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Perhaps more to the point personally, this was my sixtieth book of the year, only the fourth time I've topped this figure in a year, and the first time I've reached that figure before December (the previous earliest was last year, on December 5th). 

That's so nice, congratulations :)!

 

I finished Robert Thorogood - Death in Paradise 2: The Killing of Polly Carter, which was quite enjoyable, and will pick a new book soon.

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I finished reading the rest of the Preacher graphic novels fairly swiftly (which I thoroughly enjoyed), then it took me a fair few days to get back into reading Lord of Chaos (TWoT book 6) again. I'm just about barely doing one chapter a day, so I still need to gee myself back into a normal reading mode. I think a different book would probably help but I already feel like I've left this book to languish a bit too long already, so I just want to get through it as quickly as I can.

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I finished reading the rest of the Preacher graphic novels fairly swiftly (which I thoroughly enjoyed), then it took me a fair few days to get back into reading Lord of Chaos (TWoT book 6) again. I'm just about barely doing one chapter a day, so I still need to gee myself back into a normal reading mode. I think a different book would probably help but I already feel like I've left this book to languish a bit too long already, so I just want to get through it as quickly as I can.

I hope you enjoy Lord of Chaos. It's true that the TWOT books aren't quick reads, and the chapters aren't very short. I hope you enjoy LoC, if I remember correctly, it's a good one.

 

I started to read Jodi Picoult - Vanishing Acts yesterday, but I only read 24 pages. I hope to do some more reading today.

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I think 24 pages is a lot. Particularly on a busy day.

 

I am very late to the party, but I am reading Me Before You. Outside of the main plotline I can relate to Louisa in many ways.

I feel it becoming a favourite

I hope you enjoy Me Before You, I quite liked it (though it wasn't without its problems) :).

 

24 pages is about 20 - 30 minutes of reading time for me, for a medium paperback book for adults with medium font size (which is what I'm reading now, I can read YA and children's books quicker). On most days, I read for at least an hour, often more than two hours. Outside of the read-a-thons, I try to read about 100 pages per day. I don't always manage it, sometimes I'm very busy, going out or cataloguing new books or doing other things. But on most days I read at least 100 pages. So 24 pages isn't a lot for me, compared with most of my reading days.

 

I'm now on page 82 out of 421, so I read 58 pages yesterday. It's still not as much as I'd liked, but I was quite distracted by the internet several times. I read a lot on Sunday and Monday, so maybe that's another reason why I felt a bit less like reading the past two days.

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I've taken to reading one short Lovecraft story on my lunchbreak every day at work, as I find it hard to pick up a novel during my lunch hour and I'm frequently so tired after work I don't feel up to reading. This, seems like a good way to try keep my reading up.

 

I read at about the same pace as Athena, approximately one page a minute if I have no distractions, so between my lunchbreak and a bit of time in the evening I usually aim to do at least an hour (or 60 pages) a day. Usually doesn't happen, because life, but I try.

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Supermarket shopping is dangerous especially with the 2 books for £7 offer! Today I got Local Girl Missing by Claire Douglas and also The Girl With No Name - Diney Costeloe.

 

Just jumping on the theme of how much you read in a day - I try to read around 50 pages a day - it doesnt always happen with an almost 2 year old but thats what I'm trying to do at the minute :)

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I used to be in the 100 page + a day bracket but now i'm happy if I can do about 30 pages :rolleyes:  From time to time if I want to finish a book quickly I can still manage a 2-300 page blast, but that's basically with ignoring the telly & all the chores. ;)

 

I just popped into the library near work as it's in the same local authority as my one at home and I nearly got some James Patterson's out, as they had loads of new ones I'd not seen before. Now *they* were books that I could devour in one sitting and I read all of his when they first came out, but before too long I felt they got too diluted, more like large print books and his proliferation was too much for me to cope with so I stopped reading them. I still get tempted back from time to time though. :D  

 

In the end I thought I've got too many books at home to read so I probably shouldn't use the library at the moment. 

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I've taken to reading one short Lovecraft story on my lunchbreak every day at work, as I find it hard to pick up a novel during my lunch hour and I'm frequently so tired after work I don't feel up to reading. This, seems like a good way to try keep my reading up.

 

I read at about the same pace as Athena, approximately one page a minute if I have no distractions, so between my lunchbreak and a bit of time in the evening I usually aim to do at least an hour (or 60 pages) a day. Usually doesn't happen, because life, but I try.

 

That sounds like a nice idea, reading short stories during your lunchbreak. Nice to hear we read at similar paces :).

 

Supermarket shopping is dangerous especially with the 2 books for £7 offer! Today I got Local Girl Missing by Claire Douglas and also The Girl With No Name - Diney Costeloe.

 

Just jumping on the theme of how much you read in a day - I try to read around 50 pages a day - it doesnt always happen with an almost 2 year old but thats what I'm trying to do at the minute :)

 

I hope you enjoy both of your new books :).

 

That makes sense :).

 

I used to be in the 100 page + a day bracket but now i'm happy if I can do about 30 pages :rolleyes:  From time to time if I want to finish a book quickly I can still manage a 2-300 page blast, but that's basically with ignoring the telly & all the chores. ;)

 

I just popped into the library near work as it's in the same local authority as my one at home and I nearly got some James Patterson's out, as they had loads of new ones I'd not seen before. Now *they* were books that I could devour in one sitting and I read all of his when they first came out, but before too long I felt they got too diluted, more like large print books and his proliferation was too much for me to cope with so I stopped reading them. I still get tempted back from time to time though. :D  

 

In the end I thought I've got too many books at home to read so I probably shouldn't use the library at the moment.

 

Ah, the dilemma. I love going to the library and coming home with a nice stack of books, and at the same time I also love reading my own books. You could always go back if you change your mind (and they have the books available).

 

This evening I bought A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay, been looking forward to this one since Disappearance At Devil's Rock and it just came out a couple days ago!

I hope you enjoy your new book :).

 

I'm making nice progress with Jodi Picoult - Vanishing Acts. I'm now on page 169 out of 421 (including a few pages of Q&A with the author), about 40%. I read 87 pages yesterday. I plan to read some more in the book today. It's interesting, I'm enjoying it so far.

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I'm glad you're enjoying the Jodi Picoult! Just in case anyone is interested, she has a new book out on October 11th, Small Great Things.

 

Edited to add: it's about a black nurse delivering the baby of a white supremacist.

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Tried Cloud Atlas for the third or fourth time, but have definitively decided enough is enough.  I loved The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, but this was dreadful. Having said that, didn't read enough of it to count as being 'read', so I maybe am being unfair, but having dipped in to later parts and read the Wikipedia plot summary, I can't say I'm remotely inclined to carry on trying.  Really surprised, as was looking forward to this.

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Tried Cloud Atlas for the third or fourth time, but have definitively decided enough is enough. I loved The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, but this was dreadful. Having said that, didn't read enough of it to count as being 'read', so I maybe am being unfair, but having dipped in to later parts and read the Wikipedia plot summary, I can't say I'm remotely inclined to carry on trying. Really surprised, as was looking forward to this.

That's too bad... I've been waiting to read this for ages. :(

 

Edited to ask: have you tried The Bone Clocks?

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That's too bad... I've been waiting to read this for ages. :(

 

Edited to ask: have you tried The Bone Clocks?

Not yet, but it's my book group's choice for next February, so will read it over the New Year period.

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