New year's read-olution

[tigerfort]

I now have an entire bookcase full of things that I've bought and not read yet (mostly, but not exclusively, fiction). Most of them have come from charity shops or other cheap sources, but since I presumably did want to read them at the time of the acquisition.... The problem is that last year I spent a great deal of time re-reading books I was already familiar (and comfortable) with, but carried on getting new ones at about the usual rate.

So, this year my target is to read two new books (ie, ones I've not read before) per week; I'll allow a couple of weeks off for emergencies, giving a nice round 100 previously-unread books by the end of the year. Obviously, I'm allowed to re-read stuff too (but they don't count towards the hundred), and I think it's also permissible to get ahead (although ideally not to fall behind).

Conveniently, my mother lent me a couple of easy light-reading books when I saw her just after new year, so I started with those. Of course, this does nothing to reduce the amount of stuff in the bookcase full of unread books, but never mind.

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'll allow a couple of weeks off for emergencies, giving a nice round 100 previously-unread books by the end of the year.

Surely this only gives one week off for emergencies? ;-)

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

?

There are 52 weeks in the year, and I've read two (new) books already and it's only the 6th of January. Or am I missing something?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Um ... no, I've no idea what I was thinking there!

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

I think I managed to reach 100 books read in a year once, since I began counting. I can't remember if they were all new, but I am sure a lot of them were the_marquis's Usagi Yojimbo collection...

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

Remember that I'm currently off work because of my arms, which gives me more free time than you have (especially since I can't spend very much of it in front of the computer for the same reason). It does have disadvantages, of course.

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

This is about my aim, I think - if I can keep myself to two books a week, it'll be good. (I'd like three, but two would do)