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2009 Pages Read Challenge December
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2009 Pages Read Challenge: Dec stats (made it!)
whirl
14 yrs ago
Goal: 30,000
Made it! And just in time too :) I finished the last book of 2009 on Dec 28, and it gave me a total of 30092 pages. Never thought I'd make it.. Christmas holidays are great reading time :)
Total read i…
whirl
14 yrs ago
Goal: 30,000
I just *might* manage to make the goal this year, but with my job starting on Monday and a viva coming up soon December could be too busy to make it - I'll do my best :)
Total so far (Nov 27): 27,138
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whirl
14 yrs ago
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Goal: 30,000
Looks like I missed updating my Sep stats, so here goes for 2 months. I'm still behind schedule, so *fingers crossed* that I'll manage to catch up in the next 2 months!
Total so far (Oct 29): 24,352
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whirl
14 yrs ago
Goal: 30,000
August wasn't a bad month either, especially considering how busy I am! Luckily, form October onwards I should have looooads of free time to catch up :)
Total so far (Aug 27): 19,187
Percentage of goal:…
whirl
14 yrs ago
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Goal: 30,000
July was a good month :-)
Total so far (July 27): 15,979
Percentage of goal: 53.26%
Jan: 1838
Feb: 1939
Mar: 1901
Apr: 3121
May: 1791
June: 1919
July: 3470
whirl
14 yrs ago
Goal: 30,000
Uhoh.. half way through the year, not half way through my pages yet! This will need to be fixed soon :)
Total so far (June 24): 12,509
Percentage of goal: 41.7%
Jan: 1838
Feb: 1939
Mar: 1901
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whirl
14 yrs ago
Goal: 30,000
Worst month yet, and it even had 31 days! :)
Total so far (May 27): 10,590
Percentage of goal: 35.3%
Jan: 1838
Feb: 1939
Mar: 1901
Apr: 3121
May: 1791
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2009 Pages read challenge - April posts
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2009 Pages Read Challenge: April stats
whirl
14 yrs ago
Even though I've read loads more in April than in any other month this year, I'm still not back on track.. uhoh :-)
Goal: 30,000
Total so far (Mar 28): 8799
Percentage of goal: 29.33%
Jan: 1838
Feb: 1939
Ma…
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2009 Pages read challenge - March posts
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2009 Pages Read Challenge: March stats
whirl
15 yrs ago
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Hmm.. doesn't look like I'm going to make my goal this year.. but hey, still 9 months left to try :-)
Goal: 30,000
Total so far (Mar 28): 5678
Percentage of goal: 18.93%
Jan: 1838
Feb: 1939
Mar: 1901
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2009 Pages read challenge - February posts
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2009 Pages Read Challenge: Feb stats
whirl
15 yrs ago
Still not off to a good start.. but I'll keep trying :-)
Goal: 30,000
Total so far (Feb 28): 3777
Percentage of goal: 12.59%
Jan: 1838
Feb: 1939
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2009 Pages read challenge - January posts
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2009 Pages Read Challenge: Jan stats
whirl
15 yrs ago
Not off to a good start I'm afraid.. at this rate I won't even make 28000, never mind 30000 - but hey, there are still 11 months left to change that :-)
Goal: 30,000
Total so far (Jan 28): 1838
Percentage of goal: …
whirl
15 yrs ago
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Thanks for taking over this challenge! I'm really enjoying it this year.. and it looks like I'll just about make my goal of 27500 for 2008; so time for a bigger challenge next year :-)
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2008 Pages Read Challenge December***Winners will be posted soon****
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2008 Pages Read Challenge (December stats)
whirl
15 yrs ago
Total: 27503 of 27500 pages on December 31!
27 Dec: 626 pages to go this year!! (uhoh.. not sure I'll make that..)
30 Dec: only 159 pages to go.. looking a lot better :-)
31 Dec at 15:42 GMT: just noticed that I'm …
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2008 Pages Read Challenge November Post
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2008 Pages Read Challenge (November stats)
whirl
15 yrs ago
Total: 25356 of 27500 pages on December 1 = 92.20%
(nicely on track.. now fingers crossed that life won't intervene this last month! :-)
January: 2165
February: 2779
March: 1654
April: 2595
May: 1755
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(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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CLOSED......SMILE DAY RABCK DRAWING............ INTERNATIONAL
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count me in!
whirl
15 yrs ago
(Finally an international one again, I could only find UK and US ones for the past few months - thanks yorkshire-lass! :-)
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2008 pages read challenge: Post October pages here.
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2008 Pages Read Challenge (October stats)
whirl
15 yrs ago
Total: 22257 of 27500 pages on October 27 = 80.93%
(uhoh.. falling behind!)
January: 2165
February: 2779
March: 1654
April: 2595
May: 1755
June: 2068
July: 3204
August: 1651
September: 2994
October:…
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2008 pages read challenge: Post for September
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2008 Pages Read Challenge (September stats)
whirl
15 yrs ago
Total: 20865 of 27500 pages on September 26 = 75.87%
(no longer behind schedule - long flights help a lot! :-)
January: 2165
February: 2779
March: 1654
April: 2595
May: 1755
June: 2068
July: 3204
Augu…
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2008 pages read challenge: Post for August
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2008 Pages Read Challenge (August stats)
whirl
15 yrs ago
Total: 17871 of 27500 pages on August 23 = 64.99%
(still on schedule.. but barely :-)
January: 2165
February: 2779
March: 1654
April: 2595
May: 1755
June: 2068
July: 3204
August: 1651
whirl
15 yrs ago
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Perhaps: Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier?
I haven't read the book, but there is at least a connection in the title :-)
whirl
15 yrs ago
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I'd recommend (anything by) Terry Pratchett - I'm a mathsy computer scientist and I love it!! ;-) Pratchett generally seems to go down well with computer scientists, so well worth a try I'd say!
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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Alexander McCall Smith - Audio Book RABCK - CLOSED
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Re: Alexander McCall Smith - Audio Book RABCK
whirl
15 yrs ago
I would like to enter as well! Thanks!
Activists, Enthusiasts, Hobbyists and Wannabees
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Have you been Wung? Post here!
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I've been winged!
whirl
15 yrs ago
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Wow! I just noticed I have wings.. where did they come from? Thanks to whoever send them my way!! (I'm afraid they'll be as addicting as the rest of the site.. now I'm going to have to make sure I keep them ;-)
Thank…
whirl
15 yrs ago
I agree, a thank you is certainly in order (independent of all the rest!)
(and I just said so in another thread, can't keep track of everything anymore :-) http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/9/5541997
