The 2015 Annual Reading Challenge Discussion Thread - Page 23

sakura-panda · 07-07-2015, 05:56 PM

I'm at 43 books read, which is 5 books behind if I want to meet my highest read year "goal" of 94 books. I didn't do much reading these past two weeks, but what I did read was a long book that I've been working on for awhile.

I'm satisfied with being "behind" because I do read when I can and that's all I want from the challenge -- accountability for not letting reading get pushed back by other distractions.

jbcohen · 07-08-2015, 09:49 AM

How many forum members get a real sense of accomplishment when you complete a book and find out how it all concludes in the end? In a way the challenge list thread is sort of a list of my accomplishments on the way to my goal and perhaps finally reaching that 100 books read in one calendar year. I am 80% of the way there so I might make it.

Hampshire Nanny · 07-08-2015, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by jbcohen

How many forum members get a real sense of accomplishment when you complete a book and find out how it all concludes in the end? In a way the challenge list thread is sort of a list of my accomplishments on the way to my goal and perhaps finally reaching that 100 books read in one calendar year. I am 80% of the way there so I might make it.

80% of the way there with almost 50% of the year left. Yeah, I think you might make it.

Yeah, I get a lot of satisfaction when I finish a book -- two ways. One is in reaching the conclusion in the book, and the other is recording that the book is completed. I add it to my list of books for the year and mark it finished in the master "Books I Want to Read" list that I maintain. I then look at updating my online sites including MobileRead. I don't always post online, depends on what's going on.

jbcohen · 07-10-2015, 08:18 AM

I am going to complete a theme with the remainder of this year, I am going to read as many of the Kindle Unlimited Terrorism books that I can manage. That's 838 books which will take me awhile asumming that I like the writting style of the authors and Amazon is adding new books to that list all the time. Sorting all of the books by popularity I have already read 62% of the first page so I will get to work finishing the first page then move so forth and so on through the pages of the terrist books.

There is something about terrorists that make them perfect villians IMHO.

pdurrant · 07-14-2015, 03:47 AM

My TBR is back to what it was at the start of the year! I might make my TBR reduction target after all!

issybird · 07-14-2015, 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

My TBR is back to what it was at the start of the year! I might make my TBR reduction target after all!

Kudos! The struggle pays off!

DrNefario · 07-17-2015, 11:04 AM

Ooh, I passed my 200 short story target a couple of days ago and didn't even notice.

The real target is to read a story a day, which I'll continue attempting. The 200 was allowing for the fact that I didn't think I'd be able to keep it up, but I've exceeded my expectations there.

sun surfer · 07-18-2015, 06:01 PM

Though I've still been reading I took a mini goal break after finishing my half-year goals in June and so am just now updating my half-year goals for July-December. I still have the yearly goal of 50 books, of which I'm now at 31 so ahead of schedule. I had ten books in my January-June subchallenges plus a post-writing subchallenge and a review subchallenge; I've dropped the latter two and have upped the subchallenge books this time to 13 and this time the list is mostly more concrete rather than the mostly more open-ended subjects of last time.

6 Partially Read.

Spoiler:

3 Young Adult.

Spoiler:

2 Print Pile.

Spoiler:

1 Tome.

Spoiler:

1 Club Nominee.

Spoiler:

bfisher · 07-19-2015, 11:10 AM

After a very bad beginning to the year, I've finally gotten back to reading, and am making some progress on my TBR. As of today, I'm at 50 books read in 2015. That was my goal, so I'm increasing it to 100.

I've read 40 from my TBR, and only added 49 so far this year, so if I can read 9 more without adding any more, I will be treading water

Time to start working on my sub-challenges.

Hampshire Nanny · 07-19-2015, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by bfisher

I've read 40 from my TBR, and only added 49 so far this year, so if I can read 9 more without adding any more, I will be treading water

I know this feeling. I don't have a list of all the TBR books in my house. I'm estimating over 1000 of them printed on paper. I know that my Amazon account holds almost 3000 eBooks, but since so many of them were freebies that simply "looked interesting", I don't feel obliged to read them all. But, I have been on a book buying moratorium since January 2014. That doesn't mean I'm truly reading down the TBR backlog, since I keep getting high interest books from the library.

Congratulations for reaching your goal very early.

jbcohen · 07-23-2015, 11:02 AM

Made a mistake a while ago when I claimed that I was at eighty books read, I was actually at seventy books, now I am up to eighty-one books and I am starting in on my eighty-second book. Hopefully I will be able to make it to the hundred books, will be the first time that I have ever done this. I am still working my way through the KU Terrorism novels, IMHO they make perfect badguys.

Dngrsone · 07-23-2015, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by jbcohen

I simply do not keep TBR books around, the Kindle Unlimited (KU) program makes the practice un-necessary. I can any book at any time without cost at any point.

Don't you have to pay for KU? Then it would not really be 'without cost'.

PandathePanda · 07-24-2015, 12:04 AM

I'm almost up to date with my target of 50 books in a year.

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You have read 26 of 50 books. 1 book behind schedule

which is great was 5 behind three weeks ago

jbcohen · 07-27-2015, 10:06 AM

Up to 85% through 100 books read. I am hoping to make it to 100 books to meet the original challenge.

Hampshire Nanny · 07-29-2015, 11:22 AM

I am finally back on track to reach my goal of 200 books by the end of the year. I've completed 113 books so far and I expect to finish one or two more by Sunday morning. (I use a Sunday through Saturday week for my accounting purposes.) I'm 'way ahead in my total pages goal. On track would be 28767 pages as of today, and I'm already at 32,744. (I update the page count when I complete a book.)

I need to put a little bit more focus on my series completion goal when I select my next book to read. I have 8 remaining books in the Elm Creek Quilts series and 10 remaining books in the Brother Cadfael series. With 5 months left in the year, I do need to make sure I prioritize these books over the new releases.

07-18-2015, 06:01 PM	#338
sun surfer languorous autodidact ✦ Posts: 4,235 Karma: 44667380 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: smiling with the rising sun Device: onyx boox poke 2 colour, kindle voyage	Though I've still been reading I took a mini goal break after finishing my half-year goals in June and so am just now updating my half-year goals for July-December. I still have the yearly goal of 50 books, of which I'm now at 31 so ahead of schedule. I had ten books in my January-June subchallenges plus a post-writing subchallenge and a review subchallenge; I've dropped the latter two and have upped the subchallenge books this time to 13 and this time the list is mostly more concrete rather than the mostly more open-ended subjects of last time. 6 Partially Read. Spoiler: This sounds open-ended; however, I only have six books listed as partially read on Goodreads, so really it's a set list, and I am excited at the prospect of it being emptied out. As the title implies, these are books I'd begun but never finished for whatever reason and that I'd still like to read. This list consists of Madame Bovary (which I've already started on), Cold Comfort Farm, The Satanic Verses, A Canticle for Leibowitz, A Brief History of Time and an Osho (philosophy/spirituality) book called Love, Freedom and Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships. 3 Young Adult. Spoiler: It's time for me to catch up on some books in this genre that I've been meaning to read for awhile! However, this is also a set list that I've lumped together so that they take up less room in my subchallenge listings. The three books are Holes, If I Stay and The Maze Runner. 2 Print Pile. Spoiler: Again, a set list - I only have TWO books left on my old print pile! After they are gone, I am done (probably forever) with having a physical stack of books waiting to be read and I can't wait. Of course, this only means the similar enjoyment (and possible feelings of frustration) will transfer to my online tbr list (my GR list is over 300!) but I've gotten much better ever since going digital with my reading about not actually buying books until I'm about to read them. I know that's not the case for many of you, but I think I'm the outlier - when I had to go out and buy books, if I saw something interesting, I wanted to snatch it up to have at home for whenever. Now, I know that most books are just clicks away at my fingertips at any time and so I can wait until I'm exactly ready to read a book until I buy it. So once I complete this subchallenge it will be the end of an era for me. Of course, the final two books are nothing to write home about; there's a reason that they're the final two. On the other hand, they've survived the print pile purges I've done so I do still have some interest in them. They're both non-fiction and both business/money related - The Road to Wealth by Suze Orman (Includes 2003 U.S. Tax Law Changes! lol) and Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Your Own Business. I should also mention that I don't necessarily have to read these straight through for this subchallenge - these are both the type where a skimming and skipping and jumping around may suffice. Also, I don't even necessarily have to read them - I either need to read them or get rid of them. And, there's a possibility that I may buy updated and digital versions to read instead, although I understand that by going that route I run the risk of never finding out those 2003 tax law changes... 1 Tome. Spoiler: An open-ended subchallenge, though not really. I had the same subchallenge January-June and said I'd probably read either Les Mis or Don Quixote, and i read Don Quixote. So unless I find something more intriguing, it will probably be Hugo. 1 Club Nominee. Spoiler: The only truly open-ended subchallenge this time, I've pared it from three last time to one this time because I have so many subchallenge books this time and I didn't want to overload. This is any book club nominee from June-December that doesn't win in a vote.

07-23-2015, 11:02 AM	#341
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	Made a mistake a while ago when I claimed that I was at eighty books read, I was actually at seventy books, now I am up to eighty-one books and I am starting in on my eighty-second book. Hopefully I will be able to make it to the hundred books, will be the first time that I have ever done this. I am still working my way through the KU Terrorism novels, IMHO they make perfect badguys. Last edited by jbcohen; 07-27-2015 at 10:05 AM.

07-27-2015, 10:06 AM	#344
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	Up to 85% through 100 books read. I am hoping to make it to 100 books to meet the original challenge. Last edited by jbcohen; 07-28-2015 at 07:26 AM.

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07-07-2015, 05:56 PM	#331
sakura-panda Guru Posts: 935 Karma: 9558874 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Southeast Michigan, USA Device: Kindle Oasis; 11" iPad Pro (Books, Kindle, Kobo, MapleRead SE)	I'm at 43 books read, which is 5 books behind if I want to meet my highest read year "goal" of 94 books. I didn't do much reading these past two weeks, but what I did read was a long book that I've been working on for awhile. I'm satisfied with being "behind" because I do read when I can and that's all I want from the challenge -- accountability for not letting reading get pushed back by other distractions.

07-08-2015, 09:49 AM	#332
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	How many forum members get a real sense of accomplishment when you complete a book and find out how it all concludes in the end? In a way the challenge list thread is sort of a list of my accomplishments on the way to my goal and perhaps finally reaching that 100 books read in one calendar year. I am 80% of the way there so I might make it.

07-10-2015, 08:18 AM	#334
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	I am going to complete a theme with the remainder of this year, I am going to read as many of the Kindle Unlimited Terrorism books that I can manage. That's 838 books which will take me awhile asumming that I like the writting style of the authors and Amazon is adding new books to that list all the time. Sorting all of the books by popularity I have already read 62% of the first page so I will get to work finishing the first page then move so forth and so on through the pages of the terrist books. There is something about terrorists that make them perfect villians IMHO.

07-14-2015, 03:47 AM	#335
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 74,045 Karma: 315160596 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	My TBR is back to what it was at the start of the year! I might make my TBR reduction target after all!

07-17-2015, 11:04 AM	#337
DrNefario Wizard Posts: 2,207 Karma: 12029046 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: UK Device: Kindle, Kobo Touch, Nook SimpleTouch	Ooh, I passed my 200 short story target a couple of days ago and didn't even notice. The real target is to read a story a day, which I'll continue attempting. The 200 was allowing for the fact that I didn't think I'd be able to keep it up, but I've exceeded my expectations there.

07-19-2015, 11:10 AM	#339
bfisher Wizard Posts: 1,638 Karma: 28483498 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Ottawa Canada Device: Sony PRS-T3, Galaxy (Aldiko, Kobo app)	After a very bad beginning to the year, I've finally gotten back to reading, and am making some progress on my TBR. As of today, I'm at 50 books read in 2015. That was my goal, so I'm increasing it to 100. I've read 40 from my TBR, and only added 49 so far this year, so if I can read 9 more without adding any more, I will be treading water Time to start working on my sub-challenges.

07-29-2015, 11:22 AM	#345
Hampshire Nanny Guru Posts: 615 Karma: 8064562 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505, Kindle 3 KB, iPad2	I am finally back on track to reach my goal of 200 books by the end of the year. I've completed 113 books so far and I expect to finish one or two more by Sunday morning. (I use a Sunday through Saturday week for my accounting purposes.) I'm 'way ahead in my total pages goal. On track would be 28767 pages as of today, and I'm already at 32,744. (I update the page count when I complete a book.) I need to put a little bit more focus on my series completion goal when I select my next book to read. I have 8 remaining books in the Elm Creek Quilts series and 10 remaining books in the Brother Cadfael series. With 5 months left in the year, I do need to make sure I prioritize these books over the new releases.