One Million Pages Per Lifetime discussion

I have read a ton of books this year but I don't remember them all. Most of the ones that I remember were from when I bought my nook a month and a half ago. Where I really started going into my reading spree again.

Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern (192) 6/5/2010
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella by Stephenie Meyer (178) 6/7/2010
The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber (416) 5/30/2010
A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber (400) 6/21/2010
Dakota Born by Debbie Macomber (378)
Dakota Home by Debbie Macomber (376) 5/11/2010
Always Dakota by Debbie Macomber (384) 5/18/2010
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (498)
Buffalo Valley by Debbie Macomber (259) 6/11/2010
The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround by Freddy Balle (360) 7/5/2010
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (563) 7/8/2010
Vision in White by Nora Roberts
Total: 4329

I am reading Violet Eyes: A Retelling of the "Princess and the Pea" and will add to list shortly

My runner will make it to the other end of the beach soon!!!!

good luck :) Mine is running reallllly slow :)O

LOL! We'll all get there, even the one's that don't read as fast as others, aka Angela and me! :)

Great starting list Meghan!

Yay!!! It is still running

Keep on running!!!

LOL! Def!

Is this your first time reading the Twilight series, or are you rereading?

Definitely re-reading the series for about the 3rd time at least! Absolutely love it...the 3rd is my favorite though. I will be joining the Breaking Dawn Buddy Read later this month.

July
Violet Eyes: A Retelling of the "Princess and the Pea" by Debbie Viguié (256)
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks (405)
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (629)
The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan" by Cameron Dokey (256) 7/25/2010
The Diamond Secret: A Retelling of "Anastasia" by Suzanne Weyn (240) 7/26/2010
Total: 6115

Meghan wrote: "Definitely re-reading the series for about the 3rd time at least! Absolutely love it...the 3rd is my favorite though. I will be joining the Breaking Dawn Buddy Read later this month."

That's great! I love Eclipse as well. I have only read all of the books once each, except Eclipse, which I've read twice. Glad that you'll be participating with us! :D

Now on to reading and

Happy reading, Meghan!

Finished now will be reading or

Books On My Nook That Aren't Read

I will add and cross out as I go but right now Barnes & Noble is giving the opportunity to get about 12 free Classics every week until about mid-September so it is already quickly growing. I have read some of them before too. If anyone has any suggestions from this list that I should start reading right away, please let me know.

Number of Books Completed: 4
Completed, Currently Reading , To Read
1. Dracula
2. Little Women
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. The Host
5. The Diamond Secret: A Retelling of "Anastasia"
6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
7. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
9. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
10. Peter Pan
11. The Secret Garden
12. Tarzan of the Apes
13. The Call of the Wild / White Fang
14. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
15. Treasure Island
16. The Wind in the Willows
17. Hannah's List
18. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
19. Cyrano de Bergerac
20. Emma
21. Ivanhoe
22. Pygmalion and Three Other Plays
23. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
24. The Last of the Mohicans
25. The Phantom of the Opera
26. The Three Musketeers
27. The War of the Worlds
28. Sense and Sensibility
29. Water Song: A Retelling of "The Frog Prince"
30. Darkfever
31. Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of "Sleeping Beauty"
32. My Antonia
33. Northanger Abbey
34. Mansfield Park
35. Night World No. 1: Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder
36. Wuthering Heights
37. Wives and Daughters
38. A Room With a View
39. Les Liaisons Dangereuses
40. Persuasion
41. Jane Eyre
42. Anna Karenina
43. The Age of Innocence
44. Babbitt
45. Candide
46. Lady Chatterley's Lover
47. Leaves of Grass
48. Madame Bovary
49. Moll Flanders
50. Sons and Lovers
51. The Jungle
52. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
53. The Scarlet Letter
54. Uncle Tom's Cabin
55. Women in Love
56. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
57. Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
58. This Side of Paradise
59. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
60. Les Misérables
61. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
62. The Beautiful and Damned
63. The Life of Charlotte Brontë
64. Agnes Grey
65. The Wings of the Dove
66. Sister Carrie
67. Sentimental Education
68. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
69. Vanity Fair
70. The Voyage Out
71. Villette
72. Main Street
73. Night And Day
74. O Pioneers!
75. The Portrait of a Lady
76. Far from the Madding Crowd
77. The House of Mirth
78. Daisy Miller and Washington Square
79. Nana
80. Bleak House
81. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

***August***
by Stephenie Meyer (756) 8/2/10
by Debbie Macomber (400) 8/6/2010
by J.K. Rowling (309) 8/27/2010
by Stieg Larsson (426) 8/30/2010

Total: 8006

I am currently reading and if anyone has any suggestions from my list please let me know.

I noticed you like Jane Austen. I happen to be a fan myself. I don't know what kind of suggestions you are looking for? I have one Elizabeth Aston has written a series that are the sequel to Pride and Prejudice. The title is Mr. Darcy's Daughter. I haven't read it yet.

I was thinking more from my own list, but I will look into that book. Thanks.

Ok Finished and will be starting and

Ok so I thought I wouldn't really get into ...not normally a book I would read. But it is soooo good. Really creepy! I even am getting weird dreams about it if it is the last book I am reading before bed!

is also very good. It is a little more slow moving, but I am intrigued to see what happens...murder is on the foot!

How many pages are you at now? Your last page count was 7,271 but you finished Hannah's List. We are about the same pages wise. :) I hope you can get your 10K goal by next month!

I am to 7271 with Hannah's List! But right now I am reading 3 books. Dracula, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone. They have 433, 426, and 309 pages respectively. Which would put me at approx. 8400 if I can ever finish them. Haha got to read the first two faster! Harry Potter is going quick though.

That's great! :) I think you can def. reach your goal! Especially if you have more books that have in pages the 400's. It's a good way to get more pages in! You'll have to tell me how Dracula and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo are. Obviously I've heard of Dracula and seen the movies but I've never read the book before.

good luck and how is dracula? i just watched the movie yesturday and it was good

I have never seen the movie. It was intriguing for the first 5 chapters because you get to see Dracula. Now I am in chapter 9 and it has changed to the setting in England. There are still a lot of pages for me to read (only at about 140 or so). There is a creepy edge in these chapters too but you have no idea where it is coming from...if you get what I mean.

it sounds good since i havent had a good scary book in a long time

Haha Dracula isn't my normal type of book...I usually read nice "fluffy" books. Which right now I am reading a few not so "fluffy" books which is why it is taking me longer. Especially since this week I worked 54 hrs and for a while will be doing 60 hr work weeks. So I feel like I should have been done with these books forever ago.

I will look into The Exorcist. Because I heard the movie/s were good.

Meghan: u have inspired me to read dracula which i have out from the library right now. thanks :)

Heather wrote: "Meghan: u have inspired me to read dracula which i have out from the library right now. thanks :)"

You should set up a buddy read. Always better to read with other people, especially classics. You get more out of it and people can motivate you. Might be a good time because it's one of the free classics this week (ebook) at B & N. So, a lot of people, like me, have probably downloaded it intending to read it later.

I so would Shay but I am about 1/2 way through it already :( I would put it off but I really want to try finish it this month. I haven't finished anything since the 6th.

YAY! I finally finished a book. Now time to whip through GWTDT

which one?

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone I want to re-read them all before the last movie hits theaters. Because I am weird like that.

Shay wrote: "Heather wrote: "Meghan: u have inspired me to read dracula which i have out from the library right now. thanks :)"

You should set up a buddy read. Always better to read with other people, especial..."

Shay the next book I pick out a classic which my list is still growing but it won't let me put on anymore new ones (too many characters). I will definitely set up a Buddy Read as long as it is cool with Z and Elyssa.

Books On My Nook that Aren't Read (Cont'd)

82. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
83. The Time Machine/The Invisible Man
84. Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
85. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
86. The Picture of Dorian Gray
87. Frankenstein
88. Inferno
89. Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
90. The Woman in White
91. The Hunger Games
92. Kim
93. The Prince and the Pauper
94. The Jungle Books
95. The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
96. The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
97. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
98. The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It
99. The Canterbury Tales
100. King Solomon's Mines
101. Gulliver's Travels
102. Sailing Alone Around the World
103. Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
104. Catching Fire
105. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I
106. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II
107. Iliad
108. Odyssey
109. Man in the Iron Mask
110. Tale of Two Cities
111. Christmas Carol, The Chimes & The Cricket on the Hearth
112. Oliver Twist
113. Journey to the Center of the Earth
114. Count of Monte Cristo
115. Crime and Punishment
116. Aesop's Fables
117. Mockingjay
118. Night World, No. 2: Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate
119. Nevermore
120. Outlander
121. Night World: Volume 3

***September***
by Suzanne Collins (267) 9/7/2010
by Suzanne Collins (275) 9/13/2010
by Suzanne Collins (288) 9/18/2010
by J.K. Rowling (341) 9/25/2010
by Suzanne Weyn (145) 9/28/2010

Total: 9322

Finished and now onto and of course still reading

I am almost done with about 25 more pages left. I like this one a lot better than which was too predictable for my liking. It should hopefully be finished sometime tonight or tomorrow sometime. Then I will work through a little more and start up . Plus I have also added in when my nook is dying.

This is an awesome list Meghan! I love how you have some seasonal books! What's your page count now? It's got to be over 9K now.

Not yet! I do not have nearly enough time to read with working 50+ hours a week. But I am will be done with Mockingjay probably tonight or tomorrow! And starting another book shortly after that.

Yay! Over 9K and about halfway through another book! If I finish the 3 I am reading right now I will be over 10K! Now better get to reading my three

I finished and will now start with the VR for October and still reading and

Reading Plan for the next 2 months after I have finished what I am reading now:

I probably won't finish all of these but this is the general order. Also added in some that I checked out from the library.

Paper Format:
1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
5. Captured by Desire

Ebook Format:
1. Dracula
2. A Walk to Remember
3. Eat, Pray, Love
4. One for the Money
5. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
6. City of Bones
7. City of Ashes
8. City of Glass
9. Bed of Roses
10. Savor the Moment
11. Happy Ever After
12. Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of "Sleeping Beauty"
13. Wintergirls
14. Shanghai Girls
15. Hero at Large
16. The Handmaid's Tale
17. Where Angels Go
18. Night World: Volume 1
19. Two for the Dough
20. Darkfever
21. The Host
22. The Passage
23. The Truth about Forever or The Luxe
24. Kisses from Hell
25. Midnight Pearls: A Retelling of "The Little Mermaid"
26. The Night Dance: A Retelling of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"
27. The Help
28. The Crucible
29. Scarlet Moon: A Retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood"
30. Night World: Volume 2

I have found myself planning for several months ahead as well. Hopefully we will both benefit from our lists! Good Luck

***October 2010***

by J.K. Rowling (435) 10/4/2010
by Kelly Creagh (373) 10/16/2010
by J.K. Rowling (734) 10/31/2010)

Total: 10864

Yes!!! I finally passed 10K!!!!

Great job, Meghan!

Congrats, Meghan!