DoodlePandas 2016 Challenge

[DoodlePanda]

Ok, trying out some challenges this year!

Decided to try the Something for Everyone challenge (Link here)

And I might try a couple of others... And probably fail miserably! :D

[DoodlePanda]

The Last SurvivorsThe Last SurvivorsI'm trying to do the A-Z reading challenge again this year (as it failed last year...)

26/26 completed - FINISHED!!

A- Awakened
B- Betrayed
C- Chosen
D- Destined
E- Eye of the Moonrat
F- Flesh
G- Golden Son
H- Hunted
I- Insomnia
J- A Job From Hell
K- Kinesis
L- The Last Survivors
M- Marked
N- Nothing but the Black
O- Open Minds
P- Panikk!
Q- Q is for Quarantine
R- Raven's Gate
S- Snømannen
T- Tempted
U- Untamed
V- Vessel
W- What the Night Knows
X- The X-Files: Season 10 #1
Y- Yesterday's Gone: Season One
Z- Zero

[DoodlePanda]

Also doing these little challenges, just to make myself read a variety of things I guess :)

Bought but not forgotten (purchased before 2016) 10/10 FINISHED
Audiobooks listened 11/5 FINISHED
Buddy reads 5/5 FINISHED
Manga read 12/20

Might try to do some group reads too, but I'm not so good at keeping an eye on what the groups I'm in are reading...

[DoodlePanda]

I will be counting the number of pages I have read this year, just for fun really. Not a real challenge as I don't know what the goal would be!
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Number of pages read so far is 17,938

(view spoiler)[20/3: Finished Snømannen: 438 pages - 7,268 + 438 = 7,706
21/3: Finished Q is for Quarantine: 18 pages - 7,706 + 18 = 7,724
22/3: Finished Unicorn Western: 134 pages - 7,724 + 134 = 7,858
25/3: Finished Open Minds: 7,858 + 326 = 8,184
31/3: Finished Døde menn går på ski: 8,184 + 216 = 8,400
7/4: Finished The Bees: 8,400 + 353 = 8,753
11/4: Finished Flesh: 8,753 + 336 = 9,089
19/4: Finished Desperation: 9,089 + 152 =9,241
8/8: Finished Bleach, Vol. 28: Baron's Lecture Full-Course and Bleach, Vol. 29: The Slashing Opera: 9,241 + 200 + 208 = 9,649
10/8: Piken på toget: 9,649 + 413 = 10,062
11/5: Finished What the Night Knows: 10,062 + 546 = 10,608
13/5: Finished Carry the Ocean: 10,608 + 268 = 10,876
16/5: Finished Zero: 10,876 + 247 = 11,123
28/5: Finished Cinder 11,123 + 400 = 11,523
5/6: Finished Glitches 11,523 + 32 = 11,555
2/6: Finished Vessel 11,555 + 274 = 11,829
13/6 Finished Scarlet 11,829 + 400 = 12,229
20/6 Finished Shaman King, Vol. 1: A Shaman in Tokyo 12,229 + 208 = 12,437
26/6 Finished Shaman King, Vol. 2: Kung-Fu Master + Shaman King, Vol. 3: The Lizard Man: 12,437 + 200 + 192 = 12,829
23/6 Finished Awoken; 12,829 + 314 = 13,143
sept finished Cress: 13,143 + 560 = 13,703
28/9: Finished Insomnia: 13,703 + 916 = 14,619
28/9: Finished Yesterday's Gone: Season One: /14,619 + 461 = 15,080
18/10: Eye of the Moonrat; 15,080 + 360 = 15,440
27/10: Tales of the Japanese: 15,440 + 113 = 15,553
29/10: Kinesis: 15,553 + 338 = 15,891
11/11: A Job From Hell +374 = 16,265
7/11: Messenger of the Dark Prophet +416 = 16,681
12/11: Nothing but the Black - 16,696

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[HomeInMyShoes]

First?

[DoodlePanda]

Homeinmyshoes wrote: "First?"

Lol yup! Congrats! :D

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

pffffft

[Nyssa, Series Addict]

Lol!

[DoodlePanda]

That is T finished with :)

[HomeInMyShoes]

Nice. So where did the challenge fail last year?

[DoodlePanda]

Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Nice. So where did the challenge fail last year?"

I think it was mainly due to a lack of wanting to read for a few months. The start of the year went well, but then just didn't feel like reading at all...

[HomeInMyShoes]

I was thinking maybe there were some troublesome letters that you might want help finding options for.

You're at 9 at the end of February, leaving 17 for ten months so two a month should be pretty easy.

[Christa, The Renewed]

I added the alphabet to my thread. Not as a challenge, but just to see how things shake out. Also, on those days when I can't decide what to read, I can use that in addition to the SFE list to try to make my decision.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Stop giving me ideas people.

[Christa, The Renewed]

Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Stop giving me ideas people."

Make me.

[DoodlePanda]

Christa wrote: "Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Stop giving me ideas people."

Make me."

Hahaha :D

Suggestions for tricky letters would be welcome! I prefer mainly fantasy/scifi, but I'll read pretty much any fiction if it's good :)

[DoodlePanda]

12/26 read, covered A, D and P :D

[DoodlePanda]

Finished The Dead Room as audiobook.
Which also comes under books bought but forgotten :)

1/5 audiobooks finished
2/10 forgotten books finished

[DoodlePanda]

Decided to do a count of the number of pages I read this year. Not really a challenge, as I have no idea as to what a good goal would be, but might be fun to see how many pages I get to :)

[DoodlePanda]

So far this year the count is 7,268 pages :)

[Orlok]

That sounds pretty good. I'm only on about 5,000 or so, so go you!

[HomeInMyShoes]

I'm around 6000 right now so I'd say really good. That's in the 100 pages a day range.

[DoodlePanda]

Well, some of it is manga which is a lot quicker to read... :)

[DoodlePanda]

Finished Snømannen which is 438 pages, making the current number of pages 7,268 + 438 = 7,706

It will also cover S in my A-Z challenge, and 'a book from my country' in the SFE challenge.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Your A-Z challenge is taking a beating. 50% and not even 25% into the year.

[DoodlePanda]

Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Your A-Z challenge is taking a beating. 50% and not even 25% into the year."

Yea, it's looking a lot more promising then last year :)

[DoodlePanda]

Finished Q is for Quarantine, making current number of pages 7,724

It will also cover Q in the A-Z, and 'a book that's under 150 pages.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Always nice when books hit multiple challenges.

E - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.

Just saying. One of my favorite finds the last few years were his Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series. And I don't usually read series anymore.

[DoodlePanda]

Finished Unicorn Western: 134 pages - 7,724 + 134 = 7,858

Which will also cover 'book I can read in a day' in the SFE challenge.

I was planning on using it in the A-Z challenge too, until I went to enter it in and realized I already had a U..... lol

[DoodlePanda]

Oh, I forgot that is was also a 'forgotten' book :D
3/10 finished

[HomeInMyShoes]

Really knocking down the subchallenges there.

[DoodlePanda]

The challenges are actually helping me reduce the number of unread books on my Kindle :)

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

DoodlePanda wrote: "The challenges are actually helping me reduce the number of unread books on my Kindle :)"

I wish I could do that.

[DoodlePanda]

I know that feeling... I tend to buy lots of Kindle books, but rarely get around to reading them. I have around 400 unread books on my Kindle, most of them I don't even remember what they are...

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

DoodlePanda wrote: "I know that feeling... I tend to buy lots of Kindle books, but rarely get around to reading them. I have around 400 unread books on my Kindle, most of them I don't even remember what they are..."

Looking through them is a chore.

[HomeInMyShoes]

The evils of clutter. In the end, nothing is really free.

[DoodlePanda]

I often use the Kindle app on my PC to look through them, at least it gives me the chance to view the covers :)
At this point I have completely forgotten whats on there...

[DoodlePanda]

Finished Open Minds

Covered O on A-Z challenge, also counts as 'forgotten book' and audio book.

Brings the total number of pages read to 8,184

[DoodlePanda]

Finished Døde menn går på ski. Which for a 'funny' book was horribly boring. You're not missing out :P

But it will be useful in the SFE challenge for book written by a comedian. It doesn't count in any other challenges other than the total number of pages read, which is now 8,400.

[HomeInMyShoes]

You can join me in the group of people that read unfunny books by comedians. :)

[DoodlePanda]

Homeinmyshoes wrote: "You can join me in the group of people that read unfunny books by comedians. :)"

Hehe, yay! :P

[DoodlePanda]

Finished The Bees for a total amount of 8,753 pages so far.

[DoodlePanda]

Finished Flesh
Counts as F in the A-Z challenge
+ audio book
+ books that I purchased and forgot.
Also brings my total number of pages so far to 9,089.

Not sure if I can find a place for it in the SFE challenge though... hmmm

[DoodlePanda]

Finished Desperation - total page count now 9,241.
↪ A book that takes place on an island

[DoodlePanda]

Read a couple of mangas: Bleach, Vol. 28: Baron's Lecture Full-Course and Bleach, Vol. 29: The Slashing Opera

Total page count now 9,649

[HomeInMyShoes]

Approaching 10,000.

[DoodlePanda]

HomeInMyShoes wrote: "Approaching 10,000."

Indeed! :D
I think that if I manage to finish the books I'm currently reading I might be there :)

[DoodlePanda]

↪ A book translated to English Norwegian - Piken på toget

Which brings my total number of pages to 10,062!

[HomeInMyShoes]

That's a pretty extravagant celebration.

I can't wait to see the 20,000 one. :)

[DoodlePanda]

HomeInMyShoes wrote: "That's a pretty extravagant celebration.

I can't wait to see the 20,000 one. :)"

Lol! If I make it to 20k I will try to make it special ;)