Not gonna make it
By BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (45484)
St. Catharines, Ontario
December 4, 2020 10:01am CST
I aim to read 200 books a year, but my total currently is 148.5
Some of the slowdown could be because I'm doing my cross-stitching and some of it could be because authors are writing longer novels: "pocket books" or paperbacks routinely run to 400+ pages these days. They just go on and on, long past a natural pause in the story that could be a satisfying ending.
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@Marilynda1225 (79708)
• United States
4 Dec 20
I slacked off so much this year but I'm back in the reading mode.
I agree that some books could be fewer pages.
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@BarBaraPrz (45484)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
4 Dec 20
This is what I'm working on currently.
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@BarBaraPrz (45484)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
4 Dec 20
@vandana7 I'm following a chart made by a company call Scarlet Quince.
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@vandana7 (98826)
• India
4 Dec 20
@BarBaraPrz Wow! Wow! You have loads of patience. You get it like that or did you plan the colors etc.
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@snowy22315 (169937)
• United States
4 Dec 20
Yep, being as it is December you are not gonna make it. I recently started reading heavily again because my Overdrive app is now working so it makes it very easy to read library books.
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@BarBaraPrz (45484)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
4 Dec 20
Yeah, even if I manage to read a book a day that'll only add up to 175.
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I have about 20000 books and there was a time where I was buying 30 books/month, but I was not reading half of them seriously, I don't think I ever reached 200 in a year.@BarBaraPrz (45484)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
4 Dec 20
@vandana7 Yes, she wrote back when books were stories, not sagas...
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@kobesbuddy (74553)
• East Tawas, Michigan
4 Dec 20
If I read five books a month, I'm reading at top speed! lol
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@kobesbuddy (74553)
• East Tawas, Michigan
4 Dec 20
@vandana7 When I dwell on all my faults and failures, I want to quit life!
@Butterfingers (66585)
• India
4 Dec 20
That's a very high target and I cannot even finish a single book maybe because I don't like reading. I hope you can make your target next year
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
5 Dec 20
I am still working on finishing reading a book I started 3 years ago. Maybe by summertme I can finally finish it.
. That’s less then half my usual amount per year.
@BarBaraPrz (45484)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
4 Dec 20
I read real books and take them with me everywhere.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
6 Dec 20
I read past my goal of 200 but I don't know how many I'm at now. A lot of them were short novellas from the KU program though.
I have noticed lots of print books are getting higher and higher in page counts.
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@BarBaraPrz (45484)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
6 Dec 20
Yeah, gone are the days when publishers were content with 200 page novels. Now they're 400+ pages.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
7 Dec 20
@BarBaraPrz A book has to be really riveting for me to read past page 250.
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@BarBaraPrz (45484)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
7 Dec 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum I will read a book to the end, no matter how bad it is, just to know how things turn out.
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@lovebuglena (43074)
• Staten Island, New York
5 Dec 20
My goal for this year was 55 books. Because of the pandemic and library closures I think I read only slightly more than 30 books (don't remember the exact number) this year and that's that. That's a bummer for me that I didn't reach my goal. Maybe I will be able to do it better next year, assuming libraries will be open and will resume their regular operation where people can browse books and then take them out. For now, it's just grab-and-go service here. You put a book on hold and then come to the library to pick it up. Can't browse for books. It can take a while before the book you placed on hold actually comes to you. Another reason why I didn't reach my goal.
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@BarBaraPrz (45484)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
5 Dec 20
I have my own library here at home 
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@lovebuglena (43074)
• Staten Island, New York
5 Dec 20
@BarBaraPrz You are lucky! I have books in my house and more in my parents' house that I never took from there. But I read them all.
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