 50,000 would be hard to reach, going for more, but not sure where I will land as the hot Florida summer is slowly ending, and less time shall be spent indoors in the AC.


1. The Mist: 230 pages
2. Bleak House: 989 pages
3. Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries: 432 pages
4. Being There: 140 pages
5. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science: 316 pages
6. You: 432 pages
7. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love: 368 pages
8. Gray Matter: 480 pages
9. A High Wind in Jamaica: 241 pages
10.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: 512 pages
11.Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany: 464 pages
12.The Bone Season: 452 pages
13.The Rats: 208 pages
14.Dictionary of the Khazars: 333 pages
15.Zits: Chillax: 256 pages
16.So You've Been Publicly Shamed: 290 pages
17.13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi: 307 pages
18.Defending Jacob: 421 pages
19.Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine: 198 pages
20.The Wasp Factory:184 pages
21.The Guynd: A Scottish Journal: 289 pages
22.Switched: 150 pages
23.Greek Gods and Heroes: 160 pages
24.Mayhem: 305 pages
25.Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account: 222 pages
26.The Secret Agent: 172 pages
27.Animal Farm: 140 pages
28.Every Fifteen Minutes: 432 pages
29.Peril at End House: 249 pages
30.Cards on the Table: 249 pages
31.The Secret History: 559 pages
32.The Killer Next Door: 387 pages
33.The Martian: 369 pages
1st goal of 10,000 completed
34.Finders Keepers: 448 pages
35.Dead Until Dark: 312 pages
36.Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen: 250 pages
37.The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: 235 pages
38.Half Upon a Time: 385 pages
39.That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us: 223 pages
40.Living Dead in Dallas: 289 pages
41.Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: 364 pages
42.If on a Winter's Night a Traveler: 260 pages
43.Club Dead : 274
44.Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever : 282 pages
45.Desperation : 690 pages
46.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix : 870 pages
47.The Worm Ouroboros : 434 pages
48.Dead to the World: 291 pages
49.NYPD Red 3: 384 pages
50.Bag of Bones: 529 pages
51.Dark Places: 349 pages
52.Dead as a Doornail: 295 pages
53.How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater: 288 pages
54.Carrie: 253 pages
55.Blockade Billy: 112 pages
56.The Deep: 394 pages
57.The Girl in the Spider's Web: 400 pages
Total page count: 18,860
Total pages left: 3,140
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Total 24508/40000