Paging All Bookworms! discussion

A new year and a new set of numbers. Post your pages read on this page, for the month of January. And here are the results for 2018:

January 2018: 38,891 Pages
February 2018: 34,739 Pages
March 2018: 37, 986 Pages
April 2018: 42,716 Pages
May 2018: 29,638 Pages
June 2018: 35,926 Pages
July 2018: 43,793 Pages
August 2018: 29,567 Pages
September 2018: 23,310 Pages
October 2018: 34,088 Pages
November 2018: 34,000 pages
December 2018: 31,929 pages

For a total read, as a group, in 2018 at 416,583 pages! Awesome job guys! Think we can surpass it this year? Let's find out!

1. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay (544 pages)
2. Letters to Same by Daniel Gottlieb (176 pages)

My January Total: 720 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 720 PAGES

1. Simon VS the Homo Sapiens Agenda--Becky Albertalli--303 pages
2. No Summit Out of Sight--Jordan Romero and Linda LeBlanc--355 pages
3. Beartown--Fredrik Backman--414 pages
4. The Sun Does Shine--Anthony Ray Hinton--269 pages
5. Us Against You--Fredrik Backman--435 pages
6. Dog Diaries--James Patterson/Steven Butler--191 pages
7. The Bookseller--Cynthia Swanson--336 pages
8. The Au Pair--Emma Rous--360 pages
9. The Professor's Secret--Ava Sterling--11 pages
10. Mary Poppins--P. L. Travers--191 pages
11. Iced Chiffon--Duffy Brown--297 pages
12. Johnny Tremain--Esther Forbes--300 pages

3462 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 4182 PAGES

Ugh -- I raised my goal from 10 to 11 per month for this year, and I start off with 6! They were a little longer than my average, but still not a good month, and January is usually my high month thanks to two holidays.

YEAR GOAL: 132 books/20 nE, 36,000 pages
JANUARY: 6 books/2 nE, 2,096 pages, avg. 350 pages
TOTAL: 6 books/2 nE, 2,096 pages, avg. 350 pages

JANUARY BOOKS:

1. Hwang Sok-yong, The Old Garden [2000; tr. 2012] 549 pages [Kindle]
2. Hwang Sok-yong, The Guest [2001, tr. 2006] 243 pages [Kindle]
3. Honoré de Balzac, Un grand homme de province en Paris [1839] 284 pages [in French]
4. Honoré de Balzac, Les souffrances de l'inventeur [1843] 177 pages [in French]
5. John D'Agata, The Next American Essay [2003] 475 pages
6. Donald Culross Peattie, Green Laurels: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalists [1936] 368 pages


GROUP TOTAL: 6,278 pages

Read in January, 2019:

1.) The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, 435 pgs
2.) Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 348 pgs
3.) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, 144 pgs
4.) From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, 136 pgs
5.) The House of Unexpected Sisters by Alexander McCall Smith, 241 pgs
6.) Sounder by William Armstrong, 128 pgs
7.) The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie, 104 pgs
8.) The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, 116 pgs
9.) The Wonderful O by James Thurber, 80 pgs
10.) Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, 371 pgs
11.) The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, 406 pgs
12.) Eva's Treetop Festival by Rebecca Elliott, 80 pgs
13.) The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery, 248 pgs
14.) What If It's Us? by Becky Albertalli, 437 pgs
15.) If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin, 197 pgs

Total = 3,471 pages

GROUP TOTAL = 9,749 pages

Read in January 2019: (NOT MANY!)

1.After I’m Gone. Laura Lippmann. 1/1/19. 459 pages.
2. Force of Nature Jane Harper. 1/1/19 . 329 pages
3. The Brutal Telling Louis Penny. 1/27/19 372 pages.
4. Magpie Murders. 1/27/19. 502 pages.
5. In Pieces Sally Field. 1/12/19. 399 pages.
6. My Sister, the Serial Killer. Oyinkan Braithwaite. 1/6/19. 226 pages
7. Lethal White. Robert Galbraith. 1/14/19. 656 pages.

My total pages read in January= 2,943

Group Total in January = 12, 692

January:

1. Vuurtorenwachter by Camilla Läckberg - 425 - ★★★★
2. Erfenis by Apotheker & van Dissel - 340 - ★★★
3. IJsprinses by Camilla Läckberg - 296 - ★★★★
4. The long road to Mercy by David Baldacci - 401 - ★★★★
5. Stadspanters by Astrid Haerens - 215 - ★★

Totals January:
5 books; 1677 pages


Group total - 16,664 pages

1) City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) by Cassandra Clare - 485 pages
2) The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Bobotis - 320 pages
3) Last to Die (Rizzoli & Isles #10) by Tess Gerritsen - 338 pages
4) The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick - 302 pages
5) Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell #1) by Dean Koontz - 560 pages



Total January pages: 2,005

Group Total: 18,669

January:
1.More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Mexico Women 144 pages
2.Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory 304 pages
3. Grave Sight 293 pages
4. Still Life With Brook Trout 224 pages
5. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth 125 of 290 pages
6.Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo 256 pages
7. All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, the Superstar Whose Life Ended on Murderers' Row 400 pages
8.Sergeant Rex: The Unbreakable Bond Between a Marine and His Military Working Dog 290 pages
My Total pages: 2,036

Group Total: 20,705

January:

1. Imagine That by Mark Fins 328 pgs
2. Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn 196 pgs
3. Death in Lover's Lane by Carolyn Hart 320 pgs.
4. Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny 400 pgs
5. In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming 308 pgs
6. All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn 192 pgs
7. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones 308 pgs
8. Willnot by James Sallis 178 pgs
9. London Fields by Martin Amis 482 pgs
10. The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware 368 pgs
11. My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok 369 pgs
12. The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 292 pgs
13. Force of Nature by Jane Harper 326 pgs
14. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer 368 pgs
15. Bird Box by Josh Malerman 262 pgs
16. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri 340 pgs
17. Paper Ghosts by Julie Heaberlin 368 pgs

TOTAL FOR MONTH: 5405 pgs.
GROUP TOTAL: 26,110

Beverly wrote: "January:

1. Imagine That by Mark Fins 328 pgs
2. Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn 196 pgs
3. Death in Lover's Lane by Carolyn Hart 320 pgs.
4. Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny 400 pg..."

Amazing again, Beverly!