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Dedication's what you need: the 2025 reading challenge thread

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I'm intrigued by anyone's need to keep a score.

My concern is where to put them all and whether I can bear to take any to the charity shop to make room. (I mean: books I have read and may conceivably want to reread or at least refer to.)

And how to deal with the tottering pile and whether I can absorb a book simply by osmosis,
 
Apologies for not posting in the spirit, but I'm interested in the sort of books people read.
I'll probably read 20+ poetry books, 10+ non-fiction (politics/current affairs/economics/natural history/art/biography/spec) and a bit of fiction. Used to read a load of fiction and it interests me why it interests me less.
 
bluescreen said:
Apologies for not posting in the spirit, but I'm interested in the sort of books people read.
I'll probably read 20+ poetry books, 10+ non-fiction (politics/current affairs/economics/natural history/art/biography/spec) and a bit of fiction. Used to read a load of fiction and it interests me why it interests me less.
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I only started paying attention last year - both to this thread and tracking my reading on Storygraph. I quite like the mood bit of Storygraph.
 

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bluescreen said:
I'm intrigued by anyone's need to keep a score.

My concern is where to put them all and whether I can bear to take any to the charity shop to make room. (I mean: books I have read and may conceivably want to reread or at least refer to.)

And how to deal with the tottering pile and whether I can absorb a book simply by osmosis,
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When my dad died and I was left to sort his stuff out, I was overwhelmed by the number of books he had (thousands) and he used to tell me some of them were rare and quite valuable. Also, knowing how much his books meant to him it felt wrong to even think of getting rid of them.

Long story short, I spent years, moving, sorting, moving again, sorting again, and in the end, the only thing to do was get rid then best way I could, whilst being, in my eyes, as respectful as I could be to my dad. Unfortunately, some did end up in a skip.

Probably made my dad happy, up in heaven, as he loved fucking me about when he was on earth.
 
PTK said:
Does this include textbooks? I don't mean simply non-fiction books, I mean books that are designed to teach you something, if you know what I mean. I can't put that more coherently at the moment.
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Or the dross that I am obliged to use when teaching people.
 
I'll aim for 22 books in 2025. Although I don't really care about the number of books I read, it's just for participation reasons.

wtfftw said:
I only started paying attention last year - both to this thread and tracking my reading on Storygraph. I quite like the mood bit of Storygraph.
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I also use Storygraph and it's interesting that 'Informative' is the smallest slice of your pie, it's the 2nd largest in mine! We're in agreement on 'Reflective' though
:D Looking forward to their end of year wrap-up.
 
furluxor said:
I'll aim for 22 books in 2025. Although I don't really care about the number of books I read, it's just for participation reasons.



I also use Storygraph and it's interesting that 'Informative' is the smallest slice of your pie, it's the 2nd largest in mine! We're in agreement on 'Reflective' though
:D Looking forward to their end of year wrap-up.
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I only read three non fiction and one of those was by David Shrigley.

I didn't know there is a wrap up. Nice!
 
bluescreen said:
My concern is where to put them all and whether I can bear to take any to the charity shop to make room. (I mean: books I have read and may conceivably want to reread or at least refer to.)
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I get many of mine at the charity book exchange outside the supermarket. 50p for a book so it doesn't matter if it's shite ( ie by Harlan Coben).

And I put it back on the shelves there after. I treat it as a book rental
 
wtfftw said:
I only started paying attention last year - both to this thread and tracking my reading on Storygraph. I quite like the mood bit of Storygraph.
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Thanks for bringing storygraph to my attention. I imported my Goodreads list to it today and then thought I would add my 'to read' list that I have in my notes app to it.

So many were already on there, so I already trust it's algorithm. Nice to get away from Amazon a little bit more.
 
wtfftw said:
I only started paying attention last year - both to this thread and tracking my reading on Storygraph. I quite like the mood bit of Storygraph.
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I've started tracking on Storygraph and like it. I'm signing up to this thread yet again, as I want to read loads more.. but not just read more but spend less time on social media. Also not getting any younger and those books have to be read sometime.
 
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Did the thread title have to be that?
Every time I see it I am going to have that tune running rampant through my brain as a very unwelcome earworm.
And you know that McWhirter chap was a right wing shithole :hmm:
 
1/25 Os Cangaceiros - A Crime Called Freedom

A small book about prison revolts in France in the 1980s + work done by the outlaw revolutionary group Os Cangaceiros to support them. Initially this consisted of publicising and circulating the written words of the prisoners. Latterly it seems to have involved sabotaging the building of new prisons by means including weakening the concrete being used by adding sugar to it and illegally circulating thousands of copies of the architectural plans for the prisons. The more manifestoey bits explaining why prisons are bad are less good than the bits about what they did / what was happening. Pretty cool though.
 
1/9 W. B. Yeats, A Packet for Ezra Pound. More a booklet than a book, but hey, it was published as a stand-alone volume.
 
rich! said:
1. Christopher Buelhman, The Blacktongue Thief. Excellent fantasy quest in a grimdark world. Clearly scene setting for a sequel. And a good cat.
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2. Emma Southron, A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women. A different lens and a really well used one to give an insightful alternative view of the Roman Empire. Lots of fascinating moments from an author who is clearly really excited by everything they are telling you.
 
rich! said:
2. Emma Southron, A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women. A different lens and a really well used one to give an insightful alternative view of the Roman Empire. Lots of fascinating moments from an author who is clearly really excited by everything they are telling you.
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Bought that for the other half's birthday. Might give it a go. I gave a number of Roman era books I want to bash through. I should crack on with the History of Rome podcast too nearly at the empire...
 
1/39 Then came the evening by Brian Hart - Damaged people trying to live their lives in the rural midwest, in the shadow of their previous poor decisions. A good start to the year for me, but less so for the characters
 
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