A friend of mine posted something today saying that February is the real beginning of the year, and January is a free trial month. I’m going to hold that as true since I can’t ever get myself going in January. It’s a hibernation month – it’s cold and miserable and might possibly snow every other day. I want no part of it. Although I suppose February isn’t much better…
Anyway, it’s really just my lazy way of saying it’s a good reason for putting off writing this post about my reading resolutions. They’re possibly the only resolutions I keep each year, which maybe I should work on, but… meh. It’s something I feel proud of at the end of the year. I set my reading goal on Goodreads and just monitor my progress through that. I also love reading challenges, but since I have so many books in mind that I want to get to, I don’t always do too well with them. They do come in handy when I want to try and read more broadly; they help point out areas that I might be weak in, like authors from certain areas of the world, or time periods I might be neglecting. One category I don’t understand that I have seen on more than one is the “book I lied about reading.” Do people really lie about books they’ve read that often? I’m always afraid I’ll end up talking to the one person who actually read it and get found out.
This year, I set my goal at 50 books. I know I could do more (I have in the past), but I have a lot of other goals I’m striving for this year that will take up my time. I’m off to a good start – I’m on book number six. A friend of mine and I were talking about possibly tackling War and Peace this year. I got through Moby-Dick last year, and I think I’d like to try and get through one big hurdle each year. A few of the books I have pulled aside to get to soon are bigger (500+ pages is big to me), which is another reason I set the goal at 50. It’s about one a week, but I have a feeling some of these might take more than a week to get through. That same friend also said this might be the year of the Russians. We’re going to do Crime and Punishment for our book club soon, and I have a few other Russian writers I’ve been meaning to read anyway. I guess if the government is doing a Russian investigation, now’s a good time to do our own. But into literature, not whatever insane goings-on are happening with our circus of a government at the moment.
Hopefully I will hit my goals with reading this year so I don’t feel terrible when I inevitably fall short on all my other goals for the year. I have a lot I want to do, so I’m sure something will get pushed to the sidelines. Of course, one of them is getting my books organized and cataloged, and I’m hoping that one becomes a reality because right now I have books in piles and can’t find stuff when I need to.
Anyway, that’s all for now… join me next time as I go over some of the books I’ve read so far this year.
Lindsey Reads Things 