Reading Challenge 2014

[Shar]

I did the goodreads reading challenge with the goal of reading 100 books in 2013 which I met. My goal in 2014 is 200 books.

Anyone else doing a reading challenge, what's your goal?

[-Moniquee.]

I have never heard of the Reading Challenge? I am guessing you just read a heap of books and get people to sponsor you and donate the money to a charity? Well done for reading 100 books though!

[wixard]

mmm i think i'll try this, i've already got one down!!

may aswell start and keep myself updated here.

1. In Praise Of Messy Lifes - Katie Roiphe

[Shar]

I have never heard of the Reading Challenge? I am guessing you just read a heap of books and get people to sponsor you and donate the money to a charity? Well done for reading 100 books though!
No it's not although that would be a good idea!
It's basically just a goal you set yourself to see if you can read a certain amount of books by the end of the year and you can keep track of it by updating it on goodreads every time you've read a book. I'm a bit of a book nerd so I decided I wanted to keep note of all the books I have read.

https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/1914-2014-reading-challenge

[-Moniquee.]

This actually sounds really good! Do textbooks count haha?

[lawrawrrr]

200 books in a year is a lot, that's like a book every 1 1/2 days!

Even 100 is a hell of a lot too, so well done on that :P



I found a list of 100 books to read before you die and I've been trying to get through that for the best part of 3 years now, I get really bogged down with the books I have to read for my (English Literature) degree though which means I have to focus on them instead.

My list for the (very) near future is:

Stone Gods (Jeanette Winterson)
Fault in Our Stars
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell) - absolutely necessary as my diss is based on it (oops should have read by now)
and 1984 (again)

[Shar]

I suffer from insomnia :P. I find it quite hard to sleep at night so I read to pass the time on some nights I can manage to read two books.

[karter]

I suffer from insomnia :P. I find it quite hard to sleep at night so I read to pass the time on some nights I can manage to read two books.

wow that's pretty fast reading

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this sounds so exciting i'll start march 20 when my finals end my target is 30 books which i can easily accomplish yayyyyyyy

[Shar]

It'll be nice to hear everyone's progress :)

I'm currently on book number 7

[wixard]

shar! list your books please

the ones i'm hoping to get through in the next few months are:

The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton
As You Like it - William Shakespeare
Sorell & Son - Warwick Deeping
Sister Carrie -Theodore dreiser
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Sexual Politics - Kate Millet
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
Geralds Game - Stephen King
The Color Purple - Alice Walker

they're my heavy books though, no doubt i'll be reading some guilty pleasures in between

[Inseriousity.]

A midwife and you read 100 books. where you find the time!

[Yupt]

200 books in a year?! Whaaat. I thought I read lots, I'm happy when I finish a book in under a bloody week.

[Shar]

omg it can be done trust me

[Aiden]

set it on 100 :)

never done it b4

[David]

what are you reading though is it short books or what
currently reading a few, was never a reader until recently so would never get anything near 100 in a year

fellowship of the ring
god, no
everything's eventual

and got all game of thrones books to maybe read at some point

[wixard]

what are you reading though is it short books or what
currently reading a few, was never a reader until recently so would never get anything near 100 in a year

fellowship of the ring
god, no
everything's eventual

and got all game of thrones books to maybe read at some point

good luck with GoT, such a ***** to get through

[Sloths]

And I thought I was proud to get through 30 last year.. No doubt aiming for higher this year but I doubt I'll make 100. Congrats though gl with the 200 wow

[Phil]

That's really impressive Shar, well done! If loads of people get involved and start posting in this frequently with books that they've read and start talking about them/rocemmending them, I'll see about getting it stikied

[Absently]

Wow that's amazing! I do love reading but I don't ever really have the time to read. I've 4 (1 is a compilation of works so dunno if that counts???) atm to read. When I do get reading normally I fly through them!

[karter]

here's my list


Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
1984 - George Orwell
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Passage to India - E.M Forster
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger

[MKR&*42]

here's my list
Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher

Ohhhh I started reading that and completely forgot about it omg. From what I can vaguely remember from the first 90 or so pages, it's actually a really good book and now I must finish it again.

[Shar]

I liked thirteen reasons why, good book.

I'm currently reading The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

I'll share my reading list for January later :)

[Eric]

i used to read chick lit to learn and improve my english but recently i'm starting to read more books of diff genres, non-fic as well

100 books this year hopefully cause i've got plenty of time til march

@Shar (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=67533) you should sign up for the books from the goodreads first read program or start a book review site, i know someone who does it and it's pretty successful and he gets books for free

[Shar]

i used to read chick lit to learn and improve my english but recently i'm starting to read more books of diff genres, non-fic as well

100 books this year hopefully cause i've got plenty of time til march

@Shar (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=67533) you should sign up for the books from the goodreads first read program or start a book review site, i know someone who does it and it's pretty successful and he gets books for free
That sounds interesting, how do I do that?
I have a friend who has a book review site and I know she spends ages on it. I don't think I can put the time and effort that goes into that.

[Zelda]

i might be tempted to go give it a go if it can include textbooks ;p

good luck on the 200 books though shar :)

[Eric]

That sounds interesting, how do I do that?
I have a friend who has a book review site and I know she spends ages on it. I don't think I can put the time and effort that goes into that.

http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway they only have a few copies for each book but i thought you'd have a better chance of getting them cause of the books you've read and your activity on the site are some of the choosing factors, you could try it out

[karter]

what's the progress everyone

i'm on my first book - the testament by john grisham been reading it for a week don't think i'll be able to complete 30 books this year ...lol

[karter]

ok this book is bad i cant read it anymore im throwing it in the trash. progress 0/30

[Kyle]

no idea how you can read 2 books in a night, you are some kind of machine. last year it took me like a week each for the game of thrones books, never reading them again. this year so far the only new fiction books i have read are farenheight 451 by ray badbury, the elegance of the hedgehog by muriel barbery and darkly dreaming dexter/dearly devoted dexter by jeff lindsay. hoping to get through the other 5 dexter books in next couple of weeks if work deadlines permit it. if nonfiction books count then i am at around 20-30 lol
Shar; do u read only ebooks?

[Evanora]

i have more important things to do than read

like slit my wrists

[Kardan]

I've still not got round to reading JK Rowling's new book yet, bought it months ago.

[TurnUp]

I could do 200, probably already did (last year (summer) ). But itd have to be a bunch of manga books. :P

[karter]

finished the lovely bones by alice sebold such a nice book. progress 2/30
next up diary of a young girl by anne frank

[Eric]

gonna start off with the book thief lol

[Shar]

Kyle nope and the only reason I was able to read 2 books a night is because I could barely fall asleep until 5 in the morning or whatever so reading is what I did.