Robin's 2013 Reading Challenge

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

I started my goal in 2012 at 50 books and as of right now I am sitting at 363 books ☺☺☺☺ I know my goal for 2012 will be at least 250 books but haven't decided on a definite number yet LOL.

[Lucy]

How do you do it? That's amazing!

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Thanks Lucy!!!Well for one we don't have tv...well we do have tvs but we don't have cable LOL we do have Netflix but I still don't watch it. I've never really been a big tv/movie watcher even when we did have cable. I would usually turn the tv on just for the noise and then go pick up my book LOL. I crochet a lot too so when I am crocheting I will listen to an audiobook. I do work but I don't have small children so MOST of my free time is mine. My boyfriend has hobbies (golf and woodworking) so that allows for extra free time too ☺

[Lucy]

Some good tips there. I can't do audio books for probably The same reason I can't watch tv...my mind wonders too much. Tv is more a noise thing for me while I craft or read. That is still a great amount of books. I applaud you.

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Lucy it took me a while to get used to audiobooks because my mind would wander and sometimes it still does. But I have found with the audiobooks, if the narrator isn't good then the mind does wander more. At first when I started with the audiobooks I would not do anything but listen, and then I gradually started doing a little bit here and there and pretty much trained myself to listen. Kind of like when you were in school and had to listen to the teacher lecture LOL Now I can listen and do whatever and still focus on the audiobook. Thanks Lucy ☺☺☺

I sneak in a lot of reading time too. I have some form of a book with me at all times. IF I'm standing in line for long periods of time at the grocery store walmart,bank,wherever I pull out my book and read...even if it's only for 5 or 10 minutes...that's 5-10 pages I read in that short time frame LOL

[Lucy]

Maybe I will give it another shot as I do cross stitch and crochet a lot and seem to be able to listen to the tv

[Lucy]

Thanks for all your tips!!

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

You are more than welcome Lucy!!! I hope you can use some of them and be successful with them. It is very easy to lose focus on tv/audiobooks while doing other things but I hope you do give audiobooks another shot as they are really enjoyable,especially if you are doing crafts or whatever. I don't even listen to the radio much any more because I would rather listen to a book LOL.

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

January

1. Slammed
2. A Faraway Island
3. The Lily Pond
4. The Sky Is Everywhere
5. Eggs
6. Matilda Bone
7. Eight Keys
8. Up a Road Slowly
9. Before I Fall
10. Her Fearful Symmetry
11. The Young Man and the Sea
12. Graceling
13. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
14. Looking for Alaska
15. A Sudden Silence
16. How to Survive Hospital Care: Why They Keep Bedpans in the Freezer
17. A Christmas Journey
18. Zazoo
19. Saying it Out Loud
20. Mr. Churchill's Secretary: A Novel
21. Tilt
22. Mariana
23. Cinder

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February

24. Pride and Prejudice
25. Grave Sight
26. Smitten
27. Hate List
28. Tex
29. Saddled: How a Spirited Horse Reined Me In and Set Me Free
30. In the Window Room
31. It's a Little Haywire
32. Christmas Haven
33. Women Are Better Than Men: Written as Punishment by the Male Chauvinist Pig: Author of Vlad Dracula: The Devil's Puppet & Chronicles of a Haunted House: A Diabolical Haunting
34. The Apothecary's Daughter
35. Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker
36. Maisie Dobbs
37. It's a Little Haywire
38. Happy Ever After
39. The Lost Secret of Fairies

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