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...ding-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



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 . 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 . 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