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Time to start adding up our pages for 2018! In 2017 we read 290,939 pages! Let's see if we can beat that this year. Just put in your pages counted for the month and if you have any questions, let me know :-)

1. The View From the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman (522 pages)
2. You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself by David McRaney (307 pages)
3. Stories I’d Tell in Bars by Jen Lancaster (271 pages)
4. Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home by Matthew Pinsker (262 pages)
5. Klondike House: Memories of an Irish Country Childhood by John Dwyer (124 pages)
6. The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought by David Adam (336 pages)
7. The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce (303 pages)


January Total: 2001

GROUP TOTAL: 2,001

The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson - 455 pages
From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse #8) by Charlaine Harris - 303 pages
The Magicians (The Magicians #1) by Lev Grossman - 402 pages
The Magician King (The Magician's #2) by Lev Grossman - 400 pages



January Total: 1,560

Group Total: 3,561

1. The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History – Lewis Buzbee (3 stars) 1/2/18 [231]
2. Ace of Hearts (House of Cards, #1) – Barbara Metzger (4 stars) 1/5/18 [352]
3. All I Got For Christmas – Genie Davis & Pauline Baird Jones (3 stars) 1/8/18 [193]
4. Fatal Fixer-Upper – Jennie Bentley (4 stars) 1/9/18 [332]
5. Spackled and Spooked (A Do-It-Yourself Mystery, #2) - Jennie Bentley (4 stars) 1/12/18 [309]
6. The Last Enemy (Lonesome Lawmen, #1) - Pauline Baird Jones (5 stars) 1/14/18 [327]
7. Magic Mourns (Kate Daniels, #3.5) - Ilona Andrews (5 stars) 1/15/18 [77]
8. The Duke's Holiday (Regency Romp Trilogy, #1) - Maggie Fenton (4 stars) 1/16/18 [452]
9. Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell – Charlotte Gray (5 stars) 1/20/18 [436]
10. The Misremembered Man – Christina McKenna (4 stars) 1/21/18 [306]
11. News of the World – Paulette Jiles (4 stars) 1/23/18 [224]
12. Quicksilver (Looking Glass Trilogy, #2) - Amanda Quick (4 stars) 1/24/18 [399]
13. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story - Hyeonseo Lee with David John (5 stars) 1/27/18 [320]
14. Killer Run (A Tourist Trap Mystery, #5) – Lynn Cahoon (3 stars) 1/28/18 [198]
15. Engaged in Death (A Wedding Planner Mystery, #1) – Stephanie Blackmoore (4 stars) 1/30/18 [304]

Total Books - 15
Total pages- 4460

Group Total: 6461

1. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Think by Malcolm Gladwell, 296 pgs
2. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, 376 pgs
3. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pgs
4. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman, 96 pgs
5. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, 272 pgs
6. Thanks, Obama by David Litt, 320 pgs
7. The Secret History by Donna Tartt, 523 pgs
8. Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich. 282 pgs
9. Billy Budd by Herman Melville, 160 pgs
10. Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith, 226 pgs
11. Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, 128 pgs
12. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, 338 pgs

Total = 3,609 pgs

GROUP TOTAL = 13,631 pages

Januari:

1. Dead tomorrow by Peter James - 607 - 5★
2. De juiste man by Max van Olden - 232 - 4★
3. Heelmeester by Marcel Vaarmeijer - 222 - 4★
4. Meet me at Beachcomber Bay by Jill Mansell - 244 - 4★
5. Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich - 285 - 4★
6. The girls from See Saw Lane by Sandy Taylor - 278 - 4★
7. The last secret of the Deverills by Santa Montefiore - 382 - 5★

Totals Januari:
7 books, 2250 pages


Group total: 15,881 pages

January
1. Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure 240 pages
2. The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum 206 pages
3. The Martian 369 pages
4. Never Let Me Go 288 pages
5. Why I Jumped: My True Story of Postpartum Depression, Dramatic Rescue & Return to Hope 240 pages
6. The Green Mile 536 pages
7. An Echo Through the Snow 370 pages
8. The Angel in My Pocket: A Story of Love, Loss, and Life After Death 256 pages
My pages total: 2,505

Group total: 18,386

Orphan Island. Laurel Snyder 1/13/18 5 stars. 288 pages
Bridge across the Ocean 1/3/18. 4 stars. Susan Meissner. 368 pages.
Aesop’s Fables. 1/1/18. 5 stars. 306 pages
Bramton Wick. Elizabeth Fair. 1/7/18. 4.5 stars 208 pages
Two kinds of Truth. Michael Connelly. 4.5 stars. 1/10/18 417 pages
Auma’s Long Run. Eucabeth Odhiambo. 4.5 stars. 1/20/18. 297 pages
Be Frank with Me. Julia Claiborne Johnson. 1/22/18. 4 stars. 287 pages.
Evans Above. Rhys Bowen. 1/21/18. 4 stars. 214 pages
Aunt Dimity’s Death. Nancy Atherton. 4 stars. 1/29/18. 244 pages

My page total for January: 2,629 pages

Group total: 21,015

Not a great start to the year.

JANUARY: 9 books/3 nE, 1693 pages, avg. 188 pages
TOTAL: 9 books/3 nE, 1693 pages, avg. 188 pages

JANUARY BOOKS:

1. Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven [1987] 211 pages
2. Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion [1927] 63 pages
3. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents [1929] 109 pages
4. Patricia Powell, The Pagoda [1998] 245 pages
5. Jorge Luis Borges, Historia universal de la infamia [1935, augmented ed. 1954] 137 pages [in Spanish]
6. Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World [1986] 239 pages [Kindle]
7. Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones [1956] 185 pages [in Spanish]
8. Staceyann Chin, The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir [2009] 292 pages [Kindle]
9. Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph [1949; augmented 1952] 212 pages [in Spanish]

GROUP TOTAL: 21,708 pages

Ok, so partially due to my own mistakes in counting and people posting at the same time, our current total is:

GROUP TOTAL: 20,707 pages

1 Deep Crossing by E.R. Mason, kindle, pages: 342, completed 01.02.18
2 You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures, by Alan Cumming, audio, pages: 304, 01.04.18
3 The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish, kindle, pages: 576, completed 01.07.18
4 One Station Away, kindle, pages: 309, completed 01.08.18
5 The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough, audio, pages: 337, completed 01.09.18
6 Mrs. Mike, by Benedict Freedman, kindle/audio, pages: 320, completed 01.13.18
7 Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, by Michael Wolff, kindle, pages: 328, completed 01.14.18
8 The Clay Girl by Heather Tucker, audio, pages: 352, completed 1.17.18
9. We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby, kindle, pages: 272, completed 1.17.18
10. Sea and Sand: TIDES Book 3 by Alex Lidell, kindle, pages: 340, completed 1.19.18
11. Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, kindle, pages: 297, completed 1.21.19
12.Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman, audio, pages: 354 completed 1.24.18
13 Punishment by Scott J. Holliday, kindle, pages: 240, completed 1.24.18

January total: 4,371 pages
Group total: 25,078

1. Moonrise--Erin Hunter--287 pages
2. Duke of Storm--Gaelyn Foley--468 pages
3. Girl Waits with Gun--Amy Stewart--404 pages
4. A Room with a Brew--Joyce Tremel--260 pages
5. Merry Murder--C. S. McDonald--134 pages
6. Murder at the Book Group--Maggie King--385 pages
7. Lone Wolf--Jodi Picoult--421 pages
8. Holly & Hockey Boots--V. L. Locey--177 pages
9. California Girl Chronicles: Brea & the City of Plastic--Michelle Gamble-Risley--184 pages

January: 2725 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 27,803

January:

1. Ricochet Joe Dean Koontz 95 pages 1/4
2. Owls Well That Ends Well Donna Andrews 326 pages 1/4
3. 1984 George Orwell 267 pages 1/5
4. The Fall of Princes Robert Goolrick 304 pages 1/7
5. Rabbit in the Road Danika D. Potts 198 pages 1/7
6. Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo Ben Costa 208 pages 1/15
7. Today will Be Different Maria Semple 259 pages 1/15
8. In Real Life Cory Doctorow 175 pages 1/15
9. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann 338 pages 1/19
10. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier 335 pages 1/22
11. Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness by Edgar Allan Poe 144 pages 1/22
12. I Want That Nut! by Madeline Valentine (Mock Caldecott) 32 pages 1/25
13. We Are Okay by Nina LaCour 256 pages 1/24
14. Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz 502 pages 1/25
15. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin 357 pages 1/28
16. The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury 144 pages 1/28
17. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler 310 pages 1/30


Total for Month: 4250 pages
Group Total: 32,053

January

1. Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden 258 pages
2. First Women by Kate Anderson Brower 332 pages
3. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore 496 pages
4. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande 254 pages
5. I'm Hosting As Fast As I Can by Tom Bergeron 223 pages
6. Son Of A Gun by Justin St. Germain 272 pages
7. The White Cascade by Gary Krist 251 pages
8. Producer by Wendy Walker 290 pages
9. Country Music Changed My Life by Ken Burke 300 pages

Total for January: 2686 pages
Group total: 34,739 pages