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2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!!
1) Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham 256 p2) Murder Makes Mistakes by George Bellairs 268 p
3) A Walk Around th Block by Spike Carlsen 328 p
4) Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin 242 p
5) Ruth's Journey by Donald McCaig 384 p
6) The Indian Mutiny by David Saul 544 p
7) The Dash for Khartoum by GA Henty 406 p
8) Thirteen Guests by Jefferson J Farjeon 295 p
9) Red Pottage by Ruth Cholmondoley 323 p
10) The Unforgiven by Alan le May 277 p
11) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 324 p
12) Newcomer by Keigo Higashino 352 p
13) The Death of Grass by John Christopher 195 p
14) Bananas by Dan Koeppel 281 p
15) The Girl in the Red Coat by Roma Ligacka 304 p
16) The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark 103 p
17) The Wind Blows Death by Cyril Hare 173 p
18) The Litigants by Jean Racine 38 p
19) East is East by Ayub Khan-Din 96 p
20) Rhett Butler's Family by Donald McCaig 500 p
Total No of pages 5689
+ Previous Total of 541694 = 547382
Group Total = 547382
(I think this is correct; Luis, I look to you to keep me straight! 😊)
Mbuye wrote: "1) Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham 256 p2) Murder Makes Mistakes by George Bellairs 268 p
3) A Walk Around th Block by Spike Carlsen 328 p
4) Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin ..."
Got it.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald @ 177 pagesNineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell @ 355 pages
The Collector by John Fowles @ 296 pages
Maitreyi by Mircea Eliade @ 200 pages
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy @ 128 pages
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky @ 732 pages
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath @ 234 pages
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells @ 190 pages
Total: 2,312
Group Total: 550,870
I've read the Hobbit. The edition I read Bilbo : En hobbits äventyr by J.R.R. Tolkien has got 229 pages. Group Total: 551 099 pages
The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer - 307 pagesDeath in the Castle by Pearl Buck - 248 pages
Total - 555
Thanks
Jenna
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche @ 182 pages551,099 + 555 (above) + 182
Group Total: 551,836
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
88 pages
Brother Jacob by George Eliot
77 pages
An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids by Anthony Trollope
52 pages
Group total: 552,341
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth331 pages
Group total: 554,336
Les âmes mortes. Gogol 512 + 554,336= 554,848
Khufu's Wisdom by Naguib Mahfouz 220 pagesA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 192 pages
Blood and Sand by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 368 pages
Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev 355 pages
Rabbit, Run by John Updike 325 pages
Group total: 556,637
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2399 pages
Group total: 559 260
Rosemarie wrote: "The Heart of the Hills by John Fox Jr.352 pages
Group total: 559 612"
Rosemarie, I'm amazed how many book you read per year...please tell me your secret! No bookblog to write for? read magazines?, watch a movie ?
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Rosemarie wrote: "I don't watch tv! And I'm retired."Okay, TV is officially off here, I'm retired so that is checked off...
no social media (since I left X and BlueSky, and Insta my screen time on laptop is down 40%!!) My book blog ...I have the last 3 reviews ready for November...then no more long reviews, just fill in Goodreads. The blog consumes a lot of time...and time is drip, drip, dripping away. I'd rather read books! I'll try to reach your goal of 200 books?!! OMG! Thanks for inspiring to read, read, and read!
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini - 296 pgsFramley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope - 684 pgs
Dramatic Murder by Elizabeth Anthony - 259 pgs
Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie - 321 pgs
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie - 191 pgs
The Cellars of the Majestic by Georges Simenon - 176 pgs
Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway - 24 pgs
The Locked Room by Maj Sjöwall - 395 pgs
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury - 137 pgs
No Fond Return Of Love (VMC) by Barbara Pym - 303 pgs
Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie - 292 pgs
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein - 386 pgs
Total to Date: 563,513 pgs
The Gun by C. S. Forester192 pages
Group Total: 563, 777
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
730 pages
Surfeit of Suspects by George Bellairs
226 pages
Group total: 564,733
La Bête Humaine. Émile Zola 512+ 564,733= 565,245
The Oil Jar and Other Stories by Luigi Pirandello 96 pagesHatter's Castle by A.J. Cronin 605 pages
The Shooting Party by Anton Chekhov 199 pages
Group total: 566,597 pages
The Scarler Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne 279 + 566,597= 566.876
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Pages: 1474
Group Total: 568,519"
Unfortunately this book is too new for our definitions of classics, which is at least 50 years old. But congrats on finishing such a long book!
Group total is 567 045
Rosemarie wrote: "Delirious Disquisitions wrote: "A Suitable BoyPages: 1474
Group Total: 568,519"
Unfortunately this book is too new for our definitions of classics, which is at least 50 years old. ..."
Oh I'm really sorry about that! I should have checked the publishing date! Thank you for letting me know :)
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Pages: 1474
Group Total: 568,519"
Unfortunately this book is too new for our definitions of classics, which is at le..."
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