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Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence
11,919/25,000

Somehow I missed a book in May so I'm adding it in now:
5/6/21: And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Frederik Backman (97 pages)
7/14/21: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal (304 pages). New total with both books
12,320/25,000

finished reading Crazy Rich Asians - 527 pages
pages read challenge total: 15,178/20,000 pages

finished reading Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - 232 pages
pages read challenge total: 15,410/20,000 pages

Finished reading:
The Plot- 336 pages
The Chalk Man- 280 pages
The Other Black Girl- 357 pages
The Last Time I Lied- 384 pages
21,656 pages read
18,344 pages remaining

January
1. Thérèse Philosophe, unknown
2. Dicionário da Escravidão e da Liberdade, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz,
Flávio Gomes (orgs.)
3. Gênero e desigualdades: limites da democracia no Brasil, Flávia Biroli
February
4. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
March
5. Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
6. Manson, Jeff Guinn
7. Sostiene Pereira, Antonio Tabucchi
April
8. A Fall of Moondust, Arthur C. Clarke
9. Missoula: Rape and Justice System in a College Town, Jon Krakauer
10. Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lambert
11. A vovó chamou o diabo para a ceia, Juliana Daglio
May
12. Seven gothic tales, Karen Blixen
13. O que os donos do poder não querem que você saiba, Eduardo Moreira
June
14. Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß, Robert Musil
July
15. Histoire de la vie privée, Paul Veyne (editor)
16. A personagem de ficção, Antonio Candido, Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes, Décio de Almeida Prado e Anatol Rosenfeld
17. The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life, Virginia Woolf
18. Black Holes: The BBC Reith Lectures, Stephen Hawking
19. Die deutsche Ideologie, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

finished reading The Prince and the Dressmaker - 277 pages
finished reading Mooncakes - 243 pages
pages read challenge total: 15,930/20,000 pages

I have been slacking on my updating but I've been doing plenty of reading.
#34) Greenlights 308 (5/27/21) audiobook
#35) Fortune and Glory 320 (6/3/21) audiobook
#36) Cat To The Dogs 304 (6/9/21) audiobook
#37) Cat Spitting Mad 304 (6/12/21) audiobook
#38) Lover Unveiled 495 (6/17/21) hard copy
#39) Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt 445 (6/18/21) audiobook
#40) Anxious People 341 (6/23/21) audiobook
#41) The Names of the Dead 249 (6/24/21) ebook
#42) Mortal Stakes 172 (6/27/21) hard copy
#43) Cat Laughing Last 368 (6/27/21) audiobook
#44) The Silent Patient 325 (7/3/21) audiobook
#45) Uncommon Type 405 (7/10/21) audiobook
#46) Cat Seeing Double 384 (7/16/21) audiobook
#47) Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine 336 (7/26/21) audiobook

Pages:
8,896/20,000
January:
Home to Montana by Charlotte Carter
Pages: 280/280
Her Cherokee Groom by Valerie Hansen Pages: 282/282
Dark Birth by Bella Forrest
Pages: 405/405
February:
Harley Merlin and the Secret Coven by Bella Forrest
Pages: 402/402
The Ghost and Mrs. Fletcher by Jessica Fletcher
Pages: 306/306
Death of a Blue Blood by Jessica Fletcher
Pages: 285/285
March:
Harley Merlin and the Mystery Twins by Bella Forrest
Pages 406/406
April:
Harley Merlin and the Stolen Magical by Bella Forrest
Pages: 408/408
Harley Merlin and the First Ritual by Bella Forrest
Pages: 429/429
Ghosting: A Love Story by Trash Skelton
Pages: 335/335
Breakfast at Honey Creek Cafe by Jodi Thomas
Pages: 322/322
Picnic in Someday Valley by Jodi Thomas
Pages 338/338
May:
Harley Merlin and the Broken Spell by Bella Forrest
Pages: 406/406
Shield- Maiden: Under the Howling Moon by Melanie Karsak
Pages: 272/272
The Wolf Gate: A Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood by Hanna Sandving
Pages: 97/97
Shield- Maiden: Under the Hunter's Moon by Melanie Karsak
Pages: 460/460
Shield- Maiden: Under the Thunder Moon by Melanie Karsak
Pages: 392/392
Spell Caster by Laura Greenwood
Pages: 137/137
My Trip Down the Pink Carpet by Leslie Jordan
Pages: 273/273
Scent of Danger by Terri Reed
Pages: 221/221
Promise of Home by Kathryon Springer
Pages: 221/221
Doctor Right by Janet Tronstad
Pages: 224/224
Murder 101 by Maggie Barbieri
Pages:321/321
Extracurricular Activities by Maggie Barbieri
Pages: 318/318
July:
Quick Study by Maggie Barbieri
Pages: 351/351
Final Exam by Maggie Barbieri
Pages: 335/335
Third Degree by Maggie Barbieri
Pages: 317/317
Physical Education by Maggie Barbieri
Pages: 353/353
Incomplete:
Extra Credit by Maggie Barbieri
Pages : 25/384
Total Pages: 8,896/ 20,000

Year to date correction!
Progress - 23,813 /30,000 pages
July 1 - July 29- 3547 pages
Thank you in advance for correcting my year to date total, Rachel. Clearly I’m a reader not a mathematician! Made a huge mistake last month.

Infinite Country by Patricia Engel (191. pages)
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Catharina Ingelman Sundberg (390 pages)
13,515/25,000

21/24 books
6,110/6,000 pages - completed 30/7/21!
I'll continue to see how far I get.
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