We're Making Progress!

[Melissa]

I read 7 books in April

[Jennifer]

16 books for me in April!

[Anne (Booklady)]

I just saw this thread, so if I could I'll post all books read in 2012:

Read in January:

1. Fearless Fourteen by *Janet Evanovich 1/3/2012
2. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 1/4/2012
3. Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas 1/5/2012
4. Before I Go to Sleep by *S.J. Watson 1/7/2012
5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 1/9/2012
6. The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society by Beth Pattillo 1/14/2012
7. The Night Circus by *Erin Morgenstern 1/23/2012
8. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 1/30/2012
9. Nothing To Lose by Lee Child 1/27/2012
10. Ratking by Michael Dibdin 1/26/2012
11. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by *Erik Larson 1/12/2012

Read in February:


12. Gideon's War by Howard Gordon 2/12/2012
13.Duma Key by Stephen King 2/17/2012
14.Games to Play After Dark by Sarah Gardner Borden 2/22/2012

Read in March:


15.The Reversal by Michael Connelly 3/6/2012
16. Murder at The Washington Tribune by Margaret Truman 3/8/2012
17.Carry the One by *Carol Anshaw 3/11/2012
18. The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg 3/16/2012
19. Still Missing by *Chevy Stevens 3/17/2012
20. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 3/19/2012
21. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck 3/30/2012
22. American Gods by *Neil Gaiman 3/23/2012
23. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 3/30/2012
24. Exodus by Leon Uris 3/29/2012
25. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer 3/31/2012

Read in April:

26. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 4/4/2012
27. Ice Station by Matthew Reilly 4/17/2012
28. Snow Angels by *James Thompson 04/19/2012
29. The Insider by *Reece Hirsch 4/20/2012
30. Summer of Fire by Linda Jacobs 4/22/2012
31. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by *Aimee Bender 4/24/2012
32. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 4/29/2012
33. Love Story by Erich Segal 4/30/2012

Total so far in 2012: 33

[Tanya]

Wow, this month has just zipped by! That might explain my poor showing - only 5 books this month. Here's to hoping I have more reading time in May! :)

[Zakiya]

Updated--April totals:

7
9
10
12
2
8
35
29
19
8
19
13
17
1
7
16
33
5
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250

[Zakiya]

We just hit over 1000 books!!! :)

[Tanya]

Yay! Milestones are always nice. :)

[Zakiya]

I agree!

[Melissa]

That's awesome news, we're making great progress.

[Anne (Booklady)]

Zakiya wrote: "We just hit over 1000 books!!! :)"

Yay! I'm glad my 33 helped ;-}

[Aneeqah]

Sorry for not reporting my number earlier! School has been so crazy lately!

Anyways, I read 16 books in April. =)

[Zakiya]

I completely understand, Aneeqah! :)

[★Meghan★]

Sorry all! I was going to do this sooner, but it looks like Z beat me to the punch... work has been crazy with people on vacation and LOA. I should be okay for a little while though.

[Zakiya]

I figured that was the case, Meghan. We understand :)

[Mad Scientist]

I'll give you my book total when I get back for my time in China. I'm not entirely sure of the total now.

[Kelly (Maybedog)]

I just joined this group. I'm not sure what is okay to include. I've read:

39 full length books
2 craft books
3 art/photography books (including the writing but large proportion was pictures)
19 picture books
1 audiobook

Total: 64

I didn't start reading until the end of March so my numbers should improve. Please let me know what you think I should include in my totals.

[Zakiya]

I'm honestly not sure how I feel about the picture books. Are they picture books that concern art/crafts, etc.?

[[deleted user]]

18 for May.

[Zakiya]

May totals:

18
14
3
7
64
8
6
17
54
15
12
9
36
10
22
15
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310 (thru msg 193)

[★Meghan★]

If the picture books are kids books I would not count those. Otherwise the others should be okay.

[Zakiya]

Yes, that's what I was trying to decide on. So we agree, for future reference, kids picture books aren't allowed? But other stuff is fine, correct?

[[deleted user]]

I don't agree. For some of the countries I'm reading, I can only get children's picture books.

[Melissa]

Only 3 books for me this month

[Heather]

7 for me

[Zakiya]

Osho wrote: "I don't agree. For some of the countries I'm reading, I can only get children's picture books."

Hmm.....I believe we'll have to discuss this a little more. I'll send out a broadcast once we figure out what to do. Keep counting them as yall were for now.

[Kelly (Maybedog)]

There's a huge variance in picture books. Some don't have any words at all (and some of these are complex like Sean Tan's The Arrival). Some have only a few words per page like I Want My Hat Back and others may be very text heavy like Icarus at the Edge of Time which is basically an illustrated short story. I'm not sure if there is a way to fairly decide on all of them. We might leave it up to the person. When I finished The Arrival I felt like I had read a book. When I finished I Want My Hat Back, which I also loved, I felt like I had read a longish joke.

So my thoughts as a newbie are this:

If the spirit of this thing is that we just read a lot and fully ingrain it into our everyday lives rather than putting it off because we don't have time, then picture books should count if the person feels they fulfilled their goal by reading them.

If the idea is to make sure we read lots of text then they shouldn't.

But if text is the only important thing, should we be sure not to count any illustrated pages in a novel or make sure we actually count the read pages rather than just the page count of the book? What about graphic novels or books of comic strips?

I'm sorry I brought up such an unclear discussion. I was hoping you already had a policy! :) I don't know what the answer should be but I'm not clear on what the reasoning behind the project was. I just think its fun!

[Zakiya]

Don't apologize :). Honestly, we've just never run into this situation before. We've agreed, of course, that straight picture books don't count. But we've never had something like this.

And you know, I never thought about that (the graphic novels, manga, comic strips). You have a very valid point.

I think I'll make a post about this. Not now, but later. To give Meghan &/or MS some time to read everything.

[Cee]

I've read 8 books this month! (:

[Shauna]

I won't finish another book before the end of May, so I'll post my total for the month as 6 books. I was trying to improve my page count, so I went for some longer reads.

[Amy ~Lover of Books~]

17 books for me for May!

[Rebecca]

I read 54 in May. It sounds like a lot, but they were mostly shorter books, around 200 or so pages.

[Anne (Booklady)]

Read in May:


1. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt 5/2/2012 328 Pages
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 5/6/2012 325 Pages
3. Black Oil, Red Blood by *Diane Castle 5/12/2012 346 Pages
4. The Time Traveler's Wife by *Audrey Niffenegger 5/14/2012 518 Pages
5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 5/12/2012 374 Pages
6. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 5/18/2012 374 Pages
7. Six Days of the Condor by *James Grady 5/18/2012 256 Pages
8. The Drop by *Michael Connelly 5/21/2012 388 Pages
9. The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean 5/23/2012 410 Pages
10. Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts 5/6/2012 384 Pages
11. Black Rose by Nora Roberts 5/18/2012 384 Pages
12. Red Lily by Nora Roberts 5/24/2012 351 Pages
13. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins 5/27/2012 391 Pages
14. Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates 5/28/2012 434 Pages
15. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 5/30/2012 140 Pages

Short Fiction: The Monster's Million Faces: A Tor.Com Original by *Rachel Swirsky 5/25/2012 32 Pages

Books Read: 15
Pages Read 5435

[Zakiya]

Rebecca wrote: "I read 54 in May. It sounds like a lot, but they were mostly shorter books, around 200 or so pages."

That's still a LOT! :)

[Jennifer]

12 for me for May. Slow month. June will be better lol

[★Meghan★]

I read 9 for the month.

[Shay]

I read 36 books in May.

[Aneeqah]

Only read 10 books this month, but that's because I had final exams and everything in school. I'm aiming for at least 20 books in June, now that school is over. =)

[Megan L]

I read 22 books this month!

[Tracy T.]

I read 15 books in May.

[Megan]

I haven't really been here the last few months so I'll have the backtrack a bit :)

March: 11
April: 10
May: 2

I haven't really been in the reading mood for the last month or so but I'm trying to make this month my best yet! I'm aiming for 15 or 20 books. My best so far in 2012 has been 12, so I'm aiming high :)

[Stephanie]

For May I read 2!

The video game I waited a very long time to come out finally came out. Thus, my reading progress has been sort of stunted.

[[deleted user]]

Totally forgot to add my may books read.

I read a total of 11 books in May.

[Zakiya]

Thanks to everyone! :)

[Anne (Booklady)]

How are we doing, Z?

[Zakiya]

After 5 months of combining our totals, we're at 1367. Our average of books per month is 273.4; at this rate, it will take us 304.8 years to reach our goal. I find this hilarious, but it's definitely not a bad start. I think we're doing really good so far!

[Anne (Booklady)]

Zakiya wrote: "After 5 months of combining our totals, we're at 1367. Our average of books per month is 273.4; at this rate, it will take us 304.8 years to reach our goal. I find this hilarious, but it's definite..."

It is a good start, especially since summer is upon us. ;-P
Maybe our children and grandchildren will finish the challenge for us, Z.

[Zakiya]

Very true! I know personally that I'll be reading a LOT more this summer.

Maybe :)

[Melissa]

Anne (Booklady) wrote: "Zakiya wrote: "After 5 months of combining our totals, we're at 1367. Our average of books per month is 273.4; at this rate, it will take us 304.8 years to reach our goal. I find this hilarious, bu..."

You never know, Anne could be on to something. It being summer might spur us to get more books finished! No matter how long it takes this is still a really fun goal to strive for.

[Zakiya]

I agree. I like the idea of counting books; it keeps me motivated to read even more than I usually would.

[Tracy T.]

Since I won't be finishing any books tonight, I read 18 books in June.