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I don't know where the year has gone but, boy, how it has flown! List your completed July reads/pages here! I still have no access to a computer but am keeping track of numbers for previous numbers and will give a total soon!

You must be having a lot of fun, Leah, for time to "fly by" so quickly! haha! ;)

Read in July:

86) Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim, 336 pgs
87) A Man of Property by John Galsworthy, 364 pgs
88) Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen, 228 pgs
89) Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry, 250 pgs
90) The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous, 72 pgs
91) Lois the Witch by Elizabeth Gaskell, 94 pgs (short story)
92) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 378 pgs
93) The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar, 356 pgs
94) The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell, 274 pgs
95) The Priory by Dorothy Whipple, 528 pgs
96) Moving On by Sara Steger, 206 pgs
97) The Only Child by Guojing, 112 pgs (short story)
98) Regret by Kate Chopin, 9 pgs (short story)
99) Here We Are by Dorothy Parker, 10 pgs (short story)
100) A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker, 6 pgs (short story)
101) Locke & Key Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill, 170 pgs
102) The Destructors by Graham Greene, 40 pgs (short story)
103) Eve’s Diary by Mark Twain, 109 pgs (short story)
104) Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, 300 pgs

Total = 3,842 Pages

GROUP TOTAL = 3,842 PAGES

YEAR GOAL: 145 books/25 nE, 36,000 pages

JANUARY: 10 books, 3 nE, 2,478 pages, avg. 248 pages
FEBRUARY: 7 books, 2 nE, 1,689 pages, avg. 241 pages
MARCH: 7 books, 1 nE, 2,565 pages, avg. 366 pages
APRIL: 10 books, 3 nE, 3,047 pages, avg. 305 pages
MAY: 9 books, 5 nE, 2,540 pages, avg. 282 pages
JUNE: 9 books, 3 nE, 2,515 pages, avg. 279 pages
JULY: 20 books, 3,816 pages, avg. 191 pages
TOTAL:72 books, 17 nE, 16,135 pages, avg. 224 pages

JULY BOOKS:
53. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra [1606] about 130 pages
54. Oscar Wilde, Vera; or, The Nihilists [1880, pub. 1882] 147 pages
55. Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere’s Fan [1892] about 140 pages
56. Oscar Wilde, Salomé [1893, Eng. tr. 1894] about 125 pages
57. Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance [1893] about 100 pages
58. Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband [1895] about 100 pages
59. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest [1895] 187 pages
60. Philip Traci, The Love Play of Antony and Cleopatra: A Critical Study of Shakespeare’s Play [1970] 171 pages
61. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, In the First Circle: A Novel. The Restored Text [1955-1958, Eng. tr. 2009] 741 pages
62. Franklin M. Dickey, Not Wisely But Too Well: Shakespeare’s Love Tragedies [1957] 205 pages
63. Oscar Wilde, A Florentine Tragedy [unfinished, pub. 1908] 33 pages
64. Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories [1888] 96 pages
65. Serhiy Zhadan, Voroshilovgrad [2010, Eng. tr. 2016] 445 pages [Kindle]
66. Oscar Wilde, Intentions and The Soul of Man Under Socialism [1891] 333 pages
67. Oscar Wilde, The Rise of Historical Criticism [1879, pub. 1908] 108 pages
68. Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde at Oxford: A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress, on March 1, 1983 30 pages
69. Oscar Wilde, Miscellanies (Complete Writings, v. 8) [pub. 1908] 321 pages
70. Oscar Wilde, The Duchess of Padua [1883] 108 pages
71. Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates [1891] 104 pages
72. Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories [1891] 192 pages

GROUP TOTAL: 7,658 pages

July

87. The Work of Art (Somerset Stories, #1) – Mimi Matthews (5 stars) 7/3/25 [392]
88. The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin Mystery, #1) – Boris Akunin (3 stars) 7/5/25 1998 [256]
89. Rogue Protocol (Murderbot Diaries, #3) – Martha Wells (4 stars) 7/7/25 [158]
90. Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries, #4) – Martha Wells (4 stars) 7/8/25 [163]
91. The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted – Robert Hillman (5 stars) 7/12/25 [320]
92. The Seed Keeper – Diane Wilson (4 stars) 7/14/25 [372]
93. Kitchens of the Great Midwest – J. Ryan Stradal (3 stars) 7/17/25 [336]
94. The Mill House Murders (The House Murders, #2) – Yukito Ayatsuji (3 stars) 7/17/25 [253]
95. The Christmas Bookshop (Christmas Bookshop, #1) – Jenny Colgan (3 stars) 7/20/25 [335]
96. Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1) - Sylvain Neuvel (5 stars) 7/24/25 [322]
97. Summer Moon – Jill Marie Landis (4 stars) 7/26/25 [388]
98. The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers – Samuel Burr (4 stars) 7/28/25 [362]
99. A Coral Kiss – Jayne Ann Krentz (5 stars) 7/30/25 [387]
100. Quesadillas – Juan Pablo Villalobos (4 stars) 7/31/25 [158]

Total Books - 14
Total pages - 4202

GROUP TOTAL: 11,860

JULY
73. The Rule Of Crime And Me by Anne Jaeger 267 pages
74. Bestial by Harold Schecter 366 pages
75. Trauma Room 2 by Phillip Allen Green 164 pages
76. The Truth About Demons by C.A. Gilchrist 379 pages
77. Good Dog by David Benedietto 336 pages
78. Once Upon A Time by Harry Maclean 566 pages
79. Beach Music by Pat Conroy 656 pages
80. Out Of The Woods by Gregg Olsen 319 pages
81. Hearts Of Darkness by Jana Monroe 278 pages
82. Leave Out the Tragic Parts by Dave Kindred 229 pages
83. Obitchuary by Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes 208 pages
84. From Here To The Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough 304 pages

Total For July: 4,072
Group Total: 15,932

JULY

158. Dark Screams, Volumn 2 by Robert McCammon 133 pages
159. Olivetti by Allie Millington 256 pages
160. Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack 342 pages
161. Mermaid Beach by Sheila Roberts 537 pages
162. The Lifecycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight 379 pages
163. Hostile Tac-over by Gretchen Allen 192 pages
164. Deep Past by Eugene Linden 330 pages
165. My Son's Secret by Roberta Kagan 360 pages
166. The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo 328 pages
167. The Storyteller's Death by Ann Davilla Cardinal 320 pages
168. Colorless by Haruki Murakami 386 pages
169. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (audio version) 384 pages
170. The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap 336 pages
171. A Story to Kill by Lynn Cahoon 251 pages
172. Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley 368 pages
173. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (Kindle version) 384 pages
174. My Extraordinary Ordinary Life by Sissy Spacek 288 pages
175. Wild New World by Dan Flores 448 pages
176. Irena's Children by Tilar J. Mazzeo 317 pages
177. Weyward by Emilia Hart 408 pages
178. The Troubled Girls of Dragomire Academy by Anne Ursu 423 pages
179. Dance With the Dead by H. P. Mallory 156 pages
180. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez 240 pages

Total Read for the Month: 7566
Group Total: 23,498

Here's July's reads:

1. The Neighbor's Son--K. Webster--126 pages
2. Based on a True Story--Norm MacDonald--240 pages
3. Assassin Daddy--Zack Wish--232 pages
4. Mommy Calls Me Princess--T L Travis--167 pages
5. A Gentleman's Gentleman--T J Alexander--323 pages
6. His Son's Ex--K C. Crowne--401 pages
7. Elephant Company--Vicki Constantine Croke--343 pages
8. Blood and Bravado--Atreus Rosewood--257 pages
9. Hot Summer Night--Casey Cox--70 pages
10. Rust and Stardust--Atreus Rosewood--254 pages
11. Spring Is...--Barbara Pinke--31 pages
12. Only One Beach House--K. M. Neuhold--68 pages
13. My Rakish Lord--Anne Shaw--156 pages
14. Hot Pucking Summer--Casey Cox--68 pages

Pages: 2737

GROUP TOTAL: 26,235