Book Challenge 2013

[Belowen]

As not everyone aims for 50 books a year for these reading challenges, I thought I would leave the title open for next year. Personally, I'll be aiming for around 15-20 books for the year, as I'm choosing quality over quantity. I'd love to hear what the rest of you have decided to do!

 

[ALAUU]

I'm going to aim for 30 books 2013. I got through about 45 books in 2012, but I think 30 is a more manageable number.

 

[heelscatchfire]

I'm going to aim for 25, I'd love to get to 30. This year I could not get 50, but 29 was still very good for me since I slowed down towards the second half of the year.

 

[MissKateCherie]

Although I read 60 this year, for 2013 I'll aim for 40

 

[Niusity]

I've read 50 this year (YAY), but I'll aim for 40 next year. This is my last school semester and then university starts so I won't have that much time to read.

 

[falsecontender]

I'm gonna aim for 30, I read fast but I wanna find books I love this year and finish some I've started but then misplaced/are on my kindle so it might end up being a few more.

 

[mint condish]

As not everyone aims for 50 books a year for these reading challenges, I thought I would leave the title open for next year. Personally, I'll be aiming for around 15-20 books for the year.....

Thanks Belowen.
I've been loving this challenge. I've been keeping track of the books I've been reading for 2011-2012 and the movies I've watched for 2012 and I've loved it.
2011 I read 15 books, so far in 2012 it's only been 8. So I'm keeping my goal around 1 book a month because with my job, life, etc. that seems to be what's realistic for me right now. I just like keeping track of what I'm reading and I'm disappointed I read less this year than last! I'll be joining again this year for sure.

 

[Karen0193]

I'll do 40 books, which seems like a reasonable enough goal for me.

 

[ChristyLeReveur]

I'm in! I'm so excited about this I aim at 30-50 books this time.
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[Hazel]

I think that 30 is a reasonable number for me, however, I'll try to raise the bar a little bit for 2013, so I'm going to aim at 30-50 books .

 

[Not Plain Jane]

Belowen, great idea: personally, I find 50 too many as I teach at a college and often have to read articles and bits of theory for prep/research, which eats into my other reading. Anyhow, like you, I'll aim for around 20 books (maybe up to 30) for the year.

Does this include non-fiction (e.g., biography, for example) and/or theoretical tomes? Just curious.

 

[mint condish]

I always include non-fiction books as well! Not sure what a theoretical tome is though? Lol.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

^ Lol, just a book of theory. For example, what if I read a book called Historical Gothic; does that count?

 

[Belowen]

I think it's up to each person to set rules for their own challenge. There is no universal rule as to what 'counts', if you read non-fiction books I don't see why they shouldn't count towards your end of year tally!

 

[Not Plain Jane]

Awesome! Thanks.

 

[Legyviel]

I'm up for it! One of my new year resolutions is to read more books, so i will be aiming at a reasonable 30 for a start.

 

[pixiedust1603]

I think I have read at least 60 books in the last year but I've forgotten a lot of them as it was a struggle to understand them and unpack their ideologies. My aim for this year is to read a lot more books for just pleasure rather than having to.

 

[lizbabe09]

I'm aiming for 30 this year since I'm planning on going back to school in September. I already purchased a few on my kindle that I'm excited to read.

 

[ChrissyM]

My goal for 2012 was 30 and I feel like I crammed in some random sort of books at the end just to reach it.... so I'm going to aim for something like 20-25 this year...
I'm hoping to get to 25 so I guess I'll stick with that... but will adjust to 20 once I get a better idea of my pace.

Going to try for quality over quantity once again and hopefully will be a bit more successful at getting to some of the books i've been wanting to (but been too intimidated to) tackle.

 

[GinAndTonic]

I'm aiming for 30 books for the 2013 challenge. One of my goal this year is to read English literature in english as I tend to read everything in French.