back by popular demand it's the 2017 reading challenge thread

[billy_bob]

I'm setting a low target of 25 this year. This may seem like cheating given that I've read 60-something and 50-something books in 2015 and 2016 respectively, but I'm going for individual girth rather than overall quantity. So, my list of 25 will include at least:

• the only three Dickens books that I haven't yet read: Dombey and Son (878pp), Barnaby Rudge (720pp) and Our Mutual Friend (822pp)
• Tolstoy, War and Peace (?pp)
• Joyce, Ulysses (?pp)

If I get round to buying them it may also include David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Alan Moore's Jerusalem, both 1000+pp.

This is not any kind of showing off - they're books I genuinely want to read but keep putting off in favour of things I can get through quicker, something I'm more likely to do if I keep setting number-of-books targets instead of number-of-pages targets.

 

[May Kasahara]

Once again I'm aiming for 40-49, after failing to meet that target this year. Although if you're counting children's books (as in read to children) I will have smashed it.

Reading aims for 2017: at least one work-related book per quarter; at least five books I already own but haven't got round to yet; at least one canonical classic.

 

[Me76]

That's reminded me that always do two classics I haven't read before. Better start thinking about which ones.

 

[inva]

I'm aiming for 60 which is lower than what I read this year, but hopefully I will be in better health in 2017 so have less time for reading

although 60 is still quite a lot and I've got a big project of books about US political stuff lined up already...

 

[Me76]

I have started a thread to help me decide my classics.

Put my classics to read list in order please.

 

[crossthebreeze]

My target in 2017 will be 30.
I'm going to copy May Kasahara and say i aim to read at least one work-related book per quarter, and try to get through books i own but haven't read yet. I'm also going to try to read more sci-fi, particularly written by women or with a feminist angle.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

01. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

[Red Cat]

I have little time for reading as I have work to do in the evenings, but I'm going to try and be more disciplined and finish books I start. Hopefully this thread will help.

 

[Pickman's model]

01. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Yeh. That should go in the 2016 thread as 2017 not yet started.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

Yeh. That should go in the 2016 thread as 2017 not yet started.

I'll wait until I actually start reading the text. I'll admire the cover while I wait.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'll wait until I actually start reading the text. I'll admire the cover while I wait.

And you should only post up a book when you finish it, not when you start it.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

And you should only post up a book when you finish it, not when you start it.

Okay - fair point.

Happy New Year PM.

 

[Pickman's model]

Okay - fair point.

Happy New Year PM.

And you

 

[D'wards]

1/26 - Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (reread)

 

[Sea Star]

I'm currently reading the Peter Ackroyd Dickens biography, Little Dorrit, Xmas stories, and two books about magic.

 

[May Kasahara]

1/49 - Dave Eggers - The Circle

 

[Voley]

1/26 - Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (reread)

1/49 - Dave Eggers - The Circle

Woah, hang on a minute! I'm only just under starters orders here!

And you should only post up a book when you finish it, not when you start it.

And a false start too!

 

[Orang Utan]

Woah, hang on a minute! I'm only just under starters orders here!

And a false start too!

I imagine they started them in 2016. I'm just about to finish my first of 2017

 

[Miss-Shelf]

I'm going for 40-49 again.

When I was in the main library just before Xmas I was looking at the Great Wall of Plato they have there, so I'm going to try to read (and understand) at least one.

Says the woman who once took the complete(unabridged) set of peyps diaries to a festival as a bit of light, holiday reading

 

[marshall]

1/109 - Days Without End - Sebastian Barry

 

[Thimble Queen]

I've just bought ten books in the verso sale, so those ones are my priority and hopefully I'll read some lighter non fiction books also . I've ticked the 10-19 option.

 

[Orang Utan]

1/50 Richard Price - The Whites

 

[Orang Utan]

1/109 Sebastian Barry - Days Without End

Author first!

 

[marshall]

Blimey, OK, OU, won't happen again...

 

[Pickman's model]

Blimey, OK, OU, won't happen again...

You put it how you want and don't be bullied by other posters.

 

[Orang Utan]

You put it how you want and don't be bullied by other posters.

some degree of consistency is desirable

 

[Pickman's model]

some degree of consistency is desirable

Yeh. But it's up to each individual poster how they format citations and how (in)consistent they are. The lists posted are principally for the poster's benefit to record their reading.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yeh. But it's up to each individual poster how they format citations and how (in)consistent they are. The lists posted are principally for the poster's benefit to record their reading.

does my nut seeing it done like that though, so please can people do it the correct way just to indulge me and give me peace of mind

 

[Pickman's model]

does my nut seeing it done like that though, so please can people do it the correct way just to indulge me and give me peace of mind

There is no correct way
There is no wrong way

 

[Orang Utan]

There is no correct way

I respectfully disagree. you arrange books/records by author, not title, so author should come first