One would think that a lifetime of establishing difficult-to-reach goals would have taught me to be more realistic. If only. But reaching my manageable reading related goal for year seventy gave me such satisfaction I've decided to use a similar model for another year. I hope a few of you will join me - upcoming birthday or not - in publicly declaring here a goal you have for the next year.
Between my 70th birthday tomorrow and my 71st, I'm aiming to read more books than I have in any year of my post full-time work life. Before anyone reasonably asks how I'll know if I've reached the goal, I'll remind you of the book journals - another of my way-too-many writing vessels - that I began using in 2010.
In my experience, non-fiction books typically take longer to complete than novels of comparable length. Consequently, to enhance the chances of reaching my goal, for the next year I'll abandon my longstanding practice of reading a non-fiction book alongside each novel. But considering all the "new" novelists I discovered thanks to last year's goal, it will be easy to find titles to occupy me. I'll resume my toggling on November 23, 2020. As soon as this post is published, I'm getting started. There's a tower of novels sitting on my bedroom dresser waiting to be devoured. Wish me luck.
https://reflectionsfromthebellcurve.blogspot.com/2018/11/goal-for-year-69.html
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I wish you luck and Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteBut Pat....How many is that??
ReplyDeleteInes; Thanks for the birthday wishes Ines. Kim; I'll know how many as soon as I count how many I read in my most productive reading year (based on my book journals). I think that was 2011 but, I'm not sure. Let the counting begin.
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