Read As Many Pages As You Can Challenge discussion

My name is Sam and I am the creator of this challenge. I graduated from UT, Knoxville in May, got married a week later, and moved 6 hours away to Columbus, OH a week after that. Now, I am a Financial Analyst at a small-ish company in Columbus and I would like to say it's more interesting than it sounds but that is probably only true to me and my co-workers.

I am very excited to test this reading challenge in 2018! Don't forget to set your reading goal in the Goals folder!

Hi Sam, I'm Samantha :) I'm a receptionist/legal assistant in a law firm and a part-time college instructor.

I spent a long while prior to 2016 not reading due to stress and an inability to properly enjoy myself, but in 2017 I got back into reading, and how. In 2018, I want to keep up the momentum. I'm going to be participating in the ATY18 challenge and the PopSugar18 challenge (yes, they'll overlap) as well as in my own personal challanges of reading at least 12 each of: books on my Kindle, books on my Nook, books about writing (self-help/reference), Classics, and Kindle First (or whatever they just changed the name to). 90% of my reading in 2018 should be books I already own in some form.

It is nice to meet you and I will try to remember your name :)

It makes me incredibly happy that you own two different e-readers.

I don't know if I'm doing any other reading challenges yet. I currently I have an amalgam of a few different ones combined into 1 DIY challenge.

Hi, Sam and Samantha. I currently don't have a job, but I look forward to getting one. I read more than 600 -700 books this year, but I didn't have time to record them. I may have some now. I can't wait to start this challenge and look forward to meeting new people.

Hi Sam and Samantha,

I'm Anne. I work in IT and split my literature into books and books on tape for those rough commutes. I love the idea of this challenge. My local library does a summer reading program (even for adults!) and we earn a pencil after 3 books, an eraser after 6, a packet of postit notes after 9 and a chance to win a prize basket at 12 and for every 3 books after that. This June, when it kicked off, I was reading the AMAZING A Gentleman in Moscow, 462 blissful pages. I got my pencil and eraser, but that's not the point. Someone in the adult group was averaging 3 to 4 books a day! I don't know if it was a retiring who speedread Harlequins or a babysitter counting multiple reads of Harry The Dirty Dog, but I was annoyed! So, when I saw this challenge, I wanted to participate. I'm shooting for Fig Tree, but might make Dwarf Peach.

Hi everybody,
I'm Lars. I'm a university student at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz/ Germany. I'm just finishing up my master's degree in Book Studies. With all the exams I had to take in the course of this past twelve months, I didn't get that many opportunities for private reading, and I hope this challenge will help me get back on track.

I'm Shannon. I am currently working 3 jobs so just hoping I can actually get a chance to read at some point! I still have plans to do 3 (maybe 4) reading challenges so we'll see what happens.

Hi, I’m Claire from Belgium. Retired and time to read:-)

Hi, y'all! I'm Elaine. Originally from Memphis but now living in an old mining town high in the Rockies of Colorado. I'm also doing ATY and Pop because it challenges me to find the new classics, not just the old ones I studied in college (English lit major). However, I, too, was surprised that so many people were reading pulp fiction just to complete a challenge. I've set a goal this year of 100 books of quality; I anticipate that will push me at least to the Norfolk Island Pine level.

I look forward to hearing what you're all reading.

Hi everyone. I had actually set a personal goal of 30,000 pages for this upcoming year, so this will be great for me. I do a lot of challenges and hope to read more strategically this year.

Hello!

I'm Jody, an Australian living in Switzerland (I've been here five years next month ... time flies!). I'm a photographer and mum to an eight year old daughter. I've always loved reading, but didn't read much while she was little. I picked up the (wonderful) habit halfway through 2014, and since 2015 I've been doing a bunch of different reading challenges which has totally ignited my reading compulsion.

I'd decided recently to focus on a page based reading goal for 2018 rather than a book number goal, as I've found that I've been subconsciously avoiding longer books. I love the idea of this group - I'm hoping it helps keep me motivated.

Hi Everyone.

I'm Angelique, 49 and living in Holland. I'm a Mum to two almost adult boys, regrettably currently no more a mummy to any furbabies.

Regarding my reading: I can't remember a time when I didn't have a book halfway finished. I read both paper books and e-books. My kindle is terrific for taking lots of books with me on holiday and for reading in bed, but I miss the weight and feel of a paper book. And using a homemade bookmark on a kindle is rather tricky.

My goal for 2018 is 30,000 pages.

Hi! My name is Yvette and I am from Texas.

I am trying to read more books and get into different genres. I joined the PopSugar Book Challenge this year, but I stopped half way due to personal issues. I just lost all motivation to continue the challenge. I am excited to do the challenge again this new year along with this challenge!

Hi Yvette, welcome! I'm also doing the Popsugar challenge this year and next. I knew and know in advance that I will not finish all the challenge items, because some are just not my thing. But I will try and read my target number of pages.

Hi everyone! I’m Mike, and I am a high school teacher in Los Altos, California. I like the idea of how many pages we will be reading, so I’ll join this challenge as well!

My reading goal for this year is 60 books, and the first one I’ll be tackling is Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton… which is about 720 pages. Wish me luck!

Mike

Hey Everyone. My name is Jake and I am married to Sam (the one who put this challenge together). I used to be a Geology PhD graduate student at the University of Tennessee, but decided to change career paths. I will hopefully be working with Ohio State this Spring (waiting to hear back about a job offer next week, wish me luck!).

Before me and Sam started dating I never read unless it was a comic book or required for a college course. In October 2016 for Sam's birthday, since she is such an avid reader, I gave her a handmade "coupon" where she got to pick my first book to get back into reading. She picked Eragon, which I enjoyed heavily, and it sparked my interest in reading again. I subsequently read 14 books in 2017, which is a LOT for me.

I am very excited to try this reading challenge, and hopefully I can surpass my goal.

Hi guys, and welcome! It doesn't matter what or how much you read, just as long as you enjoy yourself. And we're all here to help us with that!

Welcome everyone! I hope you all have a Happy New Year and start 2018 off with lots of reading!

Hi everyone! My name is Kenia (pronounced just like the country, Kenya), and I'm from the U.S. (California). I'm so excited to have found this group because I've been feeling annoyed with GoodReads for not adding a page count goal option to their annual GoodReads Challenge. I work full time, have several other hobbies besides reading, and have a very active social life with my husband--so I sneak reading into any moment I can. I look forward to seeing what 2019 brings for all of our reading lives!

Hi everyone, my name is Abbie.

I am located in the DFW. I have loved reading since I was a small child, and have passed my reading bug on to my teenage daughter.

I am married, have one daughter, and 2 Fur-sons

Curious on what book you are starting the New Year off with.

I am reading Aztec by Gary Jennings

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "Curious on what book you are starting the New Year off with.

I am reading Aztec by Gary Jennings"

I just finished a reread of Morning Star!

Hope everyone has been getting in some good reading this weekend!

It was indeed a very good weekend for reading :-)

I'm starting with Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and I'm roughly at 3/4 or about 800 pages in. I think I'll pick up something more relaxing for my next read, though. x.x

Lars wrote: "It was indeed a very good weekend for reading :-)

I'm starting with Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and I'm roughly at 3/4 or about 800 pages in. I think I'll pick up something ..."

I read this a couple of years ago in college and LOVED it! Although I'm pretty sure I was the only person in the class to finish it.

Well, I'm kind of torn up about Atlas Shrugged, to be honest. It's certainly psychologically compelling, but John Galt's rant was too selfcontradictory for my taste. With him being like only cold facts matter for truth, and then presenting an argument based on romantic metaphysics while simultaneously complaining about mystics.
Which, ironically, is practically the same romantic stuff that Marx said about the worker:

What, then, constitutes the alienation of labor? First, in the fact that labor is external to the worker, that is, that it does not belong to his essential being; that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel well but unhappy, does not freely develop his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker, therefore, feels himself only outside his work, and feels beside himself in his work. He is at home when he is not working, and when he is working he is not at home. His work therefore is not voluntary, but coerced; it is forced labor. It is therefore not the satisfaction of a need, but only a means for satisfying needs external to it. Its alien character emerges clearly in the fact that labor is shunned like the plague as soon as there is no physical or other compulsion.

Lars wrote: "Well, I'm kind of torn up about Atlas Shrugged, to be honest. It's certainly psychologically compelling, but John Galt's rant was too selfcontradictory for my taste. With him being like only cold f..."

Cant say I have ever read that one.

Hello my name is Tonya I'm 30 & still love YA & almost only YA lol. I have 2 4yr olds. My other hobby besides reading is diamond painting which I love to listen to audiobooks while I'm doing so I get to do both my hobbies at once. I have a few challenges I'm going to try & finish & just see where I end up page wise from the books I read for those challenges hopefully I'll meet my goal for this one as well.