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Congratulations, Silja!The amount of pages we've read together this year is completely amazing. You all rock!
End of year update.....205 books.....67,003 pagesSee Message 103 for titles/page numbers.
Thank you for a great year Cassandra :D
Here are my page totals for the year:
Pages Read: 71,470/35,000 55,000
Pages read in January: 5,149
Pages read in February: 5,151
Pages read in March: 6,500
Pages read in April: 8,102
Pages read in May: 8,208
Pages read in June: 8,971
Pages read in July: 8,126
Pages read in August: 5,604
Pages read in September: 4,148
Pages read in October: 2,496
Pages read in November: 5,430
Pages read in December: 3,585
Pages Read: 71,470/
Pages read in January: 5,149
Pages read in February: 5,151
Pages read in March: 6,500
Pages read in April: 8,102
Pages read in May: 8,208
Pages read in June: 8,971
Pages read in July: 8,126
Pages read in August: 5,604
Pages read in September: 4,148
Pages read in October: 2,496
Pages read in November: 5,430
Pages read in December: 3,585
Final update, 11,373 over goal. Thanks Cassandra, and happy new year all!Goal: 51,373/40,000, 128.43% - 175 total books.
December - 11 books, 3,194 pages. 51,373 total pages.
165. The Goblin Emperor - 448 pages
166. The Tell-Tale Heart - 31 pages
167. Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3) - 464 pages
168. Rabbit, Run - 336 pages
169. Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1) - 288 pages
170. The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1) - 608 pages
171. Despair - 240 pages
172. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - 48 pages
173. The Demolished Man - 240 pages
174. Tortilla Flat - 224 pages
175. The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million - 267 pages
Update: Met my goal of 10,000. Will be adding another 12,000 for a total of 22,000 for the year.
01. The Mist: 230 pages
02. Bleak House: 989 pages
03. Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries: 432 pages
04. Being There: 140 pages
05. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science: 316 pages
06. You: 432 pages
07. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love: 368 pages
08. Gray Matter: 480 pages
09. 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
58. I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks: 157 pages
59. Definitely Dead: 324 pages
60. Library of Souls: 458 pages
61. Of Mice and Men: 107 pages
62. I, Robot: 225 pages
63. The Silkworm: 455 pages
64. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: 224 pages
65. Career of Evil: 489 pages
66. What We See When We Read: 425 pages
67. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: 495 pages
Goal of 22,000 met 11/25/15
68. Beasts of No Nation: 176 pages
69. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores: 188 pages
70. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories: 288 pages
71. The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: 201 pages
72.A Clockwork Orange: 191 pages
73. The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia: 388 pages
74. The Haunting of Hill House: 246 pages
75. Lord of the Flies: 223 pages
76. Wayside School Is Falling Down: 179 pages
77. The Grownup: 64 pages
78. The Strange Library: 96 pages
79. All Together Dead: 323 pages
80. A Simple Plan: 335 pages
81. The Last Kingdom: 333 pages
82. Hounded: 292 pages
83. The Graveyard Book: 312 pages
84. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster: 240 pages
85: We Should All Be Feminists: 49 pages
Total page count: 26,343 pages
Total pages left: 4,343 pages over goal! 12/31/15
Goal: 10,000 Completed
Goal: 22,000 Completed
Finishing Total for 2015: 26,343 pages
Updated message 114Final total 32,496/32,000
Updated message 306. Total 28781/30000
I unfortunately won't be meeting my goal this year since my reading slacked off in the second half of the year. There is always next year though!
This will be last entry for 2015!Please Update:
Classic Haiku A Master's Selection by Yuzuru Miura 120pgs
Marrying on Demand by Susan Mallery 256 pgs
Patient Zero ( Affliction #1) by L.T. Ryan 167 pgs
Total pages read: 29,241/ 35,000 83.5% of goal.
This was so enjoyable!
HAPPY New Year everyone!
*Final Update for Nicole W.*73.
= 107 Pages (I only read the actual stories, not the activities & whatnot. That's why the Page Count isn't Higher.)74.
= 289 PagesGoal Met So Far: 20,120/20,000 Pages. (Of course, more pages than this were read, but I'm only counting the books I finished [and also I forgot to check the pages for one book. Mais, c'est la vie].)
Happy New Year, Everyone!
Add 64 pages for me to makee my final total of pages for the year! thanks. My final total will be 3,537. I couldnt get through Fahrenheit 451. This year!!
Finally count: 17,233/16,000 pagesBook 55: Marvel's Avengers Phase One: The Incredible Hulk 192 pages – audiobook, page count according to Amazon for hardcover book, with kids
Book 56: The Chase 303 pages – audiobook
Book 57: Dr. Seuss's Gertrude McFuzz: Vocal Score 33 pages – audiobook, with kids
Book 58: Chris Van Allsburg's Polar Express 56 pages – audiobook, with kids
Book 59: Clifford's Christmas 32 pages – audiobook, with kids
Book 60: The Emperor's Knife 450 pages
Book 61: Classics of Childhood, Vol. 3: A Christmas Collection estimated 275 pages (had to search for the books on Amazon, and one didn’t have a printed book I could find) – audiobook, with kids
Book 62: The Hunger Games 374 pages -- audiobook
Was really hoping to finish at least one more book before 2015 ended, but hubby and kids talked me into marathon watching Spider-Man and Jessica Jones ... and couldn't read (or listen to my audio book) while those were playing!
Can't wait to see how I do in 2016!
Message 57 Updated 26,909/30,000So close but didn't quite make it!
Progress till January 31st: 1219/15000 This is the 8.12% of my goal for this year.Progress till February 28: 2545/15000 This is the 17% of my goal this year.
Progress till March 31st: 3562/15000 This is the 23.74% of my goal this year.
Progress till April 30: 4799/15000 This is the 31.99% of my goal this year.
Progress till May 31: 5517/15000 This is the 36.78% of my goal this year
Progress till June 30 6614/15000 This is the 44.09% of my goal this year.
Progress till July 31: 7169/15000 This is the 47.73% of my goal this year.
Progress till August 31: 7799/15000 This is the 51.99% of my goal this year.
Progress till September 30: 9408/15000 This is the 62.72% of my goal this year.
Progress till October 31: 10763/15000 This is the 71.75% of my goal this year.
Progress till November 30: 11966/15000 This is the 79.77% of my goal this year.
Progress till December 31 13525/15000 This is the 90.16% of my goal this year.
So sadly I did not manage to read as many pages as I wanted... But I did had a lot of fun trying to make it...
Congratulations to Christina, Nicole, and Susan!This was one of my favorite challenges this year, and I hope you all participate in the 2016 version. :)
I finished 2015 with 22306 pagesDecember with only 876 pages..
Final count: 6,256 pages. I did my best :)
Hi Cassandra,Is there a 2016 version of this challenge?
I'm finding it difficult to find the thread...
I finished 2015 with 45,330/30,000 pages.
Cassandra wrote: "Congratulations to Christina, Nicole, and Susan!This was one of my favorite challenges this year, and I hope you all participate in the 2016 version. :)"
Thank You!
Indeed, I am. This is also one of my favourite challenges. ^_^
I can't believe the year is over already! It was so fascinating to count my total pages read for the first time. I hope to really push myself in 2016 to read even more! This was a great challenge.January - 7 books, 2,269 pages read (view spoiler) - 2,269 total pages
February- 4 books, 1,296 pages read (view spoiler) -3,565 total pages
March - 12 books, 3,109 pages read (view spoiler) - 6,674 total pages
April - 14 books, 3,435 pages read (view spoiler) - 10,109 total pages
May - 9 books, 1,878 pages read (view spoiler) - 11,987 total pages
June - 24 books, 4,397 pages read (view spoiler) - 16,357 total pages
July - 21 books, 3,550 pages read (view spoiler) - 19,907 total pages
August - 14 books, 2,760 pages read (view spoiler) - 22,667 total pages
September - 12 books, 2,783 pages read (view spoiler)-25,450 total pages
October - 15 books, 3,426 pages read (view spoiler)-28,876 pages
November - 10 books, 3,045 pages read (view spoiler) - 31,921 total pages
December - 11 books, 2,144 pages read (view spoiler) - 34,065 pages read!
Goal met!
Congratulations for finishing your challenges!
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Snowglobe 7 by Mike Tucker - 256p
The Many Hands by Dale Smith - 258p
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald - 300p
Final year-end total: 88,036/67,500