Check-ins sometimes
feel like a control management system of your reading progress.
That's a good thing in a way, but feels like an inspection in other
way. For a procrastinator like me, it's definitely a good thing to
check my progress every now and then, and here it is:
I've read 16 (or 17)
books from my list, most of them are parts of reading challenges. I
need challenges for the same reason (apart from the thrill, of
course): to get deadlines. Else I would read so slowly.
I keep changing and
adding to my original list. It was first 50 books – no more, no
less. But now, it increases into 55, and counting still. Reading
Challenges and Reading Events make my list longer and longer, but I
don't mind at all.
Right now I'm getting
myself through Richard III by
William Shakespeare while busying myself slowly with Adventures
of Ellery Queen which seems to
have a snail's progress. I also am trying my best to get through
Spencer's Faerie Queene,
with it's long long rhyming narrative and unusual spelling. Funny how
easy it is with Shakespeare and how hard it is with Spencer.
One
more thing, I get This Side of Paradise for
my Classics' Spin. So, I'm reading it as well, trying to get it
crossed from my list by March. I want to read Robinson
Crusoe by then and I don't want
to be distracted.
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Well said Listra! Check-ins definitely allows us to inspect our progress and manage our further reading.
ReplyDeleteI used to avoid reading challenges, opting for the free spirit approach, but I'm finding that I really like the focus they provides and so many of mine tend to overlap anyway.
ReplyDeleteI read a blog post about Robinson Crusoe yesterday and now I'm intrigued. Hope you enjoy it.