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2025: 1,000,000 Page Challenge
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If you finished the book today or after but started it in 2024 please post your total here as the 2024 Challenge is completed!!
Our Group TOTAL for 2024 was an EXCITING = 963,860
We can do a million easily!!
1) The Lost Word by Henry Van Dyke 112 pp2) Saturday the Rabbi Slept Late by 224 pp
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3) The Blind Musician by Vladimir Korolenko 264 pp
4) Stand By for Mars by Carey Rockwell 132 pp
5) Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi 136 pp
Total no pages. 868 pp
Previous Group Total 707 + 868 = 1575
Current Group Total is 1575
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868 pages
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll, 128 pgs.Group Total: 1,480 pages
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie274 pages
Group total: 1,997
We, The Accused - Ernest Raymond (509)Against Nature - Joris-Karl Huysmans (288)
797 + 3334 �=�4,131
133 pages read A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen; Bryony Lavery) --- 4* (5,041+133 = 5 174)
New group total: 5 174
1- La maison du Chat-qui pelote, le Bal de Sceaux, La Bourse. Balzac 1830. 389 pages2- Pedro Paramo. Juan Rulfo 1955. 192 pages
3- The Angel at the Grave. Edith Wharton 1901. 34 pages
4- Passage des Miracles. Naguib Mahfouz 1947. 422 pages
5- La Princesse de Clèves. Madame de La Fayette 1678. 256 pages
6- The Raid. Leo Tolstoy 1853. 61 pages
7- Master and Men. Leo Tolstoy 1895. 62 pages
1 416 + 6 548= 7964
Anger, Mercy, Revenge by Seneca (English translations of De Ira, De Clementia, and Apocolocyntosis), 247p.Group Total: 8,275
I was searching for the link couldn't find it. Thank you very much piyangie. I have always contributed in this challenge. Didn't want to miss this year too. Excited already.
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The Iliad by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler (1898)414 pages
Group Total: 9,050 pages
I read this on kindle, no page numbers and guessing 35 pages read Contemplation (Franz Kafka) 3* my review .(9,383 +35 = 9 418)
New group total: 9 418
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin379 pages
Group total: 9797
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228 pages
Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
11 pages
Group total: 10 036
Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan by Junichi Saga257 pages
Group total: 10,403 pages
50 pages read The Trojan Women (Euripides) 📖 � 4* my review . (10,547+50 = 10 597)
New group total: 10 597
The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart340 pages
Murder After Christmas by Rupert Latimer
320 pages
Group total: 11,860
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson186 pages
Group total: 12,597
My Antónia by Willa Cather372 Pages
Group total: 12,969
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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!!!