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Mar 02, 2013 06:14AM
I am 6 books ahead of reading 60 books this year. I am kind of shooting for 75. However I usually average between 50-60 books. I tend to read more during the Pacific Northwest rainy months. I usually don't read as much in the summer time when the weather is nice.
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I can't tell you how good it feel to day that, though the ending left me rather sniffly. Now...time to see how much I can catch up this month! : )
You have read 17 books toward your goal of 200 books.At your current pace, you're 16 books (8%) behind schedule. :( **weeps**
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I exceeded by 2012 goal and finished 104 books but I reduced by goal for 2013. I found I was reading books so fast that I was forgetting what they were about. Sometimes after reading a book, I like to think about it for awhile. What did the author mean by that? Where is this story going? Half the fun of a book is savorying it. So I set my goal for a smaller number this year but I hope to enjoy them more.
I made my goal a lot lower this year. I started to panic (silly!) that I wouldn't make my goal in 2012 and started to read quick little books just to get my score up. This year, I'm putting down 52 - a week a week. That way, I can take two or three weeks to read a big fat book like I am right now. I'm about 8 books ahead of schedule already, so don't have any worries.
You have read 26 books toward your goal of 125 books. 26 of 125 (21%)
Great work, you're on track!
Being on track makes me nervous, obviously I'm not spending enough time reading lately! If I could just get off the darned computer.
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I'm a couple behind, but no worries, I'll catch up.
I didn't reach my goal last year which was 300. I believe that might be in part because I joined good reads mid June, so didn't have enough time to actually reach it. This year however my goal is 350. I have read 70 so far, so am right on track! :-)
Natalia wrote: "I didn't reach my goal last year which was 300. I believe that might be in part because I joined good reads mid June, so didn't have enough time to actually reach it. This year however my goal is 3..."Wow - 350 is almost a book a day! Do you usually have more than one book going at a time?
I'm holding steady at 2 books behind. I'm quite happy with that, I was expecting to be 5-10 books behind at this point.
Heather L wrote: "Karen M: LOL... I'm still three or four books behind, depending what day it is."Well, it's about to get worse for me. I'm waiting on A Feast for Crows but the good news is there are 3 people ahead of me on the list so I won't see it for a couple of weeks (I hope).
I don't really read multiple books at the same time. I do just read pretty much OneBook a day. Sometimes two depending. I read quite fast.
Natalia wrote: "I don't really read multiple books at the same time. I do just read pretty much OneBook a day. Sometimes two depending. I read quite fast."I'm impressed! In the last year I have started reading more than one book at a time - different formats (Kindle book, audiobook, short stories, poetry collection, etc), but even so I won't come close to a book a day.
I'm usually good for a book a day, although lately I've been kept too busy to read more than 3 or so in a week. Darn job... ;)
If I didn't have to work I could easily do a book a day and sometimes 2. Work definitely cuts into my time!
I am a full time student and have a full time job. Reading just keeps me sane so I do it whatever chance I get. :) I'm kind of crazy lol.
I reduced my goal this year to reflect my attempt to read a bit less and get out of the house a bit more.So far it isn't working.
I do love to read outside in the summer! :-)
I sat outside reading on Saturday, and the book was so good it started raining and I didn't even notice. (until the book started getting wet - can't have that!)
Kari wrote: "You can always do what I do take the book out of the house. During the summer I read a lot outside. My husband says he is going to have "Wait till a finish this chapter engraved" on my headstone...."
I had to laugh. Connie Willis, an excellent writer, said in a talk she gave that her husband has instructions to throw a few books into her coffin in case there's a waiting area in the hereafter.
Elaine wrote: "Kari wrote: "You can always do what I do take the book out of the house. During the summer I read a lot outside. My husband says he is going to have "Wait till a finish this chapter engraved" on my..."I like the idea of having a book buried with me. Might have to leave instructions of that sort since I always have a book with me here now, might as well have one for eternity.
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ETA: Update, 8:30pm -- make that one book behind. Have just finished the book I started Saturday. Onward and upward! *G*
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Sigh...must be nice. Is still MUCH too cold for reading outdoors.
Heather L wrote: "❂ Jennifer wrote: "I sat outside reading on Saturday..."Sigh...must be nice. Is still MUCH too cold for reading outdoors."
If it's any consolation, we're passing each other at the crossroads, so to speak. You're awaiting Spring and we're being dragged kicking and screaming into Autumn. Soon you'll be out in glorious weather and I'll be huddled up under 6 quilts watching it rain outside and asking myself "why did I leave Florida???"
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Florida is admittedly a bit unbearable in summer. I love summer here - it's known to get unbearably hot as well (100+) but not very often and it's mostly in the 70's. I can grow tulips and hyacinths and all sorts of things I've always wanted to grow but couldn't living in the swamplands of Florida. :) But winter time sucks. It's just cold, wet and dreary. Lots of reading time though! :D
My goal is 125, but I'm 7 behind. Oops! Hopefully I'll catch up soon. I might re-read some of my favorites, which I know I can read fast (i.e. Harry Potter series) so I can break even. Last year my goal was 100, and I read 116, so I'm trying to push myself a bit more.
I'm from Florida but now live in Boston Massachusetts. I went to Florida last week for spring break, and it was wonderful. I am sad to be back to this cold winter!
Danie wrote: "My goal is 125, but I'm 7 behind. Oops! Hopefully I'll catch up soon. I might re-read some of my favorites, which I know I can read fast (i.e. Harry Potter series) so I can break even. Last year my..."I read 100 last year. My goal this year is just to keep track but to intermingle some non-fiction. My friends keep telling me about these great books and then I just go read a mystery.
❂ Jennifer wrote: "I sat outside reading on Saturday, and the book was so good it started raining and I didn't even notice. (until the book started getting wet - can't have that!)"I used to read on the MetroLink (commuter train) when I was working. Several times I missed my stop, going & coming, and then had to get off and travel back.
Danie wrote: "My goal is 125, but I'm 7 behind. Oops! Hopefully I'll catch up soon. I might re-read some of my favorites, which I know I can read fast (i.e. Harry Potter series) so I can break even. Last year my..."I just re-read Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters. I think I read that about once a year.
Natalia wrote: "I'm from Florida but now live in Boston Massachusetts. I went to Florida last week for spring break, and it was wonderful. I am sad to be back to this cold winter!"My sister-in-law moved to FLA recently. She's happy because here in Illinois we had 12 inches of snow this past Sunday. Brrr. But good weather for reading.
Well, my crocus think it's Spring even if we were threatened with snow yesterday. Luckily it stayed in southern NJ which is very strange, we just had drizzle up here.
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I've done that a time or two - or nearly done it - while riding the bus. Thankfully, I've never had to go more than one stop past the one I wanted.
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Jennifer: Lucky you!
Catherine: Aw, you can do twenty easy-peasy. We'll gladly bully or cheer you on, what ever works best for you. ;-D
Heather L wrote: "Yes! I am back on track...for the time being anyway. Not only are novellas helpful in catching up or getting ahead, so too are YA novels. I owe my catching up (and a few late nights, lol) to Ally C..."Great! :)
I'm at 39 at the end of March, so 9 books ahead!
Out of curiosity, if you reach your goal do you then change it? Or keep it the same & let your % go over 100?
I think I upped my goal once I met it last year. This year I kind of want to leave it and see how high the % will go. I lowered my goal this year and at this point in the year even though I'm currently a couple of books down I think I'll go way over my goal. We'll see, it's still a long time until the end of the year.
In 2011 I kept increasing my goal but last year I just set it at what I actually read in 2011 and then passed it. I think I might have the opposite problem this year since I seem to be struggling to not get more than 2 books behind and this is after I chose to have a goal lower than what I actually read in 2012.
I think both of the previous years I just let it stay the same and watched how far I went beyond it. I lowered my goal this year, but think I will need to up it as my reading has stayed pretty consistent and I thought it was going to fall off.
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I have one I'll finish yet tonight that will put me at 51. I need to up my goal.
2011 was really the first year I'd every tracked my reading, so it turned out I'd set my goal way to low - I reached in in June - so I upped it. Last year I just met my goal in December, but this year I'm *way* ahead, so I might adjust my goal upwards in a few months, if I sustain this pace.
If I get close to my goal, I'll up it.
250, Already behind but that is what I set in January.
I am still struggling to keep up, sigh. I'd like to read A Dance With Dragons but I'm afraid I'll never get caught up again!You have read 47 books toward your goal of 125 books.
47 of 125 (38%)
Great work, you're 1 book (1%) ahead of schedule.
❂ Jennifer wrote: "2011 was really the first year I'd every tracked my reading, so it turned out I'd set my goal way to low - I reached in in June - so I upped it. Last year I just met my goal in December, but this ..."I too am *way* ahead...
“You have read 129 books toward your goal of 150 books.
129 of 150 (86%)
Wow, you're 74 books (49%) ahead!
Try increasing your goal!“
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