Big congrats to Melissa P. this week, who was the first person to break five figures. That happened incredibly quickly and she deserves recognition for all that hard work.
Otherwise, not much to update here. People are reading fantastically, Portland was an amazing trip for my birthday. Beer is really awesome. I’m hard at work on starting a specialty beer store and that’s where all my focus is going right now. Some day I may finish more than a chapter a night.
Lastly, I’m trying to find ways of making it so that I at least break even on costs to this site. I’d rather not do anything to add ads to here, as I like them just as much as most of you. Therefore, my first thought is to provide an amazon referral link. That way, only if you’re inclined, you can click on that before purchasing anything on Amazon. It’s entirely up to you, doesn’t cost you anything, and you get what you were planning on ordering anyway. Otherwise, I’ll throw up products I actually think are awesome every now and then and you can click through if you so choose.
I want to be transparent on this, after all.
Use it if you wish, don’t if you wish. Otherwise, enjoy reading and get more people involved!
EDIT: Someone in the comments suggested I throw up a paypal link, as well. For this interested, my paypal is aedeos@gmail.com. Thanks if you choose to go that route, it means a heck of a lot.
Progress List:
Melissa P: 13 books, 10311 pages
Martin U: 15 books, 7551 pages
Ben S: 10 books, 4914 pages
Madeline G: 13 books, 4814 pages
Sam S: 15 books, 4376 pages
Emily J: 12 books, 4360 pages
Anya Y: 13 books, 4080 pages
Josh C: 9 books, 3987 pages
Tyler T: 6 books, 3681 pages
Garrett M: 6 books, 3680 pages
Tyler M: 5 books, 3598 pages
CJ C: 11 books, 3326 pages
Bryan C: 11 books, 3241 pages
Casey O: 11 books, 3103 pages
Brittney C: 8 books, 3079 pages
Andy D: 6 books, 2958 pages
Carly G: 9 books, 2844 pages
John T: 7 books, 2854 pages
Jayden D: 5 books, 2729 pages
Elin L: 8 books, 2644 pages
Tim G: 6 books, 2506 pages
Aaron N: 7 books, 2464 pages
Katie C: 5 books, 2436 pages
Melanie N: 9 books, 2420 pages
Justin H: 10 books, 2344 pages
Jennifer T: 5 books, 2274 pages
Kevin S: 7 books, 2263 pages
Dawn D: 6 books, 2255 pages
Alexandra P: 7 books, 2225 pages
Ryan S: 7 books, 2146 pages
Andrew M: 2 books, 2093 pages
Laura R: 7 books, 2078 pages
Beth C: 7 books, 2059 pages
Aditya D: 5 books, 2051 pages
Liz S. 7 books, 2028 pages
Ashley T: 9 books, 1960 pages
Brenda M: 4 books, 1953 pages
Eric N: 2 books, 1946 pages
Steve P: 4 books, 1929 pages
Jared S: 6 books, 1895 books
Ryan C: 8 books, 1854 pages
Ted G: 7 books, 1763 pages
Rebecca T: 4 books, 1750 pages
Rachel E: 4 books, 1736 pages
Latalia W: 5 books, 1719 pages
Meg H: 4 books, 1669 pages
Daniel J: 7 books, 1642 pages
Aimee P: 4 books, 1631 pages
Samantha B: 5 books, 1627 pages
Austin S: 6 books, 1582 pages
Nita Z: 4 books, 1546 pages
Greg Z: 3 books, 1496 pages
Eric M: 4 books, 1488 pages
Nicholas L: 3 books, 1412 pages
Laura G: 5 books, 1378 pages
Elizabeth B: 4 books, 1375 pages
Fred F: 4 books, 1321 pages
Nathan C: 3 books, 1309 pages
David T: 4 books, 1258 pages
Mark R: 4 books, 1234 pages
Maggie T: 4 books, 1225 pages
Nanni B: 3 books, 1215 pages
Joey V: 4 books, 1196 pages
Ali M: 5 books, 1194 pages
Andrew H: 3 books, 1170 pages
Steve S: 2 books, 1147 pages
Jacob K: 1 books, 1060 pages
Mesha D: 5 books, 1811 pages
Andrew L: 3 books, 1006 pages
Ben G: 3 books, 999 pages
Joelle B: 3 books, 976 pages
Garrett A: 2 books, 928 pages
Brooks R: 4 books, 926 pages
Tina G: 2 books, 891 pages
Melissa F: 2 books, 880 pages
Alex H: 4 books, 861 pages
YW Liao: 1 books, 850 pages
Zen A: 2 books, 841 pages
Jennifer P: 1 books, 814 pages
Scarlette de C: 1 books, 757 pages
Nichole G: 2 books, 752 pages
Alexa R: 2 books, 719 pages
Aisling F: 2 books, 690 pages
James N: 2 books, 610 pages
Taylor C: 1 books, 576 pages
Angie B: 1 books, 512 pages
Jesse K: 2 books, 511 pages
Mike D: 2 books, 508 pages
M Lin: 2 books, 487 pages
Scott C: 1 books, 466 pages
Sophia Y: 2 books, 464 pages
Joe C: 2 books, 455 pages
Cullen R: 1 books, 394 pages
Irene H: 2 books, 363 pages
Jamie L: 1 books, 357 pages
Ryan M: 2 books, 347 pages
Nate L: 1 books, 231 pages
Juan dP: 1 books, 228 pages
Katelyn L: 1 books, 180 pages
Tyler W: 1 books, 110 pages
Sean Q: 1 books, 30 pages
Michael A: 0 books, 0 pages
Bret H: 0 books, 0 pages
Joe I: 0 books, 0 pages
Jerry V: 0 books, 0 pages
Aaron K: 0 books, 0 pages
Ben G: 0 books, 0 pages
Barton G: 0 books, 0 pages
Matt C: 0 books, 0 pages
Adam J: 0 books, 0 pages
Jaime M: 0 books, 0 pages
Shane C: 0 books, 0 pages
Sofia F: 0 books, 0 pages
Joe H: 0 books, 0 pages
Swati P: 0 books, 0 pages
Mat W: 0 books, 0 pages
Riccardo C: 0 pages, 0 books
I have to say, it’s impressive to see Melissa’s list. How she managed to read 1600 pages in 2 days is astounding. Congrats, and good job to everyone doing this!
I didn’t get much sleep? Hahaha. Actually I just came off the middle-book slump in the Wheel of Time series and the last two books were so much better I had to keep reading to find out what happened.
Also, I’m not working right now so I could afford to stay up all weekend reading and then sleep through my book hangover today. But I’m off to buy the last book right now so I might not sleep tonight at all either.
I’m very impressed. I’m also unemployed at the moment (due to start work soon), but I haven’t been able to read quite as much. How did you find the books? What about the last one? Wheel of Time is one series I wanted to read a while ago, but now, with 800 books and counting on my Goodreads to-read list, I think WoT will have to wait.
I loved the series! For me 1-7 were amazing, 8-11 were a touch slow, and 12-14 were just incredible. I know from what I read online that some people had a problem with the transition from Robert Jordan to Brandon Sanderson, but if anything I was probably the opposite. Maybe it was because I was already a fan of Sanderson, but I think I enjoyed his books more. That could also be because 8-11 were slow and 12 just picks things up and runs with it. I could not stop reading.
The last book was just about everything I could have asked for. Without spoiling anything about A Memory of Light, I like to have everything spelled out for me in a book. When I become invested in characters enough to read 14 books featuring them I want to know every single facet of how their lives turn out, lol. Obviously that isn’t possible, but that is really the only thing that was lacking for me. I wanted more information!!
Toss up an amazon[.]ca link as well.
Sadly, that doesn’t seem possible for me to do with the affiliate program. At least, not that I can see. Bummer.
Just a heads up, Jay Mohr uses the amazon link as revenue on his podacst and he was told by someone to tell his listeners to clear their cookies each time they use it. You might want to look in it and add that instruction next tot he link.
Do you use Paypal? You should put up a donation link. I think it is awesome that you do this, and I know it takes a lot of your time and energy. I’d be happy to throw a few $$ your way and I’m sure some of the other 52 in 52 participants would as well!
I absolutely can. Great idea.
Quick question. Do only novels count? what about non fiction and academic writings?
The goal of this (for me) isn’t the outcome–it’s the reading. If you’re reading academic, be it for pleasure or profit, by all means, log it. I want to come out of this with people proud of the pages they turned over the year, instilling others to do the same. Whether it’s Sendak, Baudrillard, or Crichton, just read and find ways to enjoy it and pass it on to people.