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So how's the year working out for you?
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Cheryl
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May 28, 2014 01:24PM
Gosh, it is almost the middle of the year already. Ok, I'm off - gotta get back into the books!
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Scary isn't it?
I didn't join until July and challenged myself to a ludicrous number of books I will probably make in 2015. The idea is great and I look forward to doing it right next year. In the meantime i haven't given up on this year and am currently reading 5 books.
Being new to Good ReadsI wonder if there might be a sub-challenge for biographies next. Could someone please advise.
Welcome Bob! I think Almeta (our moderator) is away this weekend, and I'm sure she can give you the correct information when she gets back.Towards the beginning of 2015, we'll have an opportunity to request any personal challenges and she will set it up for us. That may be your opportunity for requesting a biography challenge.
Or you could use the shelving unit challenge for that. These challenges are very much for our own use, so there are no strict rules on what you can and can't do with particular challenges.
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Hi Bob,
I have created a challenge for you called Getting To Know Them, Click Here to Find It.
It will run from now until the end of 2014. Then I will recreate it for the entire year 2015.
Let me know if you need assistance filling in your first challenge.
Happy to have you join us. Will be interested to see who you read about.
I think I'm doing quite well on most challenges but when I view the challenge, most of them say I'm behind. Like it will say 1 of 3. When i click the link on 1 of 3 it tells me the actual number but the info on the challenge page doesn't update. Is this a glitch others see as well?
Hmm... just checked... I am now ahead of schedule, but last week I was far behind - and I only read one book last week. So, what it's looking like to me is, that I used to have a glitch or bug like yours, but it has recently fixed itself.Sorry I can't be more help - but I hope yours fixes itself, too! Or maybe you could contact GR help (see the way bottom of the page, tiny gray tabs).
For 2014 so far, I've finished several of my goals, but still have four left undone. I'm confident about finishing one of the four, but the other three probably won't happen this year. We'll see.
Well, that certainly seems satisfactory to me. :)
I seem to be a bit behind on both the authorisation challenges. Finding it a bit too tempting to stick with authors I already know this year!
I've finished most of mine early this year. May need to up my goal numbers for next year.
Whoot!And, Darkpool, I've had years like that; I empathize. Then I start to get bored or burnt-out and the pendulum swings the other way.
Deborah wrote: "I've finished most of mine early this year. May need to up my goal numbers for next year."Congratulations! I like the idea of upping one's numbers for next year. :)
Elizabeth S wrote: "Deborah wrote: "I've finished most of mine early this year. May need to up my goal numbers for next year."Congratulations! I like the idea of upping one's numbers for next year. :)"
Thanks!
I've finished half of my goals, some of which I really underestimated what I would read. Others, are nearing completion and I'm right on track. I think there's one that I'm not going to be able to complete.
Okay, I've decided to rearrange my reading schedule and try to finish all my goals. After all, what is the point of making a goal if you don't make changes to try to accomplish the goal? I think I can do it, especially if I can get some extra reading time in over the holidays. We'll see!
Eeek! not much time left to complete! feeling moderately pleased with myself tho!Already complete: Serial-eyes, Doorstops, Hear Ye!
Close & do-able: Where's your card, reality check (should be done by the end of the weekend!), Shelving unit, Authorisation.
Yeah, nah... not going to make it: Goodreads Authorisation.
A far more successful year for me than last year where I think I missed just about every one!
Woot!When I forced my update I found that I have completed my one and only challenge. I think next year I'll do two: 'home alone' again and something with e-books.
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When I forced my update I found that I have completed my one and only challenge. I think next year I'll do two: 'home alone' again and something with e-books."
I never quite get the Home Alone one done to my satisfaction! Still, if I didn't put myself to the challenge, I would probably do worse!☺
Oh yes - you and this group have been very motivating to me!
I'm new to this site (not using it last year and too late to set up/join challenges for 2014. How do I find some to join in 2015. Thanks.
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Hi again Bob,
I am working on setting up the Challenges for 2015 right now. I plan to have them completely formed by the 15th and will notify everyone when that is accomplished.
The best way (in my opinion) to see the challenges is to use the 2015 Challenge Catalog. There you will find links to individual challenges based on the tasks to be performed or cross-referenced by the challenge name.
Find the challenges that appeal to you and declare how many books you plan to read to complete that particular challenge, and state what shelf your completion results will be on in your My Books list.
If you do not find a challenge that works for your goals, let me know and I will create one for you, or advise you of which challenge might be used.
In the mean time, you might take a look at the 2014 challenges to get an idea of what will be available. I intend to duplicate those challenges for the coming year.
Have fun planning. You'll be hearing from me soon.
I manged to complete 2 of my challenges, Serial Eyes and eDingus, but fell short on Doorstoppers. I'm going to rethink what to do for 2015. I'll probably reset a Serial Eyes challenge since it corresponds to a challenge I'll have going in another group, and maybe a Leftovers one to clean up what didn't get done.
I have one more book to go to finish, and that will kill off two of my challenges. The only challenge I won't complete it eDinkus. I'll come close though. I really estimated low this year because I was getting discouraged that I wasn't completing my challenges.
I recently finished And the Award Goes To... I have three left for this year. I'm pretty confident I can finish That's Unreal, and there is a good chance for Leftover Stew. I may or may not finish Shelving Unit--I think I was a little over-ambitious on that one!Thanks again, Almeta, for putting these challenges together for us each year. I love it!
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One twist of the YLTO! Connect the Chunksters Challenge was to connect each book in some way (view spoiler) and read them in succession. This gave me the freedom to connect bigger books with small ones. Soooo, I did manage to reach my Shortcut goal.
I would say 75 percent of the books I complete these days are audio, but my challenge stats are not going to reflect that because I forget to mark the Hear Ye shelf. I don't chose the audio edition as read either because audio books do not show the number of pages read, and I want my GoodReads stats to reflect the correct number of pages.
Once again, I have not read (to get rid of) as many books that I own as I had intended. Whereas my Dewey's depository shelf is positively overflowing with books from the library for the Where's Your Card? challenge. Well, at least I'm not buying any. Er, except when the Friends of the Library snag me!
I'm pretty disappointed in my Left Over Stew performance. There will just be that many more to tackle in 2015!
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The Award Goes To is one of my favorite challenges. I love films. Though truthfully if I didn't have this as a challenge, I would probably not watch many movies. My GoodReads group challenges keep my nose immersed in books!
That idea of 'connect the chunksters' intrigued me so much I googled it. Here's the explanation, for those of us not in YLTO: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...I think I'll suggest similar in the other group that I belong to - Bookworm's Cocoon.
Btw, if any of you are having trouble keeping track of all your challenges, especially of updating them all whenever you finish a book, the first entry in the "Tips and Tricks" thread there is very informative.
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Here's what MY YLTO! Connection Challenge looks like:
Almeta's Voluminous Volumes and Miniature Matchmakers
There is a similar Challenge going on at Crazy Challenge Connection, which is more restrictive in "connection" criteria.
Crazy Connections Challenge
Almeta's Crazy Connections
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Thanks for sharing that TIP thread.
Cheryl wrote: "Btw, if any of you are having trouble keeping track of all your challenges, especially of updating them all whenever you finish a book, the first entry in the "Tips and Tricks" thread there is very informative."Forgive me, but I can't find the "Tips and Tricks" thread you mentioned. Where is it hiding?
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It's hiding in the Bookworm's Cocoon group at this link: Tips and Tricks
Almeta wrote: "I'm pretty disappointed in my Left Over Stew performance. There will just be that many more to tackle in 2015! "One more book and left over stew is history for me. I must get reading it because I refuse to carry those old challenges into the new year. I'm obsessive enough to finish the challenges, though, and that's what got me into this mess.
I'm so glad that the Chunkster challenge is almost over at YLTO.
Just finished my That's Unreal challenge! Two more left to complete. May or may not make it on those. We'll see!
I will be starting Bones Are Forever tonight which will finish my Oh Canada Challenge and my Left Over Stew. It will leave me 1 book shy of my EDingus challenge. It's just possible, if I can sneak in one more ebook, I'll have finished all my challenges this year.Time to start thinking about which challenges I'll tackle for 2015.
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Finished! Crazy...completed those last two challenges just now. Talk about squeezing it at the last moment.
I managed to squeak in that last ebook and have completed all my challenges. Yipee!
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Happy New Year to Everyone!
Has everybody recorded all their challenge qualified books?
I would like to get the results posted around the 9th, so we can see how we did.
So get busy!☺
Almost the middle of 2015. How is everyone doing with this year's challenges?Personally, I'm about halfway on most of mine. I'm also ridiculously ahead on one; and tragically behind on another. Strangely, I'm ahead on the doorstoppers, mostly because I ended up starting a new fantasy series where each of the books are around 600 pages and still fast to read. And predictably, I'm behind on the Leftover Stew. Because if those were easy to get around to reading, they wouldn't be left-over!
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Funny that you posted this. Last week I had an internal dialog myself, the content of which was to remind you all to assess your personal challenges progress.
I don't know if everyone has to do this, but I have to "force" my challenges to update and did so last week. I surprised myself at how well I am actually doing! I have a couple of challenges that need attention, and am otherwise on target for my goals.
How is everyone else doing?
I can hardly believe that the year is half over!
I'm doing OK on most. Had actually completed one of them *gasp!!!* It's one I had particularly struggled with last year, so put the goal down for this year, so now I've just gone and increased it again. The only one I'm failing terribly at is "another chance"... Yep, there's your problem right there....
I'm pretty much on track with most of them. I've completed my goal on one of them and close on another. There are 2 that I need to concentrate on - Another Change, and Hot Off the Press. I realized that I have not been shelving properly, so had to go back and review the books I've read.
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Yes, I notice that as well. The challenge that I most often forget to shelve for is Hear Ye, Hear Ye.
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