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2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!!
Histórias Extraordinárias by Edgar Allan Poe (Out of completeness, here are the tales included:
The Murders in the Rue, Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Gold-Bug, The System of Doctor Goudron and Professor Plume, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, A Descent into the Maelstrom, The Purloined Letter, Metzengerstein) - 236 pages
Group Total: 490 178
Mod
344 pages
The Two Brothers/ Die Zwei Brüder by Jacob Grimm
31 pages
Group total: 490 785
25 pages read, a short tory, To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing (490 785+25 = 490 810)
New group total: 490 810
1) Tennison 1 by Lynda la Plante 576 pp2) The Search by GL Hill 208 pp
3) The Magic Skin by Balzac. 252 pp
4) Malice Aforethought by
Francis Iles 289 pp
5) Living on Earth by Peter
Godfrey-Smith 336 pp
6) A Surfeit of Suspects by
George Bellairs. 226 pp
7) The Milagro Beanfield War
by John Nichols 465 pp
8) Madame Claire by
Susan Ertz 342 pp
9) Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn. 256 pp
10) Sins for Father Knox by
Josef Skvorečky 272 pp
11) The World Crisis 1 by
Winston S Churchill 536 pp
12) The Out-of-Town Lawyer by
Robert Rotstein 270 pp
13) The Night of the Triffids by
Simon Clark 469 pp
14). To the Hilt by Dick Francis 352 pp
15). Hera by Jennifer Saint 389 pp
16) Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane 272 pp
17). We Are Electric by Sally Adee. 352 pp
18) Letters of Two Brides by
Honoré de Balzac 220 pp
19) The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
by Leonard Gribble 256 pp
20). Portrait of a Man with Red Hair
by Hugh Walpole 264 pp
No of pages 6602
Previous Group Total 490 785+6602= 497387
Group Total 497 387
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court451 pages
A People's History of the Russian Revolution by Neil Faulkner
272 pages - 06/10/24
Total to date : 498,110
Karin wrote: "
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys176 pages
Group Total so far: 498, 284"
Correction: 498,286
Mod
263 pages
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten by the Brothers Grimm
10 pages
Group total: 498 750
Luís wrote: "Karin wrote: " Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys176 pages
Group Total so far: 498, 284"
Correction: 498,286"
Luis, thank you for taking so much pains to keep the totals straight. I think it happens when two readers post simultaneously and the Goodreads AI has to decide to which one to give precedence!
Mbuye wrote: "Luís wrote: "Karin wrote: " Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys176 pages
Group Total so far: 498, 284"
Correction: 498,286"
Luis..."
I'm grateful to all the people in the group, too.
Silly request - can someone write out the group page total in words, not numbers. My phone and iPad are not showing any numbers in posts. ☹️Thanks
Le vent de la plaine. Alan Le May256 + 499,763= 500,019
Jenna wrote: "Silly request - can someone write out the group page total in words, not numbers. My phone and iPad are not showing any numbers in posts. ☹️Thanks"
At this moment in time five hundred thousand and nineteen (500 019)
King Rat. James Clavell482+500,645= 501,127
The Stranger123 pages, Paperback
James and the Giant Peach
176 pages
The Little Prince
96 pages
A Woman of No Importance
96 pages
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
329 pages
Utopia
113 pages
An Ideal Husband
78 pages
The Red Badge of Courage
157 pages
The Daughter of Time
206 pages
White Nights
82 pages
The Death of Ivan Ilych
86 pages
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
263 pages
The Grass Harp
272 pages
Total pages = 2,077
GROUP TOTAL: 503,478
Mod
All Quiet on the Western Front 296 pages
Mod
Lendas e Narrativas - Tomo I by Alexandre Herculano 312 pagesGroup total: 504 283 pages
(five-hundred and four thousand and two hundred and eighty three pages - since someone mencioned they couldn't see the numbers)
What the Shepherd Saw by Thomas Hardy 30 pages The Lottery by Shirley Jackson 30 pages
Total: 60 pages
Group total: 504 343 pages
Five zero four. Three four three.
Or five hundred and four thousand three hundred and forty three pages.
Mod
8 pages
A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia B. Edwards
38 pages
Group total: 504 389
If you are using the app, posts are often not all there, which is why you can't see the group total numbers.
If that's the case, just post the info about your book(s) and someone else will add them to the total.
It's something we're already doing.
Remember, our challenges are supposed to be FUN!
And thanks again for taking part in our group's challenges!
Sea Jade by Whitney - 308 pagesThe Library Window by Oliphant - 53 pages
All-of-a-Kind Family by Taylor - 195 pages
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Lewis - 154 pages
Total - 710 pages
Thanks 😄😄
Jenna
Crime and Punishment - 671 pagesThe Bell Jar - 294 pages
The Return of the King - 432 pages
The Two Towers - 448 pages
Group Total: 507,502
- 269 pages
- 479 pages
- 142 pages
- 351 pages
- 296 pages
- 233 pages
- 255 pages
- 192 pages
- 123 pages
- 120 pages
- 176 pages
- 146 pages
- 366 pages
- 432 pages
- 501 pages
- 448 pages
- 433 pages
- 432 pages
- 640 pages
- 53 pages
- 317 pages
- 382 pages
- 224 pages
- 219 pages
- 232 pagesTotal: 7,461
Group Total: 514, 963
The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Agatha Christie 269+516,370 = 516,639
Tour de Force by Christianna Brand- 271 pgsMetropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London's Detectives by Martin Edwards - 324 pgs
4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie- 280 pgs
What The Shepherd Saw by Thomas Hardy - 30 pgs
Maigret by Georges Simenon - 144 pgs
The Bungalow Mystery by Annie Haynes - 228 pgs
Everybody Always Tells by E R Punshon - 235 pgs
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell- 627 pgs
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig - 289 pgs
Men I'm Not Married to - Women I'm Not Married to by Dorothy Parker and Franklin P. Adams - 68 pgs
Total to Date: 519,135 pgs
Vingt jours avec Julian et Petit Lapin, selon papa. Nathaniel Hawthorne149 + 519,135= 519,284
To the lighthouse. Virginia Woolf 320 + 519,494 =519,814
I think this one counts The Dictionary People , it highlights how ordinary people helped to make the OED, the project started in the late 1850s and finished 70 years later.Previous total: 519,814
If it counts then 371+519,814 = 520 185
If it counts, that makes the new total: 520 185
Anisha Inkspill wrote: "I think this one counts The Dictionary People , it highlights how ordinary people helped to make the OED, the project started in the late 1850s and finished 70 years later.Previo..."
I'm a bit confused, the oldest edition of the book I can find is from 2023? Or was the content written and published before then?
Lorraine wrote: "To the lighthouse. Virginia Woolf 320 + 519,494 =519,814"
Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories by Shirley Jackson
388 pages
Total to-date: 520,202 pages
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