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2023: 800,000 Page Challenge
2,019 pgs40 The Ugly Duckling
Hans Christian Andersen
32 Miss Nelson Is Missing!
Harry Allard80 The Duck and the Owl
Hanna Johansen
36 Chick and Chickie Play All Day!
Claude Ponti
25 Ernest and Celestine
Gabrielle Vincent
256 The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
32 Mister Magnolia
Quentin Blake
32 Mr. Archimedes' Bath.
Pamela Allen
132 Stuart Little
E.B. White
134 The Cricket in Times Square
George Selden
116 Sounder
William H. Armstrong
189 Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1
Edward William Cole152 Seven Little Australians
Ethel Turner
32 Possum Magic
Mem Fox
151 Hey, Dollface
Deborah Hautzig384 Farmer Boy
Laura Ingalls Wilder
196 Der silberne Jaguar
Hermann Schulz
New group total=403,748
Piyangie wrote: "Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
322 pagesGroup total: 410,332 pages"
My personal favorite of all Hesse's works.
Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney439 pgs
Group total: 412,819
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead by Milan Kundera48 pages - 21/09/23
Giacomo Joyce by James Joyce
42 pages - 21/09/23
Total to date : - 413,140
A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer - 426 pgs
Anne of Green Gables - 299 pgs
The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White - 242 pgs
Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl - 219 pgs
The Death of Mr. Lomas by Francis Vivian - 234 pgs
Secrets Can't be Kept by E.R. Punshon - 215 pgs
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - 188 pgs
Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde - 56 pgs
The Saint-Fiacre Affair by Georges Simenon - 160 pgs
Total to Date: 415,467 pgs
2,832 pages127 pages Rabbit Hill
185 The Peppermint Pig
193 Tom Brown's School Days
192 Half Magic
240 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
160 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
49 Christmas at Longtime
64 McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm: Three Tall Tales
41 Perez The Mouse
40 Mog the Forgetful Cat
32 The Tiger Who Came to Tea
32 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
48 The Sea-Thing Child
32 Gracie Meets a Ghost
40 The Three Robbers
32 Garth Pig and the ice cream lady
190 ドラえもん 1 Doraemon 1
183 A Wizard of Earthsea
29 The Emperor's New Clothes
277 The Jungle Book
306 Gulliver's Travels
192 The Children of Green Knowe
148 My Naughty Little Sister
418,482--New group total
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- published July 12, 1973296 pages
New group total:- 422,330
Mike wrote: "The Princess Bride by William Goldman
317 pages
New group total: 422 034"
I guess the total number of pages is wrong. Forgive me if I'm mistaken!
The Last Days by Raymond Queneau 250 pages
The Freelands by John Galsworthy 288 pages
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima 224 pages
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner 36 pages
The Boy Who Wrote Poetry by Yukio Mishima 11 pages
The Invisible Collection / Buchmendel by Stefan Zweig 96 pages
Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera 288 pagesGroup total : 384,010
The total in message 1042 is incorrect and should read 384,106
by Anthony Trollope672 pages
384,106 + 672 = 384, 778
Frankenstein. Mary Shelley 380 pagesLe Quatuor d’Alexandrie. Lawrence Durrell 1029 pages
Le Rêve. Emile Zola. 254 pages
The Bad Seed. William March 226 pages
The Journey to the East. Hermann Hesse 124 pages
Total: 2013
2013 + 384,778= 386,791
There was a problem of total from msg 1038. And then there got a huge miscalculation.421,171 Was the last correct total
then Mike's 317
Kim's 296
Then aik's 250+288+224+36+11+96+288
Luis' 96
Karim's 672
Lorraine's 2013
421,171+ 317+296+ 250+288+224+36+11+96+288+96+672+2013
New grand total corrected = 425,758
The Bibliophile Doctor wrote: "There was a problem of total from msg 1038. And then there got a huge miscalculation.421,171 Was the last correct total
then Mike's 317
Kim's 296
Then aik's 250+288+224+36+11+96+288
Luis' 96
Kar..."
I should have checked farther back!
Karin wrote: "The Bibliophile Doctor wrote: "There was a problem of total from msg 1038. And then there got a huge miscalculation.421,171 Was the last correct total
then Mike's 317
Kim's 296
Then aik's 250+28..."
That's okay. I noticed it so corrected it. It can happen with anyone. No worries.
Karin wrote: "The total in message 1042 is incorrect and should read 384,106
by Anthony Trollope672 pages
384,106 + 672 = 384, 778"
Thank you, Karin.
The Bibliophile Doctor wrote: "There was a problem of total from msg 1038. And then there got a huge miscalculation.
421,171 Was the last correct total
then Mike's 317
Kim's 296
Then aik's 250+288+224+36+11+96+288
Luis' 96
Kar..."
Thank you so much!
421,171 Was the last correct total
then Mike's 317
Kim's 296
Then aik's 250+288+224+36+11+96+288
Luis' 96
Kar..."
Thank you so much!
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364 pages
Total to date: 401,729