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My goal this year on goodreads is 26 (twice what I read last year), but I am also working on the popsugar reading challenge, so I guess my goal would really be 52.
I was ridiculously behind but slowly catching up since my reading has picked up (Thankfully)
26/36! I´m progressing and not even counting manga, comics. ^^ I´ve yet to read some new books tho
only one behind now - woot!
My goal is 75, will probably adjust later.
I've read 19/55 so far...so I'm about 2 or 3 ahead. I think I'm going to fall behind soon enough though :s
Thanks to audiobooks and Winter in the NE USA being more boring than the Spring and Summer, I'm at 24/30 or 15 books ahead. Which is good because I'm starting to do more and more outdoors stuff (both for myself since I work in an office and for my daughter to get outdoors time). I expect reading to potentially slow.
Just sorted books that aren´t comics or mangas (not counting them) in a folder and I´ve read 30 books. My challenge is 36 books :)
My goal fir 2015 is 120 books. May need to adjust that a bit I have finished 92 already.
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I think I might have to adjust my goal, too, but in the other direction. We're halfway through the year and I'm only 37% finished, 28 books behind schedule. I should be at least at 50% done by now, but at this pace I don't think I'm going to reach 332 books by the end of the year. Might have to shrink my goal. Think I should do it now, or maybe wait and see where I'm at more around September, 75% through the year?
You want it to be a challenge but not so stressful that it takes away from the joy and pleasure of reading
Joseph wrote: "Think I should do it now, or maybe wait and see where I'm at more around September, 75% through the year? "I'd wait a bit. 75% sounds good to me.
I was 19 books ahead but the book I'm reading now has really dragged me back. But I'm at 73 of 125 so I won't complain.
I lowered my goal to 100 (from 125). I've read 49 so far this year. I want to do a re-read of Make Way for Lucia which is over 1100 pages but that won't happen until I hit my goal, hence, I cheated and lowered my goal.
I originally was gonna only shoot for 50 this year, but I've been consistently 5-7 books ahead all year, so upped it to 60.... I'm still ahead, but not as pressured, which is awesome.
Add Flash Point by Brooke Blaine to your reading list if you haven't already. It's one of the best books I've read this year!
I've been three or four books ahead for most of the year. If I can maintain that, I can finish the year off with some chunky novels.
I was ahead and doing well but now a few behind. This happens in the summer because my reading always slows down in June and July
I need to revise my goal of 120 books. I have read 119 so far and about one hour from finishing #120. Can't decide what I should increase it to. That is my dilemma.
I've read 68 out of 100. I'm a bit ahead for the moment.
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Sounds reasonable Joseph, I made a somewhat modest goal of 130, which I've reached, so now I can finish the remaining 2 challenges and read by whim :-)
I finished my goal, but it was a very small number. I think I may increase it, but as it took me 9 months to read the few that I did I am not sure what I should raise it to. Or just see where this year takes me and try to push myself next year...
I recently increased my goal by five books from 90 to 95. I'm still ahead.
How do you guys count DNFs? Normally I count them because I tried to read them but then I increase my total by that amount. So if I DNF'd 5 books I'd increase my total from 90 to 95.
Shannon wrote: "How do you guys count DNFs? Normally I count them because I tried to read them but then I increase my total by that amount. So if I DNF'd 5 books I'd increase my total from 90 to 95."
I usually will mark it as read but clear the dates in the review section so that it doesn't count towards my challenge seeing as I didn't read it in full.
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Normally I count them because I tried to read them but then I increase my total by that amount. So if I DNF'd 5 books I'd increase my total from 90 to 95."
I don't count DNFs. I change them from my Currently-reading shelf to my exclusive Started-but-could-not-finish shelf. Maybe one day I might go back and give them another try. If I do and then finish them, then I'll count it toward my reading challenge. But that's just my way.
I don't count DNF's
I am a tenacious reader and finish everything I start. It has happened, on occasion, that I put a book away and pick it up later. This sometimes helps by reading in another mood and from another perspective.
I set my challenge at 45 and didn't think I'd make it, as I went through a marriage break up this year. But I now just finished my 55th book! Lol, saw to say I bounced back with a vengeance!
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Good job on completing your goals Kiera and Joseph!I have 4 more books to read before I reach my goal. I have 3 going right now so I should make it just fine.
I completed my goal 6 books ago! I hope to add at least 15 more.@Kiera Yeahhh! Our love for reading can get us through anything, good books are a balm.
@Shannon I just count finished books.
My original goal was 50 which I hit in August, so I raised it to 60, Which I've also reached, so went for 75.... I just hit 80!! I totally underestimated myself and how much I could get done this year! Now I'm unofficially shooting for 85. We'll see how this ends up.
I'll shoot for 52. One a week. Slow and steady.
I finished my goal. Super happy because the last few years it has been the 11th hour before I finished.
Finished my goal. 9 above it right now.
I'm two books away, so I will definitely reach my goal and few above it.
Despite November being a horrible month, reading wise, for me (I only read 476 pages) I did complete my challenge. I hope December brings books that hold my attention and don't let go, plus actual time to read.
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Guess what? I just hit 300 with still a couple of weeks left to go. I'm wondering if I can pull off another 25 before year's end. Time will tell. :-)
I have reached mine I may raise it by 5 books but im not sure at the moment I will see how many books I can read by the end of the year
I won't do musts anymore just want to do. I'm a bibliophile from birth. I love reading dictionaries and finding a word I'm not familiar with is Christmas!Unfortunately, eyesight problem has made reading prolonged periods of printed material too tiring. My iPad now is my main library; I now buy mainly ebooks. Pass the Kleenex. Grateful I can read.
Average only 6-8 books per month due to time constraints. I like to read fiction, nonfiction, history, historical fiction and so on at the same time, unless I get caught up in a real winner. Only type of book I'll not read is Romance.
Definitely a hard core bibliophile, logophile.
Mariel (TheCrownedGoddessReads) wrote: "I completed my goal 6 books ago! I hope to add at least 15 more.@Kiera Yeahhh! Our love for reading can get us through anything, good books are a balm.
@Shannon I just count finished books."
I have now reached 72 books! Check them out!!:
https://www.goodreads.com/user_challe...
I´m done with my challenge; more than 36 novels and even more mangas, so all counted together it´s 224.
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Then in August, I wasn't so confident I would reach my goal. I was only at 60% finished with 4 months to go, so I changed my goal from 332 to 275.
In November, I reached that goal of 275 books. On December 5th, I hit 300. And today, the 30th of December, with one day left to go, I just read my 332nd book! I reached my original goal with a whole day left in the year to read! I really should have more faith in myself. ;-)
Joseph, way to go :) that's an amazing number to reach every year.
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101/36 - "94 books ahead of schedule"
It´s only March and I´m already done, so instead of increasing my "goal" (it´s completed anyhow), I´m just going to pretend I haven´t read any manga at all.
With this in mind, I´m ... hmm 20/36 done