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2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!!
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath264 pages
Group total: 598, 393
288 pages read, Ringworld (Larry Niven) --- The comedy is a surprise, this isn’t perfect but there are some interesting parts to it. 3*(598,580+288 = 598,868)
New group total: 598 868
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Our new total is: 598 924
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109 pagesGroup total: 600,044 pages
: 362
: 268
: 182Total read: 818
Group total: 601,191
224 pages read, The Tale of Genji: abridged (Murasaki Shikibu; Suematsu Kencho) --- This abridged version of 224 pages, I enjoyed and gets me closer to read the unabridged novel. 4*(601, 399+224 = 601 623)
New group total: 601 623
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5+48 pages=53
Group total: 603 492
Rosemarie wrote: "The City of God by Augustine of Hippo1545 pages
Group total: 603 168"
wow!!! impressive
297 pages read, The Aeneid by Virgil (David West translation) --- this year I’ve read this twice 4*(603 492+297 = 603,789)
New group total: 603 789
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits by Les Standiford241 pgs.
Total pgs. 604,030
Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon
245 pages
The Christmas Egg by Mary Kelly
219 pages
Yours, Plum The Letters of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse
269 pages
245 + 219 + 269 = 733 pages
Group total: 604,859
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Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 8 pages
Little Girl's Christmas by Winnifred E. Lincoln 8 pages
Group total: 605 552 pages
The Edible Woman (1969) Margaret Atwood 310 pages
Doctor Zhivago (1957) Boris Pasternak 592 pagesGroup total: 606, 454 pages
A Passage to India by E M Forster362 pages
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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years byThomas Mann 400 pagesThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 735 pages
The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar by Marguerite Yourcenar 374 pages
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil 1774 pages
total: 610,099
And Then There Were None 264 pages
The Swiss Family Robinson 345 pages
Egyptians 32 pages
The Road to Serfdom 274 pages
Dead Souls 304 pages
Shadow Hawk 256 pages
Homer and His Iliad 464 pages
Little Grey Rabbit's Christmas 62 pages
C.S. Lewis: A Celebration of His Early Life 144 pages
Murder is Easy 253 pages
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe 224 pages
The Life of Our Lord 144 pages
Christmas Supper in the Marais & Other Christmas Stories by Alphonse Daudet: Christmas Specials Series 32 pages
Mystery in White 256 pagesTotal pages read: 3,054
Total group pages: 613,153
The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments by Epictetus, 476pDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, 229p
613,153 + 705=
New group total: 613,858
The Castle by Fraz Kafka (narrated by Allan Corduner) another one delivered by Libby unexpectantly. 3.5*audiobook, 13hours, books vary I am taking a rough average of 320 pages
(613,858 +320 = 614 178)
New group total: 614 178
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The Edible Woman (1969) Margaret Atwood 310 pages..."What!! This has me intrigued Beth!! I hope you did a review.
Homo faber by Max Frisch (1957) 2*208 pages
614 178 + 208 =
total pages of the group !! 614 386 !!
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895) 1*112 pages
614 386 + 112 =
total pages of the group !! 614 498"
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 787A Christmas Memory: One Christmas / The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote 107
The Best of Everything 496 pages
The Mysterious Affair at Styles 174 pages
Persuasion 249 pages
Frankenstein 242 pages
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty 722 pages
Doña Barbara 448 pages
New total: 617,403
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847) 4*398 pages
614 498 + 398 pages =
total pages of the group !! 614 896 !!
Little women by Louisa May Alcott 1868 449 pages
614896 + 449 pages
615345 total pages in group
Little Women Bleak House
The hobbit
Great expectations
Oliver Twist
Reportages en IsraëlJust finished a book 10 minutes ago!
I did not post any pages this year so...
51.086 pages read in 2024...so far
615.345 + 51.086 =
TOTAL pages in group: 666.431
I don't think I posted any pages this year, yet. Here are my totals:32915 Pages across 126 books so far
666,431 + 32,915 = 699,346
Classics I read this year:War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1273 pgs)
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (160 pgs)
Cheri and The End of Cheri by Colette (320 pgs)
Out of this Furnace by Thomas Bell (424 pgs)
Total: 2,177 pages (699,346 + 2,177 = 701,523)
TOTAL PAGES IN GROUP: 701,523
666.431++790 Pages -> Anna Karenina^ Tolstoy
+ 566 pages -> Crime and Punishment ^ Dostoyevsky
667.787 pages New total
The Phoenician Women- 112 pagesBakkhai - 160 pages
El Aleph - 203 pages
To Kill a Mockingbird - 323 pages
Rhesos - 112 pages
The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) - 80 pages
The Birds of Aristophanes - 99 pages
Doctor Faustus - 184 pages
Endgame - 80 pages
The Thesmophoriazusae - 82 pages
The Frogs - 70 pages
And Still I Rise - 54 pages
Total: 1559 pages
Total Pages In Group: 703,082
Crime and punishment: 462The death of Ivan Ilych: 86
Total: 548
New total: 703,630
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque - 296 pages
The Shining by Stephen King - 447 pagesTotal: 743 pages
New Grand Total: 704,373
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 272 pagesThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - 226 pages
The Great Gatsby - 180 pages
Macbeth - 249 pages
Mrs. Dalloway - 194 pages
1984 - 368 pages
1Q84 - 944 pages
Heart of Darkness - 188 pages
The Catcher in the Rye - 277 pages
A Handful of Dust - 308 pages
The entire series of A Series of Unfortunate events - 3557 pages
Romeo and Juliet - 281 pages
The Diary of a Young Girl - 283 pages
The Merchant of Venice - 249 pages
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - 206 pages
And Then There Were None - 264 pages
Babe : The Gallant Pig - 130 pages
Life of Pi - 460 pages
Stuart Little - 131 pages
I Am David - 256 pages
Bambi: A Life in the Woods - 272 pages
The Tell-Tale Heart - 31 pages
Howl’s Moving Castle - 329 pages
Fight Club - 218 pages
Total: 9873 pages
Total pages in the group: 714,246
The Aeneid translated by Sarah Ruden.362 pages
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Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad, M.R. James, 48
The Body Snatcher, Robert Louis Stevenson, 22
Bad Weather, Anton Chekhov, 9
Queen Lucia, E.F. Benson, 300
A Telegram from Le Touquet, John Bude, 257
The Halloween Tree, Ray Bradbury, 145
Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie, 352
Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens, 744
Total: 1 877
New total: 598 129