2010 Reading Goals
January 3, 2010
I meant to post these on January 1 but I am sick and on New Year’s Day I spent the whole day in bed being miserable. I didn’t even so much as look at my laptop and if you know me at all you will understand just how sick I was. I didn’t even sit up that day (well, except when I was sitting up with my head in the toilet). I’m still feeling pretty bad and my returning to work tomorrow is questionable (all the coughing is making me dizzy, I trip over my own feet on a good day so dizzy is not a good thing for me…).
So, I wrote all about my reading goals for 2010 at Blogher. If you want to know how I read them head over and read but this is them in a nutshell…
In 2010 I want to read 150 books. Of those 150 books I want 50 of them to be from my own personal collection. Yes! A full one-third of the books I want to read this year I want to be from my own collection. Rereads won’t count towards those 50 (though they may count towards the 150). Of those 50 books I want to read in colors so I want to read at least two each red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple books (the white and the black books outnumber everyone – all other colors are just a bonus). I want to read at least two chunksters, which I’m counting as 650+ pages. I want to read at least three of the WWI and WWII books I have on my own shelves (which may count toward the 50). I want to hunt down and read at least one Encyclopedia Brown book. I want to read at least five graphic novels. I want to read more e-books. And I want to finally start AND finish A Tale of Two Cities.
I started reading a red book last night. Go me!
January 3rd, 2010 at 3:59 pm
First, hope you feel better quick. Hardly anybody enjoys being sick
Second, what does it do for you to make these kinds of lists for books to read? I’ve never really understood these kind of “lists”. They always seemed like fences to me, big, spiky, poisoned fences of doom!
For me, the thought of having a “to do” list of reading takes all the joy out of it. The only list I have is one I call “books I want to read that I haven’t yet” which is just the most recent books to have caught my eye at the library that I don’t have time for yet.
D´s last blog ..2009 in Book Review
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sassymonkey Reply:
January 3rd, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Everyone is different. I don’t make lists of books to read because I hate it (which is why I don’t do reading challenges…well why I don’t do them often) but I like to make goals. If it’s not for you don’t do it.
Goals are not fences. But if you think so don’t make any.
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January 3rd, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Hope you feel better soon!
Kathleen´s last blog ..Sunday Salon – A Great Start to 2010
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sassymonkey Reply:
January 4th, 2010 at 8:08 am
Me too! Thanks.
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January 3rd, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Feel better soon! That sounds like it is a nasty bug, hope it clears up and you can stand up straight without too much agony, very soon.
Good luck with your reading – I have determined to read at least 20 of the many, many books on my own shelves awaiting my attention. I’d like to reach 50 but we will see. Good luck with your charming coloured selections
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sassymonkey Reply:
January 4th, 2010 at 8:09 am
It’s improving. My head no longer feels like it’s going to explode every time I stand up. The coughing is still making me a bit lightheaded.
Reading 50 of my own books feels like a LOT. Which is kind of weird when you think about it.
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January 4th, 2010 at 7:55 am
We used to have a lot of red books. Now we don’t. I think when we moved, we left a lot of red behind. I like red books.
Also, 50 of your own books? GAH! You’re frightening me!
Denise´s last blog ..From the Stacks (by color) – 2010
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sassymonkey Reply:
January 4th, 2010 at 8:10 am
lol I knew that would frighten you. I have a lot more green and blue books than I do red books.
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January 4th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Wow, 150 books is impressive! My goal is 100 (and to keep a record of them this year).
Julie´s last blog ..The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
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