I only glibly refer to my 52 book goal for the year in the previous entry. I thought I'd elucidate a bit.
Roughly, that's a book a week. Do I think I can do it? Probably not. In fact, probably most definitely not. It's sort of a screwed up goal, really.
Mainly because books are of such varied lengths. In June (on my birthday, no less), the new Harry Potter book is scheduled to come out. Given trends, it will probably be 1000 pages long. That's different than, say, some light novel I might read on a plane.
Plus, it's almost the end of January, and I've only read two books, and not at a pace of a book a week. I don't think I can physically do it. Add to that my forty hour work week, and studying for the GREs, and applying to graduate school, well, it's not likely. The more I think about it, I worry that I'll start choosing to read shorter books just to fulfill the goal. So, I'm going to modify the goal, right here, right now. I want to read 30 books this year. This is still going to be a challenge, but I am going to try. 30 is a nice, round number. It's a book every twelve days. That sounds manageable.
Thirty it is, then. Wish me luck.
Posted by waking slow at January 21, 2003 02:28 PM