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[Miche]

Veronica wrote: "Miche wrote: "I just completed my 2018 Goodreads Challenge: 60 books!

I think this competition made me read more than usual. ;-)"

Congrats!"

Thank you, Veronica!

[Miche]

Virginie wrote: "@Veronica: I was doing a Fantasy subgenre challenge and found this post:
https://www.tor.com/2008/11/13/fantas...

Honestly, Swordspoint has no Fantasy element beyond the set..."

This sounds interesting!

[Miche]

Virginie wrote: "@Miche: Great job! Your read-cations seemed amazing! You averaged at... what? 2 books/day? :o"

Between June 16-June 24 I read 11 books. Paradise! <3

I survived my first day back to work after my vacation! It was a long day though.

I am going to go jump on my couch with a book now. The withdraw is hard! lol

[Solseit]

I started looking around our spreadsheet on our performance and suddenly the competitor in me flared.
I really am struggling to carve time out for reading these days - I am doing better than April and May yet far from my best times - and I feel like sleep should be optional now because reading is a priority.
Let's see how much progress I can make here.

As a side note, I realize I fell behind on the Malazan world. I will dedicate my July to catch up and be on time for August. I just love that world and somehow I find it complicated to get into it again.

Yes, apologies for the random rant. I only wished I had a more balance work/life balance!

[Veronica]

Getting back to work after vacation is always a tough transition, at least for me. If only I could be independently wealthy....*sigh*

Oh well, finished another short book.

Title: Extinction Horizon
Author: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Pages: 351
Buddy Read: No
Challenge: Yes (Overflowing bookshelf)

[Virginie]

Miche wrote: "Virginie wrote: "@Veronica: I was doing a Fantasy subgenre challenge and found this post:
https://www.tor.com/2008/11/13/fantas...

Honestly, Swordspoint has no Fantasy eleme..."

I'm quite interested in Tooth and Claw. A fantasy of manners with a dragon society! :)

[Virginie]

Veronica wrote: "Getting back to work after vacation is always a tough transition, at least for me. If only I could be independently wealthy....*sigh*"

Never having to work, just read, read, read... *sigh*

Your spreadsheet is UTD! Good job :)

[Virginie]

Aristea wrote: "I started looking around our spreadsheet on our performance and suddenly the competitor in me flared.
I really am struggling to carve time out for reading these days - I am doing better than April..."

I added a little stat to my spreadsheet to help motivate me: the points needed to take rank #3. We're now at 205 points, which is the closest we've been in a while! :D

Read on, Fluffers! ;)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

@Veronica: Another reason I take shorter vacations...

[Miche]

Aristea wrote: "I started looking around our spreadsheet on our performance and suddenly the competitor in me flared.
I really am struggling to carve time out for reading these days - I am doing better than April..."

The only competition I perform well is against myself. I try to set an approachable goal per month and I try to focus at going over that goal. Some months are better than others. :)

As long as you are having fun reading, you are winning already. :)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Miche wrote: "Virginie wrote: "@Miche: Great job! Your read-cations seemed amazing! You averaged at... what? 2 books/day? :o"

Between June 16-June 24 I read 11 books. Paradise! <3

I survived my first day back ..."

That's about my record... I read 10 books in 7 days once, back in 2013... back then I think I still took 5 day vacations... I was binging the early Dark-Hunter books at the time... when I first started exploring PNR... and this was on my KINDLE... dun-dun-dun...

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Miche wrote: "Virginie wrote: "@Miche: Great job! Your read-cations seemed amazing! You averaged at... what? 2 books/day? :o"

Between June 16-June 24 I read 11 books. Paradise! <3

I survived my first day back ..."

That is soo cool! And from my perspective you made the best of it. There's something really special about binging a good series or two lol.

[Veronica]

Iain wrote: "@Veronica: Another reason I take shorter vacations..."

You could also marry a rich woman who would then keep you in a lavish lifestyle. It's too late for me. I had to marry for luuuuvvv.

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Aristea wrote: "I started looking around our spreadsheet on our performance and suddenly the competitor in me flared.
I really am struggling to carve time out for reading these days - I am doing better than April..."

I feel the flare too! I realized yesterday that if I read a page or two every time I reached for my phone instead of opening up a random app, I'd make a lot more progress throughout the week. It's a personal mission lol.

You can do it!! :)

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Virginie wrote: "Miche wrote: "Virginie wrote: "@Veronica: I was doing a Fantasy subgenre challenge and found this post:
https://www.tor.com/2008/11/13/fantas...

Honestly, Swordspoint has no..."

My bestie read that one and really like it. :)

[Lena]

Finished Series Challenge ★★☆☆☆

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Iain wrote: "Miche wrote: "Virginie wrote: "@Miche: Great job! Your read-cations seemed amazing! You averaged at... what? 2 books/day? :o"

Between June 16-June 24 I read 11 books. Paradise! <3

I survived my f..."

I remember days like that too. What's happened to our physical read completion, Iain? I used to physically read 80-100 a year. I should be double that now with audiobooks, but not so much lol.

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

I just updated my spreadsheet and added about 40 points. nice. :)

[Lena]

Ooh nice Niki!

[Veronica]

Woohoo, Niki! Way to go!

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Aristea wrote: "I started looking around our spreadsheet on our performance and suddenly the competitor in me flared.
I really am struggling to carve time out for reading these days - I am doing b..."

Before reddit/imgur/goodreads notifications became a thing for me, I could get an hour of reading done every night at work between lunch and breaks, on my Kindle... now I'm lucky to open my kindle at work once per week... I use it more as a paperweight on my forklift...

[Miche]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "I just updated my spreadsheet and added about 40 points. nice. :)"

Great job, Niki!

[Miche]

Veronica wrote: "Iain wrote: "@Veronica: Another reason I take shorter vacations..."

You could also marry a rich woman who would then keep you in a lavish lifestyle. It's too late for me. I had to marry for luuuuv..."

Too late for me too. There is always the lottery hope. However, for that I would need to remember to play it... ;-)

[Veronica]

Miche wrote: "Too late for me too. There is always the lottery hope. However, for that I would need to remember to play it... ;-) "

I know. They're so picky about the rules. Sheesh!

[Miche]

Great job, Veronica and Lena!

:)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Iain wrote: "Miche wrote: "Virginie wrote: "@Miche: Great job! Your read-cations seemed amazing! You averaged at... what? 2 books/day? :o"

Between June 16-June 24 I read 11 books. Paradise! <3

I ..."

I've always felt like I got more Kindle reading done in my old apartment... and I dunno why... it became an issue almost immediately after moving... that was 2.5yrs ago now...

My Kindle:Audio spread from 2013-2018

2013 = 354 - 0
2014 = 332 - 43
2015 = 222 - 66

--- (the move)

2016 = 84 - 117
2017 = 64 - 137
2018 = 7 - 170 and counting

[Miche]

I read faster than if I listen to audiobooks (I can't do high speed), so I switched my focus back to ebooks. That helped me. :)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Veronica wrote: "Miche wrote: "Too late for me too. There is always the lottery hope. However, for that I would need to remember to play it... ;-) "

I know. They're so picky about the rules. Sheesh!"

5 second google search:

https://www.seekingarrangement.com/br...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Miche wrote: "I read faster than if I listen to audiobooks (I can't do high speed), so I switched my focus back to ebooks. That helped me. :)"

Looking at my success this year, speeding up audiobooks has brought my audio pace in line with my old ebook pace... retention varies by how much I like a book, but I usually finish audiobooks, where I would abandon ebooks I don't care for...

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Iain wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Aristea wrote: "I started looking around our spreadsheet on our performance and suddenly the competitor in me flared.
I really am struggling to carve time out for reading these..."

lol, but a lovely paperweight it would make.

I did the math, and if I converted the amount of time I spent on goodreads and my phone in general, I could get through at least 100 pages more a day (taken into account just time spent at home... it doubles when I factor work, but it would be harder to read there). That's almost two regular sized books per week!! Add weekends and in rounds it to 900. O_o

ipones really did mark the decline of my reading productivity. I'm kind of working to change my habits a bit because I hate being glued to my phone, but holyshit. #welltheresyourproblem

[Miche]

I can't listen to audio at work and my commute isn't long at the moment, so my audio time is short now. :)

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Thanks for the wtg's team! :)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Iain wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Aristea wrote: "I started looking around our spreadsheet on our performance and suddenly the competitor in me flared.
I really am struggling to carve time out for ..."

The worst part is the time I waste refreshing things and looking for things to read on my phone, because I check too often to have productive things to do on it... I'm literally wasting my time...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Miche wrote: "I can't listen to audio at work and my commute isn't long at the moment, so my audio time is short now. :)"

If I ever lose my ability to read at work, my reading/day/year is going to nosedive...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Thanks for the wtg's team! :)"

Slow down, will ya... winning isn't everything... ;)

[Zaara]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "I just updated my spreadsheet and added about 40 points. nice. :)"

💪 Niki!

Virginie wrote: "I'm quite interested in Tooth and Claw. A fantasy of manners with a dragon society! :) "

I have it.
BR in August??

Miche wrote: "Between June 16-June 24 I read 11 books."

I just saw this...🔥🔥🔥 wow Miche!

[Solseit]

Iain wrote: "Miche wrote: "I read faster than if I listen to audiobooks (I can't do high speed), so I switched my focus back to ebooks. That helped me. :)"

Looking at my success this year, speeding up audioboo..."

I love audiobooks for some reasons: (i) even when I am simply reading, it paces me, forces me to read; (ii) when I commute, it's good to have the book on; (iii) running has never been as much fun as with a book!
So, I got to a point where I prefer audiobooks to ebooks (or paper books). I love the combination though so that when I cannot listen, I can keep reading and viceversa!

[Diana Stormblessed]

Yeah, audiobooks are my thing now. I might read 1 or 2 physical books a month now. That's it.

We're less than 170 points from the next team up. Go team! Closing the gap.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I didn't realize how much you guys were catching up... I think you guys are going to take first place, now that I'm paying attention... I guess you finally gained enough extra team members to stop being perpetually 25% behind...

Blood Eagles have been 100-200pts behind House of Chains for a 2-3 months now...

Would it be stealing your thunder to say it's because Choko is chillin' on the beach this summer?... until April/May, we were neck and neck, and now I'm nearly 200 points ahead...

[Petrik]

Great job everyone! Sorry i havent been makkng any progress. Going back from vacation tomorrow abd will be back to it! :)

[Solseit]

Petrik wrote: "Great job everyone! Sorry i havent been makkng any progress. Going back from vacation tomorrow abd will be back to it! :)"

You should rest and enjoy your holiday! that is what matters! I am sure you will be resuming your incredibly powerful pace in no time!

[Solseit]

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Yeah, audiobooks are my thing now. I might read 1 or 2 physical books a month now. That's it.

We're less than 170 points from the next team up. Go team! Closing the gap."

Go team indeed!

[Kris]

Finished a couple of books in the last couple of days :) Shock, horror!

[Virginie]

Lena wrote: "Finished Series Challenge ★★☆☆☆"

UTD

[Virginie]

Niki Hawkes wrote: "I just updated my spreadsheet and added about 40 points. nice. :)"

Nice, Captain! Way to fluff our score!

[Virginie]

Zaara wrote: "I have it.
BR in August??"

Yay! BR with Zaarasweety :)

[Virginie]

Lola wrote: "Finished a couple of books in the last couple of days :) Shock, horror!"

Nice! Great job, Lola!

[Niki Hawkes, I made it past GOTM... barely]

Lola's making a comeback!! (Lol, actually I think you've just been reading colossal books).

[Lena]

OMG we are less than 200 points away from 3rd place guys!!!!

[Virginie]

156.8 points exactly :D