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Here are the totals for the 2022 pages counted!

January 2022: 39,240 pages
February 2022: 23,594 pages
March 2022: 35,756 pages
April 2022: 30,065 pages
May 2022: 27,200 pages
June 2022: 30,313 pages
July 2022: 25,407 pages
August 2022: 31,014 pages
September 2022: 30,120 pages
October 2022: 25,525 pages
November 2022: 26,886 pages
December 2022: 33,851 pages

For a total 358,971 pages read amongst us for the 2022 year.

Now for a new year! Let's see if we can beat last year! As usual, enjoy and have fun :-)

1. The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Michael Blanding (222 pages)
2. Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke (510 pages)
3. The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasure of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson (256 pages)


My January Total: 988 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 988 pages

JANUARY

1. A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny 390 pgs
2. Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani 262 pgs
3. The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis 354 pgs
4. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher 432 pgs
5. Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel 416 pgs
6. Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon 355 pgs
7. Freestyle, A Graphic Novel by Gale Galligan 272 pgs
8. Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld 400 pgs
9. I Am A Girl from Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro 272 pgs
10. The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker 480 pgs
11. Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala 270 pgs
12. Mardi Gras Almost Didn't Come This Year by Kathy Price 48 pgs
13. Hope is an Arrow by Cory McCarthy 40 pgs
14. Maya's Song by Renee Watson 48 pgs
15. Off the Wall by Theodore Taylor 48 pgs
16. Standing in the Need of Prayer by Carole Boston Weatherford 32 pgs
17. Symphony for a Broken Orchestra by Amy Ignatow 40 pgs
18. Mushroom Lullaby by Kenneth Kraegel 32 pgs
19. The Universe in You by Jason Chin 40 pgs
20. Magnolia Flower by Zora Neale Hurston 40 pgs
21. Mina by Matthew Forsythe 68 pgs
22. I Don't Care by Julie Fogliano 40 pgs
23. A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portis 40 pgs
24. Luminous by Julia Kuo 44 pgs
25. Fallen by Lauren Kate 452 pgs
26. Kairos by Mechelle Morrison 232 pgs
27. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason 312 pgs
28. The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber 307 pgs
29. The Penguin Who Knew Too Much by Donna Andrews 328 pgs
30. Game of Scones by Mary Lee Ashford 254 pgs
31. 13 on Halloween by Laura H. Elliott 200 pgs
32. Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz 608 pgs
33. The Locked Room by Freida McFadden 313 pgs
34. Step On A Crack by James Patterson 383 pgs
35. There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool 496 pgs
36. The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy 128 pgs
37. Jack Jetstark's Intergalactic Freakshow by Jennifer Lee Rossman 222 pgs
38. The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu 79 pgs

Pages read for the Month: 8777
GROUP TOTAL: 9,765

January
1. Broken (Will Trent #4) by Karin Slaughter - 500 pages
2. Forestfall (World at the Lake’s Edge #2) by Lyndall Clipstone - 393 pages
3. Flesh and Bone (Body Farm #2) by Jefferson Bass - 354 pages
4. The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower #2) by Stephen King - 406 pages
5. Lethal Justice (Sisterhood #6) by Fern Michaels - 315 pages

January page count: 1,968

Group Total: 11,733

January, 2023:

1) Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore, 800 pgs
2) Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, 73 pgs
3) Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather, 144 pgs
4) The Ha-Ha by Dave King, 340 pgs
5) Black Dogs by Ian McEwan, 149 pgs
6) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, 400 pgs
7) The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer, 289 pgs
8) Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri, 160 pgs
9) The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy, 128 pgs
10) Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley, 342 pgs
11) A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro, 183 pgs
12) Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor, 232 pgs
13) Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, 355 pgs
14) The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White, 252 pgs
15) Strange Weather In Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami, 176 pgs
16) Five Children and It by E. Nesbit, 237 pgs
17) Adventures In Retirement by Lawrence G. Doyle, 216 pgs
18) Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson, 89 pgs
19) M.A.S.H. by Richard Hooker, 219 pgs

Total = 4,784 Pages

GROUP TOTAL = 16,517 PAGES

January

1. Dragon Teeth – Michael Crichton (2 stars) 1/3/23 [338]
2. The Man in the Tent: My Life under Canvas - Part Three: France and Albania ( The Man in the Tent, #3) – Tony Beardsall (4 stars) 1/5/23 [207]
3. The Probable Future – Alice Hoffman (4 stars) 1/6/23 [352]
4. The Chilbury Ladies' Choir – Jennifer Ryan (4 stars) 1/7/23 [371]
5. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (3 stars) 1/7/23 [102]
6. Winter's Camp (Ransom Canyon #0.5) – Jodi Thomas (4 stars) 1/9/23 [108]
7. Paris for One and Other Stories – Jojo Moyes (5 stars) 1/11/23 [288]
8. Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I – Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb (4 stars) 1/13/23 [384]
9. The Red Address BookThe Red Address Book – Sofia Lundberg (3 stars) 1/14/23 [304]
10. Behind the Walls (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #6) – Elaine Orr (4 stars) 1/15/23 [270]
11. Catching Fireflies (A Sweet Magnolia Novel, #9) – Sherryl Woods (4 stars) 1/18/23 [378]
12. A Year of Second Chances – Buffy Andrews (3 stars) 1/20/23 2017 [384]
13. Miss Benson's Beetle – Rachel Joyce (3 stars) 1/22/23 [368]
14. The Dragon's Oath (Silver Dragon Shifter Brothers #1) - Marie Johnston (3 stars) 1/23/23 2022 [199]
15. The Dragon's Promise (Silver Dragon Shifter Brothers #2) - Marie Johnston (3 stars) 1/24/23 2022 [195]
16. The Dragon's Vow (Silver Dragon Shifter Brothers #3) - Marie Johnston (3 stars) 1/25/23 2022 [158]
17. The Man in the Tent: My Life under Canvas - Part Three: France and Albania - Tony Beardsall (3 stars) 1/26/23 2022 [186]
18. The Iron Butterfly (Iron Butterfly, #1) - Chanda Hahn (3 stars) 1/27/23 2012 [280]
19. Aunty Lee's Delights (Singaporean Mystery #1) - Ovidia Yu (4 stars) 1/29/23 2013 [288]
20. Aiden and Ky (Tales Of The Shareem, #3) - Allyson James (3 stars) 1/30/23 2007 [173]
21. Rio (Tales Of The Shareem, #2) - Allyson James (3 stars) 1/31/23 2006 [175]

Total Books - 21
Total pages - 5508

Group Total = 22,025

YEAR GOAL: 150 books/50 nE, 37,000 pages

JANUARY: 8 books/4 nE, 1,680 pages, avg. 210 pages
TOTAL: 8 books/4 nE, 1,680 pages, avg. 210 pages

JANUARY BOOKS:
1. Widukindus Corbeius, Rerum gestarum Saxonicarum libri tres Book II [967?] 38 pages [HTML, Biblioteca Augustana] [in Latin]
2. Widukindus Corbeius, Rerum gestarum Saxonicarum libri tres Book III [973] 54 pages [HTML, Biblioteca Augustana] [in Latin]
3. Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions [1884] 83 pages
4. Naguib Mahfouz, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma [1983, tr. 1992] 148 pages
5. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le cru et le cuit [1964] 402 pages [Kindle, Open Library] [in French]
6. Lisa Randall, Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions [2005] 500 pages
7. Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization [2010] 310 pages [Kindle Unlimited]
8. Mario Benedetti, La tregua [1959] 145 pages [Kindle] [in Spanish]

GROUP TOTAL: 23,705

Here's my January books:

1. Fire Break--Hope Malone--84 pages
2. Christmas Traditions, Truths and Total Baubles--Nick Page--266 pages
3. One Night--Vonne B--81 pages
4. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law--Mary Roach--306 pages
5. Christmas Wishes--Joann Baker and Patricia Mason--22 pages
6. The Algonquin Kid: Adventures Growing Up at New York's Legendary Hotel--Michael Elihu Colby--366 pages
7. The Keeper of Lost Things--Ruth Hogan--284 pages
8. The Christmas Bear--B. N. Rundell--221 pages
9. Prove or Perish: Resort at Castaway Bay--Kathy Daley--165 pages
10. Good Girl--Vonne B.--87 pages
11. Covering Christmas--Caleb Marks--247 pages
12. Entangled--Hank Dolworth--40 pages
13. In Knots--Hank Dolworth--37 pages
14. Fire Ants--Adam K. White--32 pages
15. The Stranger--Cassie Mint--60 pages
16. Horse--Geraldine Brooks--401 pages
17. Stripped Bare--Aila Glass--88 pages
18. The Governess' Punishment--Rosy Cheeks--16 pages
19. Roly-Poly Prole--Elizabeth Javidan--32 pages
20. Stripped 1--Emma Rose--19 pages
21. The Naughty Nineties--Peter Seymour--12 pages
22. The Wild Party--Joseph Moncure March--110 pages
23. Stripped 2--Emma Rose--17 pages
24. The Maid--Nina Prose--304 pages
25. Daddy's Dirty Beaches--K S Originals--37 pages
26. The Roommate Dom--Lexi Renard--43 pages
27. Charming Bookstore Mysteries, Book 1--Amy Rafferty--87 pages
28. Charming Bookstory Mysteries, Book 2--Amy Rafferty--84pages
29. Charming Bookstore Mysteries, Book 3--Amy Rafferty--82 pages
30. Charming Bookstore Mysteries, Book 4--Amy Rafferty--84 pages
31. I Need My Monster--Amy Noll--32 pages
32. Because of Him--Vonne B.--60 pages
33. Life on the Mississippi--Rinker Buck--384 pages
34. Swingers Light Up Vegas--Adriana Kraft--26 pages

Pages: 4537

GROUP TOTAL: 28,242

Januari:
1. Mimic by Daniel Cole - 300 - ★★★★
2. Fade away by Harlan Coben - 346 - ★★★★
3. The puppet show by M.W. Craven - 342 - ★★★★★
4. And now you're back by Jill Mansell - 322 - ★★★★
5. Back spin by Harlan Coben - 343 - ★★★★
6. Harry Potter and the deadly hallows by J.K. Rowling - 607 - ★★★★★

Totals January:
6 books; 2260 pages


Group Total: 30,502 pages