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[shanaqui]

Name: shanaqui, reviews posted as wilderthan
Goal: To read seventy-five books (minimum) over the summer.
Definition of "book": On the list below or an addition to it.
Books read so far: This goal starts from today.

A little about my goal and my reading habits: It's been a while since I had a goal on this comm. I'm trying to read at least 365 books in 2010, but I haven't been focusing too much on that during term-time. Now it's holidays, and even if I get a job I'll have more spare time. So I'm hoping to get a healthy chunk done. I've picked certain books so I can a) clear my shelves, b) return books to people I borrowed them from or c) finish up a series (or three). Or a mixture of the three. Generally I read one book on my ipod, one on my ereader, and one in hard copy, but most of these are for my ereader or hard copy. I expect I'll add to this list, it's just a preliminary.

The list is currently 100 books long, and I'm hoping to read at least 75 of the listed books.

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My goal: 26 May 2010 to 25 May 2011

[adelheid]

Name: adelheid
Goal: To complete 50books_poc_feed, ie, to read 50 books by people of colour/non-white authors/illustrators by 25 May 2011
Definition of "book": no real limits unless I think of them at the time (ie, I counted the three Queenie Chan The Dreaming volumes as 1 book last year. If an anthology of stories/articles is more than 75% non-white, it can count as a book, or 50% if edited by a non-white person.
Definition of "poc": No white South Americans (ie, no Isabelle Allende) and I'm still not sure about Middle Easterners, even though I really want to read-and-count Persepolis.
A little about my goal and my reading habits: I just about finished 50books_poc_feed between Feb 09 - Feb 10 - I finished 48 books, although I still haven't reviewed two of them. Yesterday was my birthday, so I thought I should start up another cycle. I have at least another 100 books on my Goodreads listed as "by non-white people", although some of those would be Middle Eastern authors. I really enjoyed 50books_poc last year (although it has caused me to fall way behind on my YA reading...)