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2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!!
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, 288 pages
The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman by Charles Dickens, 15 pagesprevious total of 106,099 + 288 + 15 =
Group Total 106,402
Classics read on 2024 (books published for the first time before 1974)
(not English translation) - 1911 - 88 pages
(The Evolution Man) - 1970 - 117 pages
(The Grass is Singing) - 1953 - 263 pages
(The Odyssey) - 8th or 7th century BC - 480 pages
1970 - 128 pages
My total: 1,076
Group total: 106,626 + 1,076 = 107,702
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So do I!
The Half-Finished Heaven - Tomas Tranströmer
[about half this book are poems/essays from before 1974]
122 pages
Total to date: 108,024
The Stars Look Down by AJ Cronin 597 pUnknown to History:The Captivity of Mary of Scots by Charlotte Mary Yonge 617 p
Anaximander and the Birth of Science by Carlo Rovelli 236 p
Will Warburton by George Gissing 337 p
The White People by Arthur Machen 48 p
The Innkeeper's Wife by AJ Cronin 200 p
597+617+236+337+48+200 = 2707 +109184 = 111,891
Group Total = 111,891
The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien - Trilogy I - 175 pages111,891 + 175 = 112,066
Group Total = 112,066
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank323 pages
Group Total: 10 929
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness OrcZy277 pages
Group Total: 113,790
Ilha de verão by Erskine Caldwell - 188 Pages
O Barbeiro de Sevilha by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais - 112 Pages
188+112 = 300 Pages
Group total: 114 517
Book Nerd wrote: "Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
209 pages
Group Total: 114,636"
The Group Total should be 114,726
The Murder of My Aunt 240 pages
Good Morning, Midnight
190 pages
Maigret and the Old People
176 pages
Smoke Bellew
154 pages
Current Group Total: 118,605
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury193 pages
Current Group Total: 118,798
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66 pages
Ex Oblivione by H.P. Lovecraft
4 pages
Group total: 118 868
Crime and Punishment, Fiodor Dostoievsky 688 pages
Current total: 11,294
Montse wrote: "Crime and Punishment, Fiodor Dostoievsky 688 pages
Current total: 11,294"
The current total should be 119,687
Loin de la foule déchaînée. Thomas Hardy470 + 119,687= 120,157
Luís wrote: "Montse wrote: "Crime and Punishment, Fiodor Dostoievsky 688 pages
Current total: 11,294"
The current total should be 119,687"
Muito obrigada Luís. Maths is not my thing, it seems hehehe (I don't know what I was thinking when I did this simple sum... with a calculator...)
Montse wrote: "Luís wrote: "Montse wrote: "Crime and Punishment, Fiodor Dostoievsky 688 pages
Current total: 11,294"
The current total should be 119,687"
Muito obrigada L..."
You're welcome, Montse. You speak very well Portuguese. Congratulations. I'm here to help. I'm glad about that.
A Case of Need by Michael Crichton writing as Jeffery Hudson416 pages
Group total: 11 022
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