ChristinaTherese Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 I have been grounded from the computer,,, so I haven't been able to post my book count! The Battle of Jericho- Draper Sun Copper The Lost Years of Merlin The Lord of the Flies The whole entire babysitters club... (I got really bored) (131 books in total for the series) Demon King Divergent Insurgent Total:138 books for this count Shouldn't The Lost Years of Merlin count as 5 books? I'm pretty sure that it's a series of 5.... (See the top of the bar on the right here: http://www.tabarron.com/the-lost-years-merlin-epic)
AnneLine Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 (edited) Good grief!!!! Cartermia!!!!!! Don't know what you did, but you better be careful not to do it again! (My confessor once took books away from me for a week as a penance.... :( I did NOT repeat the error... ;) ) And... do you want me to count that Merlin book/series as 1 or 5? And do you want to give us a page count (you'll bury us all if you do, but it is your choice....) (You can look 'em up on Amazon.... they show the page numbers....) I will wait until tomorrow night to post updates to give us a chance to get all numbers in.... (Yowie....) Edited July 24, 2013 by AnneLine
LittleWaySoul Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 Welp, we know who won the number-of-books competition! :P
AnneLine Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 I have been grounded from the computer,,, so I haven't been able to post my book count! The Battle of Jericho- Draper Sun Copper The Lost Years of Merlin The Lord of the Flies The whole entire babysitters club... (I got really bored) (131 books in total for the series) Demon King Divergent Insurgent Total:138 books for this count Welp, we know who won the number-of-books competition! :P It would appear so.... unless Byz says he won't count books that were read while someone was unable to access a computer due to grounding..... not that I think that is the case but hummmm..... not sure she should be able to profit from the inability to get on line.... hmmmmm... LWS, you can still go for the page count one.... and we might find something for people in the top 3 places or something.... dunno. Let's see what happens.... Stuck on a project so will be another day or so before I can do the book counts... Sorry, sometimes life intervenes on Phatmassing....
BG45 Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 Star Trek Destiny: Mere Mortals 448 pages. Currently reading: Rogue Angel: Clockwork Doomsday Star Trek Destiny: Lost Souls (Just in case we need pages for AL's full update, pages for the books I've mentioned so far, don't think I gave pages for the first four): Matter (624) Kill Shot (464) Star Wars: Revan (368) Confessions of a Megachurch Pastor (170) Warmhammer 40k: Atlas Infernal (409) Star Trek Destiny: Gods of Night (431) I'm never catching up to Chrysophlax in page count lol.
Byzantine Posted July 25, 2013 Author Posted July 25, 2013 Cartermia's score is very impressive. I finished Matthew and the Book of Psalms. Cartermia, 163 Catholicterp, 39 Chrysophylax, 39 Byz, 23 Arfink, 13 AnneLine, 10 Ardil, 9 Doc Bomb, 8 LT, 8 Ampax, 7 Ploomf, 6 BG45, 7 LWS, 5 FP, 4 Spem, 4 Christina T, 4 Crusader, 2 Trisha, 1
cartermia Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 cooper sun- 338 I really don't feel like looking them up but the all round to about 175 pages so I will just estimate my page number... estimation- 22,925 pages battle of Jericho - 352 birthmarked - 384 demon king - 528 divergent - 487 insurgent- 544 lord of the flies - 208 total pages (estimation): 25,766
cartermia Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 Some books should be banned. And burned. But I was kidding in this case. This is a competition for adults so no point in forbidding Harry Potter. QED for adults? :O
cartermia Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 Some books should be banned. And burned. But I was kidding in this case. This is a competition for adults so no point in forbidding Harry Potter. QED for adults? :O
ChristinaTherese Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 for adults? :o Oh, you're fine. It's just for whoever is on Phatmass and wants to participate, I don't think Byz made any age requirements. (Byz, correct me if I'm wrong.) Although I would recommend that you try a thicker book or two.... The books made for your age are so much easier and faster to read, that you're leaving us behind in the dust! :hehe2: (JK, but if you want book suggestions ever I'm sure we'd be glad to oblige.... Said the girl/woman who just went upstairs to look around at books and came back down with three by Dr. Seuss.) AL, how should we count pages for Dr. Seuss? Do the pictures even count? I think I'll read a few of them today, just for fun.... (No worries if you get around to updating before I post. They'll always be able to be in the next one.)
Chrysophylax Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 Time to write your own, improved Mermaid book, Chrys.... Haha! Actually when I mentioned that I was reading them as research for a project, that was exactly what I was talking about. Cute Picture, by the way! Ok, I read Before Midnight by Cameron Dokey (193 pgs) Beauty Sleep by Cameron Dokey (186 pgs) Winter's Child by Cameron Dokey (173 pgs) All three are absolutely excelent fairy tales! :love: I also read Hiding in the Shadows by Kay Hooper (368 pgs) I was very dissapointed. Ugh.
BG45 Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 Cartermia's page count is something I'm never going to match either. :P
AnneLine Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 This has proven to be half the fun of the summer reading competition, hasn't it!!!! Yeah, I think you qualify for our purposes as an 'adult' on this thread, Cartermia! But yes, that is why I suggested page counts as well as numbers of books... I could see what you were/are planning to do... Cartermia, you have to break down the page count on those books by NAME if you want those pages counted.... fair is fair, that I what I told Doc Bomb as well... even Jesus was called by NAME. Hoping to get the update done later today or tonight.... and if there are updates after that, well, they'll go on the next update. And yes, we ARE having fun -- Byz, thank you so much for suggesting this, and of course I was teasing about not counting Cartermia's VERY IMPRESSIVE book count.... and yes, you CAN give me page number counts... but by name.... AnneLine has finished some more books, too: Sister Clare by Loretta Burrough (276 pages) (Ok enough, but probably not for most readers unless interested in Carmelite nuns; pretty obviously based off A Few Words to Tell You by Sr. Marie (that I read a few weeks back).... ) Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life by Fr. Christopher Jamison, OSB (192 Pages) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!! VERY well done, and I recommend this for anyone trying to deepen their spiritual life as a lay person... or as a religious. Something here for almost everyone..... And I continue to read Christy and Out of the Silent Planet and Pains of Glass (LT and the rest of you -- I also tend to stop and start on books and have one going on each floor and one in a carry-bag.... ;) ) :) Love you all... and back to reading books for me!
ChristinaTherese Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 AnneLine, how should we count pages for Dr. Seuss? Or does it not even count? I just read it once in a while, and figured it would raise my book count as well as being just plain fun. (No, I do not intend to make a steady diet of such things. But once in a while....)
AnneLine Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 Sure you can add an occasional Dr. Suess... pages are pages. At least so I think. My criteria has always been, look it up on Amazon and see how many pages they say it is..... but they're probably what, 20 or 30 pages? I may have to go track down Yertle the Turtle and other stories... I loved that book as a kid..... AND... I think we should recommend some adult books for Cartermia. You need a challenge to break into some good adult books! I would think you might like Christy by Catherine Marshall.... it's about a 19 year old going to teach school in a one room school in Tennessee in about 1907. They based a TV series off it, but the book is SO MUCH better! I also LOVED Lone Woman, which is a biography of the first Woman Doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell.... Gotta go fix my lunch and then do some READING!!!!!!
AnneLine Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 OH... and if you like kids books... check out the Commander Toad series by Jane Yolen. Oh my... VERY FUN!!!!! http://www.amazon.com/Commander-Toad-Space-Jane-Yolen/dp/0698113551/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374784012&sr=8-1&keywords=Commander+Toad
AnneLine Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 Do you know... one of the BEST college classes I had (and I was a literature major!) was a class called 'Visionary Child in Literature' where we read kids books (from Wind in the Willows on down the line....) and then journaled about what we thought of when we read them. Now THAT was a wonderful semester!!!! SO MANY WONDERFUL BOOKS!!!!!
ChristinaTherese Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 One more question. You and Byz were talking about ending this at midnight on August 31, but we need to know which time zone you mean. I know that PM shows times on PST (or PDT, whichever one it is, I never remember) for me because I live in that time zone, but if I had to guess I would assume that it was on EST/EDT for Byz. That would mean that Byz would close the competition three hours earlier than you and Australians and Europeans would be left who knows how. If I had to recommend a time zone to choose I'd choose whichever one Byz is in, just to make it easy. And then I might state it as GMT+X just to make it clear to everyone around the globe. Sure you can add an occasional Dr. Suess... pages are pages. At least so I think. My criteria has always been, look it up on Amazon and see how many pages they say it is..... but they're probably what, 20 or 30 pages? I may have to go track down Yertle the Turtle and other stories... I loved that book as a kid..... AND... I think we should recommend some adult books for Cartermia. You need a challenge to break into some good adult books! I would think you might like Christy by Catherine Marshall.... it's about a 19 year old going to teach school in a one room school in Tennessee in about 1907. They based a TV series off it, but the book is SO MUCH better! I also LOVED Lone Woman, which is a biography of the first Woman Doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell.... Gotta go fix my lunch and then do some READING!!!!!! I think I've read/heard Christy sometime.... Maybe I should go find it and read it after I finish LOTR and the other random books I have lying around wanting to be read. Hm... book recommendations. First, finishing The Lost Years of Merlin, since it's a good series. And I could always come up with more if asked. It would be very fun. Do you know... one of the BEST college classes I had (and I was a literature major!) was a class called 'Visionary Child in Literature' where we read kids books (from Wind in the Willows on down the line....) and then journaled about what we thought of when we read them. Now THAT was a wonderful semester!!!! SO MANY WONDERFUL BOOKS!!!!! That sounds so awesome!
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