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I hit my GoodReads goal of 75 books the other day. I've done the goal-setting for the last few years, but I've decided I'm not going to do it in 2023.
It actually helped me get back on the reading track--after I graduated from undergrad, I had a few years where I just didn't read much (except fanfic). For a while, I was really scared that I would never get back into reading again. I think keeping track of what I read and setting a goal for myself was part of the process of getting back into reading voraciously again.
But now I have, and I don't need that anymore.
I'm still going to keep track of which books I read, but I am not going to worry about how many. I'm hoping that this will inspire me to read more longer books. There are a bunch of books that are just so long that I've put them off for a long time. But if I only read, like, 30 books this next year because I'm reading longer ones? That's fine.
I don't know that the Year of the Long Books will actually happen. But hopefully I'll at least read one or two of the door-stoppers that I've felt intimidated by before.
Maybe 2023 will be the year I finally read War and Peace? (Speaking of which--which translation is best?)
Feel free to tell me about your reading habits, about how you keep up with which books you've read, about whether you keep count of how many you read in a year, etc. in the comments!
It actually helped me get back on the reading track--after I graduated from undergrad, I had a few years where I just didn't read much (except fanfic). For a while, I was really scared that I would never get back into reading again. I think keeping track of what I read and setting a goal for myself was part of the process of getting back into reading voraciously again.
But now I have, and I don't need that anymore.
I'm still going to keep track of which books I read, but I am not going to worry about how many. I'm hoping that this will inspire me to read more longer books. There are a bunch of books that are just so long that I've put them off for a long time. But if I only read, like, 30 books this next year because I'm reading longer ones? That's fine.
I don't know that the Year of the Long Books will actually happen. But hopefully I'll at least read one or two of the door-stoppers that I've felt intimidated by before.
Maybe 2023 will be the year I finally read War and Peace? (Speaking of which--which translation is best?)
Feel free to tell me about your reading habits, about how you keep up with which books you've read, about whether you keep count of how many you read in a year, etc. in the comments!
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It really spoke to me, because I....am still not reading. Not even fic. Unless I'm betaing. I'm okay with it, I'm not overly worried, it'll come back eventually.
You make such a good point about how sometimes we need a little help and when that help is not necessary anymore to drop habits (or whatever). Thank you for this thought!
(I keep up with what I've read by having tickmarks in calibre. Where I keep all fic (as epubs) and also entries for all my books even when I don't have them as digital copies. I made a tickmark column where I mark it with "Yes" if I've read something.)
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I'm really glad you have this attitude! Because I didn't--I was like, "What is wrong with me? Is my life over?" And then fastforward a few years and I was fine.
You make such a good point about how sometimes we need a little help and when that help is not necessary anymore to drop habits (or whatever). Thank you for this thought!
You're welcome! It's a new thing I'm trying to practice--noticing whether things I've always done are actually necessary anymore. I'm not good at noticing yet, but I'm hoping to get better at it.
(I keep up with what I've read by having tickmarks in calibre. Where I keep all fic (as epubs) and also entries for all my books even when I don't have them as digital copies. I made a tickmark column where I mark it with "Yes" if I've read something.)
Oh, that's interesting! That's not one I'd considered!
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Let's say it wasn't the first time this happened to me, so I just have to be patient. Certainly this is one of the longest periods, but in the end it'll come back. I feel stirrings of it already! But yeah, burnout is real.
It's really good advice, re:notice when things are not necessary anymore. I think it's important to pay attention to these things and I'm also horrible at it, so definitely kudos to you for being conscious of it.
I like databases. ;)
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I like databases. ;)
I like that about you!
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