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Group count for the year so far:

January 2016 - 62,387
February 2016 - 67,136
March 2016 - 71,004
April 2016 - 44,158

How many pages did you read in May? Leave your count here and add it to the previous numbers to get the group total for the month!

20. The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives by Theresa Brown, RN (256 pages)
21. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews (295 pages)
22. Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep by Marah J. Hardt (278 pages)
23. Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk (297 pages)
24. A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back by Kevin Hazzard (261 pages)

My total: 1387 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 1,387 pages

JANUARY: 10 books/1 nE, 3875 pages, avg. 388 pages
FEBRUARY: 10 bookd/1 nE, 2945 pages, avg. 295 pages
MARCH: 10 books/1 nE, 3282 pages, avg. 328 pages
APRIL: 9 books, 3258 pages, avg. 362 pages
MAY: 9 books, 2461 pages, avg. 273 pages
TOTAL: 48 books/3 nE, 15,901 pages, avg. 331 pages

MAY BOOKS:
40. Edward Frenkel, Love and Math [2013] 306 pages [Kindle]
41. Barry Strauss, The Trojan War: A New History [2006] 258 pages
42. Hugh Macdonald, Berlioz [1982] 261 pages
43. Leonard Susskind & Art Friedman, Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum [2014] 364 pages
44. Brian Greene, The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos [2011] 370 pages
45. N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain [1969] 89 pages
46. Stanislaw Lem, The Chain of Chance [1975] 189 pages
47. W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics [repr. of 4th ed., 1908] 522 pages
48. Stanislaw Lem, Highcastle: A Reminiscence [1966] 102 pages



GROUP TOTAL: 3848 pages

May
49. Fate's Edge (The Edge, #3) - Ilona Andrews (5 stars) 5/3/16 [372]
50. Practice Makes Perfect - Julie James (4 stars) 5/4/16 [291]
51. The Down Home Zombie Blues - Linnea Sinclair (5 stars) 5/6/16 [516]
52. Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5) - Gail Carriger (4 stars) 5/8/16 [386]
53. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales - Margaret Atwood (3 stars) 5/11/16 [273]
54. Blink of an Eye - Rexanne Becnel (3 stars) 5/12/16 [297]
55. Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4) - Ilona Andrews (5 stars) 5/15/16 [388]
56. Blueprints - Barbara Delinsky (4 stars) 5/19/16 [416]
57. Deeply, Desperately (Lucy Valentine, #2) - Heather Webber (4 stars) 5/21/16 [302]
58. Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden, #1) - Charlaine Harris (4 stars) 5/23/16 [290]
59. A Good Horse (Horses of Oak Valley Ranch, #2) - Jane Smiley (3 stars) 5/25/16 [256]
60. Haunted (Harrison Investigation, #1) - Heather Graham (3 stars) 5/27/16 [370]
61. Sugarplum Surprises - Elisabeth Fairchild (3 stars) 5/28/16 [272]
62. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) - C. S. Lewis (4 stars) 5/29/16 [189]
63. The Little Paris Bookshop - Nina George (3 stars) 5/31/16 [392]

My Total Books - 15
My Total Pages - 5010

Group Total: 8,858

May

49. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr, 531 pgs
50. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald, 394 pgs
51. Bone Gap - Laura Ruby, 368 pgs
52. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, 148 pgs
53. This Boy's Life - Tobias Wolff, 308 pgs
54. Cress - Mariss Meyer, 552 pgs
55. The Revenant - Michael Punke, 257 pages
56. My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry - Fredrik Backman, 384 pgs
57. 84, Charing Cross Road -Helene Hanff, 112 pgs
58. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street - Helene Hanff, 160 pgs
59. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri, 208 pgs
60. Raymie Nightingale - Kate DiCamillo, 263 pgs
61. Speak - Laura Halse Anderson, 224 pgs

Total: 3,909 pages
Group Total: 12,767 pages

Pages for May
1. Rage by Richard Bachman, finished 5/1/16. 131 pages
2. The Long Walk by Richard Bachman, finished 5/9/16. 181 pages
3. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger, finished 5/22/16 308 p.

Pages for May: 620 (not a good month for reading)

Group Total: 13,387

I don't know how you guys do so many books in a month-every month! Craziness, y'all!

May 2016

1) Devonshire Scream, Childs, 279 pages
2) Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life, Jong, 279 pages
3) Pane and Suffering, Hollon, 339 pages
4) blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Gladwell, 276 pages
5) The Chocolate Falcon Fraud, Carl, 229 pages
6) Fat Friday Fricassee, Cook, 290 pages
7) The Jesus Sutras, Palmer, 254 pages
8) Visions of god: Four Medieval Mystics and Their Writings, Armstrong, 221 pages
9) Lending a Paw, Cass, 344 pages
10) Cat Out of Hell, Truss, 162 pages
11) Jesus,Interrupted, Ehrman, 285 pages
12) flunking sainthood, Riess, 171 pages
13) A Bed of Scorpions, Flanders, 310 pages
14) Wedding Cake Murder, Fluke, 356 pages

Pages Read for Month: 3795

Group Total: 17,182

May 2016
Total Pages: 8,743

79. The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater -421 pp. -5/1
80. The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien -322 pp. -5/1
81. An Edible History of Humanity, Tom Standage -288 pp. -5/2
82. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells -180 pp. -5/2
83. How Great Science Fiction Works, Gary K. Wolfe -215 pp. -5/4
84. SecondWorld, Jeremy Robinson -352 pp. 5/5
85. Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, Sonia Shah -290 pp. -5/6
86. Ink Mage, Victor Gischler -388 pp. -5/7
87. Raising Atlantis, Thomas Greanias -352 pp. -5/9
88. The Shadow Revolution, Clay Griffith -322 pp. -5/11
89. Mistborn: The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson -672 pp. -5/12/16
90. Savage Urges, Suzanne Wright -318 pp. -5/12
91. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher -382 pp. -5/14
92. The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson -784 pp. -5/17
93. The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin -500 pp. -5/18
94. Saving Ren, Sloane Kennedy -326 pp. -5/20
95. Hunted, Kevin Hearne -325 pp. -5/20
96. The Eye of Minds, James Dashner -320 pp. -5/21
97. Haunted Ground, Erin Hart -355 pp. 5/22
98. The Warded Man, Peter V. Brett -434 pp. -5/23
99. Firewall, Sierra Riley -282 pp. 5/24
100. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury -227 pp. 5/25
101. Gardens of the Moon, Steven Erikson -688 pp. 5/30

Group Total: 25,925

May
The Book of Bad Things by Clive Gifford - 64 pages
Death Weavers by Brandon Mull - 502 pages

Total May Pages: 566

Group Total: 26,491

May:
116. Sugar and Ice Kate Messner 275 pages
117. One Sarah Crossan 400 pages
118. The Cold Dish Craig Johnson 354 pages
119. Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems Bob Raczka (MCA) 48 pages
120. When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons Julie Fogliano (MCA) 56 pages
121. You Never Heard of Casey Stengel?! Jonah Winter (MCA) 40 pages
122. The White Cat and the Monk: A Retelling of the Poem “Pangur Bán” Jo Bogart (MCA) 32 pages
123. Memory Man David Baldacci 416 pages
124. Out of Darkness Ashley Hope Perez 402 pages
125. The Promise Robert Crais 416 pages
126. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope William Kamkwamba 270 pages
127. Thunder Boy Jr. Sherman Alexie (MCA) 40 pages
128. Princess of the Midnight Ball Jessica Day George 304 pages
129. Choke Chuck Palahniuk 293 pages
130. Stars Above Marissa Meyer 401 pages
131. During the Reign of the Queen of Persia Joan Chase 288 pages
132. The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 21 pages
133. The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey 207 pages
134. The Round House Louise Erdrich 323 pages
135. That They May Face the Rising Sun John MaGahern 298 pages
136. The Ghosts of Heaven Marcus Sedgwick 360 pages

Total for the Month: 5244
GROUP TOTAL 31735

May
21. Twelve years a slave by Solomon Northup - 363 - 5★
22. Parnassia by Josha Zwaan - 349 - 5★
23. All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr - 575 - 5★
24. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone by J.K. Rowling - 223 - 5★ Read with my daughter
25. Ander licht by Rosita Steenbeek - 208 - 3★
26. De nummers by Chantal van Mierlo - 170 - 4★
27. Het gerecht by Inge Ipenburg - 348 - 4★
28. Ma by Hugo Borst - 193 - 5★
29. The day is dark by Yrsa Sigurthardottir - 321 - 4★
30. The silent girl by Tess Gerritsen - 289 - 4★
31. Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets by J.K. Rowling - 251 - 5★ - read with my daughter
32. Geachte heer M. by Herman Koch - 343 - 4★

Totals May:
12 books; 3633 pages

Group total: 35,368

May Page Count
The Knick Knack Man by Paul B Kid 226 pages
Doctor Dealer by Mark Bowden 334 pages
When We Were The Kennedys by Monica Wood 256 pages
Common Grounds by Lee Warren 99 pages
Homemade Body Butter by Henry Brooke 25 pages
Homemade Body Butter by Ella Marie 58 pages
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand 144 pages
The Tastemakers by Daid Sax 336 pages
Final Payoff by Ian Mulgrew 218 pages
Peppermint Twist by John Johnson, Jr 261 pages
Backyard Foraging by Ellen Zachos 223 pages
Ew,Ew,Ew- by Kerry Hamm 200 pages
Richie- by Thomas Thompson 308 pages
Homegrown Berries by Teri Dunn Chace 198 pages
Tender At The Bone by Ruth Reichl 282 pages
The Eighty Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts 282 pages
Becoming Nursey by Kati Kleber 114 pages
Toys the 50s, 60s, and 70s by Kate Roberts 208 pages
Nightmare at Noon by Ron Franscell 81 pages

Total for May: 3571 pages
Group total: 38,939

May Page Count
1. Guests on Earth by Lee Smith (5/12/16) ★★★★ 326 pp.
2. Better Than Chocolate by Shelia Roberts (5/16/16) 3.5 ★★★ 372 pp./698 pp.
3. The 7-Day Flat-Belly Tea Cleanse: The Revolutionary New Plan to Melt Up to 10 Pounds of Fat in Just One Week! by Kelly Choi (5/20/16) ★★★★★ 192 pp./890 pp.
4. The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva (5/21/16) 3.5 ★★★ 752 pp./1642 pp.
5. Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson (5/25/16) ★★★★ 256 pp./1898 pp.
6. A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (5/27/16) ★★★★ 144 pp./2042 pp.
7. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald (5/29/16) ★★★★ 119 pp./2161 pp.
8. Alex Cross: Also published as CROSS by James Patterson (5/31/16) 3.5 ★★★ 432 pp./2593 pp.

Total for May: 2593
Group Total: 41,532

Here's my list for May:

1. Blood Curse--Ella J. Phoenix--308 pages
2. Doktor Bey's Handbook of Strange Sex--Derek Pell--128 pages
3. The Last of Mrs. Workman--Tina Klahrthener--275 pages
4. Turn Left at the Trojan Horse--Brad Herzog--307 pages
5. Big Bad Detective Agency--Bruce Hale--121 pages
6. The Bossman--Renee Rose--156 pages
7. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend--Katarina Bivald--394 pages
8. The Boys in the Boat--Daniel James Brown--375 pages
9. A History of Loneliness--John Boyne--337 pages
10. The Thirteenth Earl by Evelyn Pryce--217 pages
11. William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A Hope--Ian Doerscher--174 pages
12. Harold and the Purple Crayon--Crockett Johnson--34 pages
13. Harry, the Dirty Dog--Gene Zion--32 pages
14. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus--Mo Willems--40 pages
15. Shot Girl--Karen E. Olson--302 pages
16. The Billionaire's New Toy--Ave Sterling--18 pages
17. High Season--Jessica Whitman--356 pages

May's total: 3,574 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 45,106 PAGES