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2025: 1,000,000 Page Challenge
387 pages read Jane Austen at Home (Lucy Worsley) 📖 ✅ 4* my review .(13 196+387 = 13 583)
New group total: 13 583
1- The Three Kingdoms, Volume 1: The Secret Oath. Luo Guanzhang 1360. 416 pages2- Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées. Balzac 1841. 504 pages
3- My Antonia. Willa Cather 1918. 320 pages
4- L’étranger. Albert Camus 1942. 112 pages
5- Lumière d’août. William Faulkner 1932. 640 pages
6- Ragtime. E.L. Doctorow 1975. 320 pages
7- Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse. Leo Tolstoy 1886. 90 pages
8- Augustus. John Williams 1972. 324 pages
Total 2726
2726 + 13 583= 16 309
Ghosts, bandits & legends of old Monterey ... Carmel, and surrounding areas by Randall A. Reinstedt, 48pGroup Total: 16,809
Shipwrecks and Sea Monsters of California's Central Coast by Randall A. Reinstedt, 168pGroup Total: 16,977
The Judge's House by Georges Simenon - 176 pgsThe Pale Horse by Agatha Christie - 364 pgs
The Wintringham Mystery by Anthony Berkeley - 238 pgs
Tension by E.M. Delafield - 175 pgs
Group Total: 17,994 pgs
243 pages read in total70 pages Dream Play (August Strindberg) 📖 ✅ 3* my review .
173 pages Chinese Poetry (translated by Charles Budd (1912)) 📖 ✅ 3.5* my review .
(18,402+243 = 18 645)
New group total: 18 645
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild,442 pages
Don Quixote (By: Edith Grossman) published: December, 2003 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
981 pages
Group total: 21,415
243 pages read in total243 pages The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury) 📖 ✅ 5* my review .
(22 627+243 = 22 870)
New group total: 22 870
Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens (1812-70). Started 23 December 2024; finished 24 January 2025. 1,036 pages.Group Total: 24,443.
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolfdid not find the edition I read on bookreads, but it had 56 pages
Měsíce by Karel Toman 19 pages
Total: 75 pages
Hi,I am terribly sorry I did not realize that one of the books I read does not count as classic by the group standard (Samuel Beckett was friends wih James Joyce, and I did not realize that he had in fact very long life and that his last books are merely 40 years old).
I have edited my previous post, and as "Ill Seen Ill Said" is 60 pages long short story, the actual group total is 25 406
Good afternoon. The correct group Total should be 24,443 + 463 + 56 + 75 + 321 + 104 = 25,462. Thank you.
Os Pré-Socráticos by Jean Brun
128 Pages
According to James, quoting above, the Total Group Read is 25,590.
James wrote: "Good afternoon. The correct group Total should be 24,443 + 463 + 56 + 75 + 321 + 104 = 25,462. Thank you."Hi sorry to make confusions
Both of the books in total are 75 pages 56 pages for Woolf and 19 pages for the short collection of poems by Karel Toman.
Estimating 210* pages Jane Austen Collection Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion 📖 ✅ 4* my review .*Each audiobook is an abridgement of Jane Austen’s novel that runs over 2 hours, I’ve calculated each one is the equivalent of 70 pages by comparing it to the length of unabridged audiobooks.
( 26 253+210 = 26 463)
New group total: 26 463
1) The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald 163 pp2) Sweeney Todd or The Demon Barber
of Fleet Street by Anonymous 256 pp
3) The Bad Angel by Ernest K. Gann 544 pp
4) When The Green Woods Laugh
by H E Bates 160 pp
5) Lord of the World by Robert Hugh
Benson 296 pp
6) the Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart 340 pp
7) Four Rabbi Small Books by Harry
S. Kemelman 1089 pp
8) Elusive Isabel, the Queen of the
Apaches by Jacques Futrelle 107 pp
9) Harry Heathcote Of Gangoil by 114 pp
10) Eats, Shoots and Leaves by
Lynne Truss 209 pp
11) Death in White Pyjamas/
Death Knows No Calendar by
John Bude 536 pp
12) They Were Defeated aka The
Shadow Flies by Rose Macaulay 448 pp
13) A Breath of French Air by HE Bates 160 pp
Total no of pages = 4422 +26463
Group Total of 30 885 pages
26/01/25. 272 pages
A People's History of the Russian Revolution by Neil Faulkner
Group Total to Date : 31,157
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima 144p Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again by Shigeru Kayama 243p
Group total: 31 574
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227 pages
Group total: 13 196