All the pages you read discussion

O.k., so I think the best way for me to track this is to post at the end of each month which books I have finished and total up the pages, then keep a running total. So November will be the starting month and we will see if I can reach this goal by the end of the year. All right *cracks knuckles* let's get started!!

An ambitious goal, good luck, Trisha! Can't wait to see what you read!

Good Luck!!!! Make sure to let us know if there was anything that was excellent that you read... I'm always looking for new books. Have Fun!!

November Pages:

1."One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Ken Kesey Great book! Great characters! But you just knew that it was not going to end well...
Pages: 272
2."The Catcher in the Rye" - J.D. Salinger Horrible book! The main character spends all of his time whining and complaining about everyone and everything. Yawn. Not sure how this one became a classic...
Pages: 214
3. "A Farewell to Arms" - Ernest Hemmingay
Pages: 326
4. "A Separate Peace" - John Knowles
Pages: 204

Grand Total: 1,016 pgs

Trisha wrote: "...2."The Catcher in the Rye" - J.D. Salinger Horrible book! The main character spends all of his time whining and complaining about everyone and everything. Yawn. Not sure how this one became a classic...."

I felt the same way. I wanted to deck the main character by the time I was 1/3 of the way into the book. I can admire Salinger's skill as a writer, but Holden Caulfield (sp?) just had to go.

Just finished "A Separate Peace". Short and sweet - but a brilliant novel. I must say that I actually loved it! Well written, believable characters, great read. Finally, I can see why this one became a classic - simple and timeless, ahhh teenage angst and coming of age in high school...

December pages:
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" - Truman Capote
Pages - 102
"The Stand" - Stephen King
Pages - 1,153
Grand total: 2,261

I am nearly finished with "The Stand" by Stephen King, which should really help to give my page number a boost!

Just finished "The Stand" and it was AWESOME!!

I love that book!

January Pages:
Currently reading:
"Moby Dick" - Herman Melville
"Crime and Punishment" - Dostoevsky
"War and Peace" - Tolstoy
"Gulliver's Travells" - Jonathan Swift 306 pgs
"Treasure Island" - Robert Louis Stevenson 249 pgs
"The Complete Works of The Wizard of Oz"
"The Woman in White" - Wilkie Collins
"The Time Machine" - H.G. Wells 90 pgs
Don't think I will finish them all this month, but that should be a large chunk of pages when I do!

Trisha wrote: "January Pages:
Currently reading:
"Moby Dick" - Herman Melville
"Crime and Punishment" - Tolstoy
"War and Peace" - Tolstoy
"Gulliver's Travells" - Jonathan Swift
"Treasure Island" - Robert Lo..."

I'm reading War and Peace as well, but a chapter a day for a year long readalong :)

Absolutely LOVED Treasure Island!! What a fun adventure!

Managed to finish "The Time Machine" in 3 hours! That was an interesting read, especially when you consider the time period that it was written. I really enjoyed it! Completely different from the movie!

Julie wrote: "Trisha wrote: "January Pages:
Currently reading:
"Moby Dick" - Herman Melville
"Crime and Punishment" - Tolstoy
"War and Peace" - Tolstoy
"Gulliver's Travells" - Jonathan Swift
"Treasure Island" - ..."

It certainly will add up a lot when you finish! You are very ambitious, or do you just like to read classics? :)

Trisha wrote: "Managed to finish "The Time Machine" in 3 hours! That was an interesting read, especially when you consider the time period that it was written. I really enjoyed it! Completely different from th..."

A fun story... the ending always messes with my head a bit. :-)

Asia wrote: "Julie wrote: "Trisha wrote: "January Pages:
Currently reading:
"Moby Dick" - Herman Melville
"Crime and Punishment" - Tolstoy
"War and Peace" - Tolstoy
"Gulliver's Travells" - Jonathan Swift
"Treas..."

I actually have a "Lifetime Reading List" that has about a billion books on it, a mix of contemporary and old-school classics, and I have been stocking up on them thanks to half-price bookstores and $1 sales, however, my bookshelves have become over run with unread books, so my goal this year is to read as many books from my shelves as possible and to try and resist the urge to by more :-)

thats a good goal. Good luck - I know it will be hard!

All right, here are my totals for Jan:
"Gulliver's Travels" - Jonathan Swift
306 pgs
"Treasure Island" - Robert Louis Stevenon
249 pgs
"The Time Machine" - H.G. Wells
90 pgs
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - Washington Irving
80 pgs.
"The Invisible Man" - H.G. Wells
110 pgs.

835 pgs for the month of Jan.
Grand Total: 3,096 pgs

I have a couple big books that I am still working on (War and peace, Crime and Punishment, and Moby Dick) which I am hoping to finish in Feb, so that should help to give my page count a boost!

3,096 pgs down and 46,904 more to go! I am almost there!.....almost.

Feb. Pages:
"The Old Man and the Sea" - Ernest Hemmingway
pgs: 127
"The Secret Garden" - Frances Hodgsen Burnett
Pgs. 276
"Crime and Punishment" - Dostoyevsky
Pgs. 522
"Brave New World" - Aldous Huxly
Pgs. 177
"Beowulf"
Pgs. 121
"2001: A Space Odyssey" - Arthur C. Clarke
Pgs. 236

Total for Feb: 1,459 pgs

Grand Total: 4,555

Hmmm...I'd better pick up the pace if I am going to make this goal!

March Pages:
Oh man, did I slack off this month or what!!!

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" - Forster
Pgs: 181
"Eragon" - Paolini
Pgs: 768

March Total: 949

Grand Total: 5,504

April pages:
"Around the World in 80 Days" - Jules Verne
163 pgs
"The Castle of Otranto" - Horace Walpole
115 pgs

April total: 278
Grand Total: 5,782

*hack...hack..* That's right. That's the sound of me choking on this challenge. All right, no more messing around! Time to kick out some pages people!!

It looks like I have 8 months to read 44,812 pages. Hmmm...that's a little over 5,500 pgs per month. It really didn't seem like that many pages in the beginning! All right, I may not beat this goal, but I'm certainly not going down without an admirable fight!!!

May pages:
"The Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal" - Conor Grennan
Pages: 283

More May pgs:
"Plain Truth" - Jodi Picoult
402 pgs

So far 685 pgs for May, but I still have a few more days to get some pages in!!

"The Secret Life of Bees" - Sue Monk Kidd
Pgs: 302

Total: 987 pgs

Grand total so far: 6,769 pgs
Almost there!!

"Eat, Pray, Love" - Elizabeth Gilbert
334 pgs

Grand Total: 7,103 pgs

"The Scarlet Pimpernel" - 254 pgs

Grand Total: 7,357 pgs

"A Discovery of Witches" - Deborah Harkness (579 pgs)
"The Bell Jar"- Sylvia Plath (296 pgs)
"Water for Elephants" - Sara Gruen (331 pgs)

Grand Total: 8,563 pgs

"Looking for Alaska" - John Green (221 pgs)
"Inkheart" - Cornelia Funke (534 pgs)
"The Albanian Affairs" - Susana Fortes (179 pgs)
"The Help" - Kathryn Stockett (444 pgs)
"One Thousand White Women" - Jim Ferguson (301 pgs)

Whoo-hoo!!! I just cleared 10,242 pgs! Now I only have 39,758 to go :-)

Good for you! What did you think of Inkheart and The Help?

I really liked them both. Inkheart was a fun, whimsical adventure while The Help was a bit more intense, but still surprisingly funny. Both were great reads!

"Broken April" - Ismail Kadaire 224 pgs
"The Hunger Games" Suzanne Collins. 374 pgs
"Catching Fire" - Suzanne Collins 391 pgs
"Mockingjay" - Suzanne Collins 400 pgs
"The Kite Runner" - Khaled Hosseini 371 pgs
"We Have Always Lived in the Castle" - Shirly Jackson 214 pgs

Total:1,974 pgs
Grand total: 12,216 pgs

Pages left: 37,784 pgs

"The Haunting of Hill House" - Shirly Jackson 208 pgs
"Still Alice" - Lisa Genova 293 pgs
"1977" - David Peace 200 pgs
"Skinny" - Diana Spechler 337 pgs

Total: 1,038 pgs
Grand Total: 13,254 pgs

"Fight Club" - Chuck P. 209 pgs
"The Book Thief" - Markus Zusak 550 pgs
"The Princess Bride" - William Goldman 399 pgs
"Snow FLower and the Secret Fan" - Lisa See 288 pgs
"The Forgotten Garden" - Kate Morton 549 pgs
"The Lost World" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 272 pgs

Pages: 2,267
Grand Total: 15,521 pages

""Garden Spells" - Sarah Addison Allen. 290 pgs
"Kafka on the Shore" - Haruki Murakami 436 pgs
"Coraline" - Neil Gaiman 162 pgs
"The World According to Garp" - John Irving 688 pgs
"The Alchemist" - Paulo Coelho 177 pgs
"I know why the caged bird sings" - Maya Angelou 281 pgs

Total: 2,034
Grand total: 17,555

Trisha, what'd you think of Garden Spells? I read Allen's Sugar Queen for book club... it was light but fun.

Lindsey wrote: "Trisha, what'd you think of Garden Spells? I read Allen's Sugar Queen for book club... it was light but fun."

It was ok. I did not love it, I think it was too similar to "Practical Magic". The main character got on my nerves pretty early on.

Good to know. My book club hasn't done a repeat author yet but it's come up once or twice as a suggestion. Your opinion on books seems to jive with mine pretty well, so I'll steer us away from that one if it comes up again. Thanks!

"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" - Rebecca Skloot 380 pgs
"The Namesake" -Jhumpa Lahiri 291 pgs
"The Bee-Loud Glade" - Steve Himmer. 222 pgs
"I am Number Four" - Pitticus Lore 440 pgs
"The Postman Always Rings Twice" - 116 pgs
"The Wind in the Willows" - Kenneth Grahame - 205 pgs

Total: 1,654
Grand Total: 19,209

"The Red Tent" - Anita Diamant 321 pgs
"Gilead" - Marilyn Robinson 249 pgs
"Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar children" - Ransom Riggs 348 pgs
"The Actual" - Saul Bellow 104 pgs
"Oryx and Crake" - 376 pgs
"The Night Circus" - Erin Morgenstern 387 pgs

Total: 1,785 pgs
Grand Total: 20,994 pgs

"The Absentee" - Margaret Edgeworth 266 pgs
"The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights" - John Steinbeck 293 pgs
"Lily of the Nile" - Stephanie Dray. 351 pgs
"Before I go to Sleep" - S.J. Watson 358 pgs