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15,500 in 2013 Book Count Challenge
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Jennie
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Jan 23, 2013 10:01PM
yeah I have just joined and have started adding the books I have read so far :)
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Ok I have added 8 books and I plan to read 100 :)
Super, Miss Jennie! Glad you joined us.
I think I'm ready for tomorrow's update. But, maybe I can squeeze in one more book...if I get off GRs and Pinterest! LOL![image error]
Lisa Kay wrote: "I think I'm ready for tomorrow's update. But, maybe I can squeeze in one more book...if I get off GRs and Pinterest! LOL!"
LOL!!
Monday Update
It is! We're doing great. I'm just worried because the "Total goal for all participants: 9,480 books"... is NOT set at 10,000 yet! Eep!
I'm confident we will make it though. A lot of people over take their original goal and I'm sure we will get more people joining in later during the year.
I hope so. **fingers crossed**
Manvir I totally agree with you! Don't worry LK!
Okay...I'll...[image error]
I personally am already 4 books ahead of schedule hopefully I'll keep up this pace :)
Last year I didn't move my target from 212 but I read 230 something books. it'll be around the same number this year
at the rate im going ill go over the 100 I said,plus im sure as the year goes by more ppl will come and join in :)
I've actually reduced my target since I started working but in the last week, I've found that I can have the kindle text-to-speech read to me on my way to work because I don't have any kids in the car, and at lunch I can read because I don't know too many people yet so no-one's bothering me if they see me with a book. Who would've thought working would give me more reading time? I think the fact that I can't get distracted by Goodreads also helps...
I understand getting distracted by GoodReads. It is happening more and more often to me :)
Jennifer~Princess Penguin~ wrote: "I understand getting distracted by GoodReads. It is happening more and more often to me :)"Ditto. I mean...I'm reading tons, it is just the threads. LOL!
Lol the topics are fun to read but my real distraction on GR comes from 'incentives'.
Aren't the incentives wonderful? They are incentives to keep checking back in on GR LOL
Are all you lovely ladies ready for the Sunday Update?
I went like 20 books over my target last year too. But this year I have been consistently behind this year. My rl book club book was a 1079 pages of super tiny print on extra large trade sized pages. I still haven't caught up. But I've read at least 8,000 pages already this year.
Gonna try and read 75 books, even if they aren't romance. :P I hope to do it, but I have serious doubts.
Sunday Update
A thousand books in a month? That's brilliant.
Sexy women of Romance for the Challenge Impaired, are you ready for the Sunday Update?
yes please , lets see how we did this week ;)
I think he is waiting for the cache to catch up with the grand total...which should be in about 7 hours and 10 minutes.
That's good , I'll add 2 more books in a couple of hours
Me, too. Well...maybe only one. I want to space the other one out.
That's one thing I cannot do...read 2 books at once :)
Jennifer♔Princess Penguin♔ wrote: "That's one thing I cannot do...read 2 books at once :)"Nether....I don't know how ppl can do it!! I'm sure I would get ppl, plots and all sorts of other stuff mixed and everything would blend into one big confusing book!
Jennie wrote: "Jennifer♔Princess Penguin♔ wrote: "That's one thing I cannot do...read 2 books at once :)"Nether....I don't know how ppl can do it!! I'm sure I would get ppl, plots and all sorts of other stuff ..."
I only get them jumbled if they are too similar - I can read a PNR and a mystery at the same time, but not 2 PNRs. I tried reading a Lords of the Underworld book and a Lords of Deliverance book at the same time. That didn't work out so well.
If they are different enough, I can read up to 4 books at a time.
LOL good point!! would have to be different ...yeah the Lords would be hard at the same time!! I still don't think I could do it, I get so into the book I'm reading I don't think I could switch. I can't even read different books while reading a series, I have to read all the series that's available, before I can move on.
Yes the key is keeping them different. It's kind of like following different TV series.
That's exactly what I do , I'm reading a contemporary (ebook) and listening to a paranormal , so noway of confusing them. I'm reading a PB too but that's not a romance it's a tearjerker and there possibility of confusing that with anything else
I guess I never thought about comparing reading more than 1 book at a time to watching multiple tv show (I can do that :)
LOL I almost want to challenge myself to do it now, I guess if it was a buddy read I could do it.
Jennie wrote: "LOL I almost want to challenge myself to do it now, I guess if it was a buddy read I could do it."Same here Jennie...but not with the book I'm currently reading because it is a buddy read book :)
I always want something at hand to read, so I use different type media. I usually have an audiobook on my iPod/Touch, a CD in my car, a paperback going, and one on my Kindle. I do notice I'm better at juggling them and getting though them faster is they are all different genre - or even sub-genre.
Sunday Update
1,247/10,000
