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Can 1,750,000 Pages Be Read In 2017?
Thanks, Marilyn! I think we will probably need all 400+ books you have read in 2017! Appreciate that you have already added so many!
288 pages1,689,304 + 288 = 1,689,592
STAR WARS and History 332 pagesCooking Light Oops!: Over 200 Solutions to Take Your Cooking from Mess to Wow 304 pages
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth 398 pages
Cooking Light Lighten Up, America!: Adventures in Good Eating from Coast to Coast 320 pages
Finding God in "The Hobbit" 177 pages
and The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories 256 pages=1,787 pages
1,689,886+1,787=1,691,673 pages
Message 2376, I get 16,491 for the total pages. Twice. That would make Marilyn's total pages from both posts 24,155.Adding in posts after that, I’m getting a total of 1,702,703.
Would somebody double check me please!!!
Christmas With the Sheriff by Victoria James1,702,703 + 165 = 1,702,868
Inkspell 635Booked for Trouble 304
Better Off Thread 304
A Likely Story 304
Writing All Wrongs 274
Better Late Than Never 304
The War of the Worlds 208
A Second Chance at Murder 304
Death in Reel Time 320
Dead in a Flash 336
White Corridor: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery 340
The 39 Steps 149
Death Among the Doilies 320
No Charm Intended 320
The Vanishing Thief 296
Lake Wobegon Days 337
Death Comes to London 259
Death in Dark Blue 300
Doom with a View 314
Deadly Forecast 384
Fatal Fortune 304
Sense of Deception 368
A Grave Prediction 306
A Panicked Premonition 400
Heart of Darkness 146
Pebble in the Sky 255
Starship Troopers 280
The Color Purple 288
Death of a Ghost 256
Every Body on Deck 304
Of Books and Bagpipes 304
Total this list 9,523
9,523 + 1,702,868 = 1,712,381
The Secret of Chimneys 400Three Blind Mice and Other Stories 235
Crooked House 259
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? 279
Murder at the Vicarage 307
The Body in the Library 224
The Moving Finger 299
A Murder Is Announced 298
They Do It With Mirrors 214
A Pocket Full of Rye 256
Sleeping Murder 234
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side 351
The Mysterious Affair at Styles 224
A Caribbean Mystery 283
Evil Under the Sun 320
At Bertram's Hotel 272
After the Funeral 287
Nemesis 282
The Clocks 297
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case 284
Redfield Farm: A Novel of the Underground Railroad 280
The Left Hand of Darkness 304
Irish Stewed 304
Spouse on Haunted Hill 293
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind 314
A Most Curious Murder 336
Breakfast at Tiffany's 178
A Bone to Pick 262
The Mermaid Chair 335
This list 8,211
1,712,381 + 8,211 = 1,720,592
Terri Wino wrote: "That's what I got too, Brenda."Thanks, Terri!
I think our total is 1,720,602. Subtotals in messages 2386 and 2387 are correct, though.Gone to Dust: A Novel but I only read 110 pages.
110 + 1,720,602 = 1,720,712
Finding God in The Lord of the Rings 144 pages1,721,112+144=1,721,256 pages
One more day. Are we gonna make it?
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 290The Autumn Bride 310
The Winter Bride 324
The Spring Bride 320
The Summer Bride 319
Cat among the Pigeons 210
Prose and Cons 323
Looking for Mr. Good Witch 289
By Familiar Means 328
Twice Told Tail 290
The Witch and the Dead 320
Final Catcall 326
Law and Author 304
Gone with the Twins 304
Paws and Effect 315
Bookman Dead Style 296
Nurse, Come You Here!: More True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle 320
37 Seconds: Dying Revealed Heaven's Help--A Mother's Journey 208
Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and Their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis 178
Bell, Book & Candlemas 352
Mission Impawsible 304
Tightening the Threads 304
Pick Your Potion 176
Sticks and Bones 352
Bad Housekeeping 304
Macramé Murder 334
Killer Characters 304
My Life in France 302
Animal Farm 144
Watership Down 476
The Time Machine 104
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 288
Read to Death 289
Daisy Miller 79
Total this list 9686
9686 + 1,721,256 = 1,730,942
The Bell Jar 296Territory 320
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 272
A Man Called Ove 337
Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse 240
Commonwealth 336
Plaid and Plagiarism 279
A Dark and Stormy Murder 304
Murder at the Book Group 400
Arsenic with Austen 312
A Timely Vision 304
Booked 4 Murder 320
Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye 295
The Secret Adversary 268
Death at Bishop's Keep 296
Final Sentence 304
Better Homes and Corpses 293
The Long Quiche Goodbye 314
Death Comes to the Village 282
Hallowe'en Party 336
The Zookeeper's Wife 368
Murder on the Orient Express 315
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety 257
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story 249
All Creatures Great and Small 448
The Perfect Hope 308
The Last Boyfriend 319
The Next Always 324
The Ear of the Heart: An Actress' Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows 539
Mother Angelica Her Grand Silence: The Last Years and Living Legacy 240
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 304
Total this list 9779
9779 + 1730942 = 1,740,721
My friend Rose asked me to join just a couple of days ago and I have now added a total of 73,132 pages.
Thanks, Marilyn, you have gotten us so much closer to our goal!!!
Hurray for Rose and Marilyn! Thanks!
Christmas at Thornton Hall by Lynn Marie Hulsman = 386 pagesThe September Society by Charles Finch = 310 pages
Sugarplums and Scandal by Lori Avocato = 327 pages
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance = 257 pages
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose = 79 pages
The Night of the Moths by Riccardo Bruni = 231 pages
1,740,721 + 386 + 310 + 327 + 257 + 79 + 231 = 1,742,311 pages
My year in books - 83 books1,742,926 + 32,355 = 1,775, 281
I apologize for not listing my books. I completely forgot about this challenge. Happy New Year!
Arathi wrote: "the total should be 1,776,870"Thank you for correcting that for me. I am horrible with numbers.
Déjà DeadFatal Voyage
Death du Jour
Deadly Decisions
Grave Secrets
The Last Coyote
In a Dark, Dark Wood
The Child Finder
The Dalai Lama's Cat
A Journal: Life-Changing Magic, Spark Joy Every Day
Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
What I Know for Sure
Acrylics Unleashed
Lee Hammond's Big Book of Acrylic Painting: Fast, Easy Techniques for Painting Your Favorite SubjectsThe Burnt House
Right Behind You
Leaving Time
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Two Nights
Into the Water
The Concrete Blonde
The Gathering
Stonemouth
The Lemon Grove
NYPD Red
We Could Be Beautiful
Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter To Do? A Memoir
Project Smoke: Seven Steps to Smoked Food Nirvana, Plus 100 Irresistible Recipes from Classic (Slam-Dunk Brisket) to Adventurous
According to GR the above list (plus a few I may have missed recording here) equal 17, 489 pages read in 2017
1, 776, 870 + 17, 489 = 1, 794, 359
Yay, we did it!!!!! Well done, guys!! 👏🏻😁
very well done - kudos to all :)what is the new challenge for 2018?
Not that it matters any more, but Freda added to the same total as Dana. Our current total is 1,776,870!!!!! We did it! Happy New Year everyone! And thanks, Freda!
Freda wrote: "Arathi wrote: "the total should be 1,776,870"Thank you for correcting that for me. I am horrible with numbers."
we all check for each other :)
Wow, I got caught in the trap of being on the previous page. 🤣Kudos to everyone!
We may hit 1,800,000 pages as I will be adding over 1000 pages later today. Not quite done with my current reads. So cool that we made our goal.
How about number of books rather than pages?
Perri wrote: "How about number of books rather than pages?"adding number of pages is more fun :D
Hark the Herald Angels Slay by Vicki Delany 1,794,759 + 295 = 1,795,054
Scone Cold Killer by Lena Gregory - 194 pgsMurder on the SS Rosa by Lee Strauss - 228 pgs
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King - 702 pgs
194 + 228 + 702 = 1124
1,795,596 + 1124 = 1,796,720
Sandy accidentally shorted us 100 pages, so current total should be 1,797,156.
Miracle on 5th Avenue by Sarah Morgan 1,797,156 + 365 = 1,797,521
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�02...336 pages Option to Kill by Andrew Peterson ✩✩✩✩�
�03...348 pages Ready to Kill by Andrew Peterson ✩✩✩✩�
�04...396 pages Dark Warrior Mine by I.T. Lucas ✩✩✩✩�
�05...385 pages Dark Warrior's Promise by I.T. Lucas ✩✩✩✩�
�06...359 pages Dark Warrior's Destiny by I.T. Lucas ✩✩✩✩�
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�08...376 pages Contract to Kill by Andrew Peterson ✩✩✩✩�
�09...610 pages The Werewolf of Bamberg by Oliver Pötzsch ✩✩✩✩�
�10...336 pages The 7th Canon by Robert Dugoni ✩✩✩✩
�11...277 pages Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance ✩✩�
�12...512 pages Feverborn by Karen Marie Moning ✩✩✩✩
�13...319 pages After the Storm Linda Castillo ✩✩✩✩�
�14...352 pages The Final Trade by Joe Hart ✩✩✩✩
�15...366 pages The Hope That Kills by Ed James ✩✩✩✩
�16...444 pages The First City by Joe Hart ✩✩✩✩
�17...412 pages Worth Killing For by Ed James ✩✩✩✩
�18...398 pages What Doesn't Kill You by Ed James ✩✩✩✩
�19...304 pages Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich ✩✩✩✩�
�20...052 pages Not a Drill by Lee Child ✩✩✩✩
�21...319 pages The Covenant by Beverly Lewis ✩✩✩✩
�22...322 pages Spiral of Need by Suzanne Wright ✩✩✩✩
�23...322 pages Force of Temptation by Suzanne Wright ✩✩✩✩
�24...333 pages Lure of Oblivion by Suzanne Wright ✩✩✩✩
�25...259 pages Days Gone Bad by Eric R. Asher ✩✩✩✩
�26...284 pages Wolves and the River of Stone by Eric R. Asher ✩✩✩✩
�27...239 pages Winter's Demon by Eric R. Asher ✩✩✩✩
�28...448 pages The Black Book by James Patterson and David Ellis ✩✩✩✩
�29...526 pages The Drowned Girls by Loreth Anne White ✩✩✩✩
�31...418 pages A Dark Lure by Loreth Anne White ✩✩✩✩
�32...380 pages The Lullaby Girl by Loreth Anne White ✩✩✩✩�
�33...234 pages The Reckoning: The Day Australia by [author:Keith McArdleFell|19518179] ✩✩�
December Total 11,331 pages
1,797,521 pages + 11,331 pages = 1,808,852 pages
Perri wrote: "How about number of books rather than pages?" ŷ does the number of books challenge every year.
Death in an English Cottage by Sara Rosett 264 pages
The World According to Snoopy Volume One by Charles M. Schulz 1028 pages1028 + 264 + 1,808,852 = 1,810,144
Here is my last total for the year1,809,205 + 8,213 = 1,817,415
482 pages1,817,415 + 482 = 1,817,897 pages
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7,664 + 1,692,349 = 1,700,013
I given you 35,933 pages in four posts. I'll check back later and see if you need more to reach goal. So far, I've read 432 books with 119,420 pages. I'll come back and add more if you need them.