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2022: 700,000 Page Challenge
Das Alte Pfarrhaus by Nathanie Hawthorn - 96Joseph Fouché: Bildnis eines politischen Menschen - 288
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney - 46
Wybór nowel by Boleslaw Prus - 176
Eine dunkle Geschichte. Erzählungen by Honoré de Balzac - 190
Germinal by Émile Zola - 624
Die Woche mit Sara by Carl Jonas Love Alquvist - 158
Bajki robotów by Stanislaw Lem - 204
Die Chouans oder die Königstreuen by Honoré de Balzac - 553
1793 by Victor Hugo - 461
Total personal pages 2796.
Together with Lula's 320 in message 1500 this brings the
New Group Total : 569,559
Beginnning total 569,559 ⭐️adding 2,386:
48 Stone Soup by Marcia Brown 🍲 read 2/6/2022
64 Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman 🐶 2/6
64 Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish 💡2/6
256 Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse Ursula Moray Williams 🐎 2/6
195 The Awakening by Kate Chopin 😴 2/13
56 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot 🐈 2/13
300 Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh 🕵️♀️ 2/21
240 A Call to Conscience: The Landmark SpeechesMartin Luther King Jr. 💬 2/21
48 Curious George H.A. Rey 🐒2/21
48The Little MermaidHans Christian Andersen 🌊 2/21
31The Women Who Came in the MayflowerAnnie Russell Marble ⛵ 2/25
32 The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore 🎅 2/28
34 Good Night Moon Margaret Wise Brown 🌙 2/28
64 Make Way for Ducklings Robert McCloskey 🐣 2/28
192 My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George ⛰ 3/6
64 The Three Railway Engines Wilbert Awdry 🚂 3/6
192 The Silver Brumby Elyne Mitchell 🐴 3/6
32 The Story About Ping Marjorie Flack 🐤
64 The Best NestP.D. Eastman 🏡 3/6
48 Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business Esphyr Slobodkina 👒 4/19
378 Silent Spring Rachel Carson 💦 4/19
New total-- 571,945
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New total: 574 221 pages
Starting with 574,221 adding 5.361 :
72 The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf 🐮 4/26
159 A Bear Called Paddington by bond michael 🐻 4/29
40The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats ❄️ 4/29
32 Rosie's Walk Pat Hutchins 🐔 5/9
48 The Runaway Bunny Margaret Wise Brown 🐰 5/9
24Curious George and the BunnyH.A. Rey 🐒 5/9
18 Pat the Bunny Dorothy Kunhardt
158 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass🖋 5/23
56 Blueberries for Sal Robert McCloskey 🔵 6/7
44 Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans 👒 6/15
65 Eloise Kay Thompson 🏨 6/15
144 Sneakers: Seven stories about a cat named sneakers Margaret Wise Brown 🐈 7/11
352 Death on the Nile Agatha Christie 🚢 8/9
352 HeidiJohanna Spyri 🏔 8/9
104.No Place to Be Somebody: A Black-black Comedy Charles Gordone 🍽 8/9
49 The Life of Flavius Josephus Flavius Josephus 🖊 8/22
180 Lavender's Blue Kathleen Lines ☂️ 8/22
146 A Child's Garden of Verses (Illustrated & Annotated) Robert Louis Stevenson 📖 8/22
298 1984 by George Orwell 👁 9/16
238 Lad: A Dog Albert Payson Terhune 🐕
20 Der Struwwelpeter Heinrich Hoffmann 🌲 9/30
48 A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go Randolph Caldecott 🐸 9/30
1392 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy ☮️10/13
57 The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher Beatrix Potter 🦆
488 Dracula Bram Stoker 🆎 10/23
301 Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare 💓 10/31
33 The Cow Who Fell in the Canal Phyllis Krasilovsky 🐄 10/31
26 I Am a Bunny Ole Risom 🐇 10/31
256 The World of Christopher Robin: The Complete When We Were Very Young and Now We Are SixA.A. Milne 🐻 11/12
161Winnie-the-PoohA.A. Milne 🍯 11/12
📚 New total==579,582
Picking up where I left off. New total, with AiK's doorstopper page count added on: 580,385.The Summer Book: 170
A House in the Country: 234
The Day of the Scorpion: 493
The Towers of Trebizond: 296
The Feast: 308
The IPCRESS File: 256
West with the Night: 306
Father: 296
The Balkan Trilogy: 924
Horse Under Water: 242
The Making of a Marchioness, Part I and II: 308
Pride and Prejudice: 367
Shadows Waiting: 279
The Cat Saw Murder: A Rachel Murdock Mystery: 239
The Bat: 200
Murder is Easy: 275
Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society: 75
Strong Poison: 288
The Bowstring Murders: 256
Lolly Willowes: 222
The House without the Door: Henry Gamadge #4: 220
Speedy Death: 266
Have His Carcase: 476
Grand Hotel: 270
Jane Eyre: 532
Murders in Volume 2: Henry Gamadge #3: 232
Checkmate to Murder: 226
Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses: 172
Subtotal: 8,428
Yearly subtotal: 20,581
New total: 588,813
This catches me up through today, 11/18/2022
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: 273El Cumpleaños de Juan Angel by Mario Benedetti: 166
El Hacedor by Jose Luis Borges: 115
Los Cachorros by Mario Vargas Llosa: 80
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess: 240
Los Jefes by Mario Vargas Llosa: 124
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury: 119
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank: 283
Personal Total: 1400
New Group Total: 590,264
Brave New World - 320Lord of the Flies - 248
Ham on Rye - 368
Total Personal Pages - 936
New Group Total - 591,255
Blood Meridian or Evening Red in the West (1985, Frontier/Western Classic) by Cormac McCarthy. Finished unabridged audiobook 18 November 2022. 351 pages. Total Group Pages to Date: 591,606.
Ghost Stories of Antiquity by M. R. JamesPG 175
new total: 591,781
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We have broke our old yearly page challenges!
Thank you so much for listing your reads :)
Group Total = 594,665
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, 180 pagesThe Good Earth by Pearl S Buck, 357 pages
Romance In Marseille by Claude McKay, 224 pages
New group total 567,204
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. 646 pagesLe vieil homme et la mer. Ernest Hemingway 148 pages
Middlemarch by George Eliot 864 pages
1658+ 596,383= 598,041
Very good, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse 272 pagesTotal to date: 599,826
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Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
412 pages
New Group Total: 600,238
Woohoo 📕 📗 📘 🎉!!!
Congratulations Members!
The bitter glass. Eilis Dillon 184 + 600,238= 600,422 pages
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers 228 pagesHomo Novus by Anšlavs Eglītis 397 pages
Pansija pilī by Anšlavs Eglītis 255 pages
Cover Her Face by P.D. James 250 pages
Karaļa Anrī IV jaunība Die Jugend des Königs Henri Quatre by Heinrich Mann 560 pages
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 123 pages
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle 184 pages
Леди Макбет Мценского уезда by Nikolai Leskov 53 pages
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit 188 pages
Sengrieķu traģēdijas Ancient Grek Tragedies by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles 406 pages
Dievi, kapenes un zinātnieki Gods, Graves and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology by C.W. Ceram 431 pages
My total - 3075 pages
Group's total - 603 497 pages
If we continue until the end of the year at the rate we have averaged up until today, we will fall just short of our target (we could reach about 679,000)......and it would be so frustrating to get that close.But with an extra push, and if those group members who don't normally post could add the books they've read this year, we'd have a chance of hitting the total.
My Journey from Paris to Java by Honoré de Balzac - 45 pages
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers - 303 pagesGroup Total: 605,066
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