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Have you been participating in the Goodreads Reading Challenges? Eliabeth has!
440,076 participants have pledged to read a total 25,066,003 books averaging 56 books per challenger. As of Eliabeth writing this post, 15,293 people successfully completed their personal challenge, including Eliabeth.
Eliabeth pledged 24 books and managed to squeeze in an extra three. Though that’s less than the 41 books she read in 2012, she didn’t pad this year with short novellas.
2012 books: 41
2012 pages: 8393
2013 books: 27
2013 pages: 9649
The oldest novel read this year was first published in 1850 (The Scarlet Letter). The longest book was 518 pages long (The Time Traveler’s Wife). Much to her surprise, the most read genre was young adult followed not so surprisingly by urban fantasy.
This year saw no 1 star reviews averaging 3.5 stars overall. The top books were:
- Alex Cross, Run by James Paterson
- Catching Fire by Suzanne
- Hounded by Kevin Hearne
- Inferno by Dan Brown
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- XO by Jeffery Deaver
Together we’ve written a total 98 book reviews!
In addition to pledging 36 books for 2014, Eliabeth has joined a year long challenge in the A-Z Author Challenge 2014 as part of the “Who’s Your Author?” group on Goodreads. The challenge is simple: Use authors’ first or last names. You cannot use middle initials. For the letter “X”, any author with the letter X in his/her name is acceptable including initials.
Already working on scratching through U and V, Eliabeth is finally getting around to finishing The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, but first Divergent by Veronica Roth. Gotta read the book before seeing the movie!
What do you plan on reading in 2014?
-Eliabeth
Ermilia 
Reblogged this on The Living Dead and commented:
This sort of thing really isn’t my bag, Baby, but I’m letting all y’all know about it in case it might be yours!
It isn’t that I wouldn’t like to read more. I would, and textbooks don’t count. When I was younger, I was a very avid reader. I could sit and read for hours at a time and not want to put the book down.
After I started taking Lithium, my ability to do this ceased. I really can’t read more than a chapter at a time. The only exception to this was Motley Crue’s “The Dirt.” Sneer if you must, but that book felt like the guys in the band were right there with me, sharing their life stories. I really didn’t want it to end.
I miss having the ability to read large amounts at a sitting, but it’s a trade-off I’m willing to make. When I was paranoid, flying into rages, and sometimes punching holes in walls, I was hard to live with. I don’t want to go back to that.
Have you ever tried listening to audio books?
If I want to fall asleep!
I’m seriously so sleep deprived that if I watch something on Netflix or such, I usually have to go back to the point I can last remember. It takes me forever to watch anything!
I’m trying to get my hands on S by Doug Dorst and created by J.J. Abrams. Letters of Note by Shaun Usher seems like a beautiful read, too 🙂
What’s your favorite genre?
A reading challenge is so exciting! This year I’m entering the challenge on Goodreads and I’ve set my goal to read 50 books this year! Congrats by the way!
Thanks! Good luck with your 50. Check the free Kindle books, download a bunch, and sort by length if you need to read a bunch to catch up,