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Old 08-03-2021, 11:24 AM   #181
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  • Total Pages: 25,000
  • E-TBR Reduction: 25
  • Print-TBR Reduction: 10

Substantive Goals:
  • Read at least 51% non-American authors
  • Read more female/nonbinary authors than male
  • Read at least 52 short stories
  • Read at least 10 books across all our collections that are my wife's or that she wants me to read.

Cumulative Totals Through End of July:
  • Total Books: 49 - 65% of goal, 49% of stretch goal - ON TARGET
  • Total Pages: 17054 - 68% of goal - ON TARGET
  • Gender Goal: 59% Female, 0% Nonbindary, 41% Male - ON TARGET
  • Country of Origin Goal: 39% USA, 61% out of US - ON TARGET
  • E-TBR Reduction: +17 - ON TARGET
  • Print TBR Reduction: -28* OFF TARGET
  • Short Stories: 30, 57% of goal - ON TARGET but laggin a little
  • Books Recommended by my wife: 5 - 50% of goal ON TARGET

*My wife continues to buy 1-2 books a week from our local independent bookstore and will do until they are able to fully open again post-covid. I expect this to skew my PTBR list all year long, but its for a good cause.
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Old 08-04-2021, 08:03 AM   #182
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I have reached my goal of 20 books. Bumping it up to 35.
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Old 08-08-2021, 08:03 PM   #183
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I just read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and Oh my freaking Gawd was it good! I highly recommend!!!! Kinda like Arthur C Clark meets Neal Stephenson's geekiness.

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Old 08-16-2021, 08:11 AM   #184
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Dickens slowed me down a bit, but I'm happy with my overall progress so far:
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Old 08-31-2021, 02:08 AM   #185
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We're three quarters of the way through the year. How are people doing on their challenges? I hope everyone's enjoying their reading.

I've done pretty well on reducing my TBR this year. From 901 down to 807 so far. Although some of that was discarding some books unread, I have also read more books than I've bought or got for free this year so far.
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Old 08-31-2021, 11:57 AM   #186
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  • Total Books: 75 (stretch goal of 100) (up from 50/75 last year)
  • Total Pages: 25,000
  • E-TBR Reduction: 25
  • Print-TBR Reduction: 10

Substantive Goals:
  • Read at least 51% non-American authors
  • Read more female/nonbinary authors than male
  • Read at least 52 short stories
  • Read at least 10 books across all our collections that are my wife's or that she wants me to read.

Cumulative Totals Through End of August:
  • Total Books: 63 - 84% of goal, 63% of stretch goal - ON TARGET
  • Total Pages: 18209 - 72% of goal - ON TARGET
  • Gender Goal: 59% Female, 0% Nonbindary, 41% Male - ON TARGET
  • Country of Origin Goal: 39% USA, 61% out of US - ON TARGET
  • E-TBR Reduction: +18 - ON TARGET
  • Print TBR Reduction: -34* OFF TARGET
  • Short Stories: 30, 57% of goal - ON TARGET but laggin a little
  • Books Recommended by my wife: 5 - 50% of goal ON TARGET

*My wife continues to buy 1-2 books a week from our local independent bookstore and will do until they are able to fully open again post-covid. I expect this to skew my PTBR list all year long, but its for a good cause.
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Old 08-31-2021, 08:24 PM   #187
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Here's my current lineup
3,000 pages per month: Made it (barely) for August
Ebooks - TBR Reduced by 10; Failure - will never make this year
Audiobooks - TBR Reduced by 10; Failure: Current +22 I could still make this one. Not likely but possible.
Magazines - TBR Reduced by 10; On Plan: Currently reduced by 6, 4 more to go.
12 Books over 600 pages: Abandoned. I did finish one and almost done with 2.
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Old 08-31-2021, 08:36 PM   #188
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We're three quarters of the way through the year. How are people doing on their challenges? I hope everyone's enjoying their reading.
Two-thirds, I think.
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Old 09-05-2021, 06:26 AM   #189
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We're three quarters of the way through the year. How are people doing on their challenges? I hope everyone's enjoying their reading.

I've done pretty well on reducing my TBR this year. From 901 down to 807 so far. Although some of that was discarding some books unread, I have also read more books than I've bought or got for free this year so far.
Well i have read 93 books (out of a potential challenge of 125) and bought 288 (oops so £265 spent) really no blooming hope for me at all
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Old 09-05-2021, 08:30 AM   #190
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Well i have read 93 books (out of a potential challenge of 125) and bought 288 (oops so £265 spent) really no blooming hope for me at all
Small steps. You're clearly restricting your purchases mainly to those books you want that go on offer (£0.92 per book!). You just need to be a bit more discriminating about what books you actually want.
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Old 09-06-2021, 02:56 AM   #191
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Small steps. You're clearly restricting your purchases mainly to those books you want that go on offer (£0.92 per book!). You just need to be a bit more discriminating about what books you actually want.
i know my problem is i add them to my wishlist (assuming i want everything on the wishlist) and dont drill down again once they go on offer lol

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Old 10-01-2021, 07:27 AM   #192
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I've done pretty well on reducing my TBR this year. From 901 down to 807 so far. Although some of that was discarding some books unread, I have also read more books than I've bought or got for free this year so far.
Three quarters of the way through the year, and my TBR stands at just 789. A good year so far, both in terms of reading and in terms of only buying books I really want that are on special offer.

How have people enjoyed their reading challenges so far this year?
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Old 10-01-2021, 09:51 AM   #193
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For the month of September, my TBR overall is down 2.
3,000 pages per month: Failure; watching more TV (mostly Britbox cop shows).
Ebooks - TBR Reduced by 10; Failure - 139 over
Audiobooks - TBR Reduced by 10; Failure: Current +15. Down quite a few but still over.
Magazines - TBR Reduced by 10; On Plan: Currently reduced by 6, 4 more to go.

For the second month in a row, I significantly cut my purchases down. For September, bought only 3 books, 0 audiobooks and 0 magazines. All 3 were authors I currently read. Reading/listening was down due to Mom's broken foot (she's doing much better - she's using walking boot now) but ultimately completed 5 books, so going in the right direction.
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Old 10-06-2021, 09:56 AM   #194
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Length Goals:
  • Total Books: 75 (stretch goal of 100) (up from 50/75 last year)
  • Total Pages: 25,000
  • E-TBR Reduction: 25
  • Print-TBR Reduction: 10

Substantive Goals:
  • Read at least 51% non-American authors
  • Read more female/nonbinary authors than male
  • Read at least 52 short stories
  • Read at least 10 books across all our collections that are my wife's or that she wants me to read.

Cumulative Totals Through End of September:
  • Total Books: 63 - 84% of goal, 63% of stretch goal - ON TARGET
  • Total Pages: 20138 - 81% of goal - ON TARGET
  • Gender Goal: 59% Female, 0% Nonbindary, 41% Male - ON TARGET
  • Country of Origin Goal: 39% USA, 61% out of US - ON TARGET
  • E-TBR Reduction: +18 - OFF TARGET
  • Print TBR Reduction: -34* OFF TARGET
  • Short Stories: 30, 57% of goal - OFF TARGET
  • Books Recommended by my wife: 5 - 50% of goal ON TARGET

*My wife continues to buy 1-2 books a week from our local independent bookstore and will do until they are able to fully open again post-covid. I expect this to skew my PTBR list all year long, but its for a good cause.

September was a horrible reading month for me. We closed on the house, took possession, spent a frantic few days painting, and then moved in at the end of the month. Hope to get back on track, but i can see that I might not hit some of my goals.

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Old 10-19-2021, 10:35 AM   #195
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I subscribe to Amazon's Kindle Unlimited so I get all I want for $10 a month. Thus I have no reason to buy any books at all I get them all free. Bestsellers are generally not available on Kindle Unlimited.
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