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Old 08-01-2011, 08:41 PM   #556
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I think those can only be started by GoodReads staff. I would suggest that you ask one of the mods over there.
I've been looking into challenges and the staff seem to think that a group challenge is good enough when it is nowhere even close to acceptable.
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Old 08-21-2011, 10:02 PM   #557
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Well, I've finally reached the halfway point--50 books read. I've picked up the pace considerably lately; my total was only 30 at the end of June. I still have hopes of hitting 100!
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Old 08-23-2011, 10:42 AM   #558
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Well, I've finally reached the halfway point--50 books read. I've picked up the pace considerably lately; my total was only 30 at the end of June. I still have hopes of hitting 100!
Congrats! I think you'll make it!
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Old 09-04-2011, 01:15 PM   #559
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READ 100 BOOKS IN 2011

If I took up the challenge then I think I'd make it, just. I average about 2 books a week anyway, sometimes far more, as many as 5, which makes up for the non-reading weeks, but there's not too many of these.
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Old 09-08-2011, 06:52 PM   #560
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2 in the last 2, and probably another today.
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Old 09-09-2011, 02:50 AM   #561
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I already know I won't get to my goal of reading 100 books this year. I have hardly touched a book these last weeks, there's too much happening in real life The last book I read took me 2 weeks to finish.
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Old 09-09-2011, 03:40 AM   #562
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I'm at 80 books now so I should be able to make it.
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Old 09-09-2011, 03:46 AM   #563
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I already know I won't get to my goal of reading 100 books this year. I have hardly touched a book these last weeks, there's too much happening in real life The last book I read took me 2 weeks to finish.
I think those newly in love get a special dispensation.
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Old 09-09-2011, 02:37 PM   #564
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I looked at my status bar on Goodreads.com for the 100 in 2011 challenge, I am 61% behind at my current pace.....LOL. I also started like 2 months ago and have been reading as fast as I can and still enjoy the book.

My digital library grew exponentially here last night, so I might be able to pick up the pace a little
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Old 09-09-2011, 05:24 PM   #565
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I looked at my status bar on Goodreads.com for the 100 in 2011 challenge, I am 61% behind at my current pace.....LOL. I also started like 2 months ago and have been reading as fast as I can and still enjoy the book.

My digital library grew exponentially here last night, so I might be able to pick up the pace a little
You're doing extremely well for only 2 months. I've been participating all year and am 43% behind - counting short stories.
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Old 09-14-2011, 12:16 PM   #566
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I'm a little bit behind, should be at 67 or 68 by now if I'm going to make it, don't imagine that I will, I'm a tad slow for that.
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Old 09-15-2011, 07:59 PM   #567
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I tried to make it this year, but it is time to throw in the towel. I won't make it. I guess I should have held off on a couple of the larger ones (The Way of Kings = 1280 pages).

So far I have read 54 books (including short stories) and am somewhere north of 16,000 pages. I don't have page counts for most of the short stories and some e-books are only available electronically, so they aren't included. It would probably bring the total up to 17,000+ pages.

Of course if you look at page counts, even ignoring the ones I don't have pages for, I am on track to finish about 22,000 pages. And if you assume that every 200 pages is one book - I will make it at around 110 books. So, if I keep this up, I will still count this year as a win!
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Old 09-18-2011, 12:25 AM   #568
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^200 pages is a book?!? I'm at 28 books and about 9,200 pages.

I won't make 40 books this year, but it's been fun keeping track anyway.

@Nyssa: I see you've picked up on the reading again.
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Old 09-20-2011, 01:41 PM   #569
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^200 pages is a book?!? I'm at 28 books and about 9,200 pages.
There was some discussion about how long a book needed to be to count towards the 100 books this year (i.e. short stories don't, longer novellas might, etc.) I think the final page count that was "agreed" upon was between 150 and 200 pages, so I used the longer one as my threshold. I don't think anyone else took it they way I was playing with to get themselves closer to a "win". I just needed an excuse since I don't like missing goals.

Either way, I am really just having fun too. I love my Kindle and the ability to have any book I want at my finger tips. I have read more new authors this year than I have in the past 5 years combined, maybe even 10 years, because of it. Many of those were short stories and many of them were free, but I have purchased several other stories by the authors I have really liked and will continue to do so.
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Old 09-20-2011, 02:02 PM   #570
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^I included The Metamorphosis which is way too short, but then Ulysses made up for it. To me, it's all a wash and the numbers don't matter that much.

Agreed on the more new authors. A quick check and I've read from 15 new authors this year.
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