I'm 35 books behind

[mayflowers22]

I don't know how I'm going to catch up.

[Pippin]

You can do it! I'm currently 14 books behind my 50 book challenge. If I can hit 50 this year I'm going to try the 100 next year. Right now I'm planning on reading a bunch of easy stuff to catch up.

[aurora]

Make it a 2-year challenge? That would be a pretty hard deficit to make up halfway through the year, I would think.

[mayflowers22]

I thought 100 was going to be easy :/

[Pippin]

Maybe find a book series that have a lower page count per book that you like. I'm going to start the Stephanie Plum series and they only have like 300 pages and I usually can fly through books like that.

[mayflowers22]

Jun 2, 2012 16:57:42 GMT -5 Pippin said:

Maybe find a book series that have a lower page count per book that you like. I'm going to start the Stephanie Plum series and they only have like 300 pages and I usually can fly through books like that.

Good idea.

[Nerd Alert]

I totally understand. I'm 30 books behind. When I picked my goal, I thought it would be easy to do. Then I would either pick books that were 500+ pages or couldn't get into a story. Of course some times TV and the internet took place of a book.

I'm off of school for the summer, so I'm hoping I can make it up during that time since I'm only working now. Good luck to us both!

[PinkSquirrel]

You can always revise your goal. There's no reason to choose your books purely to hit some arbitrary goal. Just change your goal and keep reading!

[imoan]

Jun 2, 2012 20:48:32 GMT -5 PinkSquirrel said:

You can always revise your goal. There's no reason to choose your books purely to hit some arbitrary goal. Just change your goal and keep reading!

I agree with this. How special is 100 books completed really going to feel if you know you lowered your standards to get there?

And this is why I avoid the quantity challenges. You end up falling into a trap where you start reading "easy, quick" books so you'll meet your goal. Quality over quantity, people!

[charlatti]

Jun 2, 2012 20:48:32 GMT -5 PinkSquirrel said:

You can always revise your goal. There's no reason to choose your books purely to hit some arbitrary goal. Just change your goal and keep reading!

Another vote for this. I think quantity challenges can be fun, but there's no reason to let it make you feel stressed or read crap you don't want to read.

[whitepicketfence]

I was quite behind on my original goal of 75 this year since I've been reading much longer books. I bumped my goal down to 50. I'm still a few books behind, but nothing like I was before.

[chicacocodrilo]

Another ditto for dropping your goal, but hey--if you're getting a lot out of what you're reading, doesn't matter how many you read!

[writingwithheld]

If you are really concerned about hitting the magic number, yes you could read a bunch of easy/short reads. If I were in this situation I would probably keep the number high, but make a sub goal of X amount of books being off of a high brow reading list. Maybe 15 more classics, 15 more MLA picks, and the rest can be lighter fare. That way you still feel like you accomplished your number goal but it won't feel like you lowered your standards because you still had a fair number of challenging reads.

[duckduck]

Jun 2, 2012 20:48:32 GMT -5 PinkSquirrel said:

You can always revise your goal. There's no reason to choose your books purely to hit some arbitrary goal. Just change your goal and keep reading!

ITA!

[mrsjstackhouse]

I'm 29 books behind. Ugh! I am considering cutting my goal down to 50. If I hit that, I can just up it.