2015 Personal Challenge

[JoJo]

Thank you Jodi, that is a big help :)

[Jodi]

You are welcome!

[Traci]

I increased my challenge from 30 books this year to 60 due to the fact that I was already over half way done with the 30. How do I create a thread for my personal challenge?

[Cassandra]

Hi Traci,

Kudos to you for increasing your goal! I'm not sure if you figured this out already or not, but here are some instructions:

If you go to this folder and click the link near the top that says "new topic", you will be able to enter the title of your topic and write the first post. Then I recommend to bookmark that link or save it to your favorites so you can get back to it later.

Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any other questions!

[Mary-jo]

Hi, Traci, I'm sure this question has been asked, but I may have missed the answer. Awhile back, I posted my booklist for the challenge and since then, I've changed my mind about some of my choices. (Next time I won't post the whole list ahead of time so this doesn't happen again). Can I just repost a new list?

[Kara]

Sure you can, Mary-jo! You can also edit your list if that's easier.

[Mary-jo]

Thank you!

[Nurai]

Hi, I'm also new to this group. I haven't been on Goodreads very long and I was very excited to discover that these kind of groups exist. I really love reading - any type of books really, I just don't have much time to read because studying is so time-consuming. Still, because I'm graduating this year I'm going to set my goal at 70 books. Right now I'm reading the Miniaturist and it has pleasantly surprised me!

[Lee]

I'm doing 50 books this year. I've cut TV and other stuff down and I'm not doing any college courses since Christmas so I've manged 26 so far. I may have to up my target.

My favourites so far are the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas and The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. I can totally recommend them.

[Winter, Group Reads]

I am home because of my shoulder, and between housekeeping and exercises for it, I read a lot. I thought 60 was a real stretch, but I am at 32 already! Do you up your goals or do you just reach it early, what do you prefer?

[Kara]

Winter, for my own goal, I like to increase it if I find myself ahead by a lot.

[Winter, Group Reads]

I think I will to. The fun thing with a goal is to work towards it. If I'm finished a half year before, it won't be as much fun. If my goal is set so high that I need to change from up to 101 or what it is to over that, can my reading challenge topic be transferd to the correct map?

I'm 32/60 yet, so I don't have to increase yet, but if something drastic doesn't happen I can't see me staying on that number.

[Kara]

Absolutely! We're happy to move threads.

[Kadijah Michelle]

Hello, I'm way ahead of my goal so far this year, and I would like to change my goal to 65. Can you please move me from the 50 and under to the 50 to 100 thread?

[Cassandra]

Awesome, Kadijah! I love to see people reading more than they expected. You're all set in the 51-100 folder.

[Winter, Group Reads]

I never thought of doing that!! Thank you Jodi!

Btw, I just wondered, is it okay if a group leader can't start the book before maybe 2/3/4 days into the new month? Tecknically I could start The Goldfinch earlier like tomorrow, but it's long, and I read one other long book and it would be nice to finish since both are on kindle and I might be tempted to just read The Goldfinch :P

[Winter, Group Reads]

Whoops, that was a different thread, thought I answered a new one ^^

[[deleted user]]

Okay I am super new at this. If for some reason I don't reply or write stuff it is because I'm lost at how this works but here is my update...I just joined Goodreads and I put my goal at 60 books I think I will get more done because I have a challenge going on before that and have gotten 40 of them read already so I'm pretty excited. I don't know if we pick books together or if we just read whatever we like so if someone could clarify that, that would be great.

[Ertica*~She'sABookBirdy~*Castley]

My reading goal challenge is 30 books. 7 books behind my schedule.

[Edwin]

Just found this group, and already I am over my goal (100 books) for this year. Next year I will do even more.

(btw is there a way of getting the widgets of previous challenges?)

[Cassandra]

Edwin, if you go to the homepage where the current widget is and click "view challenge" it will take you to a page that links to the previous year's widgets.

The widgets use a book's "date read" field to determine whether to count it or not. I'm not sure if you put a book's date read field as a date in 2014 or before if it will update the old widgets, though. It's worth a try!

[Zara's Corner]

Julie wrote: "My goal is 50 and slowly coming along. Lol...
I'm almost done reading Cinder by Marissa Meyer. Very good book for a fairytale and sci-fi in one. Cinder"

Well done Julie

[Mary Pat]

Completed my challenge today!!!!!

Finished it with the last of the Ayn Rand books for the Complete Works Challenge. She is a great writer but her material did slow me down for the last couple of months! (I much preferred her earlier works - more showing than telling, more action than lecture!)

I think I'm going to focus on the fun stuff to finish my remaining challenges for the year! I've had enough philosophy to last me awhile! :)

[Megan]

Congratulations, Mary Pat!

[Rebecca]

Kara wrote: "How many books are you going to challenge yourself to read? Create your own discussion topic and tell us what your goal is. Then, throughout the year, track your progress.

How to create your discu..."

I set my 2015 goal at 55 books and was pleased to meet it in November. Are you going to publish any stats on how members did? I wanted to know where I wound up on the bell curve.

[Cassandra]

It's unfortunately difficult to calculate any statistics (as cool as that would be!) I actually think it would be really great if Goodreads would publish a statistic using everyone's personal challenge widgets to see how many books an entire group read for the year.

As far as where you're at on the bell curve, of the 886 members who created personal challenge topics, 460 of them set goals for 50 books or fewer. That only takes into account goal setting, though, not goal reaching.

In any case, congratulations for reaching your challenge goal!

[Stevo]

Maybe the wrong place to post but I'm not sure where to ask. I just noticed that my 2015 Challenge is no longer complete. I assume this is because I reread two books this year that I also read last year so they are now contributing to 2015 instead of 2014. Is there any way I can have it set so these books contribute to both years reading challenges? Thanks!

[Blagica , Challenges]

you can pick a different edition one set to 2014 and one set to 2015

[Stevo]

Blagica wrote: "you can pick a different edition one set to 2014 and one set to 2015"

Haha thanks for the quick reply. :)

[Blagica , Challenges]

I've done the same thing so you are welcome. Welcome to the group if your new!

[Stevo]

Blagica wrote: "I've done the same thing so you are welcome. Welcome to the group if your new!"

I am indeed thanks - I searched for a reading challenge group specifically to ask, hahah. I've swapped things around with the editions as you advised so hopefully the little 2014 Challenge Completed graphic reappears! Its a small, silly thing I know...

[Blagica , Challenges]

no its not it's a sense of completion I completely get it.