Fell short in 2011, determined to get there this year with the help of my kindle fire

1) The Paris Wife - Paula McLain

12/28/2011 12:57:13 PM

I'm just too slow of a reader to read a book a week. My personal challenge is to read 24 new books this year. I'll start with Game of Thrones.

12/28/2011 1:00:22 PM

I'm not finished with the 2011 challenge yet...


i'm determined to make it to 60 books by saturday

12/28/2011 1:00:31 PM

More power to you

12/28/2011 1:13:16 PM

I need to read more but I have trouble staying interested in a book. Maybe I just need better books

12/28/2011 1:15:39 PM

^^^ Only 49 to go!

12/28/2011 1:36:50 PM

how can you already start the count? its not 2012 yet
also, my goal is to read more than last year.

good luck everyone!

12/28/2011 1:39:08 PM

^^i'm reading 60 RIGHT NOW!

12/28/2011 1:40:32 PM

cause i say so tarun

12/28/2011 1:44:58 PM

I'm in. My first book will be Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery - C. J. Sansom. I've read all the others in the series back in 2010, so I'm excited to read this one.

12/28/2011 1:51:55 PM

I read probably 20 books a week, but most of them are graphic novels. Does that count?

12/28/2011 2:13:49 PM

then you have to read 1040 graphic novels in a year

12/28/2011 2:15:43 PM

^ hehe. shouldn't be a problem Might need to make it an even 1000

12/28/2011 2:18:16 PM

Quote :

"I'm just too slow of a reader to read a book a week. My personal challenge is to read 24 new books this year."

that sounds more doable. maybe i'll try that too.

12/28/2011 4:26:39 PM

How you people can spend that much time reading is beyond me

12/28/2011 4:30:00 PM

I tend to read longer books, so I'm going to shoot for 24 as well, and up that if I'm consistently reading books less than 500 pages.

12/28/2011 4:30:39 PM

^^ after work, i typically go to the gym, eat dinner, start reading around 7, drink loads of coffee, stop reading around midnight or 1 am, watch an hour or so of tv, and then hit the hay. i prefer reading to tv, but i'm by no means anti-tv. i definitely prefer reading to going out, but i'm also 30 and basically married.

12/28/2011 7:14:51 PM

^^^if people spent as much time reading as they did on facebook, tww, etc they could probably read multiple books in a week.

[Edited on December 28, 2011 at 7:20 PM. Reason : i am not excluded in this]

12/28/2011 7:20:04 PM

I'm thinking of canceling my cable and internet. I'll definitely be reading a lot more if I do.

12/28/2011 7:51:57 PM

i said it last year and i guess i'll say it again... i wish i could do this. i didn't even make my goal of 12 books in 12 months.

12/28/2011 8:23:20 PM

Quote :

"How you people can spend that much time reading is beyond me"

How much time do you spend watching TV?

12/29/2011 12:40:50 PM

The average American spends like 36 hours per week watching TV.



Why thank you Christmas.

12/29/2011 1:30:37 PM

okay i'm going to be donating my books to the library cause i just don't like the clutter (silly, i know)

if anyone wants one, and you're willing to cover shipping down to NC, lemme know:

- Game Change - Mark Halperin
- Heart of the Matter - Emily Giffin
- Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Best Friends Forever - Jennifer Weiner
- The Guardian - Nicholas Sparks
- Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
- Such a Pretty Fat - Jen Lancaster
- A Lion Among Men - Gregory Maguire
- Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire
- Little Bee - Chris Cleave
- Baby Proof - Emily Giffin
- One Shot - Lee Child
- Echo Burning - Lee Child
- Killing Floor - Lee Child
- Room - Emma Donoghue
- The Girls from Ames - Jeffrey Zaslow

12/30/2011 1:23:57 PM

I doubt I watch 36 hours of TV in a year

12/30/2011 1:25:24 PM

^that's tough to believe

12/30/2011 1:32:53 PM

Quote :

"okay i'm going to be donating my books to the library cause i just don't like the clutter (silly, i know) if anyone wants one, and you're willing to cover shipping down to NC, lemme know:"

I used to be one of those guys who would horde books.

JERRY: So forget about the books. Did you read them?
GEORGE: Well, yeah.
JERRY: What do you need them for?
GEORGE: I don’t know. They’re books.
JERRY: What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they’re trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?
GEORGE: They’re my books.

Then kind of realized that they don't do much for me except take up space and load down the UHaul whenever I move. So I'm slowly working on getting rid of them. Donate a lot to the library. If a friend asks to borrow a book, I just give it to him. "Don't worry about returning it, I've already read it."

Check out http://www.paperbackswap.com
Free books that other people mail to you. The only requirement is that you mail your books to people who ask for them. About $2 in postage for every book you send out.
http://www.paperbackswap.com/help/how_to_swap_books.php

12/30/2011 1:33:21 PM

Well believe it, buster.

12/30/2011 1:38:08 PM

^^my mom was really big into http://www.paperbackswap.com awhile ago. She acted like it was Christmas everytime she went to the mailbox and received a new book. Then she received a Kindle

Shipping was very easy because you just wrap the book in paper and then stop by the PO to send off, never more than a few dollars.

12/30/2011 1:45:39 PM

1) Currently Reading - The Passage - Justin Cronin

1/1/2012 11:36:05 AM

Currently reading:

1) Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
2) Reaching for the Invisible God - Philip Yancey
3) Naked - David Sedaris

1/1/2012 11:41:31 AM

Got an ipad for christmas, already read a dean koontz book and tina fey's bossypants before the new year. Currently working on Nicholas Spark's new book. Can def do this challenge now that getting a book is so much easier.

1/1/2012 11:41:35 AM

I'll start, but this may become silly as the year progresses. I read pretty furiously. Always have and buying a Kindle last year made it worse.

1. The Duke Is Mine- James, Eloisa (Started last night.)
2. Duncan (Vampires in America) - Reynolds, D. B. (Queued.)
3. Warlord Wants Forever - Cole, Kresley (Queued.)

1/1/2012 11:45:54 AM

I horde books. I am trying to get better about it and only keep the ones I really like or haven't read yet.

1/1/2012 12:16:02 PM

^same here. it's really hard for me to get rid of a book -- they are like treasures!

1/1/2012 6:43:03 PM

Just posting to put a link to the 2011 thread http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=606968


might as well start my list off while I'm at it.


1. Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan [currently reading]

1/1/2012 6:49:16 PM

- Game Change - Mark Halperin
- Heart of the Matter - Emily Giffin
- Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Best Friends Forever - Jennifer Weiner
- The Guardian - Nicholas Sparks
- Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
- Such a Pretty Fat - Jen Lancaster
- A Lion Among Men - Gregory Maguire
- Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire
- Little Bee - Chris Cleave
- Baby Proof - Emily Giffin
- One Shot - Lee Child
- Echo Burning - Lee Child
- Killing Floor - Lee Child
- Room - Emma Donoghue
- The Girls from Ames - Jeffrey Zaslow

anybody else?

1/1/2012 6:54:26 PM

Last night at 12:00 midnight, I was sitting on the can, reading the last few pages of Salem's Lot.

I spent years n years not reading anything but technical stuff and the newspaper, I decided last year that I was going to get back to reading fun stuff. I've got a stack ten deep on my nightstand waiting to read. It's def preferable to most of TV.

1/1/2012 8:39:32 PM

1) Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

1/2/2012 7:38:32 AM

Getting started today!

1)Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey

1/2/2012 11:43:09 AM

I didn't count last year.

1. No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

1/2/2012 10:34:44 PM

I'm finally getting started today...

up next Enchanted, Inc. - Hex and the City - Shanna Swendson

1/3/2012 8:14:10 AM

1) The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
2) The Book of Fate - Brad Metzler

Hmmm what's next

1/3/2012 9:01:49 AM

Have a book from Christmas to return to B&N and should buy one to start the year. Going to start the Hunger Games series. I think my tactic for reading this year is to be indiscriminate in what I read. So, mix up the nonfiction with fiction and mix books like Game of Thrones with brain candy.

1/3/2012 9:23:11 AM

I'm in, though I'll try for the 24 as well and hopefully read more.

1/3/2012 10:09:42 AM

Do you guys realize 24 isn't half of 52?

I am going to shoot for 26. That really doesn't seem like it would be hard to do at all but sadly I am pretty sure I didn't read that many in 2011 so I don't want to jump in too deep.

1/3/2012 10:15:36 AM

DOH

1/3/2012 11:48:22 AM

Yeah I think I'm going to aim for 24, two a month, we'll see, maybe I'll fit in some more

1/3/2012 11:55:15 AM

SchndlrsFist

Quote :

"1) Currently Reading - The Passage - Justin Cronin"

I loved this; I can't wait for the rest of the books.

Currently reading: When She Awoke --- Hillary Jordan

1/3/2012 11:59:00 AM

Yes, I know 24 is not half of 52, but my goal is 2 books a month this year. Maybe next year I can do one per week and reach 52. Unless I start grad school. Ughhhh

1/3/2012 12:27:39 PM

Time for another round of failure. Maybe I can break 20 this year:

(1) Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

1/3/2012 12:31:33 PM