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And to put us back on track! Please post your pages read for August, here!

Read in August:

99) The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf, 272 pgs
100) Chatterton Square by E. H. Young, 378 pgs
101 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 3 by Beth Brower, 229 pgs
102 The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel, 307 pgs
103) History of the Rain by Niall Williams, 358 pgs
104) Kissing the Sky by Lisa Patton, 399 pgs
105) Sleepless by Gordon Korman, 228 pgs
106) We Chase Shadows by Richard Osman, 352 pgs
107) Separation of Church & Hate by Joel Fugelsang, 288 pgs
108) The Subtle Pleasures of Indiscretion by Alexander McCall Smith, 240 pgs
109) A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, 32 pgs
110) The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov, 44 pgs
111) The Rescuers by Margery Sharp, 149 pgs

Total Pages = 3,276 Pages

GROUP TOTAL = 3,276 PAGES

August

82. The Dog Behavior Book by Arden Moore 326 pages
83. The First Lady Of Murder by Cathy Scott 291 pages
84. Happiest Man On Earth by Eddie Jaku 208 pages
85. The Yahoo Boys by Carlos Barragan 287 pages
86. Tremors In The Blood by Amit Katwala 303 pages
87. Life by Keith Richards 547 pages
88. The Speckled Beauty by Rick Bragg 238 pages
89. Lights and Sirens by Kevin Grange 327 pages
90. A Need To Kill by Michael W. Cuneo 293 pages
91. Devout by David Archuleta 290 pages
92. Wheels Of Murder by Jeffrey Suave 256 pages
93. Old Friends by Tracy Kidder 352 pages
94. The Woodchipper Murder by Arthur Herzog 295 pages
95. The First Lady by James Patterson 338 pages

Total For August: 4,352 pages
Group Total: 7,628 pages

YEAR GOAL: 135 books/25 nE, 33,000 pages

JANUARY: 13 books, 1 nE, 2,615 pages, avg. 201 pages
FEBRUARY: 7 books, 1 nE, 2,990 pages, avg. 427 pages
MARCH: 9 books, 1 nE, 2,565 pages, avg. 285 pages
APRIL: 7 books, 1,836 pages, avg. 262 pages
MAY: 11 books, 2 nE, 3,347 pages, avg. 304 pages
JUNE: 12 books, 4,165 pages, avg. 347 pages
JULY: 7 books, 2,081 pages, avg. 298 pages
AUGUST: 8 books, 1 nE, 3,403 pages, avg. 425 pages
TOTAL: 74 books, 6 nE, 23,002 pages, avg. 311 pages

AUGUST BOOKS:
67. Kenneth W. Jones, Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India [1989] 243 pages
68. Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone (= The Dream of the Red Chamber) v.1: The Golden Days [1765] 540 pages
69. Le Ly Hayslip, with Jay Wurts, When Heaven & Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese woman’s journey from war to peace [1989] 368 pages
70. Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos. Les Liaisons Dangereuses, ou Lettres recueillies dans une Société et publiées pour l’instruction de
quelques autres [1782] 707 pages [in French, Project Gutenberg]
71. Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone (= The Dream of the Red Chamber) v.2: The Crab-Flower Club [1765] 601 pages
72. Gitanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand [2022] 513 pages [Kindle]
73. Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling [1771] 94 pages
74. Walter Benjamin, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings [Eng. tr. 1978] 337 pages [Kindle Unlimited]

GROUP TOTAL: 11,031 pages

August

94. The Harvey Girl – Dana Stabenow (4 stars) 8/2/26 [272]
95. Pony Express Special Delivery (saddles and Spurs, #5) – Rhonda Gibson (3 stars) 8/5/26 [283]
96. Heart Quest (Celta's Heartmates, #5) – Robin D. Owens (3 stars) 8/8/26 [342]
97. Pearl of China – Anchee Min (3 stars) 8/11/26 [280]
98. Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1) – Abby Jimenez (4 stars) 8/13/26 [389]
99. Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) – Leigh Bardugo (3 stars) 8/16/26 [479]
100. This Tender Land – William Kent Krueger (5 stars) 8/19/26 [450]
101. Forget Me Not (SEAL Team 12, #1) – Marliss Melton (4 stars) 8/21/26 [384]
102. Automatic Noodle – Annalee Newitz (4 stars) 8/22/26 [163]
103. The Secret Adversary (Tommy & Tuppence, #1) – Agatha Christie (3 stars) 8/25/26 [256]
104. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri (4 stars) 8/26/26 [305]
105. The Heist (Fox and O’Hare, #1) – Janet Evanovich (3 stars) 8/28/26 [295]
106. The Marked – Eve Langlais (2 stars) 8/29/26 [180]
107. Annie Bot – Sierra Greer (4 stars) 8/30/26 [298]
108. Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries, #5) – Martha Wells (5 stars) 8/31/26 [352]

Total Books - 15
Total pages - 4728

Group Total - 15,759