Thread 24544416

Year is half over.
How is your reading goal coming?

I've finished 10 books so far. I usually read around 25, so it's going normally.

>>24544416 (OP)
This is my first year going back to reading English since Highschool.

22. Down from this time last year, but I've been working a lot more. Trying to care less about the number and more about the content. Started reading a lot of poetry and doing some slow close reading.

>>24544416 (OP)
Not bad, shouldn't be a problem to meet my goal

>>24544416 (OP)
If I didn't waste so much time on /int/ shitposting, I would've read more. I'm currently trying to avoid the more fast-pacing and low-quality boards so I can do some sort of dopamine-detox and read more. Today I read for more than 1 hour, cleaned my room and showered. I plan on reading more tonight. I want to end this year with at least 20 books finished.
>>24544440
Good job, anon.

>>24544416 (OP)
I'm on my 7th book. I started in mid-March after taking a bit of a break and I haven't dedicated the time to read as much as I should. Don't think I'll reach 30

>>24544416 (OP)
what is the point of this challenge? Do you read because because you like reading or because you want to seem smart? Why show it to others? Is reading for it's own sake not enough? It's better to read less books and more intensive than to forcefully rush through a book to reach some arbitrary number

>>24544474
>why post about reading on a literature forum
the intentions you ascribe to others reveals much more about yourself than them

>>24544474
I can tell you just scroll 4chan and not read

>39 books thus fun
At this rate, I should read at least as many books as I read last year, which is when I started tracking.

>>24544474
I can tell you're projecting you're pretentiousness onto others.

>>24544416 (OP)
6/30
Normally I read ~25 books a year, so I tried to read more. But the books I read so far were almost all ~1000 pages and I probably won‘t succeed this year‘s challenge

people who make these list and follow them must be the emptiest most miserable people on earth.

>>24544474
Internet log // they are LOGGERS
Just like how people managed to watch over 100 slop in a year and log their slop watching activities on letterboxd. Its all quantity over quality for them
>"uhmm xcuse me chud, but I have to read this 19 pg book 'Gingerbread Man and The Sly Fox' to meet my annual reading quota that I've set to be 300 this year (its on 299 right now); I'll read 10pg book 'The Cat and The Dog' after this one to meet the quota for my internet loggin activity"

>>24544576
not really

I've read one (1) (singular) book which is already beating my goal. Too many other hobbies rn, most noteworthy of which is starting to learn Japanese

Im well on my way to smashing mine before years end at this point

>>24544416 (OP)
started well but now I'm stuck reading a non-fiction book that somehow still manages to use the flowery prose found in a novel. It's tiring and I'm thinking of DNFing but I have a strict policy against that

>>24544416 (OP)
>Year is half over.
>How is your reading goal coming?
couldn't tell you. But, my *writing* goals? Kicking ass and taking names.

started reading in April

>>24544416 (OP)
>start listening to audio books while zoned out on my two hour daily commute and whenever im doing nothing at work
>finished around 45 already for the year

take the audiopill

>>24544576
>this casual thinks 100 movies for the whole year is a lot

>>24544648
audiobooks aren't reading

I fell quite far behind by reading Napoleon a life for a little over a month (Worth it though)

This is what I've read so far this year. ROTS was a re-read for the 20th anniversary screening.

>>24544746
holy slop lord

>>24544416 (OP)
27 books read, aiming for 36.
Best so far: The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro (phenomenal ending)
Worst so far: Sunrise on the Reaping, Collins (I liked Hunger Games as a kid but unfortunately this was just shit)
Currently reading: Crime & Punishment, Dostoevsky (just finished part one, why did nobody tell me it's a psychological thriller)

>>24544576
See personally when I see my challenge I don't think to myself "better read lots of short easy books to hit this quota", I think "I better waste less time doomscrolling so I can get more reading done". Like there's no point setting the challenge if you're just gonna game it and read less overall just to count it as more.

>Captcha: 04GAY

>>24544746
do you have a humiliation fetish? Why do you insist in posting this, i've seen you post like at least 10 times over the last couple years

I have read Lolita 7 times.