Goodreads reading challenge

I do this every year. My normal target is 52 books, which seems reasonable. I set it at 104 one year, but then realised my love of long dense history books made that unreasonable. I normally hit the target or go slightly over. In 2016 I only had 33/52 but that’s still a good no of books.

I have shameful pile of 80 unread books indoors.

52 seems reasonable?!

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1 per week?

that’s loads! :smiley:

Should have made it clearer that it’s 1 Mr Men book per week.

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I’ve set myself 25, I’d like to think that’s a low target but that’s pretty much what I’ve been averaging for the last few years. I wish I was disciplined enough to read a book a week!

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Hah that makes me sound like I’m joining the army or having to force myself, when it’s more like having to force myself to not constantly be reading a book to get things done.

I think @WizardLizard might have broken the site earlier.

I’ve read between 30-35 for the last few years and will be setting 33 as my target this year.

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Think I read maybe 4 books in full last year :frowning:

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But they were War and Peace, Infinite Jest, the Bible and the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, right?

had a bad year for reading last year. need to make a list and stick to it, i think, otherwise i’m spoilt for choice :grimacing:

4 Beano annuals

Beano adaptation of War and Peace.

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When I read a novel:

  • I hear all the words in my head read out like an audiobook
  • I hear the dialogue, but the descriptions turn straight into images
  • I don’t hear any words, and it all turns straight into images for me

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Might set myself the target of 26. 52 is ridic for how slow i read.

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Hmm none of these really.

Maybe it’s because if I don’t set myself a target amount, I’ll barely read at all. So in my head, I have to be strict / disciplined to combat my own laziness. I don’t ever really feel like I’m forcing myself to read though.

Would a high target of say 104 books not start to feel like a chore?

Haha what happened to the site?!

It did- and when I read a long book I’d think “I could have been reading two or three short ones in this time” and realised how ridiculous it was that I was changing my behaviour to match some stupid counter. So I changed the target back to the comfortable one a week.

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How does it work for you?