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Here are the totals for the year so far! Add your numbers for February. (if you add your pages to a previous month I have already tallied, please message me so I can update the total for the overall total for the year!)

January 2024: 33,656 pages

9. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (390 pages)
10. The Complete Chi’s Sweet Home, Part 1 by Kanata Konami (480 pages)
11. An Improvised Life: A Memoir by Alan Arkin (201 pages)
12. Nevermore (Supernatural #1) by Keith R.A. DeCandido (315 pages)
13. Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther (206 pages)
14. A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski (312 pages)
15. The Complete Chi’s Sweet Home, Part 2 by Kanata Konami (464 pages)
16. Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark (300 pages)


My February Total: 2668 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 2,668 PAGES

YEAR GOAL: 145 books/35 nE, 37,000 pages

JANUARY: 8 books/2 nE, 1705 pages, avg. 213 pages
FEBRUARY: 7 books/1 nE, 2,605 pages, avg. 372 pages
TOTAL: 15 books/3 nE, 4,310 pages, avg. 287 pages

FEBRUARY BOOKS:
9. Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages [1948, Eng. tr. 1953] 718 pages
10. Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading [1996] 372 pages
11. Dirk J. Struik, Yankee Science in the Making: Science and Engineering in New England from Colonial Times to the Civil War [1948, rev. 1962, Dover ed. 1991] 544 pages
12. Maryse Condé, Traversée de la Mangrove [1989] 265 pages [Kindle, Open Library] [in French]
13. Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Way of the Masks [part I, 1975, part II, 1979, Eng. tr. 1982] 249 pages
14. Govert Schilling, Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy [2017] 339 pages
15. Xosé Neira Vilas, Memoirs of a Peasant Boy [1961, Eng. tr. 2004] 118 pages [Kindle]

GROUP TOTAL: 5,273 pages

FEBRUARY
13. If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos 333 pages
14. Stupid Things I Won't Do When I'm Older by Steven Petrow 240 pages
15. Truevine by Beth Macy 344 pages
16. Among My Souvenirs by Connie Francis 640 pages
17. Two Women Walk Into A Bar by Cheryl Strayed 30 pages
18. Walking With Peety by Eric O'Grady 291 pages
19. No Surrender by Christopher Edmunds 324 pages
20. No Woman No Cry by Rita Marley 224 pages
21. The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzby 216 pages
22. Love, Lies, Murder by Gary C. King 349 pages

Total for February: 3,191
Group Total: 8,464

FEBRUARY

21) The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch, 528 pgs
22) The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes, 390 pgs
23) The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer, 308 pgs
24) Two Trains Running by August Wilson, 110 pgs
25 Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, 218 pgs
26) Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller, 357 pgs
27) Demian by Hermann Hesse, 102 pgs
28) Why We Read Books by Shannon Reed, 336 pgs
29) Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, 222 pgs
30) A Planned Occasion by Angie Kim, 27 pgs
31) Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry, 176 pgs
32) An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro, 206 pgs
33) The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell, 142 pgs
34) The Beauties by Anton Chekhov, 8 pgs
35) Happiness Falls by Angie Kim, 372 pgs
36) Wants by Grace Paley, 10 pgs
37) Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke, 224 pgs

Total = 3,736 pages

GROUP TOTAL = 12,200 PAGES

Here are my February reads:

1. Surrey SFS--The Complete Series--Nicola Davidson--395 pages
2. Dog On It--Spencer Quinn--305 pages
3. Conquered by the Midnight Desperado--Stacy-Deanne and Venus Ray--37 pages
4. The Man in the Brown Suit--Agatha Christie--279 pages
5. Fahrenheit 451--Ray Bradbury--190 pages
6. Surrender--Adara Wolf and R. Phoenix--246 pages
7. Introducing Gertrude, Gumshoe--R. E. Merrill--235 pages
8. The Rogue's Naughty New Maid--Stacy-Deanne and Venus Ray--29 pages
9. Surrounded by Energy Vampires: How to Slay the Time, Joy, and Soul Suckers in Your Life--Thomas Erikson--338 pages
10. Shoalin Sluts: Sensual Sex Fu--Riley Rose--97 pages
11. Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes--Stephen A. Smith--276 pages
12. Moonshadow--Thea Harrison--311 pages
13. The Wallflower's Unseen Charm--Rose Pearson--202 pages
14. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store--James McBride--400 pages
15. The Double Life of Benson Yu--Kevin Chong--206 pages

Pages: 3546

GROUP TOTAL: 15,746 PAGES

February

16. The Hollow of Fear (Lady Sherlock, #3) – Sherry Thomas (4 stars) 2/4/24 [335]
17. Star Nomad (Fallen Empire, #1) – Lindsay Buroker (4 stars) 2/6/24 2016 [229]
18. The Art of Theft (Lady Sherlock, #4) – Sherry Thomas (4 stars) 2/9/24 [303]
19. Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5) – Sherry Thomas (4 stars) 2/13/24 [352]
20. The Singles Table (Marriage, #3) – Sara Desai (4 stars) 2/15/24 [332]
21. The Twelfth Child (Serendipity, #1) – Bette Lee Crosby (3 stars) 2/17/24 [259]
22. Twisted Love (Twisted, #1) – Ana Huang (2 stars) 2/19/24 [360]
23. Harmony's Way (Breeds, #7; Feline Breeds, #6) – Lora Leigh (3 stars) 2/22/24 [314]
24. Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1) – Elizabeth Lim (4 stars) 2/24/24 [464]
25. Writers of the Purple Sage (A Jolie Wyatt Mystery, #1) – Barbara Burnett Smith (4 stars) 2/26/24 [251]
26. The Stationery Shop - Marjan Kamali (4 stars) 2/27/24 [312]
27. A Store at War (Marlow’s Department Store, #1) - Joanna Toye (3 stars) 2/28/24 2019 [393]

Total Books - 12
Total pages - 3904

Group total: 19,650

sorry for being late in posting this.