Last night I passed my 2007 Reading Challenge Goal of 10,000 pages!
Now there has been little tension that I would not do it. My enthusiasm to reach 10k got me off to a pretty quick start... but heck when you are doing something you truly love, it's not a difficult task... or even a task at all.
While it has slowed down, I do not believe my "pace" ever dipped below the 10k mark. Right now (and for the last couple of months), I am on projected to pass 12k... but for awhile there, I was hovering around 13k.
It took me 299 days to reach 10,000 pages... including days when I didn't pick up a book at all... and there were over a month's worth of those... 36 days, but still a respectably low 12% (and, ironically enough, many of those days while we were on vacation -- often the only time when folks do read a book!).
If you are wondering how I am pulling all these numbers out of my ass... well, it's because of one of my other loves... spreadsheets! I am pretty certain part of my Reading Challenge success is thanks to me being able to regularly (even daily!) update a spreadsheet. Ok, now I've admitted something far nerdier than having my nose in a book whenever I get the chance!
It will take the book "review" post after the next one for it to officially show up... but I still felt right to mark the actual day. Another post is on the way... so it's not like this one is just a quota filler for the day!
Way to go Ed! Are you going to go higher? I think you should! I know I could never read 10K pages by nearly the end of October. Well done!
Posted by: Beth | Friday, October 26, 2007 at 06:15 PM