the grand 2015 reading challenge thread

[Pickman's model]

usual rules apply.

from the 2014 thread:

just a heads-up that we're coming to the end of the year, and that means that a new thread will be starting with effect from 0001 on 1 january 2015, where you can put books read* in the next calendar year. please don't be awkward and demand a different set of 365 days, the 2015 thread - as this one was - is intended for books read** between the very start of 2015 and the very end of 2015***.

anyway, as i say, just a heads-up the next thread'll be up up soon, and i only mention this so you can start thinking how many books it is likely you'll read next year.

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*read includes books read to you, heard as audiofiles, on tapes, cds, etc ad nauseam.
** read in this case means completed.
*** the very end of 2015 is deemed to be 2359 on 31 december 2015.

these rules are of course arbitrary. but there you go.

 

[Pickman's model]

so please don't post any books read here until after 0001 on 1 january 2015, the only reason the thread's been started now is so you can have a think about how many books you anticipate reading (that is, completing) between 1/1/2015 and 31/12/2015.

 

[Belushi]

Managed to meet my target of 20 this year, and may well make 21 before the year is out, so I think I'll up the ante and aim for an ambitious 24 in 2015.

 

[Greebo]

usual rules apply.

from the 2014 thread: <snip>

these rules are of course arbitrary. but there you go.

Thanks for clarifying, that should save a page or so of wrangling about loopholes and exceptions.

 

[Pickman's model]

Thanks for clarifying, that should save a page or so of wrangling about loopholes and exceptions.

it's only taken a year or three to work that out

 

[marty21]

Beat my 50 target in 2014, going for 60 in 2015

 

[BoatieBird]

My 2014 target was 60 and I made it to 70 (will possibly be 71 by the time the year is out).
I've got a lot of studying to do in the next year so I'm going to go with 60 again I think.

 

[Greebo]

Aiming for 60 or more again, with the additional target that at least 3 should be in Polish, 5 in German, and 4 in French.

 

[imposs1904]

52 for 2015. Any more than that will be a bonus.

 

[Manter]

Many fewer than usual. This year I read loads, because I was on mat leave for half of it and small babies sleep loads. But toddlers.... Not so much

 

[Pickman's model]

Aiming for 60 or more again, with the additional target that at least 3 should be in Polish, 5 in German, and 4 in French.

you're doing it freestyle i see

 

[MrSki]

I did over a hundred in 2013 & have hit my target of 75 for 2014. I think I will stick with that range cos I don't want to have to read loads of Asterix in December.

 

[Pickman's model]

I did over a hundred in 2013 & have hit my target of 75 for 2014. I think I will stick with that range cos I don't want to have to read loads of Asterix in December.

you won't be able to do that again you'll have to move on to lucky luke

 

[MrSki]

you won't be able to do that again you'll have to move on to lucky luke

Lucky Luke? Not heard of it. I have not read any Asterix for about forty years.

 

[moon]

I have an audible subscription and kindle app so will make it to 12 at the very least..

 

[Manter]

If I am allowed to include books I read to the child I'll make it to a hundred + easily. And I should get extra points for doing the voices- being able to embody the dark, a fish with fingers and a blue crayon on consecutive nights....

 

[Greebo]

Lucky Luke? Not heard of it. I have not read any Asterix for about forty years.

Lucky Luke's another one with quite a large adult readership in France.

 

[el-ahrairah]

didn't make 76 in 2014, and this is a pretty average year, so i'm going to choose 51-75 and aim for the upper quartile thereof.

 

[Signal 11]

I picked out all the thin ones to get over 15 this year so I'll do well to match it next year. I've got 25 waiting to be read already.

 

[toggle]

I shall post up something about grandiose intentions. that might actually involve properly reading a small number of the 600 or so books in this room alone. plus some of the fiction books i've been stacking up waiting to have time to read. I shall post up an enormous number in january and february. half a dozen in april, then nothing for the rest of the year. cause I do hope to be studying again and I know that means I won't get to read a complete book for months at a time.

I do however, intend to write a book this year. Just need to finalise the proposal and email it.

 

[toggle]

Although I might actualy have to read a LOT of books considering one of the projects I have planned is an examination of the fiction of one author, who wrote about 60 books, to examine how his politics affected his fiction.

 

[Me76]

I'll aim for 50. Managed it this year.

 

[toggle]

it's only taken a year or three to work that out

but will we manage to aviod the inevitable reading challenge thread bunfight?

 

[Lord Camomile]

I'm very good at starting books, very bad at finishing them. I'm going to aim for a conservative 12.

As someone new to proceedings, I take it non-fiction is also allowed?

 

[Signal 11]

If I read a trilogy collected into one book can I count it as three?

 

[Greebo]

but will we manage to aviod the inevitable reading challenge thread bunfight?

You do realise this is urban, right?

 

[Greebo]

If I read a trilogy collected into one book can I count it as three?

You seem like a mostly sane adult with more than two braincells to rub together, you decide.

 

[Signal 11]

*applies cold water to burned area*

 

[weltweit]

I didn't have a 2014 target, I read 38, way more than in 2013. I have no clue how many I will read in 2015.

 

[toggle]

You do realise this is urban, right?

and a thread started by Pickman's model, who attracts bunfights like Bakunin attracts cats