TwentyEleven Challenge: 20/20
Steampunk Challenge: 7 read
GLBT(Q): 10+ (including GLBTQ-positive if not GLBTQ-centric; less than I wanted)
Dystopia Challenge: 5/5 (less than my original hope for 15)
STILL WORKING ON IT
Take a Chance: 4/10
Gothic Challenge: 1/10
Graphic Novels: 2/10
Read a Myth: 0/4
Obviously the challenges I haven't completed are not going well at all, at all. Honestly, I am not going to really worry about finishing these challenges. Not because I don't want to - I do - but because I'm just not into the stress of it right now.
How are you guys doing on challenges?
I boycotted challenges this year, with the exception of RIP and an ongoing Amy Einhorn thing. I've decided this is the way to go. I have never had a better reading year ever! And no guilt!
ReplyDeleteArgh - I'm scared to look at the state of mine :S With the exception of the Graphic Novels one, I don't think I'll complete a single one.
ReplyDeleteI'm way behind as well...but I'm going to spend the entire month of October reading for R.I.P. VI :)
ReplyDeleteI am so bad this year that even my challenge page isn't updated to include the posts telling about the challenges I signed up for! Which means I have no good tracking system set up. In fact, funny that you mention this, I just last night remembered that I was doing the What's in a Name and finally found my post telling the books I hoped to read. I've read ONE. (sigh)
ReplyDeleteI decided a long time ago (heh, a few months ago...O) that challenges were just not for me. I do like readalongs. Especially if the folks are on twitter. I feel the closest to my years as an undergrad. Plus, I don't have a book club around town. :)
ReplyDeleteI am so sporadic with challenges. I'll have a good year where I finish them all and then the next year I don't finish any. This year I didn't sign up for any save for the R.I.P. challenge. I may think about joining some next year. This year, my heart just wasn't in it. I don't know what has been up with my reading this year, but I am reading less and less often. I guess I just needed a break.
ReplyDeleteI haven't tried a readalong yet.
Also, I'd like those shelves.
-jehara
Every year, I get so gung-ho about joining challenges, and then never get around to completing them. I have so many outside stresses in my life that I can't get too involved in the stress of finishing all the challenges as well, so now I don't even bother to join them. I still like to live vicariously through those who do work to complete challenges, but I just can't ever see myself being one of those people.
ReplyDeleteTotally perfect picture for a reading hiatus!
ReplyDeleteGreat photo! I love it. I think lots of people have been doing more read-a-longs than challenges this year. I only signed up for RIP since I had books on my TR that fit already, otherwise I never do challenges because I suck at them!
ReplyDeleteLOL I thought about my challenges this morning, and decide to brush those thoughts away! A few I'm doing well, some, not so much. good idea for a post though.
ReplyDeleteLOVE those book shelves!
Oh I love the pic you used in this post... wnat those shelves lol...
ReplyDeleteNot a bad record at all. I think my challenge participation is sagging more, too.
ReplyDeleteI suck at challenges. I am only in two at the moment. RIP is going well--I have already read 4 books for it. The Europa challenge is a little more slow going.
ReplyDeleteI'm not doing particularly well with my challenges, either. I would like to finish them, but I'm not going to force myself to.
ReplyDeleteI gave up challenges for Lent. Or maybe it was my New Year's resolution. Like you, readalongs are more my thing these days.
ReplyDeleteThink blogger ate my comment yesterday. :(
ReplyDeleteChallenges? What are those? Crap...my original comment has escaped me.
I kind of scaled the challenges way back this year (only 3) and I'm doing OK with them and realize I don't think I want to do ANY except RIP next year. I just like the freedom of reading what I want without any pressure -- even when it is self-imposed.
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