The Bibliophiles discussion

A couple of the other groups I'm in do this and I thought I would start a thread for it for this group. Lisa let me know if it's not ok!

Let's see how many pages the group reads this year! Any books read in 2017 count so if you have read it this year it counts! Post either the cover or title link of the book and the number of pages for the edition you read. If it's an audiobook just put what the page count would have been for the physical copy. Add your total to the previous total from the above users post. This is collective of the whole group though if you would like to keep up with your own total or do things like linking to your review that is perfectly fine :)

Usually the challenge is to get to 1,000,000 but as we are a smaller group I'm going to set the goal at 500,00! If we pass right on by that then yay for us!! It's supposed to be a fun challenge so no matter what number we hit midnight on December 31st it would be cool to see how many pages we have collectively read.

Group Progress:
125,000 25% of Goal
250,000 Halfway there!
500,000 Goal Met!
750,000 :D Look at us go!
1,000,000 =O

I'll start off!
Motherfucking Sharks by Brian Allen Carr - 66pages
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - 359 pages
The Walking-Stick Forest by Anna Tambour - 19 pages
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - 312 pages
1984 by George Orwell - 328 pages

Total so far = 1,084 (So the next person adds to this total)



Side note: You don't have to put as much as I did. Just a link to the book with the number of pages as well as the new total for the group is enough :)

Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm, 192 pages
Bone, Vol. 2: The Great Cow Race, 133
Out from Boneville, 138
Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread, 336
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, 52
The Red Garden, 270
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, 522
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism, 135
Dark Matter, 342
Snapshot 1988, 36
Children of the Dark, 392
The Light Between Oceans, 343
The Homecoming, 56
A Monster Calls, 216
Hansel and Gretel, 54
Troll Bridge, 104
Drunken Fireworks, 39
Danse Macabre, 400
The Scarlet Letter, 228
WTF science , 167
Charlie the Choo-Choo: From the world of The Dark Tower, 24
Miracleman, Book One: The Golden Age, 192

my total - 4371

Group - 5455

Oh this is awesome! I don't know how I missed this for the past few days!! I'll have to look at this when I get home and get my stuff up! Thanks for doing this!!!

Bone, Vol. 4: The Dragonslayer, 176
Bone, Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border, 126
Bone, Vol. 6: Old Man's Cave, 128
Yes Please, 329
Bone, Vol. 7: Ghost Circles, 184
my "since last time" total - 943
my total - 5314
Group - 6398

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, 447
The Vagina Monologues, 185
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, 346

My total: 978
Group: 7376

Fevre Dream - 461
The Girl with All the Gifts - 435
Crooked Kingdom - 536

My total: 1432
Group: 8808 (I'm bad at math so I hope I did that correctly)

Wow, I feel like I had read a lot more than that but I guess not haha. Not to mention I am currently reading 3 rather large books! I'll post my progress as I finish those though!

Guilty Pleasures 332 pages

Group Total 8808 + 332 = 9140



Lisa wrote: "Wow, I feel like I had read a lot more than that but I guess not haha. Not to mention I am currently reading 3 rather large books! I'll post my progress as I finish those though!"

The book of the month for February is rather hefty! I'm imagining the total will jump up if the members who read it post it to the challenge.

Lexi wrote: "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America,"

How did you like this? I'm in the middle of it and really enjoying it so far.

Nikki (Nyx) wrote: "Guilty Pleasures 332 pages

Group Total 8808 + 332 = 9140



Lisa wrote: "Wow, I feel like I had read a lot more than that but I guess not haha. Not ..."

It wasn't my favorite, but I'm not a huge fan of historical fiction. I loved the H.H. Holmes chapters, but the rest of it felt a little textbook-ish to me. It was really well-written though, and I heard they're turning it into a movie, which I think will be excellent!

Lexi wrote: "Nikki (Nyx) wrote: "Guilty Pleasures 332 pages

Group Total 8808 + 332 = 9140



Lisa wrote: "Wow, I feel like I had read a lot more than that but I ..."


That would be cool! I enjoyed the book as well. I listened to it as an audio book so that kind of helped with the text-bookish parts but it was really well written. I think it would be a great movie partly because , even though it didn't really make for exciting reading, watching the Chicago World's Fair go up would be fun in my opinion.

Bone, Vol. 8: Treasure Hunters - 144
Bone, Vol. 9: Crown of Horns - 232
Norwegian Wood - 296
Killing Mr. Griffin - 223
Preacher, Volume 4: Ancient History - 368
Preacher Special: Saint of Killers - 100
Preacher Special: The Good Old Boys - 57
Preacher, Book 6 - 178
Preacher: The Story of You-Know-Who - 57
The Breathing Method - 84

my "since last time" total - 1741
my total - 7055
Group - 16195

A Game of Thrones - 804
A Clash of Kings - 914
Man's Search for Meaning - 104

My total - 1822
Group - 18,017

This sounds like a fun idea. We should update this for 2018.

These are my books since Jan. 1st 2018

Emma - 474
Northanger Abbey - 251
Poppies of Iraq - 120
Verax: A Graphic History of Electronic Surveillance - 240
Persuasion - 249
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 465
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq - 298
The Best We Could Do - 329
The Girl Who Played with Fire - 503
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - 563
Everything is Flammable - 160
Imagine Wanting Only This - 278
The Girl in the Spider's Web - 400
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye - 347
Fierce Kingdom - 288
This Is Where It Ends - 288
A Wrinkle in Time - 211
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - 375
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web - 172
The Girl in the Tower - 363
Alanna: The First Adventure - 274
In the Hand of the Goddess - 264
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man - 284
Lioness Rampant - 384
The Thief - 280
Rebel of the Sands - 316
The Queen of Attolia - 362
The King of Attolia - 387
White Space Is Not Your Enemy: A Beginner's Guide to Communicating Visually Through Graphic, Web and Multimedia Design - 273
Hyperion - 482
The Squire's Tale - 212
Children of Blood and Bone 525

My total - 10,417

I'm assuming the total should get reset for 2018, and that Ishan's books are from 2018.

Group total - 12,239 (for 2018)
Group running total - 28,434 (everything in this thread)

Sounds like fun! I’m in as well.

If you all would like, I can go start a thread for a 2018 challenge and transfer that info over there? That way, it's separate from this old one.

Lisa wrote: "If you all would like, I can go start a thread for a 2018 challenge and transfer that info over there? That way, it's separate from this old one."

Sure, that sounds great.

Ok, I have got that up on the page. If you want to just copy over your post to update it and get it going, that will be great!