eyes down for a full house reading challenge thread 2021

[Pickman's model]

usual rules apply.

just a heads-up that we're coming to the end of the year, and that means that a new thread will be starting with effect from 0001 on 1 january 2021, where you can put books read* in the next calendar year. please don't be awkward and demand a different set of 365 days, the 2021 thread is intended for books read** between the very start of 2021 and the very end of 2021***.

anyway, as i say, just a heads-up this thread'll be the one to post your read books on for 2021, and i only mention this so you can start thinking how many books it is likely you'll read next year.

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*read includes books read to you, heard as audiofiles, on tapes, cds, etc ad nauseam.
** read in this case means completed.
*** the very end of 2021 is deemed to be 2359 on 31 december 20201

these rules are of course arbitrary. but there you go.

 

[chilango]

Doesn't look like I'm going to hit target of 100 for 2020, though I've given it a good go.

Will likely read less next year as the bulk of my literature review is done.

So going for a modest 50+ in 2021.

 

[PursuedByBears]

My target was 50 for 2020 which I did meet, but I'm going to go for 45 in 2021 as I want to read some longer ones and I think my higher target this year steered me towards shorter books.

 

[imposs1904]

Smashed through my grand target of 26 in 2020. (I'm bullshitting, of course.)

I'll aim for 35 in 2021.

 

[nogojones]

My target was 50 for 2020 which I did meet, but I'm going to go for 45 in 2021 as I want to read some longer ones and I think my higher target this year steered me towards shorter books.

Same here. I only just squeezed in my 50 by throwing a few short ones in near the end, So I'll drop down to 45 this year. Even though I've had more free time this year I've read a lot less. Too much dicking about on here I think is my problem

 

[marty21]

You'd think spending all that time at home would mean reading more books, I've only read about half my normal amount this year . Need to up my game next near

 

[not-bono-ever]

I can’t give you a list as my mild adhd ensures I jump from theme to them on a whim. I will do over one a week easy

 

[MsHopper]

I'm going to go for 50 again this year. Like other posters I only just made the number this year but I did have some quite long periods when I just couldn't focus on reading. Hopefully will be better this year (and have discovered that I like non fiction audiobooks!)

 

[May Kasahara]

Didn't get anywhere near my target this year, for all sorts of reasons, so I'm not going to set one for next year and will simply list what I've read on this thread.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I was doing well this year until I started studying full time and gave up recording all the dreary textbooks I chewed through. Also I managed to read only about four or five books for their own sake in the last third of the year.

I will try a modest target of 24 this year, not including academic stuff, to encourage me to get back to reading reationally.

 

[BoatieBird]

Didn't reach my target this year (61/70) so I'm going to go for more realistic 52 in 2021.

 

[D'wards]

My target was 50 for 2020 which I did meet, but I'm going to go for 45 in 2021 as I want to read some longer ones and I think my higher target this year steered me towards shorter books.

Exactly this but was 36 this year and I met, but will be 24 next year.
Have a thousand pager on the go at the moment and want to read a few more next year

 

[Pickman's model]

Exactly this but was 36 this year and I met, but will be 24 next year.
Have a thousand pager on the go at the moment and want to read a few more next year

Crack on with that so you can finish it early in the new year

 

[Me76]

Finished my book this morning and was about to add it to the last thread and then remembered.

1/40 Alternate Lifestyles, Lisa M Hawkins

 

[braindancer]

The number of books I'll read this year will be hugely affected by whether I have to start commuting to London again or continue working from home. I think I'll hedge my bets and go for a modest 20.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I think I might have read one or two books in 2020, plus a half finished one.

 

[pennimania]

Please count me in. I met my target of 60 by the skin of my teeth but a lot were short kids’ books, my comfort reads. Will go for 50 this year.

 

[pennimania]

Also I have a question. If you are reading a series, like the Avignon quincunx, do you count each book separately? I’m currently on Monsieur, the first one.

 

[Pickman's model]

Also I have a question. If you are reading a series, like the Avignon quincunx, do you count each book separately? I’m currently on Monsieur, the first one.

it depends, you can count each volume of a multivolume work eg fellowship of the ring, two towers, return of the king, or as one (lord of the rings). Up to you. Entirely happy to see you count each book.

 

[Pickman's model]

1. Roderick Conway Morris, 'Jem: memoirs of an Ottoman secret agent' (London: Corgi, 1989)

 

[JimW]

Pah, I sometimes read my daughter three books on the same evening. Admittedly some of those we've read dozens of times before.
I'm hoping for fifty plus at least, have found a great source for hookey ebooks so am brushing up on my history mostly but have some lit thrown in. Currently reading Bruce Cumings' The Korean War: A History and Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers by N. Henry Rothschild

 

[yield]

Going for 10-19 again this year. Only managed ten in 2020 as two of the books took me months.

 

[Me76]

Also I have a question. If you are reading a series, like the Avignon quincunx, do you count each book separately? I’m currently on Monsieur, the first one.

I would (and have) count them as one each.

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/45 Roger Steffens - So Much Things To Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley

 

[May Kasahara]

1. Lidia Yuknavitch - The Misfit's Manifesto.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

1/35 Wayne Hussey - Salad Daze

 

[bellaozzydog]

I’ve put mysell down for 100, got 89 last year

having said that I’ve just finished

1.Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart

I had to finish it today so it didn’t fuck up another day of my life reading it

Put me right off reading

 

[StanleyBlack]

At the moment it feels like I may never read another book in full again... but I'm going to say 20 for 2021. Hopefully, this will include those bought but unread in 2020.

 

[Plumdaff]

I'm going to go for twenty as I'm always setting myself up for failure!

1/20 Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney. Not really a surprise, given how much I enjoyed Normal People, but I really liked this.

 

[Ptolemy]

I fell short of my total in 2020 - 43/50. Not sure what 2021 will bring reading-wise, aside from a few books and graphic novels I'd really like to read, so I will keep it light at 25 and see where I go from there.