01-02-2016, 01:29 PM | #61 |
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I've defined my goal which is to read 60 books this year. I want to read all of the MR book club books for 2016. But that came goal came to a raging fail because I am not rereading The Golden Compass. It's not a reread worthy book. Good for a read, but not a reread.
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01-02-2016, 01:48 PM | #62 | |
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Thank you. I hope you meet yours as well.
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01-03-2016, 08:24 AM | #63 |
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Is anyone doing an A-z challenge
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01-03-2016, 01:45 PM | #64 |
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I'm doing an A-Z Series challenge, which I'm already about half way through (it started mid 2015) and am tracking elsewhere.
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01-03-2016, 02:38 PM | #65 |
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First book of the new year read, and recorded, along with the first purchase of the new year (two Baen Bundles). Now, if I can just be as timely going forward...
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01-04-2016, 06:43 AM | #66 |
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At the moment I will stick with an overall challenge of reading 75 books in the year. Need to think a bit more about any sub-challenges.
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01-04-2016, 08:14 AM | #67 | |
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I expect that my TBR will go well above 800 before the end of January. Depending on how I do in finding bargains, it might hit 850. But I'm still going to aim for sub-700 by the end of 2016! (I'm still an optimistic kind of mouse.) |
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01-04-2016, 10:26 AM | #68 |
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This is that moment of high anxiety that happens at the beginning of every year, when my Goodreads counter shows me already behind on my annual challenge. The pressure!
I had holiday company through yesterday but things are getting back to normal today and I should start to catch up. I hope. The Monday after New Year's is the day when all those resolutions start to chafe. They seemed so benign in the holiday glow. |
01-04-2016, 10:38 AM | #69 |
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^Lol. Mine says I'm on schedule, but only putting 50 in the bucket makes that a little easier. 50 might be a stretch for me this year. I'm no where near as motivated as last year at this time. We'll see. 366 days is a long time to get through 50 books.
I'm doing well on the sub-challenges already having read a Dystopian book from Sweden. |
01-04-2016, 01:22 PM | #70 |
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within my 50 gonna try to do the a-z title challenge can read in any order and generally for some Q X Z are hard ones so as long as there is an x in the title it will count. X was the only one i dont have a full title for
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01-05-2016, 09:57 AM | #71 |
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First book read in 2016, and off my TBR. Life is good.
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01-05-2016, 10:07 AM | #72 |
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I'm thinking it's a good thing I'm not using Goodreads to track, if it's going to nag me about my reading progress...
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01-05-2016, 10:54 AM | #73 |
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Set my 2016 Challenge on Goodreads for 75 books again same as last year.
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01-05-2016, 01:03 PM | #74 | |
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Hmmm...X...Xerxes is probably an option. Xenon was a graphic (manga I think). Xanth was a series, but I think none of the books actually started being titled Xanth. Q would be The Quick and the Dead for me. I'm totally going to research this as a potential challenge. |
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01-05-2016, 01:39 PM | #75 |
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