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2023: 800,000 Page Challenge
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Perfect challenge for us to meet with all Members joining in!
2022Challenge 700,000
Ended with Member Pedro putting us at
Total Group Pages To-Date: 729,682 pages
When we completed our 700000 challenge I was wondering if we can do better. We definitely will. 💪ðŸ‹ï¸â€â™€ï¸�
I like challenges that we all do together.
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
164 pages - 02/01/23
Total to Date : 164 pages
O Senhor Kraus e a polÃtica - 114 pagesMaigret e o Caso Picpus - 147 pages
261 pages
Total to Date : 572 pages
Evil Under the Sun - 220 pgsTotal - 792 pgs
The open window by H H Munro 4 pagesThe flight by John Steinbeck 50 pages
The breakfast by John Steinbeck 5 pages
Teenage writings by Jane Austen 336 pages
Araby by James Joyce 25 pages
The aleph by Jorge Luis Borges 28 pages
Total -448 pages
Group total - 792+448 = 1240 pages
Oliver Twist536 pages all up but I hadn't finished it from last year. have read the last 230 pages this year.
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
149 pages
Total to date: 2,799
I added 230 pages for Penelope.
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Kathy wrote: "The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe149 pages
Total to date: 2,799
I added 230 pages for Penelope."
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: 260 pages
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee: 272 pages
Current Group Total: 3331
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2022 Challenge 700,000
Ended with Member Pedro putting us at
Total Group Pages To-Date: 729,682 pages
Adding my 517 pages 256 pgs The Bronze Bow
by Elizabeth George Speare48 Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
by Bernard Waber32 Postman Pat's Christmas Surprise
by John Cunliffe32 Postman Pat's Treasure Hunt
by John Cunliffe149 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume📚 New group total= 4,774 📚
Rajani Palme Dutt: A Study In British Stalinism by John Callaghan
304 pages - 06/01/23
Total to Date : 6,820
Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion by Chariton, Longus
352 pages - Review
Total to date: 7,172
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288 pagesTotal to date: 7,485 pages
My first contribution to the challenge! :)
Rabbit run by John Updike, 325 pages.Total to date 8,103
The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky 710 pages
Happy Reading!
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How It Works:
Any Member may join this challenge.
What is required:
1. A Classic you’ve recently finished reading (Name & Author)
2. The page count of the Classic you read
3. Book Cover (If you like to share)
4. Add the total Pages of your Classic to get a Group Page Total.
Example
Msg 1 by Lesle:
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Current Group Total = 275 pages
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Msg 2 by Mark:
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Current Group Total = 707 pages
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📗 + 📘 + 📕 = 📚
Lots of books read = Lots of pages added to Group Total!!!