Books #24 Reading Chats

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AllieBee said:
How near to your targets are you guys? I'm so near but yet so far, 94/100 books down but will only fit in 2 more max by the end of the year! It's a bit annoying!
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I’m on 111/90 so I’m over but could you pick some short stories to get you over? Amazon have some fairly decent books in their Amazon Originals range - some of them are well known authors but the books might only be around 70-100 pages. Or can you up it by listening to audiobooks? Again, a couple short ones would get you over 100.
 
I’m on 151, I actually had no idea 😅 Audiobooks have played a huge part in this.

My reading has increased dramatically over the last few years:

2018: 13
2019: 50
2020: 40
2021: 66
2022: 135

I’m actually not too fussed about the numbers. I do like to have a book on the go constantly but I don’t attempt to better my previous targets or anything.
 
ordinaryjelly said:
I jave just gone through my actual physical books I have here in hospital and created my A-- Z of books for next year.

Who can recommened me a J, K, X and Z, please? I am trying to branch out genre wise but absolutely no fantasy.
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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Caffeine Fiend said:
So my J and K this year were Juno Loves Legs and The Kiss Quotient.

On my TBR I have Just Another Missing Person, Kala, Just For Today, Just the Nicest Couple.
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Kala's really good, such a page-turner!
 
I’m on 76/75 atm. I have an hour long commute to the office three times a week so I manage to get in six hours of audiobooks in that time each week, which helps. I don’t really care about the numbers, I just wanted to see how many books I was reading with no pressure! Will probably set the same goal for next year just to see if anything changes.
 
@Caffeine Fiend so sorry to read this 💖 I’ve tried to think of book recs but its actually a lot harder to find books without any themes that will be a bit raw than I thought.

When I need something to take my mind off things I tend to go back to childhood books but a lot of them do have quite heavy themes around parents (HP, series of unfortunate events, Jacqueline Wilson, Roald Dahl) so not sure they’d be right here.
 
Katykatykaty said:
I’m on 111/90 so I’m over but could you pick some short stories to get you over? Amazon have some fairly decent books in their Amazon Originals range - some of them are well known authors but the books might only be around 70-100 pages. Or can you up it by listening to audiobooks? Again, a couple short ones would get you over 100.
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There are also some old short stories available online for free - I read a couple of Edgar Allen Poe ones and also The Yellow Wallpaper.
 
I've had a great year of reading! I read 32 last year and this year I've read 79/52 goal, and currently on my 80th! Good round number to finish the year on!
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OMG OMG OMG, I pre ordered the Waterstones special edition of Ruthless Vows and just got an email to say it's been shipped and will be here tomorrow even though it's release date is the 26/12! Merry Christmas to me lol
 
make-mine-whiskey said:
I've had a great year of reading! I read 32 last year and this year I've read 79/52 goal, and currently on my 80th! Good round number to finish the year on!
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OMG OMG OMG, I pre ordered the Waterstones special edition of Ruthless Vows and just got an email to say it's been shipped and will be here tomorrow even though it's release date is the 26/12! Merry Christmas to me lol
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I see the first book of this is on a 99p deal. Is it good?
 
nbt said:
This is a good idea!
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This has kind of been my goal this year. I’ve actively chosen to read longer books, especially those that have been sitting around on my Kindle for ages being overlooked because they were too long!

I’ve still managed to beat my annual target of 50 books (currently on 52 and should get a couple more finished by the end of the year) and read 21,500 pages so far. 10 of those books have been over 500 pages which is definitely way more big books than I’ve read in a year before. I’m hoping to get Polo, the next book in my Jilly Cooper Rutshire series re-read, done over Christmas so that’ll be another one that’s around 700 ish pages!
 
Aaah I’m so happy. I went to the furthest away book cabinet for the first time in ages, and picked this up! It’s on my 2024 reading list 🥳

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SaintLeo said:
This has kind of been my goal this year. I’ve actively chosen to read longer books, especially those that have been sitting around on my Kindle for ages being overlooked because they were too long!

I’ve still managed to beat my annual target of 50 books (currently on 52 and should get a couple more finished by the end of the year) and read 21,500 pages so far. 10 of those books have been over 500 pages which is definitely way more big books than I’ve read in a year before. I’m hoping to get Polo, the next book in my Jilly Cooper Rutshire series re-read, done over Christmas so that’ll be another one that’s around 700 ish pages!
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Sounds great, I think I'll do that plus have a target of number of books but I'll mainly aim for reading more than this year. My 35 books translate to 13,807 pages according to goodreads.

nbt said:
Aaah I’m so happy. I went to the furthest away book cabinet for the first time in ages, and picked this up! It’s on my 2024 reading list 🥳

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I need to put it on my tbr list, holding off watching it until I read the book
 
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