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Kassandra's Quest for 110 in 2015
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No, you can't give up! It's only Feb and there is lots of time left to un-haunt yourself.
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You can do it, we are here to support you.
Congrats on reading the first of your "haunted by the unread" book, Kassandra! :Dbtw: Your thread is so structured I'm kind of jealous.
Don't give up, Renee! As Kassandra said: We are here to support you! You can do it!
Thanks Alessandra! I wasn't nearly as structured last year and I always felt like I was missing out on updates or having to spend too much time making updates with every book I finished so I changed it up this year. It's saving me time and keeping me organized and now I have more time to spend checking out what everyone else is up to. Congrats on your amazing progress so far this year!
Woot! I finished my second book from my TBR clean up pile. I'm finally making some traction. Once the Feb genre challenge is over, I'll be able to continue with some more progress.
3 days left to go in the month and I have read all of my planned reads so far except for one. I've never done this well before so I'm really going to push myself to read this book...even though I had my eye on another book. The Lucky One, here I come!
I'm going to make note of this because it will likely never happen again (!) but I finished ALL of my planned books for Feb. Yay!
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It has never happened to me before Renee, I don't normally stick to more than one or two planned before something else catches my attention. I'm tempted to make a plaque or something for myself just as proof that it actually happened!
I read all my February books too Kassandra and didn't read many plus two were children's picture books.
Job well done, Kassandra! Woot! Woot! I think I managed to read mine for once too. :D To bad Goodreads didn't have badges that Moderators could hand out.
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Melissa-
It would be so cool if we could get little badges that stuck to our profiles!
Renee, I love that idea, who do you talk to! :D
I love that idea! We definitely need a badge to commemorate sticking to the plan. Great job in getting through your books Amber.
Slow progress so far this month...there is a lot going on and even though I've had time to read, I just haven't had the focus. Hopefully the rest of the month will turn that around!
I'm having a slow beginning, also, maybe we will come running in the finish line with dance and a jig! :D
Love your optimism Melissa! Here's to celebrating with a jig with you soon.
I finally finished The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie today, after months of trying to get through it. I really wanted to like this one as lots of people that I know love it, but I just could not get into it.
April isn't turning out to be much more of a productive month for reading than March was. I'm hoping the readathon will turn that around for me later this month.My lone April read was a great one - Preston & Child have delivered again!
I finally finished another book today and it marks my completion of my Pinterest challenge. Woot! I'm going to go for the bonus points this month and look for my next book with at least 5 words in the title.
Kassandra wrote: "April isn't turning out to be much more of a productive month for reading than March was. I'm hoping the readathon will turn that around for me later this month.My lone April read was a great one..."
April's not turning out well for me either. Hoping later this month turns it around.
I hope the readathon helps us both Chase!
Spring Readathon ProgressDay 1:Blood Red Road - 148 pages
Day 2: Finished Blood Red Road - 156 pages
Day 3: I Hunt Killers - 120 pages
Day 4: I Hunt Killers - 94 pages
Day 5: I Hunt Killers - 125 pages
Day 6: Game - 50 pages
Day 7: Game - 350
Total for the Spring Readathon: 1043
May means a whole new BINGO challenge - yay! I'm slowly coming out of my reading slump so I'm hoping to make some good progress this month and dig myself out of my backlog - my widget says I'm 6 behind. EEEK!
I think the Bingo Challenge will boost you out of the slump!
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Hooray for new Bingos!
Thank you Melissa and Renee!One more book down today :)
Good job, Kassandra! And have a great week, too!
I had a lovely relaxing day today and found time to read a book. A good start - still 6 books behind schedule!
I'm so glad you relaxed and enjoyed your reading day! Grab a few YA books that will fill in your 6 book gap. :)
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Great suggestions ladies - I just happen to have some YA sitting right here that I can use :)
Making some progress on the BINGO challenge (and subsequently, the Points Challenge) but this Alphabet Soup is killing me! It's like I'm purposely picking titles that won't help me out. Oh well, May is turning out to be a pretty successful month so far. I don't want to jinx myself just yet, but it's looking good :)
I think you are doing great on the Alphabet Soup. Remember you have half a year left Girlie!
Yay, May is now officially my best month so far this year for # of books read! I will likely tie my all time best tomorrow when I finish reading Blood of My Blood.
Thank you! Someday I hope to be able to keep up with you ;)
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And what Melissa says is true, the longer minus have longer read-times. Alphabet Soup could take a whole year to simmer. ;-)
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Melissa, you're right. This group is so supportive. Thank you!