Paging All Bookworms! discussion

While so many groups count how many books they read, we like to count how many pages we read as a group! It's all for fun, so feel free to join in!

January 2019: 26,110 pages
February 2019: 34,928 pages
March 2019: 30,828 pages
April 2019: 26,669 pages
May 2019: 33,886 pages
June 2019: 24,484 pages

43. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty (480 pages)
44. 28 Barbary Lane (Tales of the City #1-3) by Armistead Maupin (880 pages)
45. Lucifer, Volume 1: Cold Heaven by Holly Black (144 pages)
46. Lucifer, Volume 2: Father Lucifer by Holly Black (144 pages)
47. Lucifer, Volume 3: Blood in the Streets by Holly Black (128 pages)
48. The Sandman: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman (192 pages)
49. American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot by Craig Ferguson (288 pages)
50. The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies by Dawn Raffel (304 pages)
51. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gainman and Terry Pratchett (383 pages)
52. Suspicious Minds (Stranger Things Novel #1) by Gwenda Bond (304 pages)
53. Lucifer, Book One by Mike Carey (382 pages)
54. Riding the Bus with My Sister by Rachel Simon (304 pages)
55. Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope by Karamo Brown (289 pages)


My July Total: 4,222 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 4,222 PAGES

July
31) Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare - 570 pages
32) Dark Places by Gillian Flynn - 345 pages
33) Fear No Evil (No Evil Trilogy #3) by Allison Brennan - 408 pages
34) Dead Ever After (Sookie Stackhouse #13) by Charlaine Harris - 306 pages
35) Winter Loon by Susan Bernhard - 336 pages



My July total: 1,965

Group Total: 6,187

I got to more than I thought I would in July!

76. The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, 975 pgs
77. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, 679 pgs
78. OK, Mr. Field by Katharine Kilalea, 224 pgs
79. The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde, 32 pgs
80. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling, 222 pgs
81. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 576 pgs
82. The Library Book by Susan Orlean, 336 pgs
83. Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield, 464 pgs
84. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, 224 pgs
85. The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy, 340 pgs
86. True Grit by Charles Portis, 224 pgs

Total = 4,296 pages

GROUP TOTAL = 10,483 PAGES

Didn't catch up at all on my goals but at least I didn't fall any farther behind. The month was dominated by the Shakespeare books and articles for the plays I saw at the beginning of the month at the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

YEAR GOAL: 132 books/20 nE, 36,000 pages
JANUARY: 6 books/2 nE, 2,096 pages, avg. 350 pages
FEBRUARY: 8 books, 1,993 pages, avg. 249 pages
MARCH: 5 books/1 nE, 1,908 pages, avg. 382 pages
APRIL: 9 books/2 nE, 2,325 pages, avg. 258 pages
MAY: 15 books, 4,069 pages, avg. 271 pages
JUNE: 8 books, 1,881 pages, avg. 235 pages
JULY: 11 books, 2,580 pages, avg. 235 pages
TOTAL: 62 books/5 nE, 16,852 pages, avg. 272 pages

JULY BOOKS:
52. Michael Pennington, Hamlet: A User's Guide [1996] 216 pages
53. Harold Bloom, Hamlet: Poem Unlimited [2003] 154 pages
54. Articles on Hamlet film adaptations 58 pages
55. Articles on Hamlet [2000-2009] 388 pages
56. William Shakespeare, Macbeth [1605?; 2nd rev. Signet ed., 1998] 214 pages
57. Articles on Hamlet [2010-present] 589 pages
58. Min Jin Lee, Pachinko [2017] 490 pages
59. Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead [1967] 126 pages
60. Tom Stoppard, Jumpers [1972] 89 pages
61. Tom Stoppard, Travesties [1975] 71 pages
62. Han Kang, The Vegetarian [2007; tr. 2018] 185 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 13,063 pages

Here's my July reads:

1. Pearls and Poison--Duffy Brown--295 pages
2. Creation in Death--J. D. Robb--355 pages
3. Heartland--Sarah Smarsh--289 pages
4. Right for the Job--Laura Westbrook--51 pages
5. Sex and Murder.com--Mark Richard Zurlo--294 pages

pages: 1284

GROUP TOTAL: 14347

Wow, I think I need to retire to keep up.
1. This Terrible Sound: Battle of Chickamauga - Peter Cozzens - 105 pages
2. Lockett's Crucible - T.J. Johnston - 155 pages

Group total: 14,607

July:

92. The Last Peach by Gus Gordon 32 pgs
93. Vroom by Barbara McClintock 32 pgs
94. Birds of A Feather by Susan L. Roth 40 pgs
95. The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog by Paul Janeczko 48 pgs
96. Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner 480 pgs
97. Every Day by David Levithan 322 pgs
98. The Rain Watcher by Tatiana deRosnay 229 pgs
99. Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith 130 pgs
100. Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley 256 pgs
101. Margot by Jillian Cantor 338 pgs
102. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 546 pgs.
103. There, There by Tommy Orange 294 pgs
104. Old Bones by Aaron Elkins 256 pgs
105. Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood 198 pgs
106. Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai 385 pgs
107. A Dangerous Act of Kindness by L P Fergusson 429 pgs
108. Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman 240 pgs
109. Eyes on You by Kate White 435 pgs
110. Sacrificial Axe by C. J. March 71 pages

TOTAL FOR MONTH: 4,761
TOTAL FOR THE GROUP: 19,368

July:
52. Run away by Harlan Coben - 369 - ★★★★★
53. After the fall by Julie Cohen - 314 - ★★★★
54. The cafe by the sea by Jenny Colgan - 337 - ★★★★
Leven zonder filter by Fleur van Groningen - 24/213 - ★★ - DNF
55. The endless beach by Jenny Colgan - 350 - ★★★★
56. Broken Prince by Erin Watt - 327 - ★★
57. Twisted palace by Erin Watt - 293 - ★★★
58. Holiday in the Hamptons by Sarah Morgan - 350 - ★★★★
59. De Wilde Heks - de vuurproef by Lene Kaaberbøl - 188 - ★★★★ - Read with my daughter
60. De Wilde Heks - de boodschap van de valk by Lene Kaaberbøl - 213 - ★★★★ - Read with my daughter
61. De Wilde Heks - de wraak van Chimaera by Lene Kaaberbøl - 206 - ★★★★ - Read with my daughter
62. De Wilde Heks - Bloedzussen by Lene Kaaberbøl - 215 - ★★★★ - Read with my daughter
63. De Wilde Heks - Het labyrint van het verleden by Lene Kaaberbøl - 215 - ★★★★ - Read with my daughter
64. Saturnusplein 3 by Josha Zwaan - 237 - ★★★★
65. De Wilde Heks - De belofte by Lene Kaaberbøl - 228 - ★★★★ - Read with my daughter

Totals July:
14 books; 3866 pages


Group total: 23,234 pages

JULY

Anyone Who Had A Heart by Burt Bacharach 282 pages
Son Of Harpo by Bill Marx 322 pages
A Carlin Home Companion by Kelly Carlin 336 pages
7 Dirty Words by James Sullivan 233 pages
Arsenic and Clam Chowder by James D. Livingston 168 pages
Bettyville- George Hodgman 278 pages
Glitter And Glue by Kelly Corrigan 278 pages
Forever and Ever, Amen by Randy Travis 294 pages
Perfectly Executed by Peter Van Sant 380 pages
Loss Of Innocence by Eric Adams 277 pages

Total: 2,796 pages
Group total: 26,030