Paging All Bookworms! discussion

We finally get to start tracking our pages read as a group for 2020! I did the calculations and for 2019, as a group, we read 355,126 pages. How fun! So let's start cataloguing our 2020 pages and see if we can surpass 2019!

1. Wham! George & Me by Andrew Ridgeley (297 pages)
2. Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family by Mitch Albom (256 pages)
3. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates (367 pages)
4. Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (256 pages)
5. Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman (208 pages)
6. Me by Elton John (374 pages)
7. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (301 pages)
8. Ghosts of Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak by Stephanie Waters (126 pages)
9. Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi (288 pages)
10. Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager (320 pages)
11. A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel (273 pages)

My January Total: 3066 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 3,066 PAGES

YEAR GOAL: 120 books/20 nE, 32,000 pages

JANUARY: 10 books/2 nE, 2,623 pages, avg. 262 pages
TOTAL: 10 books/2 nE, 2,623 pages, avg. 262 pages

JANUARY BOOKS:
1. Peter Handke, Die Hornissen [1966] 273 pages [in German]
2. Yi Mun-Yol, Meeting with My Brother [1994, tr 2017] 112 pages
3. Bae Suah, Recitation [2011, tr. 2017] 277 pages
4. Ismail Kadare, The General of the Dead Army [1970, tr 2012] 264 pages
5. Delia Perlov and Alex Vilenkin, Cosmology for the Curious [2017] 372 pages
6. Park Wan-Suh, Who Ate Up All the Shinga: An Autobiographical Novel [1992, tr 2009] 263 pages [Kindle]
7. Bruce Fulton and Youngmin Kwon, edd., Modern Korean Fiction [2005] 390 pages
8. Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance [2020] 252 pages
9. Ismail Kadare, The Siege [1970; Fr. rev. tr. 1997; Eng. tr. 2010] 301 pages
10. Peter Handke, Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter [1972] 119 pages [in German]


GROUP TOTAL: 5,689 pages

January:
1. Talk to the paw by Melinda Metz - 245 - ★★★★
2. Every last lie by Mary Kubica - 302 - ★★★
3. Insomnia by Jilliane Hoffman - 417 - ★★★★★
4. Lies by T.M. Logan - 390 - ★★★★
5. Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets - 286 - ★★★★★ - Read with my daughter
6. Te lijf by Isa Hoes en Medina Schuurman - 255 - ★★★★
7. This could change everything by Jill Mansell - 234 - ★★★★
8. The Banker's Wife by Christina Alger - 263 - ★★★★

Totals January:
8 books; 2392 pages


Group total: 8,081 pages

1) The Tenant by Katrine Engberg - 354 pages
2) The Witch's Kind by Louisa Morgan - 449 pages
3) Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg - 395 pages
4) Playing Dead by Allison Brennan - 462 pages
5) Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich - 285 pages
6) An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir - 446 pages



January total: 2,391
Group Total: 10,472

Here's mine:

1. Harvest the Vote: How Democrats Can Win Again in Rural America--Jane Kleeb--201 pages
2. Money Shot--Christa Faust--250 pages
3. The Minuteman--Greg Donahue--3 pages (audiobook)
4. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test--Tom Wolfe--416 pages
5. Breasts--Florence Williams--338 pages
6. A Christmas to Remember--Rebecca Moesta--264 pages
7. The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell--Chris Colfer--438 pages
8. Grave Sight--Charlaine Harris--293 pages
9. The Baumgartners Plus One--Selena Kitt--186 pages
10. Classic Love Poems--Various--3 pages (audiobook)
11. Girls Only: The Complete Series--Selena Kitt--180 pages
12. Life on the Mississippi--Mark Twain--312 pages
13. Plot it Yourself--Rex Stout--194 pages
14. Geared for the Grave--Duffy Brown--288 pages
15. Dance with Me--Heidi Cullinan--258 pages
16. A Healthy Deviant--Pilar Gerasimo--384 pages

Total pages: 3807

GROUP TOTAL: 14,279

Read in January:

1- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien, 398 pgs
2-The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie, 299 pgs
3-The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, 391 pgs
4-Parker: Selected Stories by Dorothy Parker, 70 pgs
5-Walden by Henry David Thoreau, 330 pgs
6-Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear, 309 pgs
7-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, 204 pgs
8-Benediction by Kent Haruf, 258 pgs
9-The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien, 188 pgs
10-The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware, 337 pgs
11-A Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, 304 pgs
12-This Gun for Hire by Graham Greene, 190 pgs
13-After You, My Dear Alfonse by Shirley Jackson, 3 pgs
14-Dark Matter by Black Crouch, 342 pgs
15-Sanditon by Jane Austen, 90 pgs

Total = 3,713 pages

GROUP TOTAL = 19,748 PAGES

January

1. The Huntress – Kate Quinn (5 stars) 1/6/20 [530]
2. Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #11) – Nancy Atherton (4 stars) 1/8/20 [336]
3. Impeachment: An American History - Jeffrey A. Engel, Jon Meacham,Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker (4 stars) 1/9/20 [256]
4. Aunt Dimity Goes West (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #12) – Nancy Atherton (4 stars) 1/11/20 [304]
5. Organization Hacks: Over 350 Simple Solutions to Organize Your Home in No Time! – Carrie Higgins (3 stars) 1/12/20 [224]
6. The Samurai's Garden – Gail Tsukiyama (5 stars) 1/15/20 1995 [211]
7. Bitch Creek (Stoney Calhoun, #1) – William G. Tapply (4 stars) 1/18/20 [304]
8. Death On Demand (Death on Demand, #1) – Carolyn G. Hart (4 stars) 1/21/19 [195]
9. Darkship Renegades (Darkship, #2) – Sarah A. Hoyt (3 stars) 1/26/20 [513]
10. Picture Miss Seeton (Miss Seeton, #1) – Heron Carvic (4 stars) 1/28/20 [224]
11. Justice Calling (The Twenty-sided Sorceress, #1) – Annie Bellet (3 stars) 1/29/20 [154]
12. Wild Orchids – Karen Robards (3 stars) 1/30/20 [377]
13. B is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone, #2) – Sue Grafton (4 stars) 1/31/20 [310]

Total Books - 13
Total pages - 3938

Group Total - 23,686

I hope I'm not too late.
In January, I read:

Rainbow Comes and Goes. 4/5/2016. 290 pages. 4.5 stars. 1/3/20
On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service. Rhys Bowen. 320 pages. 1/6/20
The Poacher’s Son. Paul Doiron. 1st in series. 2/2011. 598 pages. 1/12/20
Voices from Chernobyl. Svetlana Alexievich..p. 236 1/11/20
Underground Railroad. Colson Whitehead. 306 pages. 1/13/20
Gallow’s View. Peter Robinson. 336 pages. 1/16/20
Herding Cats. Sarah Andersen. 112 Pages. 1/17/20
Bird Watching Answer Book. Laura Erickson. 400 p. 1/18/20
Sins of the Fathers. J.A. Jance. 384 pages. 1/20/20 4 stars
She’s Not There. Joy Fielding. 368 pages. 1/25/20
Inside Out & Back Again. Thanhha Lai, 262 pages. 1/26/20 5 stars
Ordinary Princess. M.M. Kaye. 112 pages. 1/26/20
Small Victories. Anne Lamott. 286 pages 1/26/20
Things we cannot say. Kelly Rimmer. 448 pages. 1/28/20
Virgil Wander. Leif Enger. 303 pages. 1/29/20

My January total: 4,761 pages
Group January total: 28,447 page

1. Signed In Blood by Jeanne King 245 pages
2. The Heart Of Things by John Hildebrand 188 pages
3. Me by Elton John 354 pages
4. No Daddy, Don't by Irene Pence 317 pages
5. A Death In Texas by Dina Temple-Raston 282 pages
6. Too Close To Me by Dave Pelzer 256 pages
7. Savage Shadows by Eileen Ross 256 pages
8. A Stranger In The Woods by 224 pages
9. Why The Monkees Matter by Roseanne Welch 157 pages
10. Inside Out by Demi Moore 272 pages
11. Like Me by Chely Wright 283 pages
12. Bad Boy by Gary L. Lavergne 341 pages

Total for January: 3175 pages
Group total: 31,622 pages