It's May 17th, aka 25 weeks until Election Day!!! Let's take a look at how I'm doing.
In order to be on pace to read 132 books by November 8th, I needed to have read 32 books over the last eight weeks, or four per week.
In reality, I have read 20 books! Or 2.5 books per week. Which, while being pretty far off the necessary pace, is still pretty good. Especially since I am currently very close to being done with three different books, so hopefully I will start making some gains.
Of course, now that I am attempting to read 112 books in 25 weeks (rather than 100 books in that same time frame), I now need to be averaging 4.5 books per week in order to make up the lost ground. This is very challenging indeed, both because it will require me to read two additional books on top of the 2.5 books I've been averaging thus far, and because while I've read 20 books so far, only two of them have been books designated as Week books, aka books I expect to take longer to read than the average book on my list. What that means is that in order to make my goal, I will need to read two of those longer books in five weeks out of the 25 weeks left, and read one of those books per week every other week as well.
(Math is AWESOME you guys, I love this stuff.)
So, viewed one way, I am much further behind than I was eight weeks ago before I even started this project. Viewed another way, I have already achieved so much, and who knows what more I can accomplish! Well, I am an Arsenal fan, which means that I am hopelessly optimistic about things even when I rationally know I shouldn't be, and so I am definitely looking at it in the positive way. And I'm almost a quarter of the way through the larger challenge, which is Survive Election Year!
What I am unsure about now is how best to approach this. So far I've been reading multiple books at once, which has been fine from a reading retention/focus standpoint, and my method for choosing which books to read have been a mix of "ooooo shiny!" and "hey, this one's pretty short!" but now I'm wondering if I should be focusing on reading more of the W marked books now, since I'm so behind. I also don't want to be reading without enjoying the experience, either, so I haven't been reading just for speed. I've had the latest Guy Gavriel Kay book for eight days, and while I probably could have finished it in three, I wanted to savor it a bit more. I don't want to give that up, either. Hopefully I will come up with a better method, so I can pick up the pace and win this totally arbitrary challenge!
In order to be on pace to read 132 books by November 8th, I needed to have read 32 books over the last eight weeks, or four per week.
In reality, I have read 20 books! Or 2.5 books per week. Which, while being pretty far off the necessary pace, is still pretty good. Especially since I am currently very close to being done with three different books, so hopefully I will start making some gains.
Of course, now that I am attempting to read 112 books in 25 weeks (rather than 100 books in that same time frame), I now need to be averaging 4.5 books per week in order to make up the lost ground. This is very challenging indeed, both because it will require me to read two additional books on top of the 2.5 books I've been averaging thus far, and because while I've read 20 books so far, only two of them have been books designated as Week books, aka books I expect to take longer to read than the average book on my list. What that means is that in order to make my goal, I will need to read two of those longer books in five weeks out of the 25 weeks left, and read one of those books per week every other week as well.
(Math is AWESOME you guys, I love this stuff.)
So, viewed one way, I am much further behind than I was eight weeks ago before I even started this project. Viewed another way, I have already achieved so much, and who knows what more I can accomplish! Well, I am an Arsenal fan, which means that I am hopelessly optimistic about things even when I rationally know I shouldn't be, and so I am definitely looking at it in the positive way. And I'm almost a quarter of the way through the larger challenge, which is Survive Election Year!
What I am unsure about now is how best to approach this. So far I've been reading multiple books at once, which has been fine from a reading retention/focus standpoint, and my method for choosing which books to read have been a mix of "ooooo shiny!" and "hey, this one's pretty short!" but now I'm wondering if I should be focusing on reading more of the W marked books now, since I'm so behind. I also don't want to be reading without enjoying the experience, either, so I haven't been reading just for speed. I've had the latest Guy Gavriel Kay book for eight days, and while I probably could have finished it in three, I wanted to savor it a bit more. I don't want to give that up, either. Hopefully I will come up with a better method, so I can pick up the pace and win this totally arbitrary challenge!
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