A tough year for reading, since I was in my final year of Nursing school, and so busy, I didn't even have time to read Nursing texts.

So, I've read 27/50 books for the year, which is about what I expected, despite having decided on such a high goal for myself.

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The Fifty Book Challenge, which started as a temporary community, has continued in operation and Live Journal highlighted it for 2011.  An encouraging cohort of new members has begun posting.

I've been playing along since 2005, and here is the final report for 2011.   I no longer feel any pressure to file fifty reports, so the roundup will stop at ( Read more... )

For those of you who are participating in the July Challenge (re-reading a school book you hated to see if some time and perspective can change your opinion), you have a week left!! How are y'all doing so far ( Read more... )

I was discussing best/worst books with someone on my personal FL, and we got to talking about books we'd been forced to read in school (either HS or college) that we wound up HATING...either because of the "forced to read" aspect in and of itself, or possibly because the book was inappropriate for the age we were when we read it (and were thus ( Read more... )

Here is another of the occasional community discussion posts. We were wondering how community members felt about print and on-line book reviews? These could be the professional ones generated by writers who are paid to review books or those reviews and ratings put up by readers on book selling sites like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, on review blogs ( Read more... )

So, I got a message from community member onlyobsess the other day, asking if 50bookchallenge had a banner that she could use to promote the community in her profile and elsewhere. We do not, but it got me thinking...why don't we ( Read more... )

The new journal layout that I've picked for the community allows a sticky post that stays at the top of the community page. With this new feature available, I'd like to try a few more discussion-driven activities that were hard to sustain in the old format. In the past, posts rolled off the front page before they had a chance to get going and I'd ( Read more... )