The Book Challenge discussion
*What's your status? Compilation thread*

goal is 36
started in September
This is a great idea -- will be fun to see everyone's progress. Also can be a good opportunity to reevaluate goals. I had no idea how much I read until I joined goodreads and started keeping track!



Ooops... Im still stuck in October apparently!! (blushes madly).. I guess i havent quite come to terms with the fact that christmas is only around the corner! (20 in one month is still a huge accomplishment!!!)





So far so good, 20 books in two months. :)





With a target of 104 books (for the year ending Sept 30, 2008) I am currently a fair bit ahead of schedule...better yet, finally I've been "forcing" myself into picking up some of the older selections that have been languishing on my "unread shelf" as new and brighter acquisitions forced their way to the top of my reading list (see my tbr challenge group)



currently @ 44 books read of target of 104 books (before year ended Sept. 30, 2008) Book Challenge Group - Bricoleur's Challenge
At this pace I would end the target period at 176 books.... sigh; if only I was a man of independent means it might be so - but the real world will impose its will again in January so my pace will drop.... but I do hope to be able to do at least 7 books per month for the next 9 months to beat my original target.




12/150
Last year I had a goal of 100 & I read 145. My secret is to read instead of studying. I can't do that this quarter though because I'm taking a language & I need to actually study for it. But I'll catch up over summer break. :)

Also I am almost finished with Elizabeth Costello, by Coetzee and it fantastic!!






I have read 21 books and am currently reading the next 2.

I started the TBR Challenge (yahoo group) at the beginning of the year, where the goal is to read 1 book per month from your TBR pile. The biggest problem I'm having is that the challenge required a pre-selected list of 12 books (and 12 alternates if you chose), and now that I'm in the midst of it nothing on the lists is appealing, and I'm reading something completely different. I hope to finish it just so I can move those books to the "read" list, but we'll see.

I have an overall goal of 50 books. I just finished number 12.
I have a specific goal that 35 of those 50 books be books that have been sitting on my shelves at home. Of those 35, I have read 9.

So far I have read 21, with 3 more underway, and I have gotten my TBR shelf down to a more "manageable" number.

As of today. well the book i finished 15 minutes ago, I have finished 15 books and over 7,500 pages.
Since I set a challenging yet realistic reading goal, I am also making this pledge: for every book (or equivalent pages) I am over or short of my goal I will donate 5 dollars to charity.
Books mentioned in this topic
Franny and Zooey (other topics)QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (other topics)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (other topics)
Jack of Fables, Vol. 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape (other topics)
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes (other topics)
More...
So post how many books you've read (and how many you set for your goal), as well as when you set your goal. I can't wait to look at everyone's progress all together in one thread! It'll be so inspiring!!!
Aud: 29/52 (+3 in progress), since 9-07