Cozy Mysteries discussion

Check this out!

http://www.goodreads.com/challenges/2...

I signed up for it! Don't know if I'll make it or not, but who knows?

Ok, maybe this will keep me on track.

I signed up for it as well. The hardest part for me will be actually keeping up with recording what books I'm reading here on GR. I'm quite lazy about doing that - hopefully this will help me remember. :)

On my Mac, I created a log on ipages for all of the books I read in 2010. Each time I finished one I marked it on GR and then logged it on my list. That way I had a running total in two places.

Great idea Kelly - I use a notebook to keep track of my challenges and the books I buy (had a few embarrassing incidents of duplicate online purchases) and have received (so I can follow up with vendors about missing books). I then use the notebooks to update my challenges here on Cozy Mysteries. I'll have to play around with Pages and see if that would work better for me.

I was just talking to myself, ok, enough with the jokes, and deciding to do a spreadsheet. Once a bookkeeper...

I keep a spreadsheet at home, too, along with logging the books I read here on GR.

I have a OneNote log, a log in journal and now this log.

I just use GR. I've never kept track until I joined GR two years ago, so it's just for fun.

I have an Access database at home for reading (three indeed: for challenges, electronic books and paper books) and I register them here at goodreads. I've signed, we'll see.

I've signed up for it too. I keep track of what I've read in a notebook but it's listed by date of what I've read so it's hard to look up anything in particular. I also (once I joined 2 years ago) keep track of everything I read here on Goodreads. However, Goodreads will count anything marked "read". For my official list of what I've read, I've only been counting full novels. I wasn't counting novella's unless they were over 100 pages. And I wasn't counting children's chapter books either (like Magic Tree House). As an example... I read 118 books last year, but in addition I read 7 poems, and 136 novella's, short stories, or children's chapter books. Some novella's were ebooks that were 13 pages long, but others were a third of an anthology and were 80-90 pages. Those longer anthologies I'm going to count this year. So my "official" count will be just slightly different than what Goodreads will count for me.

ஐ Briansgirl "Book Sale Queen"ஐ wrote: "I've signed up for it too. I keep track of what I've read in a notebook but it's listed by date of what I've read so it's hard to look up anything in particular. I also (once I joined 2 years ago) ..."

Wow, 118 books that is amazing! Way to go!

I read 182 books last year. I challenged myself to 2 more than that this year, but don't know if that will happen or not.

I have singed up too! I read more last year than I have ever done so I challenged myself to 6 more than last year! Wishing eveyone well in their challenge xx

Melodie wrote: "I read 182 books last year. I challenged myself to 2 more than that this year, but don't know if that will happen or not."

Again, I say WOW!! Amazing!

Kim wrote: "I just use GR. I've never kept track until I joined GR two years ago, so it's just for fun."

I just use goodreads too. I make a folder for each year and when I am done I put it in the folder. I love this site!

Melodie, I was wondering how you arrived at such an odd number, LOL.


I've kept a list of books read since high school, but since joining this site I also catalog books read here, too, with a folder for each year -- though, like Kate said, there's no way to keep track of/count short stories, novellas, poetry or essays read online. I sub to Writer's Almanac, which means reading a poem a day, and occasionally read shorts online.

As for the challenge... I read 86 books in 2009, and only set a goal of 80 books for 2010. With the (extremely) slow start the year got off to, I wasn't sure I'd even make 50 -- and then I seemed to hit a reading stride and ended up with 104 for the year. This year's goal is 100.

Heather L wrote: "Melodie, I was wondering how you arrived at such an odd number, LOL.


I've kept a list of books read since high school, but since joining this site I also catalog books read here, too, with a ..."

Well, I figured I'd just try and read 2 more than I did last year! I read more last year than I have since I've been keeping track!

I just signed up for this. I read 114 books last year and decided I could read 10% more. (This includes audio books.)

Once you join Goodreads, your TBR pile just seems to grow! lol

Briansgirl wrote:Once you join Goodreads, your TBR pile just seems to grow!....

It really does!! Isnt is lovely! lol x

I signed up for this, too. I read 265 books last year, not including ones I didn't finish. I've slowed down in my old age but have been trying for years to read a book a day.....no such luck so far.

I signed up and my goal is 350 books. A lot less than I did last year, but I'm trying to read more classics and a lot of the books I have planned for this year are "chunkies"- over 750 pages.

Shay wrote: "I signed up and my goal is 350 books. A lot less than I did last year, but I'm trying to read more classics and a lot of the books I have planned for this year are "chunkies"- over 750 pages."

Am assuming you don't work! I thought 182 books was a good number, since I work every day.

Melodie 182 books while working is a ton! I read 200 last year, but at least 1/2 of them were audio. I would never be close to just reading 182 books unless I was retired!

I signed up for it too! I signed up for 50 books..I should easily surpass that.
I keep a reading list on my library website, as well as a record here on Goodreads.

I signed up for the goodreads challenge too. I used to keep track of the books I read on a calendar, but stopped doing that several years ago. I don't know how many books I read last year so I guessed based on the number I average each month. My goal is to read 72 books in 2011 and to keep track on GoodReads. Heather L mentioned using folders for each year. That sounds like a good idea. How do you do it?

Nell: To add a folder for each year, click on the "my books" tab above to go to your bookshelf. Shelves are listed on the left-hand sidebar. Scroll down to "add shelf." You can make as many shelves as you want. In addition to sorting by year, I also have shelves for genres and for some of my favorite authors. I have also seen people add shelves for challenges (such as the 50-states or around the world), group reads, or for location (books set in certain states or countries).

I have a 2011 and 2010 shelf as well Heather :)

Heidi I wrote: "I have a 2011 and 2010 shelf as well Heather :)"

I have shelves from 2003 forward, since 2003 is when I started keeping spreadsheets. Everything prior to 2003 is on a pre-2003 shelf. Also have a YA shelf.

Yay for shelves!

Shelves are definitely goooood! lol

I believe I have from 2003 forward here, though 2004 is incomplete. I cannot find a listing for that year, though I've kept track of books read since about 1984. There is nothing listed in the back of my journals for that year, and I have never had a year I did not read. Never. Not since kindergarten, at least. I also have two "decade" shelves, 1980 and 1990, which are not complete, but convenient for slotting books I know I read during HS and college.

You ladies are good. I just started my shelves when I started on GR. I didn't even think to go back and make shelves for earlier years.

Melodie wrote: "Shay wrote: "I signed up and my goal is 350 books. A lot less than I did last year, but I'm trying to read more classics and a lot of the books I have planned for this year are "chunkies"- over 750..."

I sort of work part-time. But, I only have to be actually at the office about 5 days a month. Those are usually the only 5 days that I work more than 4 or 5 hours in a day. And my office is only 1 1/2 miles away. Any further and I told my boss I'd quit. Also, for those 5 days, I can go in whenever I want as long as I put in the time and get the work done- the work itself is about 4-6 hours worth so if I want I can spend most of the day reading or on GR as long as I get the work done. Also, my boss has to buy and pick up my meal and deliver it to me at the office or I stop work and come home and don't return. (My husband is my boss, feel really sorry for him because I hate working and take it out on him.)

Shay: I want a job like yours! *g*

Heidi: The "back shelves" were a product of a couple nights when I couldn't sleep, couldn't concentrate on the book I was reading, and was bored.

Heather L wrote: "Shay: I want a job like yours! *g*"

Shhhh!!! Best job I've ever had, but I act like I'm doing my husband a favor. Which, of course, I AM!!!

I don't bother making folders for each year as that's just one more folder on my already crowded virtual shelves. You can, however, sort books by date read, so then you can find out what you read in different years. Just go to your read folder, and sort by date read (or date added, etc.).

ஐ Briansgirl "Book Sale Queen"ஐ wrote: "I don't bother making folders for each year as that's just one more folder on my already crowded virtual shelves. You can, however, sort books by date read, so then you can find out what you read i..."

I only sort by year. To try and do them any other way would just be too much for me to try and keep track of. The only other shelf I have besides the yearly ones is one for YA fiction.

I have all mine sorted into folders by genre, and also shelves for authors whose works I have alot of. Years read would put my 20+ folders into the 30+ range. lol That would just be too much to search through.

Kim wrote: "Check this out!

http://www.goodreads.com/challenges/2..."

That is super cool! Now I can keep track of all my GR friends :)

Two months now behind us. How is everyone doing in meeting their challenge goal? I am currently on book 19 of 100. February got off to a slow start, but I more than made up for it the last couple weeks. Here's hoping I can keep up the pace!

I'm at book 69 and my goal is 350. So, if I can finish one more book today, I'm on a pace for 420 books this year.

I just finished book 37 of my 100. If I'm able to keep this pace, I might revise my goal up a bit. :)

Way to go Shay and Jennifer! Maintaining the pace seems to be the big thing. Too easy to get sidetracked (and there's been a lot going on around here locally the last two weeks), and hard to get the momentum back once off-pace.

I am 7 books into my goal of 75

I've read 43 of my hoped for 135. I may need to up my goal.

Sue T wrote: "I've read 43 of my hoped for 135. I may need to up my goal."

I think I'm going to wait another month or two to up my goal. I have to keep in mind, too, that December seems to be my worst month. So, I have to factor that in.

I will be finishing book #14 out of 60 today.

I've finished 29 out of 100...I might up mine as well.