One Million Pages Per Lifetime discussion

August is here, and it's time to pick your own challenges! Anything at all. Books, pages, hours, whatever suits you.

Happy Reading!

My challenge will be to finish the following books:

Must Read First:
Torment
The Red Pyramid
Last Straw 2/8
Dog Days
The Ugly Truth

Challenge Books:
Task Completion--
Passion
Across the Universe
Daughter of Smoke and Bone (both challenges)
The Name of the Star
The Throne of Fire
Cabin Fever
What Happened to Goodbye
The Last Little Blue Envelope

Dementia (August)--
Nevermore: The Final Maximum Ride Adventure
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Water for Elephants
Space (?)

Other Challenges--
The Vampire Underground

School--
The Prince

My challenge is going to be to finish the Seasonal Reading Challenge (for the third time in a row!). As of right now, I have 25 books left to read and I'll be done. Really hope I can do it!

I'm sure you can! Good luck! :)

Seasonal Reading Challenge? What and where is that?

Ok... I'll get a list of books that I want to finish for this challenge.

Mad Scientist wrote: "Seasonal Reading Challenge? What and where is that?"

Here's a link to the group:

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2...

You basically need to read books based on tasks that change every season. I've been participating for a few years now and have only finished twice. Such a challenge, but really fun and enjoyable!

I currently need to finish 23 books by the end of August and I will have finished for the 3rd time!!

Zakiya wrote: "I'm sure you can! Good luck! :)"

Thanks Zakiya!!!

No problem, Stacie! If anyone can do it, I know you can. And I'm totally not just saying that.

MS, it's a fun group, but it causes too much stress for me to really stick to it.

Sounds fun and stressful like you say. I have so many I want to read so that challenge would make want to read even more. I'll take a look and see if I can jump in the next round after I get settled back in here in WI.

August Self Challenge --- Finish 12 Books!!!!

*Done*
8/2 8/5 8/6 8/10 8/11 8/11 8/12
8/15 8/16 8/18 8/21 8/25 8/31

Pages: 3032
Minutes: 1090

Good luck! I wouldn't be surprised if you shocked us all and read way more than those 12 :)

I hope so. I have the time so I might even surprise myself. I'm wondering how much I will stay with this list.

When the seasonal challenge starts the Fall Challenge everyone should let me know! Looks like a fun challenge. I think if would be fun to try to go through and read books from some of the past challenges. They have some good ideas.

Mad Scientist wrote: "I hope so. I have the time so I might even surprise myself. I'm wondering how much I will stay with this list.

When the seasonal challenge starts the Fall Challenge everyone should let me know! ..."

The current challenge ends on august 31st and the fall challenge will begin on september 1st. I'll try to remember to let you know when the tasks for that challenge are posted (usually a couple of weeks before the challenge starts)

Mad Scientist wrote: "I hope so. I have the time so I might even surprise myself. I'm wondering how much I will stay with this list.

That's always the challenge: staying with the original list :)

How long do these challenges go? I"m guessing three months.

Yep.

Self Challenge: 10,000 pages in August

I'm not really good at reading from a list, so we won't put one here. :D

Progress: 9,649

My August Self Challenge will be:
Unfortunately I didn't get nearly as much reading done between getting ready for the convention referenced below and personal things that came up.

(Between Aug. 14-19 will be attending the 23rd Annual National Sweepstakes Convention in Atlanta, Georgia)

1. To finish at least 2 out of the 4 unfinished e-books on my list.
(Only 1 was completed)
Cast Member Confidential: A Disneyfied Memoir by Chris Mitchell


2. To Read The Following and Complete:
What Remains by Carole Radziwill NOT DONE

A Natural Woman: A Memoir by Carole King
FINISHED

Plus maybe another book or two time permitting
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS (2)
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
This was an excellent book and would recommend it to everyone as it's a story about the Holocaust but told from a very different and unique point of view.

My goal is to read more books than I did last month, which was 7. =)

1.Dark Star
2.Endlessly
3.Intrinsical
4.Pride and Prejudice
5.
6.
7.
8.
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Good luck to everyone! Y'all always have great goals :)

So far, I've finished two books, meaning I now have 20 more to finish!

Read:
Mary Poppins in the Park
Hockey Gods: Inside the 2001-02 Red Wings' Hall of Fame Team

Finished with Water for elephants :)

Two down!

Mine is to finish atleast 10 books.

1 / 10 books finished

Finished with my third early this morning! It was a good book. On a roll I am.

Renae wrote: "Self Challenge: 10,000 pages in August

Some books I (tentatively—subject to change) want to read this month:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin
The Unbecoming..."

You are a reading machine!

Mad Scientist wrote: "Renae wrote: "Self Challenge: 10,000 pages in August

Some books I (tentatively—subject to change) want to read this month:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin
..."

Eh, it comes and it goes. :D

My goal for August is to read 10 books.....

Good luck to everyone. Y'all are doing great so far; MS, you're already ahead of me! I only have one, and two in progress :). *speeds on homework so I can go read*

Recently finished:

by Lauren Oliver
and
by Sherry Garland

18 left to go! And I have the next four days off so I hoping, as long as I can put the computer away, that I can get a bunch read!

Sue wrote: "My goal for August is to read 10 books.....
Haven by Kay Hooper 6/10

Finished

Finished two more.... but manga/graphic novels.
8/11 8/11

Just a thought but I think my tentative list has been blown out of the water, neglected, & pushed aside. *darn* But as a side note. I've been loving the library books I"ve been picking up!

Sue wrote: "Sue wrote: "My goal for August is to read 10 books.....
Haven by Kay Hoo..."

8/10
9/10
10/10

Since my last update, I've read five more!

Read:



and


9 down, 13 to go!!

Way to go w the reading!

I finished listening to .

Whoop!

Z are you eating my book dust yet? Yikes, I see you coming!

Sue wrote: "Sue wrote: "Sue wrote: "My goal for August is to read 10 books.....
Have..."

Since last time I posted, I have read 5 more books.

6 / 10

♥Madilynn♥ wrote: "Since last time I posted, I have read 5 more books.

6 / 10"

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Mad Scientist wrote:

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In other news, I'm halfway done with 10,000 words in August! :)

I'm blind. I was looking for a list so I must of scrolled over it. I like to see what others are reading and what they think or love & what not!

WOW!! You are amazing! What is the best book of the month thus far?

Mad Scientist wrote:

WOW!! You are amazing! What is the best book of..."

Probably Stormdancer, but Clean comes in a close second.

I'm waiting for my turn at Stormdancer at the library! I hope soon!

My favorites so far have been Catching Jordan & The Name of the Star. A out of the box sports book and a remaking of Jack the Ripper!

Oh, I have Catching Jordan on my shelf, but I heard that it was similar to Dairy Queen, so I'll probably read that one first.

I haven't heard of Dairy Queen.

Ah, I recognized the cover. I have not read it or heard anything about it really.

Finished

Finished another Manga while the boys were at the library reading for points. I didn't really like this one at all. Vampire Knight, Volume 1