For those that have set reading goals, have you met them? Are you close?
For those that have set reading goals, have you met them? Are you close?
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For those that have set reading goals, have you met them? Are you close?
I completed it last month. 55 out of 50.
Nice 😀
I’m on #30, though I’ve set no goal. I’ve actually read more than I thought!
Are u going to set one next year?
Nope. I found that when I set a goal, I’d be reading more just to get my number up. I’d rather just read when I can. sometimes I’ll go days without reading
Yup I am not at 59/55 and still reading
not far though
Thinking I’ll get to 65 by the end of the year
Oops, I think I read yours the wrong way. You’ve passed it then!
Yes I did
I set mine for 75 and right now I’m at 72. I think I’ll meet it!! Next year I’m gonna try for 100
Goal of 100; at 124 so far.
Very impressive!
My goodreads challenge this year was 110 & I reached it last month? I’ve now read 115 books, please note however, I have a lot of free time & I’m also a night owl ???
You just put me too shame as well lol
@Paula it’s not about shame hen lol, told ya, I’m a free time night owl?
I never set goals, takes the fun out of reading.
I found that out too. it got a bit stressy, if that makes sense :/
I set a goal for 48, and I’ve read 73 so far. So, I went way over my goal.
I’ve passed mine. 31 of 25. ?
Well done book buddies!?
I’m on 46 out of 50. Pretty sure I’ll make it. Gonna shoot for 60 next year.
I’m not sure since I have not been posting my books to Goodreads. So bad about that. I’m pretty close to my 75 goal.
I used to make a list but now I just keep track on GR
Yea I have a list but just haven’t posted. Lol.
Thinking about getting a book journal.
I did finish a reading challenge by my favorite author. Not all of the books were her books.
I had no goal but next year I decided to go for a 100
Finished Goodreads reading challenge about two weeks ago, which was 91:)
I set a goal of 70 and have read 93 so far. Pays to have my summers off!
My original Goodreads goal was 120. I’m on book 142. But, the last few years I’ve read 180, 190. But I wasn’t working then.
Dang!!
Unfortunately I don’t sleep very well. Plus I only work part time.
Unfortunately I’ve no trouble sleeping LOL
193/204. I read 203 last year, my goal was to read more this year.
how???
Make that 194. Can’t work due to chronic illness and I hardly watch TV. I have always read quickly, and when I could. When I worked I read on the bus, in the evening, at lunch.
I have to read to fall asleep usually. I need to read more or less daily.
I miss the nights when I could stay up late reading lol
Sometimes I can’t sleep and I can’t read all night. Would much rather be working or studying and leading a normal life but hey, I least I have books!
25/25. Had a rough year so didn’t read most of them until like late August and after
Still pretty good!
setting the bar higher for 2018 ?
I was going for 50. I’m at 82
haha…nope. I failed big time. I’m at 35 or 36 (can’t remember). My original goal was 101 (a special number for me). When I realized I wouldn’t even come close b/c of all life has handed me this year, I cut that in half to just 50 but I still won’t meet it. But I’m not stressed about it like I might have been in years past.
The past 2.5 years have been unbearably rough. I’m happy to have met my ONE HUGE undocumented goal…to keep reading. Over the years, I go thru up and down phases where I binge read and then I burn out or get too busy and stop for months (or more) at a time. At one point, it even lasted a few years.
I hadn’t realized until recently that that was a HUGE contributing factor in my long-fought battle with depression (that I had essentially stopped reading for so many years with anything remotely resembling regularity). Now in the face of a long, slow-moving divorce and the loss of most of my animals, and some legal and financial struggles,
I have gone back to the way I was through my youth up through college….making sure I’m reading EVERY SINGLE DAY, even if only for short snippets on uber busy days. That (and new anxiety medications) are helping SO much. Unfortunately, things are still pretty crazy adjusting to my new normal (and busy schedule) so reading’s been much slower than I had hoped…but I’m just glad to be back to it, with a vengeance. 🙂
Haven’t decided if I’ll set a new goal for next year or just go with the flow and see where I end up. No need to put added pressure on myself but it can be a fun challenge…but I may just continue working on my new easy, breezy attitude (well, okay, maybe not quite there yet…but work in progress!). <3
As long as you are reading & happy that you are reading, that’s half the battle I think, take care of you @Chris x
@Paula Thanks! I hadn’t realized HOW long I had gone w/o reading and, even when I started up again, I wasn’t consistent enough. I’m back to carrying my kindle and a book all the time and always have something underway. I feel more like me…the girl who spent ALL her spare time with her face buried in a book. For a long time, my vision was a huge problem but that has improved so I’m back to voracious immersion! 🙂
I’m definitely reading a lot less as well, for some of the same reasons and others. Reading is such good therapy!
@Chris I’m glad to hear, reading does help I think x
I am super close to my goal of 52 for the year. I just started 47 today. I had a very bad year, so barely read the first 7 months. So most of these books have been from July-December.
I set a goal on the Goodreads Reading Challenge each year. This year it was 75, and I’m at 78 or 79 now.
I set a goal of 56. Completed in October. I am working on #58
I set my goal at 50 and I’m reading my 96th book now ?
That’s incredible! I wonder how you pull this off ?
@Chirag, I read fast and I proofread manuscripts, which means deadlines and even faster reading ?
I have done that only 2 or 3 times, and yeah pressure is enormous from the authors ?
@Chirag, yup, but I love it nonetheless ?
I set my goal at 25, and I am 4 short. I might make 22. I just don’t get enough reading time.
I’m close
Yes I’ve passed it. I pass my goal every year so the next year I set my goal to be what I actually read the year before and then I pass that. I’m wondering where I will get to a point when I can’t meet the goal.
My goal was to only do re-reads this year. It’s been a good year!
34/52
I made my goal of 40.
I don’t set goals, I just read. But more power to you that do! 🙂
I set a goal of 120 books. I’m at 142 now ? hmmmm I need to spend some time talking to hubby ?
Paula. I am reading like crazy. I am reading Love and other Consolation Prizes and am loving it.
I hit my book count goal, didn’t even come close to hitting my other goals haha!
I’m 50 pages off my challenge … great feeling …..