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Add your pages counted for the month of June. Halfway through the year already!

January 2023: 30,502 pages
February 2023: 26,121 pages
March 2023: 29,210 pages
April 2023: 34,510 pages
May 2023: 30,378 pages

June was a good month!

74) Inheritance by Dani Shapiro, 252 pgs
75) 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith, 184 pgs
76) Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles, 321 pgs
77) Medea by Euripides, 59 pgs
78) Love That Dog by Sharon Creech, 112 pgs
79) Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulkagov, 123 pgs
80) How Much Land Does A man Need? by Leo Tolstoy, 54 pgs
81) The Paying Guest by George Gissing, 80 pgs
82) Old New York by Edith Wharton, 240 pgs
83) Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin, 476 pgs
84) Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old by Stephen Petrow, 272
85) The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks, 448 pgs
86) Unlearning God by Philip Gulley, 210 pgs
87) Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, 229 pgs
88) Rabble Starkey by Lois Lowry, 208 pgs

Total = 3,268 Pages

GROUP TOTAL = 3,268 PAGES

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

JANUARY: 8 books/4 nE, 1,680 pages, avg. 210 pages
FEBRUARY: 6 books/2nE, 1,822 pages, avg. 302 pages
MARCH: 7 books/4 nE, 2,643 pages, avg. 378 pages
APRIL: 12 books/5 nE, 3,362 pages, avg. 280 pages
MAY: 8 books/5 nE, 1,610 pages, avg. 201 pages
JUNE: 9 books/1 nE, 2,155 pages, avg. 239 pages
TOTAL: 51 books/21 nE, 13,272 pages, avg. 260 pages

JUNE BOOKS:
43. Rómulo Gallegos Freire, Doña Barbara [1929; 3rd rev. ed. 1954] 474 pages [Kindle, Open Library] [in Spanish]
44. Hesiod, etc., Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica [9th? to 5th centuries BCE; Loeb 3rd ed. 1936] 657 pages [Greek/English bilingual]
45. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe [1718] 316 pages
46. Paddy Chayefsky, The Tenth Man [1959] 100 pages
47. William Shakespeare (and Thomas Middleton?), The Life of Timon of Athens [c. 1606] about 100 pages [Kindle]
48. Lilian Hellman, Toys in the Attic [1959] 84 pages
49. Saul Levitt, The Andersonville Trial [1959] 88 pages
50. Articles on Timon of Athens (9 articles downloaded from Academic Search Premier) 176 pages
51. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus [c. 1607-1609] about 160 pages


GROUP TOTAL: 5,423 pages

June
30. Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours #3) by Cassandra Clare - 778 pages
31. New World: Inferno (New World #3) by Jennifer Wilson - 450 pages

June page count: 1,228

Group total: 6,651

June

120. Snowbird – Stef Ann Holm (4 stars) 6/1/23 [384]
121. Other Birds – Sarah Addison Allen (4 stars) 6/3/23 [304]
122. Twisted Threads (Mainely Needlepoint, #1) – Lea Wait (4 stars) 6/4/23 [305]
123. Earth Realm (The Change, #1) – Lori Aisling (4 stars) 6/5/23 [264]
124. Four Others (The Change, #2) – Lori Aisling (4 stars) 6/6/23 [291]
125. Wrongly Accused (SWAT: Top Cops, #1) – Laura Scott (3 stars) 6/6/23 [288]
126. The Humphrey Bogart Murder Case (Jacob Singer, #10) – George Baxt (3 stars) 6/11/23 [200]
127. The Great Witches Baking Show (Great Witches Baking Show, #1) – Nancy Warren (3 stars) 6/13/23 [210]
128. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (5 stars) 6/15/23 [291]
129. Sunrise on Half Moon Bay – Robyn Carr (3 stars) 6/17/23 [336]
130. Cars and Cold Cases (Isle of Man Ghostly Mystery, #3) - Diana Xarissa (3 stars) 6/19/23 [236]
131. It Happened One Wedding (FBI/US Attorney, #5) – Julie James (4 stars) 6/21/23 [304]
132. Gabriel's Fate – Emma Craig (3 stars) 6/23/23 [358]
133. The Spy Who Kissed Me – Pauline Baird Jones (4 stars) 6/25/23 [278]
134. Seth (Cyborgs: More Than Machines, #5) – Eve Langlais 6/26/23 [244]
135. Zarine: A Sweet Paranormal Romance (The Starling Genie, #1) – Deb Clarke (4 stars) 6/29/23 [192]
136. Piranesi – Susanna Clarke (3 stars) 6/30/23 [245]

Total Books - 17
Total pages - 4730

Group Total: 11,381

1. Tipping the Barrel--B. A. Tortuga--216 pages
2. Aim Higher--J. L. Merrow--10 pages
3. The Baller's Secret Baby--Normandie Alleman--178 pages
4. A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II--Simon Parkin--309 pages
5. Swipe for a Cosmo--Megan Wade--51 pages
6. Bean Flicker--Megan Wade--104 pages
7. A Little Groundhog Day Gamble--Allie Belle--139 pages
8. Smoldering Passion--Adriana Kraft--249 pages
9. A Little Halloween Hijinx--Ava Sinclair--137 pages
10. Playing With Fire--Amy Knupp--230 pages
11. Nut Grabber--Megan Wade--101 pages
12. Circle of Gold--Diana Palmer--185 pages
13. Birching His Bride--Golden Angel--153 pages
14. Professor Daddy--Rene Webb--124 pages
15. Tortoise Interruptus--JL Merrow--39 pages
16. The Big Dance--C. H. James--54 pages
17. Cats Don't Like Dinosaurs--Andy Wortlock--21 pages
18. Undressing the Duke--Erica Ridley--98 pages
19. Runaway Rogue--Cassie Mint--69 pages
20. It Can't Happen Here--Sinclair Lewis--397 pages
21. Danced Close--Annabeth Albert--132 pages
22. Hidden Girl--Vonne B.--60 pages
23. Dress Up Day--V. Moua--116 pages
24. If We Were Villains--M. L. Rio--370 pages
25. The Ninth District--Douglas Dorow--240 pages
26. Pampering Little Priscilla--Allie Belle and Bayleigh Rae--138 pages
27. The Sassy Submissive--Golden Angel--371 pages
28. Pencil Draws Opposites--Elisa Anderson--134 pages
29. Reluctantly Home--Imogen Clark--309 pages
30. Saved by my Dad's Best Friend--Haley Travis--78 pages
31. Straight Dad--Raleigh Ruebins--249 pages
32. Harry and the Hot Lava--Chris Robertson--19 pages

My pages: 5080

GROUP TOTAL: 16, 461

JUNE

138. Half the World by Joe Abercrombie 498 pgs
139. Taboo by Casey Hill 400 pgs
140. Grave Peril by Jim Butcher 378 pgs
141. The Wind is Not a River by Brian Payton 325
142. Karina by E. B. Mann 206 pgs
143. Lovesickness by Junji Ito 408 pgs
144. Vernon Can Read by Vernon Jordan Jr. 344 pgs
145. Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein 253 pgs
146. The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag 247 pgs
147. Haunted Legends by Ellen Datlow 352 pgs
148. Summer Hours at the Robbers Library by Sue Halpern 368 pgs
149. A Game of Proof by Tim Vicary 458 pgs
150. In Plain Sight by Linda Castillo 60 pgs
151. Seance on a Wet Afternoon by Mark McShane 194 pgs
152. Her Last Affair by John Searles 325 pgs
153. Seeds of Deception by Linda Castillo 74 pgs
154. The 13th Day of Christmas by Robert Blevins 196 pgs
155. Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield 464 pgs
156. A House of Bells by T. J. Croft 300 pgs
157. A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari 262 pgs
158. Alone by Richard Logan 208 pgs
159. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid 369 pgs
160. The Unforgiving Minutes by Mary Monica Pulver 306 pgs
161. Open Carry by Marc Cameron 304 pgs
162. Beach Read by Emily Henry 380 pgs
163. East of Peculiar by Suzann Ledbetter 384 pgs
164. Tiny Tales of Terror by Dave Musson 44 pgs
165. Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang 272 pgs
166. Mystery of the Dancing Statue by Kate Moseman 50 pgs

Pages Read for the Month: 8429
GROUP TOTAL 24,890

23. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (296 pages)
24. Did I Ever Tell You This? by Sam Neill (398 pages)
25. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime Joe Pompeo (344 pages)



My June Total: 1038 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 25,928 PAGES