#aww2020: 4 books
#BookBingo2020: 1 book
I wrapped both of these challenges up this month and the relief I felt about that is a big indicator that my reading will be challenge free for the foreseeable future.
Total books read for October: 9
Another slow reading month. The books are piling up faster than reducing. 😞
Until next month… ☕📚
Theresa Smith Writes 
I’ve managed to find a couple that I’ve already read that fit into challenges, so winning! I’m debating whether to double up in one book bingo with a book that will fit into two categories, or whether to dig out another that would work.
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How much time do you have? If it were me, I’d go with the double up!
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I’ve got till the end of the year. I might do the double up and then I can easily fit in the ones I can’t double up on.
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Agree! And even though you have until the end of the year, easing the pressure is still ideal because the end of the year is just around the corner!
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Exactly!
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Good on you for finishing some challenges. I have done terribly on challenges this year – I thought I might be able to pick up the pace when life in Melbourne ‘got back to normal’ but it has coincided with me returning to study, so challenges will take a back seat.
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Ahh, yes, study has to come first. Long study or short course?
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Don’t beat yourself up, I’ve only read 10 (I just counted up) and I’m retired while you are working (and, a-hem, have a couple of other challenges to negotiate besides reading ones!)
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10? That kind of does make me feel better. Because it appears, from the outside looking in, that you might have been clocking up 20 to 30 books a month. There you go! And yes, the other challenges are definitely weighing in.
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Sometimes I do, though it’s more likely to be 20 than 30. But they would be short books, and easy reading.
And I *do not* pressure myself. My blog is a labour of love, which I hope benefits the authors I review in some way, so it’s a kind of voluntary work — but it’s not a job, it’s a pastime and one which has to fit into the rest of my life, not the other way round.
So go easy on yourself:)
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It’s certainly a labour of love for me too. I’ve never wanted to think of it with obligations attached – hence stripping out challenges for the next while. I suppose my biggest thing here is that I have such terrific books sitting there waiting to be read, I just can’t read them fast enough, and linger over them as well, all at the same time. But you’re right, it has to fit into life and just as life is *busy* at present, it will be calm again some day.
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It will. Hang in there!
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I actually don’t know how you manage the time to read so many books and then review them. It’s a great achievement. I’m lucky to do the Goodreads challenge setting my own conservative goal of two to three a month. Enjoy going at your own pace.Sylvia
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Thanks! In normal times, I usually read 3 a week, but in recent months that slid back to 1 – 2 per week instead.
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Still good going.
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Thank you! 😊
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How is the new Jane Harper book? We haven’t gotten it yet in Canada … Enjoy your November.
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I loved it and truly feel it’s her best yet. I hope you get it in Canada before too long. Any idea on the release? I believe it’s already slated to be adapted into a TV series.
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Not bad at all! I think, I’m averaging one book per week at the moment, so 9 books doesn’t sound bad at all for October!
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Are you? It’s good to find out that I’m not the only one who isn’t smashing out 20 or more titles a month! Although, I’ve never done that. Until recently, I seemed to read 12 a month, which pretty much did spread out to three a week. That’s probably what I aspire to get back to.
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Haha, I might try to get to your current level of 9 per month, which would probably me my normal standard. At the moment work is keeping me too busy, though.
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Work does tend to take a priority!
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Congrats on finishing these challenges, it must feel great to have these wrapped up well before the end of the year. Reading 9 books a month is an awesome achievement. My personal best this year is 7 so you’re way ahead of me. I’m reading Honeybee by Craig Silvey at the moment and loving it so far.
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It’s a terrific book, isn’t it? Glad to hear you are loving it, I’ll be keen to read your review.
Sometimes I think I fall into a trap of comparison against ‘big’ readers, the 20+ each month. It’s nice to find out they are probably not the norm!
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They’re definitely not the norm and even if they are, you’ll always fall short if you keep on comparing yourselves to others. They might have different circumstances to you that you’ll never be able to replicate. Just be happy ‘doing you’ and if that’s 5 or 9 or 12 books a month so be it! It’s still a heck of an achievement to be proud of 😀
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I like that, ‘doing you’. Will be doing a lot more of that from now on!
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