~ 2,012 in 2012 Book Count Challenge ~

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

Did everyone update their books?

[Rachel the Book Harlot]

I'm ready to rock n roll, Lisa Kay! :)

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

Thanks, Rachel! Good to know!

[Catherine]

I'm up to 61! I need to get reading! I lost momentum there!

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

Sunday Update
(includes Catherine's 61 books)

3,371/5,000

[Susan (susayq ~), Moderator]

Woohoo!

[Rachel the Book Harlot]

Nice! Woot!

[Gisela, Moderator]

The numbers for those interested:

We read a total of 86 books. Now we are at 67% done and still on track!

[Rachel the Book Harlot]

Thank you, Gisela!

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

Thanks, Gisela!

[Lina]

Gisela wrote: "The numbers for those interested:

We read a total of 86 books. Now we are at 67% done and still on track!"

The geek in me just gave a little happy sigh :-) Thanks Gisela!

[Catherine]

86 book? for June? I'm confused. :(

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

She means and average, Catherine. Now our average has gone down a bit because we have 55 people participating in this challenge instead of 47.

The Math:

3,396 divided by 55 people = 61.74

Or an average of 62 books read per person since January.

[Gisela, Moderator]

Catherine wrote: "86 book? for June? I'm confused. :("

We read 86 books last week. For us to meet our goal we would have to read 96 books a week. So far on average we've been reading 137. While this was our slowest week we are still ontrack because of all those weeks we read an above average amount of books.

[Gisela, Moderator]

For June we have read a totl of 458 books so far.

[Susan (susayq ~), Moderator]

Gisela, I love the numbers! Thank you for doing the math involved in that :)

[Catherine]

oh..ok! thanks!!! I was so confused!

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

Ah! I thought you were doing something different, Gisela! Thanks!

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

Sunday Update
(includes Catherine's 62 books)

3,493/5,000

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Wow!!! That's a lot of books read. Thanks for doing the math and sharing the figures Gisela!!! It is fun to see what the group has done ☺ I think the goal is going to be met!!!

[Gisela, Moderator]

This week we read 122 books.
We were busy reading in June. We read 580 books and we are 69.8% along on our challenge. At this rate we'll probably finish our challenge in September.

[Lina]

Woohoo! And here I thought for me June was a slow reading month. Glad we've got so many members to pick up the slack :-)

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

CaroB wrote: "Woohoo! And here I thought for me June was a slow reading month. Glad we've got so many members to pick up the slack :-)"

☺ I know I slacked off quite a bit in May, picked up a little in June and picking up more this month lol Keep your fingers crossed because I am hoping to get back to my "norm" of about 35-40 books a month ☺

[Lara]

Robin wrote: "☺ I know I slacked off quite a bit in May, picked up a little in June and picking up more this month lol Keep your fingers crossed because I am hoping to get back to my "norm" of about 35-40 books a month ☺ "

Wow! That is some serious reading! How are you able to read so many books each month?

[Susan (susayq ~), Moderator]

Good gravy! 35-40 books month! How on earth can you read that many? I'm awed and impressed.

[Lina]

Robin wrote: "☺ I know I slacked off quite a bit in May, picked up a little in June and picking up more this month lol Keep your fingers crossed because I am hoping to get back to my "norm" of about 35-40 books a month ☺..."

PLOP!
*falls over backwards in amazement*

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

LOL!

[Idalis]

Wow! Thats a lot of books to read but I guess I can try. LOL :D

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

IDK how I read that many in a month but that is my norm LOL Maybe because I read everything from children's to adults and I read a few novellas here and there. Since January when I got involved in challenges my reading is pretty much based on what my challenges are calling for. So the more challenges I am in, the more reading I do ☺ Right now, for this year, my average is sitting at 27.5 books a month :) because I fell behind in May and June. But I am catching up this month. It's also probably because I am not working right now and havr lots of free time.

[Catherine]

Lara wrote: "Robin wrote: "☺ I know I slacked off quite a bit in May, picked up a little in June and picking up more this month lol Keep your fingers crossed because I am hoping to get back to my "norm" of abou..."

when do you sleep?!?!? lol I am in awe!

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Catherine wrote: "Lara wrote: "Robin wrote: "☺ I know I slacked off quite a bit in May, picked up a little in June and picking up more this month lol Keep your fingers crossed because I am hoping to get back to my "..."

I don't much LOL

[Catherine]

Robin wrote: "Catherine wrote: "Lara wrote: "Robin wrote: "☺ I know I slacked off quite a bit in May, picked up a little in June and picking up more this month lol Keep your fingers crossed because I am hoping t..."

I am lucky if I get through 8-10 in a month...

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

You are at 65 books, Catherine? Are you ready for me to post the Sunday Undate?

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

Sunday Update
(includes Catherine's 65 books)

3,617/5,000

[Gisela, Moderator]

Was waiting for this before goig to bed! ;) So for those interested:

Last week we read 124 books and are 72% done. We could reach the 75% mark next week but to do so we would have to read 133 this week. What do you think? Can our group read 133 books this week?

[Lina]

fingers crossed Gisela!!

[Rachel the Book Harlot]

Thanks Lisa Kay and Gisela. :)

[Lara]

Woo hoo! We're doing great.I'm betting we can come close to reading 133 books in the next week. I'm going to be shifting to audiobooks so I can read and pack at the same time. Less than 2 weeks to moving day and I have a ton to pack!

[Lina]

Oh Lara, I'll be thinking of you, I'm still unpacking boxes and we've already been here a month!

[Lara]

CaroB wrote: "Oh Lara, I'll be thinking of you, I'm still unpacking boxes and we've already been here a month!"

I'm taking off work the day before and after the move to help with that. Unfortunately, I'll have to buy some furniture before completing my unpacking. Especially because we aren't taking the book shelves on the wall or all of the book cases. At least I'll have more of my books in one place. I'm just not sure they'll all fit!

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

I feel for you Lara & CaroB! I have almost all my house packed in boxes. It was a rush job, so nothings labeled! Eep! I don't know where half my stuff is and my books are in large black bags! I do have a few I set aside for upcoming "buddy reads" - but NOT all! I thought I'd be happily sorting my books by now... but then I had that kitchen disaster.

[Lina]

Lisa Kay, you poor thing to have your life so disrupted! Let me know if there are any books you need.

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

Thanks, CaroB! A move is one thing, but an emergency move is a disaster!

Anyway, my upstairs bathroom will be finished tomorrow, they promised. Had the added expense of a new toilet b/c they found the old one was cracked at the base. **sigh** This is all getting very expensive. I told them they had to leave me enough for new carpet.

[Lara]

Eek! No labels on the boxes, cracked toilets! We are racking up expenses by trying to fix as much as possible right off, but it is getting pretty high. I really sympathize LK.

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

Thanks, Lara!

[Dawn (Kat N Hat)]

I joined in the tally thingy on the home page. So that added 65 more books to the group total.

[Lina]

Awesome! Thanks Dawn!

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

Oh! Thank you, Dawn! Neat-o-keen-o!

[Gisela, Moderator]

Oh thanks Dawn! Your books will certainly put us at the 75% mark on Sunday!

[Lisa Kay, Moderator]

Sunday Update
(includes Catherine's 67 books)

3,968/5,000