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Book Count for 2016
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So 48 then add a few more for good measure, I will have to say at least 50 this year.
I take my proverbial hat off to anyone who sets very high totals. But it's way more than I can achieve. I'm lowering mine to 50 from 55! An average of a book a week is enough for me. :-)
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Audio books. I personally don't know how people read over a 100 books a year unless they are also listening to audio either that or I am a very slow reader.
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Chris, I owe all my reading time to retirement! Mostly physical books, and a few ebooks, but no audio.
Whatever number reached, however big or small, is your own personal achievement and there's nothing wrong with that.
There is a little old thing called ......LIFE! So read what you can and enjoy! :)
There is a little old thing called ......LIFE! So read what you can and enjoy! :)
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Or long extended sick periods. Last year I was more sick than not so I had much time for reading - mostly ebooks some physical books - Even though I read something over 200 books it were only almost 39,000 pages because I often couldn't concentrate long and read many shorter stuff (short-stories and novellas)
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100 whoa.. That's almost double of what I am targeting. But I agree with what you said pal. Sometimes in the haste to complete a book the enjoyment of reading the book is missed. I find that happening a lot to me when I speed read a library book nearing its due date. It's always that way with me. A rush to finish on time.
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Good Luck Everyone!
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I bet you'll still smash your modest number of 50 and still get most of your "house to do list" done. I know what you mean of not wanting to feel the pressure though. I contemplated for a month joining a challenge I was interested in, as I have recently started to want to participate in one this year, but it just seemed overwhelming when I just got back into reading. However, the fun of it won me over and I nervously (lol) made my contributing list. I am eager to accomplish my goal and set new ones after that if I am able to do this one first. I know what you mean though about wanting to get to those "other" tasks. They never seem to go away before they are replaced by new ones. Hahah
I would just love it if you could ALL add your totals to our yearly challenge it really is fun to see as a group how many books and pages we read.
And yes all for fun
And yes all for fun
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No worries you are not the only one and there are some big-time number junkies in this group and we love to help out in this field :-)
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This is why I am not in love with the book challenge, Steve. You start hunting for shorts and novellas instead of reading what you really want to read and savoring the tomes.
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That's good, Kirsten.
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I agree Christine. That is probably one reason I've read so many novellas the last few years. However, making up for it now with Anna Karenina (800+ pages).
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No worries you are not the only one and there are some big-time number junkies in this group and we love t..."
Number Junkies? I like it.... so instead of a math nerd, I will now go with number junkie :) (I already have my spreadsheets with formulas going, and have the first entries from the thread tracked.)
I am going for 125 books this year. I completed 147 last year, but for me, I aim more for the total pages than the number of books.
Also, when you are reading a series, sometimes there are novellas in between books. One I read last year was only 3 pages - it was pretty much a prologue to the series, but was listed as a separate book in the series. Even with that, my average pages per book was 320 pages for last year. Part of my tracking I do includes counts of the number of books between page ranges.
I tend to devour books. I had an upper respiratory infection over new year's, and due to it's impact on my asthma, I was not able to do much over the weekend, so I am almost done with my fourth book. (Two were in an anthology, and I can not find them on Goodreads, so they unfortunately will not count to my books goal on GR - I have them on my spreadsheet tracking though!)
I love to add in different challenges, as they tend to get me to read books I may not otherwise - and to clean up some off my TBR mountain. (Yes, mountain is correct - it is too big to qualify as a pile anymore!)
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And yes all for fun"
I'm going for 120 this year. I will post after each month with my monthly totals. It's too hard for me to keep up daily with everything, lol.
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I have gone for 60 books, if I do more that's great