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07-30-2018, 12:30 PM | #197 |
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I'm sitting at 89 books right now, so in good shape on numbers. But I'm definitely falling behind on $$ spent and TBR reduction. This New Leaf Book Club is leading to all sorts of new book discoveries! And I blame issybird -- it's all her fault!
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07-30-2018, 01:33 PM | #198 |
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I'm only at 73 books read, but I expect to significantly increase the total over the next couple of weeks on holiday!
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07-30-2018, 03:02 PM | #200 |
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I've had a good month: 10 books finished with a total of 4183 pages, which is 300 pages over my average for July. So far this year I'm slightly behind average, around 500 pages. Not a huge number, as long as I don't get any unexpected slumps I should be able to make up for it. Especially since I still have two weeks of house sitting to do and one week away at a vacation park in November planned.
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07-31-2018, 06:35 AM | #201 | |
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07-31-2018, 10:46 AM | #202 |
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I've been reading a ton of fluffy Kindle Unlimited and romance books, which is good for my overall book numbers, but isn't doing much for my "real" reading. My excuse is that I got a new puppy back in June, and the time that I used to spend reading is now spent keeping him busy (just like all those years I had a toddler and didn't get much reading done! LOL)
Fortunately, I can still read during lunch, when I'm working, but I don't want to read anything to involved -- since I sometimes have a hard time stopping when I'm too deep into a book -- so my list is getting filled with quick reads that I can easily break from. I have four books in my "currently reading list" that I haven't actually started, but I *would*, if I could work in the time for them. With that said, at 67 books Goodreads says I am six books ahead of schedule, so I guess I'm doing pretty good with my imaginary challenge. (I picked 105 books, which is somewhere between my "typical average of books read" and my "highest ever number of books read" tallies.) |
08-03-2018, 09:05 AM | #203 |
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I killed in July, finishing 11 books. Already finished 2 in August as well.
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08-03-2018, 11:56 AM | #204 |
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08-04-2018, 12:31 PM | #205 |
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08-10-2018, 09:54 AM | #206 |
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I read 5 books in July, but August looks like I'm falling behind already. I still need to select a fantasy book for my fantasy challenge. Must be the heat. In stead of reading more I'm reading less this month.
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08-10-2018, 10:02 AM | #207 |
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If you aren't limiting yourself to high fantasy or are willing to stretch for a little science fiction, the Literary Book Club is reading Clifford Simak's City for August.
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08-11-2018, 11:57 AM | #208 |
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Thanks astrangerhere ! I looked up the book( City ) and it came up fantasy\ Science fiction. So it would work for my fantasy challenge too. It looks interesting. So I'll read it with the Literary Club
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08-31-2018, 08:36 AM | #209 |
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I've read four books for August, including City for my fantasy challenge.
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08-31-2018, 09:15 AM | #210 |
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