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Here are our numbers, so far, for 2019.

January 2019: 26,110 pages
February 2019: 34,928 pages
March 2019: 30,828 pages
April 2019: 26,669 pages

27. Somebody to Love: The Life, Death, and Legacy of Freddie Mercury by Matt Richards (448 pages)
28. Here is Where: Discovering America’s Great Forgotten History by Andrew Carroll (512 pages)
29. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay (306 pages)
30. The Outsider by Stephen King (576 pages)
31. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (338 pages)
32. Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George (289 pages)
33. The Sandman: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman (217 pages)
34. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder (380 pages)
35. Just Don’t Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the Mountain by Josh Sundquist (322 pages)


My May Total: 3,388 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 3,338 PAGES

Bone Music (Burning Girl #1) by Christopher Rice - 455 pages
Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse #12) by Charlaine Harris - 340 pages
Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices #2) by Cassandra Clare - 498 pages
Speak No Evil (No Evil Trilogy #1) by Allison Brennan - 434 pages
Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood #7) by J.R. Ward - 642 pages
Under Currents by Nora Roberts - 435 pages



May total: 2,804

Group Total: 6,142

May:
30. Leeuwentemmer by Camilla Läckberg - 372 - ★★★★★
31. De flirtcursus by Laura de Koning - 282 - ★★★
32. Heks by Camilla Läckberg - 688 - ★★★★★
33. A hope at the end of the world by Sarah Lark - 256 - ★★★★★
34. Sneeuwstorm en amandelgeur by Camilla Läckberg - 159 - ★★★
35. The only story by Julian Barnes - 178 - ★★★★
36. The Marsh King's daughter by Karen Dionne - 255 - ★★★★★
37. Expat Exit by Patricia Snel - 261 - ★★
38. Sleepless in Manhattan by Sarah Morgan - 242 - ★★★★
39. The mountain between us by Charles Martin - 298 - ★★★★★
40. Fifty shades of Grey by E.L. James - 450 - ★
41. Want alles gaat voorbij, maar niets gaat over Jo Claes - 319 - ★★★★
42. Sunset in Central Park by Sarah Morgan - 350 - ★★★★

Totals May:
13 books; 4110 pages


Group totals: 10,252 pages

47. Rees (Tales of the Shareem, #1) – Allyson James (3 stars) 5/1/19 [243]
48. Windigo Twilight (Great Lakes Legends, #1) – Colleen Rhoads (2 stars) 5/3/19 [256]
49. Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2) – Marissa Meyer (4 stars) 5/6/19 [464]
50. Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #10) – Nancy Atherton (4 stars) 5/7/19 [274]
51. Hospitality and Homicide ( A Tourist Trap Mystery, #8) – Lynn Cahoon (3 stars) 5/13/19 [217]
52. Delicious! - Ruth Reichl (4 stars) 5/15/19 [392]
53. Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3) – Marissa Meyer (4 stars) 5/18/19 [560]
54. Claimed (Brides of the Kindred, #1) – Evangeline Anderson (2 stars) 5/19/19 [321]
55. The American Heiress – Daisy Goodwin (2 stars) 5/21/19 [468]
56. The Best Of Black Lace 2 – Kerri Sharp (2 stars) 5/23/19 [320]
57. Bossa Novas, Bikinis, and Bad Ends (a Happy Hoofers Mystery, #4) – Mary McHugh (2 stars) 5/25/19 [352]
58. Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces – Miles J. Unger (4 stars) 5/26/19 [432]
59. Her Man of Affairs – Elizabeth Mansfield (3 stars) 5/28/19 [219]
60. His Lordship's Holiday Surprise – Kate Huntington (3 stars) 5/28/19 [256]
61. River Marked ( Mercy Thompson, #6) – Patricia Briggs (5 stars) 5/30/19 [291]
62. The Christmas Cookie Killer (Fresh-baked Mystery, #3) – Livia J. Washburn (3 stars) 5/31/19 [298]

Total Books - 16
Total pages - 5363
Group Total: 15,615

YEAR GOAL: 132 books/20 nE, 36,000 pages
JANUARY: 6 books/2 nE, 2,096 pages, avg. 350 pages
FEBRUARY: 8 books, 1,993 pages, avg. 249 pages
MARCH: 5 books/1 nE, 1,908 pages, avg. 382 pages
APRIL: 9 books/2 nE, 2,325 pages, avg. 258 pages
MAY: 15 books, 4,069 pages, avg. 271 pages
TOTAL: 43 books/5 nE, 12,391 pages, avg. 288 pages

MAY BOOKS:

29. Young-Ha Kim, Your Republic Is Calling You [2006; tr. 2010] 339 pages [Kindle]
30. Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica [1938] 311 pages
31. Zora Neale Hurston, Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings of Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers' Project [1999] 199 pages
32. Zora Neale Hurston, Moses, Man of the Mountain [1939] 261 pages
33. Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography [1942] 322 pages [Kindle]
34. Zora Neale Hurston, Collected Plays [2008] 389 pages
35. Zora Neale Hurston, Seraph on the Suwanee [1948] 499 pages
36. Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" [2018] 171 pages
37. Deborah G. Plant, Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit [2007] 241 pages
38. Hwang Sok-yong, Princess Bari [2007; tr. 2015] 248 pages [Kindle]
39. Hwang Sok-yong, Familiar Things [2011; tr. 2017] 216 pages
40. William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, part 2 [1590-91?] approx. 175 pages [Kindle]
41. William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, part 3 [1590-91?] approx. 175 pages [Kindle]
42. Phyllis Rackin, Shakespeare's Women [2005] 168 pages
43. Articles on Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy [1990-2018] 355 pages [Kindle]

GROUP TOTAL: 19,684 pages

May Books:

1. Survival Math: Notes on an All-American FamilyMitchell S. Jackson. 315 pages. 5/4/19. 4.5 stars.
2. The Widow #1. Fiona Barton. 336 pages* 5/10/19
3. I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives Caitlin Alifirenka. 393 pages. 4 stars. May 15, 2019
4. Matchmaking for Beginners Maddie Dawson. 380 pages. 5/31/19. 5 stars.
5. Echo Pam Munoz Ryan. 587 pages. 5/15/19
6. Birding for the Curious Nate Swick. 5/9/19 3.5 stars 176 pages
7. Red Clocks. Leni Zumas. 5/25/19. 356 pages. 5 stars
8. The Trespasser Tana French. 5/26/19. 4.5 stars. 464 pages
9. Adulthood Is a MythSarah Anderson. 5 stars. 5/12/19. 112 pages
10. About Betty's Boob Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau. 5/26/19. 4 stars. 192 pages
11. The One and Only Ivan Karen Applegate. May 31,2019. 6th page of TBR list. 325 pages.

My Total for May: 3,636 pages

Group Total for May: 23,320 pages

Here's what I read in May!

51) Becoming by Michelle Obama, 426 pgs
52) Swing by Kwame Alexander, 450 pgs
53) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, 140 pgs
54) The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith, 240 pgs
55) Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster, 249 pgs
56) Chocky by John Wyndham
57) A Distant View of Everything by Alexander McCall Smith, 256 pgs
58) The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde, 37 pgs
59) The Professor by Charlotte Bronte, 269 pgs
60) Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, 445 pgs
61) The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz, 387 pgs
62) The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials #3) by Philip Pullman, 467 pgs
63) The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley, 327 pgs
64) Kindred by Octavia Butler, 287 pgs
65) A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, 48 pgs

Total = 4,182 pages

GROUP TOTAL = ---- 27,502 PAGES

Terris wrote: "Here's what I read in May!

51) Becoming by Michelle Obama, 426 pgs
52) Swing by Kwame Alexander, 450 pgs
53) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, 140 pgs
54) The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Al..."

Nice job, nice selections.

MAY

The Manson Women and Me by Nikki Meredith 347 pages
Take Two Hearts by Richard Bransford 267 pages
Two Kisses For Maddy by Matthew Logelin 259 pages
All Over But The Shoutin' by Rick Bragg 329 pages
Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman 444 pages
My First Ladies by Nancy Clarke 199 pages
Forever and Ever, Amen by Paul Overstreet 195 pages
A League Of Dangerous Women by Mary Francis Bowles 231 pages
Ruth Bader Ginsberg: A Life by Jane Sherron 255 pages
The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings Of The Kings Of Rock and Roll by Mark Edmundson 223 pages
All I Want To Do Is Kill by Dale Hudson 577 pages
Half A Life by Darin Strauss 187 pages
The Last Time I Saw Her by Robert Scott 312 pages

Total: 3545
Group total: 31,627

Connie wrote: "Terris wrote: "Here's what I read in May!

51) Becoming by Michelle Obama, 426 pgs
52) Swing by Kwame Alexander, 450 pgs
53) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, 140 pgs
54) The Department of Sensiti..."

Thank you, Connie! :)

Didn't get much reading done but here is my list for May:

1. Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat: Enemies--Johnny Marciano--222 pages
2. Blood of Ten Kings--Edward Lazellari--494 pages
3. Meet Cute--Helena Hunting--370 pages
4. Gifts of an Eagle--Kent Durden--160 pages
5. Duke of Shadows--Gaelen Foley--522 pages
6. Died in the Wool--Peggy Ehrhart--280 pages
7. Light Filters In: Poems--Caroline Kaufman--211 pages

Pages 2259

GROUP TOTAL: 33886