Well, four weeks ago I was very optimistic about how I was doing. At that point I had 50 books left to read in about eight weeks, which was pretty crazy but still felt at least theoretically possible to me. And then I got sick for about a week, and work blew up, and I got sick again, and most of all the election cycle got to a point where I basically found it impossible to focus on reading. So now it's 26 days until the election (THANK GOD), but I actually have 53 books to read, because I'm in a book club and so have added a few titles to the list, and clearly I am not going to manage to read two books a day for the next three and a half weeks.
So! I have revised my goals. The short-term goal is to reach triple digits in books by Election Day, which means reading a minimum of 17 books in the next three and a half weeks - ambitious, but doable, especially since I'm halfway through two books currently. I think it's especially achievable since the other thing I realized this past week is that I basically can't try to read anything that's too dark or sad or deals with certain subjects in realistic subjects until after I know that we've all done our civic duty and saved the republic. So like, I'm not reading the novels set during WWI or WWII, or that I know end badly and instead am focusing on the lighter books still on my list for the next four weeks. I am saving all of the darker for after the election, a time when hopefully I will be able to breathe a bit easier and live inside a fictional or historical hellscape without triggering nightmares in my reality.
Once I hit 100 books, I'll still have 36 books left to read, and at that point my goal will be to finish all of those by Christmas, so that I can receive books as Christmas presents on a clean slate. The numbers work out so that I need to read approximately 5 books a week until Christmas, which is obviously quite ambitious, and will require me to find my focus again. But I think I can do it, and it certainly would be helpful for me to spend less time on twitter and more time reading especially right now. So let's see how I do :D
So! I have revised my goals. The short-term goal is to reach triple digits in books by Election Day, which means reading a minimum of 17 books in the next three and a half weeks - ambitious, but doable, especially since I'm halfway through two books currently. I think it's especially achievable since the other thing I realized this past week is that I basically can't try to read anything that's too dark or sad or deals with certain subjects in realistic subjects until after I know that we've all done our civic duty and saved the republic. So like, I'm not reading the novels set during WWI or WWII, or that I know end badly and instead am focusing on the lighter books still on my list for the next four weeks. I am saving all of the darker for after the election, a time when hopefully I will be able to breathe a bit easier and live inside a fictional or historical hellscape without triggering nightmares in my reality.
Once I hit 100 books, I'll still have 36 books left to read, and at that point my goal will be to finish all of those by Christmas, so that I can receive books as Christmas presents on a clean slate. The numbers work out so that I need to read approximately 5 books a week until Christmas, which is obviously quite ambitious, and will require me to find my focus again. But I think I can do it, and it certainly would be helpful for me to spend less time on twitter and more time reading especially right now. So let's see how I do :D
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