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What are your 2011 reading goals?
My goals are to read 144 books and 50,000 pages :).
my one in the 144 in 2010 group, in our plans for 2011 is the sky is the limit which is 250+ books
That's a lot of books! I hope you all can reach your goals! I have to edit my topic in that group.
I aim for 125 books, and think I'll shoot for 50,000 pages.
Sounds good. I'm sure we can reach our goals if we keep at it :). "It" being reading.
I'm hoping to reach maybe 50 books in 2011, which is my usual goal. I didn't get there in 2010, so I may as well strive for the same goal I guess. I'm hoping maybe I can do 11,000 pages, that would be pretty big for me.
I didn't reach my book goal this year either. I think it's good that we are all making bigger page goals, though. We must be reading some pretty big books! :P
Yeah, I wasn't sure how many pages I could read in a year, so I'm increasing it a little based on what I've done so far. There's still time left in 2010 so I'm gonna try to finish a couple more books in that time : P.I just don't know how you and others can read the immense volume you can. I don't think I could ever read a hundred books in a year.
I was striving for 144 this year, but slacked off a lot. Only got to 77 as of right now. Might finish another today. I didn't know how many books or pages I cuold get, so I feel pretty confident that I can read more next year :).I don't see how I have the time for it either. I have dance practice like 3 - 4 times a week, and when we get back, I'll be practicing on Saturdays. I honestly don't see how I can read this much. It might be because I stay up late into the wee hours ofthe morning to read. Yeah... That definitely has something to do with it! :D
haha, I wish I could do that. I have to go to bed eventually because I commute to school and work. So I have to make sure I'm awake for all that driving : P. I'm pretty pleased with what I've done this year too, I do read a lot of technical stuff, so that takes much longer to read. Maybe if I only read novels and what not I'd be able to read just as much : ). But I'm not sure I could make it to 77 even with just reading novels... some novels can be super long!
The longest one I've read this year was almost 1000 pages, but I swept right through it. Not because I read fast, just because it was really good. I don't really read non-fiction/ technical stuff. They bore me unless it's mythology. How far do you have to drive? I guess it's good that I don't have to drive myself to school. Cuz that would cut back on a lot of reading time I have. MY mom thinks I'm aslep at night, but I'm up with my booklight knocking out pages :). LOL.
Yeah, getting through a 1,000 page book isn't so bad when it's REALLY good. But I've read 1,000 page books that just have very dense material. So it's not something you tear through in the same way. You have to take it all in carefully and think about what the author is trying to say etc. I've read 1,000 page novels in a couple weeks (which is very fast for me) simply because the story was amazing, so I know what you mean!When I was younger I didn't read non-fiction stuff either. This ended up being something I got into around 17 or so, then in my mid-20's I discovered how fascinating the stuff in text books was. So it's a fairly recent development for me : P.
It takes me about an hour to get there (since I work and go to school in the same place). So that's about 2 hours a day normally. If I don't have to go in then I spend 3 hours in the morning just reading. It's great!
You sound like my girlfriend though. When she was younger she would do the same thing. While her parents thought she was sleeping, she'd have a flashlight or reading light or whatever just cranking out the books : P.
Haha, sounds like we would get along easily! :DNot a bad drive. I'm sure you love the mornings you don't have to go! :)
I'm reading all I can befor eI start college. I want to double major in Pre-Law and English, so I know I'll have a bunch of reading to do. Figured I may as well have fun now.
True.. I probably wouldn't be able to skip entire paragraphs in those. I'll get used to it in High School, I guess. I'm trying to get into a school that has only Honours & AP classes.. :)
I wan to read 200 books, or at least more than this year...
I want to be able to read at least 100-200 books, and I also want to delve into different genres, such as classics and maybe non-fiction.
audiobooks save my sanity on my commute into work...but I know not everyone can stand them...I do anywhere from an hour to 2 hours every day (depending on DC traffic)Adam wrote: "Yeah, getting through a 1,000 page book isn't so bad when it's REALLY good. But I've read 1,000 page books that just have very dense material. So it's not something you tear through in the same w..."
Zakiya wrote: "Haha, sounds like we would get along easily! :DNot a bad drive. I'm sure you love the mornings you don't have to go! :)
I'm reading all I can befor eI start college. I want to double major i..."
Yeah, in college you might not have as much freedom with what you read, especially if you're an english major. A friend of mine majored in English and she had to read all kinds of stuff they told her too, luckily she likes all of it. You probably will too... I honestly couldn't do it. I don't like a lot of books labeled as "literary classics" and it really is a totally subjective idea, so for them to force it on me and claim what is a literary classic to them versus what I think is just silly.
Good luck getting into that school.
Natasha wrote: "I want to read 200 books and 60,000 pages this year.I'm also going to be reading a lot of supernatural books. I have a reading plan all set out so hopefully I can manage to finish that during t..."
Hi Natasha, I just looked through your book collection. And I'm somewhat curious about something. I noticed you've read a number of books on Physics, yet very few go above 3 stars. In lots of cases I noticed these lower ratings on any book conveying factual information. I was curious why you give them such low ratings, such as "Freakonomics", for example? Though I did notice you also rarely ever give out 5 stars, so maybe it is the way you approach the rating system. In any event, I'm just curious.
Adam wrote: "Yeah, in college you might not have as much freedom with what you read,..."I, personally, love "literary classics." Although I understand where you're coming from about that. I didn't really think about it that way.
Thanks for the luck; I'm going to need it!
I want to read 150 books this year, little bit of a challenge since I won't even 100 this year, but I have so many fantastic unread books that I really want to read.I have both "The Stand" and "Gone with the Wind" and at least part of the "Outlander series" and "at least 3 classics" on my definite TBR goal for 2011.
I don't know about anyone else but my goal is to do more this year than last year.
★Meghan★ wrote: "I don't know about anyone else but my goal is to do more this year than last year."My goal is actually to read less, but read "better". I read a lot of cozy mysteries and fantasy, so I read a lot of books- this year about 600. But the ratio of "classics" and literature to fluff is skewed towards fluff. So, I'd like to read more classics and non-fiction which means probably reading less. I'm not saying read all classics, but at least increase the percentage to hopefully half, which I think is unlikely at that many books a year. So, less books.
@Maggie61: It will be a challenge, but a good one.@Meghan: That's a goal that I didn't really say, but is definitely there.
@Shay: Yeah, I could probably use more classics as well. 600 books this year??? That's a LOT. I would love to be able to read that much.
I can't say my goal is the same of yours - but its close...i'm making it my goal to read at least 1 non-fiction/1 classic and 1 from the 1001 books to read before you die list each month (on top of my normal fluff)Shay wrote: "★Meghan★ wrote: "I don't know about anyone else but my goal is to do more this year than last year."
My goal is actually to read less, but read "better". I read a lot of cozy mysteries and fantasy..."
oh yeah - forgot to add my cultural one...i'm trying to finish up the around the world in 80 books challenge from anohter group (read a book set in 80 different countries) - i'm at 21 books right now...so I have another 59 of those to read
Delicious Dee Challenge Addict wrote: "I can't say my goal is the same of yours - but its close...i'm making it my goal to read at least 1 non-fiction/1 classic and 1 from the 1001 books to read before you die list each month (on top of..."Dee, I guess there was something about looking at my list of books this year and going, gosh I read a lot of crap. I'm pretty sure I won't meet the goal in terms of actual number of classics, but if I at least read more than this year then that's progress. I'm kind of hampered by the fact that I think my brain is wired to like crap. But, reading crap is better than watching it on TV.
I keep fiddling with the 1001 books goal, but even at 10 books a month, it will be almost 10 years.
Natasha wrote: "Adam,3 stars is my rating for I liked it, but it wasn't anything spectacular. 4 is really good. 5 is amazing. 1 is pretty bad. 2 is ok. That might make more sense why I gave a lot of three star..."
Maybe a lot seemed like common sense, but you don't know that for sure until you start building correlation models. You can't trust "common sense" when it comes to complex systems like the economy.
Ah ok, I see how your rating system works. I guess I was just kind of confused, because it looked like you were giving fairly low ratings to books that are just designed to convey information. Those types of books aren't meant to be literary classics with well crafted stories, they're just they're for informational purposes. See, for me, I tend to use a 4 for something I liked and a 3 for me is "well, it's just okay, but nothing to get excited about" and I thought a few of your physics books were things to get excited about haha. I thought if it was something you didn't like that much, why did you read so much in that genre : P.
My goals are to reach 100 books, and, for a page count, I'll just say 25000 and see if I can go over it***Edited to add:****
As of Nov 6 2011 I have hit my 25000 page goal. Still working on the 100 books, only 16 books away.
Shay - I'm with you on the reading "better". I read a lot of fantasy/UF books, probably makes up 70-80% of my books, so I'm trying to increase the other percentage, but the UF is my fun fluffy quick stuff :)This year I'm going for 125 books or 50,000 pages, whatever ends up being higher, lol.
I want to read 75-100 books...and get close to or over 1500 pages a month
Vivian wrote: "Shay - I'm with you on the reading "better". I read a lot of fantasy/UF books, probably makes up 70-80% of my books, so I'm trying to increase the other percentage, but the UF is my fun fluffy qui..."I'm too scared to calculate my "fluff" percentage. I'm sure it's higher than 80%.
Katrina wrote: "I want to read 75-100 books...and get close to or over 1500 pages a month"That's a good page goal for every month. :)
Shay wrote: "I'm too scared to calculate my "fluff" percentage. I'm sure it's higher than 80%."Lol. Nothing wrong with escaping life with a "fluff" book! No judgments here, read what you like :)
I don't have any specific goals...just to read as much as I can and find new some books to add to my fav list!!!
have you noticed the new 2011 challenge box on your homepage? you just have to insert the 3 of books you want to read this year and you have a great way to keep track of them
I created a goal on here for 130 books. I broke 100 books I want to see if I can push myself and do even more! I know I could of if I didn't knitt so much. LOL! THis year I'm going to do it!
Yeah i noticed that too! The only book that it isn't counting, though, is Evermore. Guess i finished it too early for it to be counted. Oh well. That's fine.
Zakiya wrote: "Yeah i noticed that too! The only book that it isn't counting, though, is Evermore. Guess i finished it too early for it to be counted. Oh well. That's fine."I noticed that the books I started in 2010 and finished in 2011 weren't showing up. So I went back and deleted them, added them to "Currently Reading" then marked them finished and they showed up.
Oh well maybe o should do that with evermore. Bcause i started it in 2010.. Thanks for bringing that up, Shay :)
there is a bug in it that if you finished it on the 1st it won't count...I changed my one book to the second just for that reason...and 2 of the books are ones I started last yearShay wrote: "Zakiya wrote: "Yeah i noticed that too! The only book that it isn't counting, though, is Evermore. Guess i finished it too early for it to be counted. Oh well. That's fine."
I noticed that the boo..."
I only wish that they would add a page counting challenge. I try to read smaller books to hit my goal but if I was counting pages I would hit up some of the larger books that have been on my list. Another grand reason why I like this group. Page counting is grand.
I normally keep it simple. I just want to read more then I did the year before. Even getting same amount would be a good idea to reach for.
I read a lot last year but didn't reach my goal, I doubt I'll read as much this year so I have to make a smaller goal which makes me sad :(
anything is better then nothing :) Re-reads are faster :)
I hope they make a page counter as well. That would help me from forgetting. LOL!
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