Ireadthereforeiam: counting pages as well as books :)

2 books this year so far, and 699 pages.

I have not counted pages before and tallied them, so I have no idea what to even aim for. I think I will just toddle along :)

Hi Megan, welcome to this little group, don't worry about setting a target just enjoy your reading and the pages will accumulate.

^ great, John. I certainly hope they do accumulate :)

With the completion of BOOK 3: The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout (320p) my pages tally has reached 719.

BOOK 4. Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink: 486p
total pages 1205
BOOK 5. To Sir with Love by E. R. Braithwaite: 184p
total pages so far 1389

BOOK 6 The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris: 227p, total pages so far 1616

You are doing well Megan my dear.

BOOK 7 The Giver by Lois Lowry: 197p
total pages so far 1813

>7 johnsimpson: thank you John, I am certainly more the tortoise than the hare :)

BOOK 8 The Mermaid and the Drunks by Ben Richards: I read to page 171/247
Total pages so far: 1,984

BOOK 9. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande: 263p,
total pages so far 2247

BOOK 10 July's People by Nadine Gordimer: 160p
total pages so far: 2,407

Book 11 Children of the Poor: How Poverty Could Destroy New Zealand's Future by Mike Moore: 220p
Total pages so far: 2,627

BOOK 12 The Gift of Rain by Tan Twang Eng: 508p
total pages so far: 3,135

BOOK 13. Film in Five Seconds by Gianmarco Milesi (no words, so no page count)
BOOK 14. Pursuing Social Justice in New Zealand edited by Ruth Porter (161p, tally 3,296)
BOOK 15. The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie (238p, tally 3,534)
BOOK 16. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (350p, tally 3,884p)
BOOK 17. Earth Democracy by Vandana Shiva (186p, tally 4,070p)
BOOK 18. A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (162p, tally 4,232)
BOOK 19. The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth (250p, tally 4,482)

BOOK 20. The Tenants by Bernard Malamud (174p, tally 4,656)
BOOK 21. Native Son by Richard Wright (560p, tally 5,216)
BOOK 22. ERST601 course reader! (421p, tally 5,637)
BOOK 23. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (215p, tally 5,652)
BOOK 24. Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo (224p, tally 5,876)

BOOK 26. The Free by Willy Vlautin (273p, tally 6,149)
BOOK 27. Ghettoside by Jill Leovy NF (319p, tally 6,468)
BOOK 28. The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien (188p, tally 6,656)
BOOK 29. The First Bad Man by Miranda July (274p, tally 6,930)

a missed one! Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz (168p, tally 7,098)

7,116 pages, that's not a shabby total my dear, I told you the pages would accumulate and all this whilst doing all that studying is impressive.

>17 johnsimpson: well, I did count my course reader, seeing as it came bound and with covers. That was 421 pages of well and repeatedly read text! Phew.
Next one? I am not sure if we have to print readings off ourselves or if it comes bound.
Thanks for the support, JS!

BOOK 30. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (218p, tally 7,316)
BOOK 31. Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin (277p, tally 7,593)

BOOK 32. Knulp by Herman Hesse (125p, tally 7,718)
BOOK 33. Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut (219p, tally 7,937)
BOOK 34. Fair Warning by Robert Olen Butler (DNF, I read to 123/225p, tally 8,060)
BOOK 35. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin (229p, tally 8,289p)
BOOK 36. A Plague of Caterpillars by Nigel Barley (159p, tally 8,448)
BOOK 37. The Human Stain by Philip Roth (361p, tally 8.809)
BOOK 38. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (276p, tally 9,085p)
BOOK 39. Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman (reread, 110p, tally 9,190p)
BOOK 40. Starting Fieldwork by Martin Tolich and Carl Davidson NF (187p, tally 9,377p)
BOOK 41. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (184p, tally 9,461p)
BOOK 42. Analyzing Social Settings by John Lofland NF (240p, tally 9,701p)
BOOK 43. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (314p, tally 10,015p)

I've broken the 10,000 page mark!

Well done Megan.