Larry. Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I don't have a strict number goal overall, but I do want to read 50 books each in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEvilKing Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Why so few? It seems like a 70% decline in the books you read is pretty significant. So I definitely pass it easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereward Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I did 40 last year, which was disappointing as I got to 39 in mid-November and then got stuck. I'll go with 40 again this year, as I intend to assail the north face of a Peter Hamilton novel, and those fuckers are long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3CityApache Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I failed to do 40 last year (barely, but nevertheless), so I'll stick with the same number this year. Maybe I'll do better this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lany Freelove Cassandra Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 50, but it will likely go up. I know I have done 75 before, but I have no idea how much time I will have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isildur's Mane Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I didn't know about this last year, so I'll set it at 20 and see how I go.According to goodreads I read 16 books last year. But I've already started on 8 this year so I should be OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reposado Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I'm in for another 52 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winterfella Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I'm challenging myself to do 15 this year. It would be more than I've done in a long time, since before kids. I did 10 last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 When i get on a roll I can do about a book a day. For the last few years I deliberately chose extra thicK books so that my wife would not get too annoyed at how much I was reading. Which is why I picked up ASOIAF books to read. Which is why i am on this board enough to get my wife annoyed. 200 books this year. That is my limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 I only made 50/52 last year, but I have a lot of graphic novels that I want to read this year, so I'm going to go with 60. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Going for 30 books this year. I'm fairly certain I can make that, and if/ when I do, I'll probably end up increasing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Fitzpatrick Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 1/45. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter's Knight Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 1/45. :P We can start updating this early? 6/60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Fitzpatrick Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 We can start updating this early? 6/60 Wow, I think you'll definitely be hitting your target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter's Knight Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Wow, I think you'll definitely be hitting your target. They were all less than 250 pages-quick mysteries, y'know. Don't take that long to read. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wormwood Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Going for 35. Depends on the length of the books I choose though, I won't pick books by their length. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clueless Northman Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Picking a number of books is tricky. If I have Shakespeare Complete Works in one volume, it'll count as one, while I might as well have a small booklet for every play ;) As far as I'm concerned, I know I used to read way more than 10K pages a year back at university, but I had vastly more free time. On the other hand, I note the amount of pages read every time I finish a book, so I know I hit 6.000 pages and more a year nowadays, and mostly try to keep some count to decide if I have to cut down playing video games and read more next week :D But then, I had the bad idea of checking the amount of books left to read at home and had something like 25K pages still waiting. On the other hand, I know since I first stepped into the massive university library that I'll never have time to read all that I'd like to read, so I'm ok with it. Besides, I know well that I'll be able to read aplenty when I'll be retired, decades from now - assuming I'm not blind and retirement money hasn't vanished -, while games, and to a lesser extent movies/TV series and music I have around are on formats that can be totally useless in a dozen of years. Basically, I can fairly well estimate my 2014 total at 20 to 25 (because I expect to read Last Argument of Kings and begin Rothfuss, and might well give Anthony Beevor's massive WWII book a try this year). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 If I have Shakespeare Complete Works in one volume, it'll count as one, while I might as well have a small booklet for every plai shelved individual plays and collected folios separately. can review and rate the plays themselves on the one hand and the editorial policy of the collections on the other, say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghjhero Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Considering the length of books in reading, I'll aim for 25. I already have 1 done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inigima Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 Picking a number of books is tricky. If I have Shakespeare Complete Works in one volume, it'll count as one, while I might as well have a small booklet for every play ;) If it's a large collection of full-length works that I can separate out into obviously distinct ones, I count them separately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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