Fans of Amish Fiction discussion

What are your reading challenges or goals for 2015? Do you want to read a certain number of books, or more books from a particular genre? Discuss here!

I would like to read 40 books this year!

My goal will be 120.

I'm sticking with my 50 again. I've got a new job and don't know how it will impact my free time.

02/18/15 -- UPDATE --

I'm changing my goal to 100 for this year since I finished a box set of 45 books by Sarah Price. Next year I'll be back to my 50!

04/13/15 -- New Update --

This is making me nuts and I can't seem to get past it! I can't find all 45 individual stories from the boxed set here, so I'm doing the separate boxed sets/collections. That changes the 45 to 9 (some of the stories didn't seem to show up anywhere in collections). My readjusted 2015 goal is... 60!

My GR 2015 Reading Challenge is 175, but I've joined smaller challenges that I've seen in other groups. The next biggest challenge I've joined is the Ultimate Reading Challenge: http://www.popsugar.com/love/Reading-... , which I discovered and joined through the Cozy Mysteries group.

I need a bit of advise...

I just finished a boxed set of 45 "books" by Sarah Price. Is it 1 "book" toward my challenge? Is it 45 "books" or does each series count as a "book"?

Well, that's a good question. I would say that each "book" would be considered a book. There are tons of short story Amish books that I could as a book toward any reading challenges. So it would be the same in my opinion.

How was the collection? I bought it a while ago and I haven't read it yet.

Diane U wrote: "Well, that's a good question. I would say that each "book" would be considered a book. There are tons of short story Amish books that I could as a book toward any reading challenges. So it would..."

Thanks for your thoughts Diane. Looks like I'll be changing my reading challenge to reflect the boxed set. I don't want to be almost done in February!

As for the collection... it had distractions. As in typos, incorrect names, and little things. The stories overall where good. It might be awhile before I pick up more of Sarah's things; just because I had such a big dose at one time.

I set up a tracker for the 2015 Ultimate Reading Challenge. If anyone wants to join, here's the page for it: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

I want to read 150 books for my 2015 Reading Challenge- along with reading my usual genre, I would like to try other different ones.

Janie R. wrote: "I want to read 150 books for my 2015 Reading Challenge- along with reading my usual genre, I would like to try other different ones."

Good for you Janie -- only 37 more to go! What do you call "different"?

Barbara Ann,Well,I guess I meant another genre, not so much different but other than what I have been reading,lol.
Travel,and paranormal are two genre that I have started reading.I like reading some stories about the Afterlife,as long as they are not too heavy on the subject. I was reading mostly Amish,at first, but I started exploring other reads with authors,I had never heard of, and my interests have expanded. Reading updates on the book reviews that some of Goodread's members post,also helps to explore other kinds of genre, and I thanks you all for that!

@ Janie R... I enjoyed reading the Elm Creek Quilt series by Jennifer Chiaverini. Have you read any of them?

Barbara Ann, actually I have a few books of the Elm Creek Quilt series,and I am going to start on them this year,I am looking forward to reading them. I love books that have anything to do with quilts, I have read several by other authors,and I have enjoyed them,also.
I was going to say that your review on the book-Echoes of Paradise-influenced me into reading it,and it was a good read,thanks!

I originally set my GR reading challenge at 175, but I recently changed it to 200, since I was up to 120 read.


Besides the 2015 Ultimate Reading Challenge that I mentioned in messages 5 and 9, I've been participating in various other kinds of challenges (ebook; eaudio; to-be-read, which I used for my owned books, etc.). Some boards have states and world challenges, but they are usually for a year. I created trackers so that I can do the states challenge over a five-year span and the world challenge over a ten-year span. I set up trackers here: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/... and https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/.... I wanted to do the world one because most books I read are set in the U.S. or England, and I thought it would encourage me to get some variety in setting and maybe learn some things about other countries.