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cheating at my reading goal | |
January 01st, 2022 | |
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A new year is here and a new reading goal is set. I'm sticking | |
with my goal of 100 books like the last few years. It's attainable | |
even if I hit a slump. Even so, to start my year off on a good | |
note I like to read easy, quick stuff. Last year I read like 10-15 | |
books of this Witch P.I. series that's honestly pretty terrible, | |
but I just tear through it. It helps that the books are cozy as | |
hell and nothing serious is ever at stake more than a knitting | |
contest. | |
This year I was thinking about what series to binge to get ahead. | |
I'm just getting started on the Jill Kismet series (I have the | |
whole thing in an omnibus). I also have the Alex Verus series of | |
which I've read book one and will likely binge quickly. But | |
instead of either of those I realized that my Calibre library has | |
page numbers in it (because I'm diligent about good data). So... | |
I'm going to sort by shortest book and clean house on a bunch of | |
novellas I've been sitting on for years. I have about 20 books | |
under 50 pages! If I want to read a bunch of the Shadow stories | |
this year I could do my entire 100 and stay under 150 pages each. | |
Wild! Such cheating! Hahaha. | |
I'll mix it up soon enough and I don't stop at 100 books, so I'm | |
not really cheating anything. This is just a little mental trick | |
to help me feel like I'm well invested in reading for the year. My | |
own motivation wanes if I fall behind schedule and it becomes | |
increasingly hard to pick up my Kindle. It's best to stay well | |
ahead of goal. | |
Anyway, here I go! |