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2023: 800,000 Page Challenge
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-1832 By Joan Blos, 144 pages Total to date: 189,533
Tayjah wrote: "No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai Published: 1948
Pages:177
189,172 + 177 = 189,349
(How do I include the link for the book by using the title and author name? Is that only for desktop version?)"
When you comment here, there's one option above the comment box— add book/author from there you can add. I use mobile version of Goodreads so you can use any version.
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Monday Starts on Saturday byArkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky. Illustrations by Yevgeniy Migunov 282 pages. (Copyrighted 1964, originally in Russian, translated to English)Total to date: 189,815.
*** for lovers of sci-fi/fantasy, this book rocked.
**** also, thank you for all the info on android/Apple app/desktop discussion. I almost solely use my Iphone and this is the first time I’ve ever been able to attach links through my phone. Your discussion prompted me to look around a little more in the browser and notice the “desktop version” link.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick,224 pages
The Odyssey by Homer, 271 pages
When She Was Good by Philip Roth, 306 pages
Total: 190,455 + 224 + 271 + 306 = 191,256
946 pgs165 War Horse
by Michael Morpurgo
245 Ramona the Pest
by Beverly Cleary
307 Little Town on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
149 The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
24 The Color Kittens
by Margaret Wise Brown
24 Albin and the Magic Wand
by Ulf Lofgren32 Corduroy
by Don Freeman
Total pages=192,694
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180 pages
The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
57 pages
The fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
82 pages
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
242 pages
Total to date: 193,255
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin- 196 pgsA Jury Of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell - 50 pgs
Robinson Crusoe - 159 pgs
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle - 224 pgs
Appleby's End by Michael Innes - 211 pgs
Miss Mole by E.H. Young - 254 pgs
Death in Captivity by Michael Gilbert - 253 pgs
Total to Date: 195,467 pgs
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1: The Way by Swann's by Marcel Proust
489 pages
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
554 pages
Group total: 197 324
La mia famiglia e altri animali di Gerald Durrell 352 pp
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall StreetHerman Melville
64 pages
The Turn of The Screw
Henry James
121 pages
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
66 pages
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
291 pages
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
99 pages
My total 641 pages
Group Total: 199,051
Hello! Les Liaisons dangereuses by de Laclos : 448 pages
L'Ecole des Femmes by Molière: 185 pages
Group total: 200 366
My Classics since January 1, 2023 which hopefully all fit the criteria for the group! Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor 206p
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini 331p
Rabbit, Run by John Updike 336p
Rabbit Redux by John Updike 416 p
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser (Pulitzer Bio Winner) 640 p
His Family by Ernest Poole 299p
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 224 p
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 609p
My Total: 3061
New Group Total to Date: 204,064
I hesitated to add the set of children's Laura Ingalls Wilder books which I read this spring. I was reading the biography Prairie Fires and wanted to get a better grasp of the novels. Should I include them in the count?? They're such large print and have so many pictures that I was unsure.
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Yes, Prairie Fires was an interesting read; it was awarded a Pulitzer for that year and was my online book group choice for March. I'd only read one or two of the Wilder books as a child, so I decided to read them along with the biography. With your blessing, I'll try not to feel like I'm padding the total!! :)
The Little House Collection by Laura Ingalls Wilder 2,600 pages
Total to Date: 207,769
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We have A Little House discussion thread in our Children's Classic buddy read folder. I've read them numerous times.
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, pgs. 240207,789 + 240 = 208, 029
976 pages180 pgs Mystery at Devil's Paw
by Franklin W. Dixon200 The Mystery at Lilac Inn
by Carolyn Keene324 Ashton Kirk, Secret Agent
by John Thomas McIntyre272 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
by Sue Townsend
New total= 209,005
The bluest eye by Toni Morrison- 216 pagesThe Bluest Eye
No longer human by Osamu Dazai - 177 pagesNo Longer Human
209,548+ 393
New total = 209,941
As You Like It by William Shakespeare Cambridge School Shakespeare edition203 pages with all the notes and text.
Total = 210,144
Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol 22 pages
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 363 pages
The thieving magpie by Alexander Herzen 40 pages
A Plan for Escape (Palabra Sur Book) by Adolfo Bioy Casares 116 pages
The Iliad by Homer 704 pages
The Sun of the Dead by Ivan Shmelyov 297 pages
Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet 103 pages
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West 208 pages
The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes 307 pages
The Mysterious Portrait by Nikolai Gogol 48 pages
The Bell Jar bySylvia Plath 294 pages
Alastor Or The Spirit Of Solitude by Percy Bysshe Shelley 48 pages
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 48 pages
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger 302 pages
The Knight in the Panther's Skin 259 pages
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 136 pages
Lisístrata beAristophanes 47 pages
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges 210 pages
All Men Are Mortal beSimone de Beauvoir 352 pages
Barn Burning by William Faulkner 47 pages
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant 416 pages
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 109 pagesTotal - 4268 pages
GROUP TOTAL: 210 384+ 4 268 = 214 652
The Steppe by Anton Chekhov 120 pages
Strait is the Gate by André Gide 104 pages
The Threepenny Opera 124 pages
The King's Indian: Stories and Tales by John Gardner 323 pages
Nickel Mountain by John Gardner 312 pages
Demian by Hermann Hesse 166 pages
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig 299 pages
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky Miss Julie by August Strindberg 96 pages
The Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France 279 pages
The Revolt of the Angels Anatole France 382 pages
The Prose of Osip Mandelstam by Osip Mandelstam 220 pages
In Cold BloodTruman Capote 343 pages
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley 432 pages
Il serpente by Luigi Malerba 205 pages
Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne 464 pagesTotal: 3622 pages
GROUP TOTAL: 214 652 + 3 622 = 218 274 pages
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