Introductions - Thanks for Joining!!

[Lydia]

Hi, Just saw your group and thought I'd join. I"m not sure how many pages I'm at this year...I've been keeping track of books not pages...it will be interesting to see how many pages I've read. I'm at 125 books read since Jan this year.

[Zakiya]

That's a great start, Lydia!! I'm sure you have a TON of pages!

[Jamie]

Zakiya wrote: "That is understood by all of us here. Glad you got some new books! What two did you get?"

I got My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
and Slaughterhouse-Five

they couldn't be more different, but both by authors that I love : )

[Jamie]

Lydia wrote: "Hi, Just saw your group and thought I'd join. I"m not sure how many pages I'm at this year...I've been keeping track of books not pages...it will be interesting to see how many pages I've read. I'm..."

Welcome Lydia! Hope you enjoy the group. It's sooo satisfying to add up your pages and get that much closer to the goal. Happy reading : )

[[deleted user]]

Welcome to the group everyone! I'm so glad your pulled up a chair and jumped right into the conversation!

[Zakiya]

Jamie, those sound like great books! I hope that you will enjoy them a lot!!

[Carrie]

hey< I am Carrie, What a interesting group idea!

[Sarah]

Hi! My name is Sarah, I'm new to this group. I've been a member of goodreads for a little over a year. I noticed this group through updates from a friend on here. I thought it would be interesting to see how many pages I've read. So far this year (since Jan.) I have read 18683 pages. I think that is amazing. Since I plan to have a profession involving books I thought I'd try to read a million pages!! :)

[Angela]

Welcome to the group Sarah

[Zakiya]

Hello to Carrie and Sarah!! Welcome to our group :D. Happy Reading!

Carrie: Thanks! Any ideas from you and others are greatly welcomed!

Sarah: I'm glad you found us then! Thanks to your friend as well for participating :). That's a great amount fot this year! I've got around as many pages as you. Great job so far!; yes, you should def try if your job involves books. :).

Good Luck to both of you!

[★Meghan★]

Hi Elizabeth welcome to the group! Please feel free to join into any discussion.

[Zakiya]

Hello, Elizabeth! I hope you make a few friends here as well. To us and a million pages!! Hope you enjoy this challenge! :D

And yes, feel free to join in on any discussion topic here.

[Leanne]

ok. i am Leanne. I borrow books from Zakiya or get them from the library.. i am a good multi tasker and can do almost any thing while reading... i am a dancerr. i live in tn. i am smart& crazy.. well yeah&& I LOVE ORANGEE!!!:) k, bye

[Zakiya]

LOL! Welcome, Leanne. Glad you could find time to 1) get on GRs again, and 2) join our group. Good luck!

[Sherri]

What type of dancing do you do? I danced for 10 years (ballet, jazz, and tap and some clogging classes here and there) but I loved tap the best. I really want to get back into it!!

[★Meghan★]

Hi Leanne! I LOVE ORANGE too! I also love pink right now more pink than orange but my favorites have always been orange, blue, and pink. I wish I could have danced more growing up, but I am happy I have plenty of time to read!

[Zakiya]

Yeps, Leelee takes so many dance classes, it's insane! But she's really good. :D (We go to school together.)

[Leanne]

Sherri wrote: "What type of dancing do you do? I danced for 10 years (ballet, jazz, and tap and some clogging classes here and there) but I loved tap the best. I really want to get back into it!!"

i do ballet, tap, jazz, and hip hop at an acual studio. but at school i do African folk and liturgical, and 60's and 50's. and other junk:)

[Leanne]

Meghan wrote: "Hi Leanne! I LOVE ORANGE too! I also love pink right now more pink than orange but my favorites have always been orange, blue, and pink. I wish I could have danced more growing up, but I am happ..."

I am starting to like pink more right now to but i will always stay true to Tn colors:) haha

[★Meghan★]

It is ok! My closet goes through phases when it comes to colors and it is absolutely jammed packed with a rainbow. In the fall/winter it was charcoal gray. Right now it is a maroon/dark red. But if I find something really awesome in orange I have to have it! (Especially sneakers!)

[Zakiya]

Cool Meghan! I would love to look at my closet if it were a rainbow. :)

[[deleted user]]

Welcome to eveyone.

I always wanted a orange car. I think everyone will find a friend... Million page buddy! LOL!

Happy Reading!

[Beth]

just joined, saying hello. Beth

[[deleted user]]

Hey! It's Andrea from Canada!! Like many or all of you here, I love to read!! :D Mostly YA fiction or fantasy.

[Zakiya]

Hello to both Beth and Andrea!! Thanks to the two of you for joining us here. Andrea, Yep! Those are whatI mostly read too. Hope you both like it here,

Zakiya :D

[[deleted user]]

coolio. :D

[[deleted user]]

Yes, WELCOME!

Have fun with this group Beth and Andrea :)

[Adam]

Hi everyone.

I'm in the process of trying to change industries. I got my degree in Accounting/Finance and Economics in 2005 and worked in that industry for about 5 years and really didn't like it very much. So now I'm back in school studying Applied Mathematics and Physics. I graduate (again) in May, then I want to get my masters in Applied Mathematics in 1 year, then I might go for my PhD in Physics. Right now I'm focusing on learning stuff in the field of Electromagnetism, which will eventually turn into studying a lot of Quantum level things.

I just got a job at one of the Labs at my university studying Quantum Cascade Lasers. So now I'm intensely learning how to program in this thing called LabVIEW. Interestingly it's the programming system they use at CERN to control the Large Hadron Collider in Europe and also national Instruments teamed up with Lego and their Mindstorms robots are run with an easier version of the LabVIEW program. (This was just something random I recently learned, thought I'd share.)

I've kept track of the pages I've been reading for a long time now. Due to the nature of my research and books I read, I'm going to start this from the number I have right now. I am not sure why we are handicapped to start in January 2010, since the goal is in a lifetime... Anyway, it takes me a long time to read books, I've only read 24 books so far in ALL of 2010 and it's only about 8,000 pages. I see some people doing that in a Month! I don't know how people do that... so anyway, that's what I'm doing.

[Heather]

I use to work with Lego teaching people how to use the robots back when I was in college. Good luck.

[Dee]

hey everyone!! I just saw this group mentioned over on the Recommend a Featured Group Thread and thought I would check you out...i'm a total sucker for challenges and can always be found with a book or my kindle in hand and usually reading multiple books at once. I'm in the navy and stationed in DC right now. I'm also work on my PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, so reading is my break from the insanity...looking forward to some fun. I'll post my page count when I get a chance

[Shay]

Adam, I read about 15,000 pages a month. I've always been a fast reader. I took 18-22 credits a semester in college, got my BA in 3 years, my masters in 1 1/2 years. Some days I read 2,000 pages a day. Once I took 4 upper division literature courses in a semester, must have read over 100 books that semester just for those 4 classes.

[Victoria]

Hi, I'm Victoria. I thought this idea was lovely, and I'm always up for a challenge :)

[Jen]

Hello, everybody. I'm Jen, I'm a full time student (majoring in Broadcasting) and work part time. I've always been an avid reader and recently gotten back into reading. So this year, I haven't been reading up to what I normally do so I'm starting out at about 4,500. But I'm up for the challenge and hope it'll be fun!

[Shay]

Jen wrote: "Hello, everybody. I'm Jen, I'm a full time student (majoring in Broadcasting) and work part time. I've always been an avid reader and recently gotten back into reading. So this year, I haven't been..."

You can count textbooks.

[Jen]

Shay wrote: "Jen wrote: "Hello, everybody. I'm Jen, I'm a full time student (majoring in Broadcasting) and work part time. I've always been an avid reader and recently gotten back into reading. So this year, I ..."

Wow, thanks! That would help considerably, actually.

[Whisper19]

I just realized I didn't introduce myself
I'm a student from Croatia, my majors are English language and literature and Comparative literature. I LOVE reading. I love spending my weekends reading.

good luck to all members of this group

[Zakiya]

Hello to all of our new members! I hope you enjoy your time here,
Zakiya :D

[Adam]

Shay wrote: "Adam, I read about 15,000 pages a month. I've always been a fast reader. I took 18-22 credits a semester in college, got my BA in 3 years, my masters in 1 1/2 years. Some days I read 2,000 pages a ..."

Wow, that's pretty wild. I definitely couldn't pull off that kind of stuff.

[Kjerstin]

Hi everyone! My name is Kjerstin. I'm a 20 year old college student. I am really excited about this group!

[Zakiya]

Hello Kjerstin! Thanks for joining! :)

[Ronyell]

Hello! I'm Ronyell and I have joined this group because I love to challenge myself! I am currently attending grad school and majoring in Business Administration! I love reading all kinds of books, mainly children's books and romance novels.

I have a few questions: 1) When you said that page counts cannot go earlier than January of the year you joined, does that mean that I cannot count page numbers from books I read before January 2010?
2) Do you include pages numbers from children's books (either picture book or chapter book)?

[Adam]

I don't know about other people, but since the word "lifetime" is used, I am adhering to this. So I count books prior to 2010. Since I'm 28, that's a good chunk of my page count. I am not sure why the 2010 mark was chosen, despite the name of the group using the word "lifetime".

I am not sure about your second question. I personally do not count children's picture books. I did count some of the old chapter books, well... the ones I could remember reading : P.

[Dee]

for me personally, i've never really tracked books I've read until this year and while I know I've read lots, I didn't have any thing to track...so that is why I opted to start in January 2010...

[Zakiya]

Hello Georgia and Ronyell!Thanks for joining and enjoy the group! :D

[Ronyell]

Thanks Zakiya!!

[Shay]

I think if I counted my lifetime total, it would be about 4-5 million pages, not including picture books. I read less now than I did 10 years ago and I read about 15,000 pages a month now.

[Ronyell]

Thanks everyone!! I think I'll just include mainly chapter books rather than picture books or comic books, because some of the picture books and comic books don't have page numbers and if I have to do a page count on each book I read, the book must have at least over 100 pages for me to count it. So, I'll include some children's books that are chapter books and maybe I might include some graphic novels, but I'm not sure about that yet, so we'll see!

[Adam]

Yeah, I don't count my comic books or graphic novels either. When it comes to graphic novels, those are usually numbered, but if one of yours isn't, you can usually find the page count online somewhere like Amazon or Goodreads. Most comics are either 32 or 28 pages though, but I don't really count those either.

[Danie]

Hey all! I'm Danie, I live in NY. I was browsing the groups on Goodreads and figured this would be kinda fun.

[Liz]

Hi, I'm Liz from NYC. Great group.