back by popular demand it's the 2017 reading challenge thread

[Pickman's model]

I respectfully disagree. you arrange books/records by author, not title, so author should come first

each poster is sharing a list of books read, not ordering a shelf of books. If people want to put title then author or author then title or even just isbn, it is up to them not me or you. People might just put title or post up a cover image or if they don't want to share the title just put 'x', it's all the same.

 

[Orang Utan]

each poster is sharing a list of books read, not ordering a shelf of books. If people want to put title then author or author then title or even just isbn, it is up to them not me or you. People might just put title or post up a cover image or if they don't want to share the title just put 'x', it's all the same.

not to me - it makes my nostrils twitch

 

[pennimania]

Says the woman who once took the complete(unabridged) set of peyps diaries to a festival as a bit of light, holiday reading

No, it was an abridged omnibus. I've got the complete set and it's about as long as my leg!

 

[Pickman's model]

not to me - it makes my nostrils twitch

I'd like people to order their lists in a bliss, dewey or library of congress classification rather than order read, but I don't think it's going to happen. Most people would get confused by cutter numbers anyway.

 

[marshall]

dear god...

 

[pennimania]

I'd like people to order their lists in a bliss, dewey or library of congress classification rather than order read, but I don't think it's going to happen. Most people would get confused by cutter numbers anyway.

Can you give an example Pickman's?

I thought at first that it said cuttle, and momentarily wondered what cephalopod populations had to do with reading challenges?

 

[Miss-Shelf]

No, it was an abridged omnibus. I've got the complete set and it's about as long as my leg!

So sorry

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Can you give an example Pickman's?

I thought at first that it said cuttle, and momentarily wondered what cephalopod populations had to do with reading challenges?

I'm sure you can unearth a cross over

 

[pennimania]

I'm sure you can unearth a cross over

Well I do enjoy a nice taxonomic key

 

[Pickman's model]

Can you give an example Pickman's?

I thought at first that it said cuttle, and momentarily wondered what cephalopod populations had to do with reading challenges?

Dewey Decimal in the UIUC Bookstacks

You more commonly encounter cutter numbers in loc, most libraries with bliss or dewey put the first 3 or 4 letters of the author surnoame after the classification e.g. 194 FOU for French philosophy (194) books by FOUcault

 

[pennimania]

Dewey Decimal in the UIUC Bookstacks

You more commonly encounter cutter numbers in loc, most libraries with bliss or dewey put the first 3 or 4 letters of the author surnoame after the classification e.g. 194 FOU for French philosophy (194) books by FOUcault

Well that's handy because I've got three unread Foucault texts right here, including a Foucault for dummies type thingy.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1/50 Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory

 

[Shirl]

I did this one year and didn't manage to read as many as I'd have liked to. That was the year I was involved with a book club so read some decent books that I may not have read through choice.
The thing is, I enjoy something well written and thought provoking but I also enjoy a lot of detective rubbish and I'd be embarrassed to post up what I read on here

 

[marty21]

I've just bought ten books in the verso sale, so those ones are my priority and hopefully I'll read some lighter non fiction books also . I've ticked the 10-19 option.

I have a backlog of verso books so I will try and get through them . Managed 70 last year which was over my 60 target . So I'll go for 75 this year.

 

[pennimania]

I did this one year and didn't manage to read as many as I'd have liked to. That was the year I was involved with a book club so read some decent books that I may not have read through choice.
The thing is, I enjoy something well written and thought provoking but I also enjoy a lot of detective rubbish and I'd be embarrassed to post up what I read on here

I've counted doctor and nurse novels by Elzabeth Seifert before now

 

[Pickman's model]

I've counted doctor and nurse novels by Elzabeth Seifert before now

Never mind eh

 

[pennimania]

Never mind eh

I have a very 'catholic' reading habit!

 

[Voley]

1/30 Substance: Inside New Order - Peter Hook

 

[KeeperofDragons]

I've only put 10-19 as I'm studying through 2 courses this year

 

[imposs1904]

1/26 The Invoice: A Novel by Jonas Karlsson

Should have finished this last year but I never got round to it.

 

[iona]

I don't think I'm going to vote / set a target this year. Last year I chose 15, then became unemployed a month later and homeless a while after that so ended up reading over 100 with all the extra time I had. I reckon I could manage 150 this year if nothing changes but actually setting that as my goal pretty much guarantees I'll somehow miraculously end up working / volunteering / studying / really busy in some other way, because nothing in my life can ever just go to plan. (Hmm, maybe I should aim for 100+ in that case... ) So, just gonna start counting again and see how far I get.

 

[Me76]

1/50 Teenage Revolution, Alan Davies

 

[Plumdaff]

I dismally failed my target last year so I'm aiming low. I'm doing a PGDip but am not going to count the books read for that. I want to regularly attend my local book group again so up to 12 of the books will be from there. I'm going for 25.

1/25 Junk by Melvin Burgess

 

[SpookyFrank]

I'm going for four books a month, so 48.

 

[Pickman's model]

I dismally failed my target last year so I'm aiming low. I'm doing a PGDip but am not going to count the books read for that. I want to regularly attend my local book group again so up to 12 of the books will be from there. I'm going for 25.

1/25 Junk by Melvin Burgess

Count any and all books you read from beginning to end

 

[Plumdaff]

Count any and all books you read from beginning to end

You say yourself in the OP the rules are arbitrary and my goal is about reading for pleasure, not work and study, so I will count the books I want to.

 

[billy_bob]

Yeah, I read almost as many books in the course of my work as I did for pleasure last year, but I choose not to count them for the purposes of this thread.

Shirl , this is the third year I've posted in this thread, and I'd read its predecessors before that, and I've never seen any scorn for what others are reading except in very well-meaning jest. I've set myself quite a highbrow target this year because that's the challenge I want, but I've counted throwaway humorous stocking-filler fare in my totals before now without a blush. It's only worth doing at all it if it'll spur you on to read more, and if that's something you want to do, but if so - if its a book and you've read it, count it!

 

[Shirl]

Yeah, I read almost as many books in the course of my work as I did for pleasure last year, but I choose not to count them for the purposes of this thread.

Shirl , this is the third year I've posted in this thread, and I'd read its predecessors before that, and I've never seen any scorn for what others are reading except in very well-meaning jest. I've set myself quite a highbrow target this year because that's the challenge I want, but I've counted throwaway humorous stocking-filler fare in my totals before now without a blush. It's only worth doing at all it if it'll spur you on to read more, and if that's something you want to do, but if so - if its a book and you've read it, count it!

Thanks for this. I will join in this year

 

[Shirl]

Right, I'm in and I shall be brazen about the trash I read but also make sure I read some decent stuff too.
I'm going for 25.

 

[weltweit]

I don't go in for this prediction business, I will just read as I enjoy it and see what happens.
In 2014 I read 39 books, in 2015 - 31 and 2016 - 25 . yet I don't feel I am reading less than I was, I read mainly last thing at night, I find it settles me ready for sleep.