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2013 Reading Challenge
I'll try a dozen. I own at least fifty I haven't read, and just bought ten more from Half Price books.
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That's great, and enjoy all those books. Mainly fiction?
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Thanks! :)
I've only read 2 out of my 40 so far :/
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Haha yeah, true. Good luck with yours!
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I'm going to try for 25. So far, I have 7, but with my son's baseball season starting and his karate classes, my free time will be limited.
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I am aiming for 50 this year, and 20 of those have to come off my already existing To Be Read pile (mountain). I've finished four so far.
I'm aiming for forty. I have nine done so far, so I'm starting to think that forty was a little bit too modest a goal. Though University goes back in two weeks so I won't have quite as much free time then. Still, I'm seriously considering raising the bar to fifty or sixty...
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My goal is to read 50 books this year. So far I've read 8 books, and apparently, I'm 2 books ahead of schedule!
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Thanks! I hope you catch up as well. You could try to read more pages a day? Just a suggestion...
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Ah, phooey! I looked at which books have been recorded as part of the 2013 Reading Challenge and somewhere along the line, some books were wrongly added. So after fixing everything I'm only at 6 books which is on schedule. So yay? Hah, better be more careful huh?
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I'm reading 50books this year and I've already read... I think 6? :P I'm on track.
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I've never done one of these reading goal things before but I have wanted to for a while. I literally have no idea what I will be capable of, so I went for a nice and easy goal of 20 for this year. If I get to that fairly early on, I'll just double it or something. Good luck everyone!
Jack wrote: "I'm a member in the group "2013 Reading Challenge" and I was looking through some people's challenges and I saw that some people had goals of 500 or even 1000 books for the year! I find this very hard to understand"I read a lot, and I honestly don't know how it's possible for people to consistently read more than 1 book per day unless they're either short books (like those 200 page mills & boone romances) OR you're not reading them properly.
I've read 78 books in the 70 odd days of this year so far which is slightly over 1 a day, but some of those have been 'short' books of ~240 pages or less such as Annie Oldham's The Burn & Infraction or Bernard Knight's Dr Richard Pryor series. Then at the other end of the spectrum I've also tackled 1,168 pages of Atlas Shrugged and multiple 600-700 page Dale Browns.
(My Average book length: 26,057 total pages read / 78 books completed = 334 pages average per book)
Here's an example of absurdity, in my country the top readers this *week* have 85 books, 40 books, 39 books, 38 books & 38 books read. In 7 days. Apparently.
No idea how you can read 10 books in a day let alone 5 a day consistently.
I'm going for 200 this year. I went for 150 last year and surpassed it.
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I'm aiming for 52 (one a week.) I went way over that last year, but I'm hoping to read longer books this year rather than MORE books. So far I've read 16 books this year, so I'm still ahead of schedule.
Hi! I'm Karli! I'm new. (I have introduced myself on the Introduce Yourself thread but just thought I'd mention all of that anyway.) I've set myself a goal of reading 100 books including at least 20 classics.
Heartling wrote: "Hi! I'm Karli! I'm new. (I have introduced myself on the Introduce Yourself thread but just thought I'd mention all of that anyway.) I've set myself a goal of reading 100 books including at least 2..."Sounds good, what classics are you planning to read? I'm currently reading Walden (in fact the 1900 edition from Walter Scott Publishing)
I set a goal of reading 125 books! Last year I did set a goal of 100 and ended up reading 111. I don't skim or rush through just to make my goal. I usually read several books at a time(up to 5) this includes audio books, e books, hard and soft back.
Welcome Karli! Good luck with your challenge!
Oops! Cherrell, I'm so sorry I spelt your name wrong!
And again, but don't worry about it :) Call me Cher!
Alright then! Fantastic to meet you Cher ;)
Heartling wrote: "HI'm currently quite short of my 20 book goal so any recommendations would be much appreciated ;) "I'm about halfway through Walden and really enjoying it so I'd recommend giving that a try, or reading about it and seeing if it's something of interest to you.
Two Years Before The Mast is a good read also, but will depend on your interests - is about a student at Harvard who decides to take to the sea for two years and chronicles his experiences. Written in the 1800s it's a pretty amazing glimpse into the past. It's non-fiction like Walden.
Fiction wise, there's Atlas Shrugged (written in 1957, arguably contemporary) which is one of the top books I've read so far this year.
Heartling wrote: "Thank you for those recommendations, Henri! I've added Walden and Atlas Shrugged. I'm intrigued by Thoreau as I've heard many good things of him. My mother has been trying to get me into Ayn Rand f..."Atlas Shrugged is quite the tome, but it's definitely worth the time. Thoreau is a complicated and conflicted man that's for sure.
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How many books do you plan on reading this year? Well now you can keep track of your goal with this challenge. Just enter how many books you want to read this year and create a shelf for those books and this widget will automatically update your progress. Don't forget to update the group with your progress to though!
So sign up for the challenge widget on the groups homepage and let us know! I would appreciate suggestions and feedback as this is something new we're trying. Thanks!