who else is doing the goodreads reading challenge this year? how's it going so far? how many books did you set as a goal and how many have you read?
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who else is doing the goodreads reading challenge this year? how's it going so far?
I gave myself the task of reading 26 books this year (last year it was 18), and I'm 4 books behind because I've only read 8 books so far. The reason for why I read so few books so far is because two of them were Guenon's Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines and Crisis of the Modern World, for which I did incredibly in-depth research. It took me a couple of months to read The Brothers Karamazov, and I'm also reading a book in Czech (my second tongue), which takes me a very long time, since it's not a particularly easy language if you're not a native speaker.
The next few fiction books at least are pretty short and I'll probably be able to go through them all in less than two months, and that inclues: R.U.R., Hamlet, Steppenwolf, then White Noise by Delillo. Then when I'm done with that I'll start with Infinite Jest. I've read little bits of it out of curiosity, opening it to a random page and reading a paragraph, and I liked what I saw.
Yeah, I know, I know, very normie. But I'm still a beginner, I only started reading 'seriously' in late 2020, and have so far only read about 30 books.
i think bros k took me three weeks but word re: reading bros k in your second language
all those fiction books you could probably read in a week. infinite jest will take a long time, i tried reading that when i was 16 but dropped it. at my reading rate (20 pages an hour) infinite jest would take me 54 hours, and i read 50 pages a day, so it'd take me just over three weeks to read infinite jest. maybe i should take another crack at it.
welcome to reading, good you're reading classics. i definitely read white noise at 14.
>pic related
lets me read directly and tracks it too... bretty gud
I also refuse to use goodreads because I'm jealous of bezo gets to succ his gf's bogged nipples
What app is that? I REALLY like the minimalism of It, if there's also no social component it could be perfect
>because I'm jealous of bezo gets to succ his gf's bogged nipples
26reads
Lol bezoz is getting cucked poor guy.
Shouldnt have tried to enslave homeless people.
You know pedophile island isn’t the only place the rich can go to get whatever tail they want, right?
What a caricature of a woman. Surely he could do better?
Don't worry about gamification shit, anon. You've read some dense books and odds are you took a lot out of them because you didn't rush. A lot of people add audiobooks, DNFs, and even single poems in order say "I READ 120 BOOKS THIS YEAR!"
It's great to set a goal that encourages you to read more but don't worry about quantity of reading at the expense of quality of learning and/or enjoyment.
23 of 50 right now. Making decent progress. Mason and Dixon is setting me back a bit but it’s so worth the read. Love this book.
nice, we've read the same number of books. i loved pynchon as a teen but dropped mason and dixon because i've never liked western settings. even saw it at a book store the other day and still was like "nah".
Wanted to read 26
Currently on 6 but if you divide ASOIAF books into 250 page segments and count them separately I'm on 16.
Don't really know what I'm gonna do with my life though since reading GRRMs books was the only joy I had in my life and that's now gone.
Holy reddit
>ASOIAF
these don't even count as books
>GRRM
not IQfy
Hello and welcome to Malazan, time to learn what a good fantasy series actually looks like.
Currently on book 8 of 15. Tried to get more into reading last year with a book a month but life and bad habits caught up so I only read 9, added the extra onto this year. My main spin is to generally read from lower to higher page count, just to build up my shitty focus, and that's been going well thus far. Currently reading Cannery Row and The Crying of Lot 49, both are very engaging (although Lot 49 is a lot more intensive just by proxy of looking at the annotations on the Pynchon wiki). I think there's a good chance I clear my goal plus extra this year; after this I've got Beloved and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, which I'm both excited about (especially Sailor since I read Temple of the Golden Pavilion a couple years back and loved it). So far my favorite book I've read so far is Notes from Underground
i haven't heard of cannery row, but i really liked the crying of lot 49, read it the summer when i was 16 and having fond memories of it. i haven't read beloved or the sailor who fell from grace with the sea, but beloved is pretty renowned and a lot of people love mishima. i don't like mishima at all, personally. if you like notes from underground you should read crime and punishment
I refuse to use that website but so far I've read 17 books and I don't have a set number. I'm reading 2 books now. I think before end of next week it'll be 19.
>I refuse to use that website
why?
>I'm reading 2 books now
i only read one book at a time
what website is that? i like goodreads, i like the app, i like updating it and seeing what percentage i'm at, i don't know it's just fun. does bezos even own goodreads?
>why?
I dislike gamification of life
Walk 10000 steps, looks at your smartwatch!
Read 50 books, check it on goodreads™
Leave comments, do this, do that..meh
And so on
It being owned by amazon is cherry on top, they get enough of my data already.
>i only read one book at a time
To each his own i guess, it's summer, lazy fortnight at work so I took up 2
Currently reading Steppenwolf by Hesse and Tao of Physics by Capra
fair enough. byung-chul han talks about that, how life is additive rather than narrative these days, and also about data.
>Currently reading Steppenwolf by Hesse and Tao of Physics by Capra
oh
>byung-chul han
Seems interesting. I think I'm going to download the burnout society epub right now
he's a really good contemporary philosopher, yeah. his books are very short, but brimming with ideas, so they're ideal for rereading
my goal is 20 books, I'm 4 behind schedule but I'm sure I'll make it for hhe first time this year.
For multiple reasons my reading went to shi the last couple of years and I've been trying to pick it up again.
my reading went to shit last year, six of the books i read were poetry and another six were short works of philosophy. i felt so stupid last year.
It's going alright. 21/60 so far but I've been at a super slow pace because uni is giving mental breakdowns. I'll be able to catch up easily after the summer ends.
what are you studying? pretty good for being in school at the same time
>myth of sisyphus
read when 16 and again at 21
i'm sorry to hear that
jacking off to erotica isn't meaningful anon
congrats, yes i have no job or social life and i've given up on writing as i have nothing to write about, having no life and living in isolation
i think you've read the most books this year ITT, also bezos b***h looks like a troony
17/25 read so far
my top reads I'd recommend:
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus
- Fictions, The Aleph by Borges
I only browse IQfy anymore.
>goodreads reddit challenge
No thanks, I read real literature that I engage with it in meaningful ways that isn't gameification.
Goal is 20 and I'm ahead. Working full time and trying to write in most of me free time + do social stuff means I can't read as much as I want. Dunno how you all read so much tbh - are you NEETs?
Finally living sucks
Dude what the frick. 928 books a year? That's like 3 a day
>87 books
>99 books
>202 books
>444 books
>928 books
>597 books
>122 books
rrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiight........
post the 2016 books so I know oyu're not bullshitting/padding with animeslop or genre crap.
Why would I do a challenge instead of just reading? How am I supposed to know how many books I'm going to read in a whole year, or care?
not all of us are women, anon
literally none of these count. and no, you're not based
like many posters here, you have a very adolescent taste in literature, which isn't necessarily bad, but most people read those books in high school
I have read 52 so far this year. I do the Goodreads challenge and rank them as well.
Pointless, Of Mice and Men and Infinite Jest both count as "1".
52 books. I have 0 till now. Time to get rolling now. Maybe I'll bring that number down to 25 and actually start reading
32/50
https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/38807885
Do you include all of the japanese incest porn you read in your reading challenges?
when it's on the website, I don't see what not
6/16. Reading the Divine Comedy. Do I count it as one book or three?
if it's in one volume than goodreads would count it as one book, but you should count it as three. i count the bible as one book though
> I've also counted five DNFs/partially-reads.
you can't do that
you go hard, good job
>you can't do that
Yeah no I can.
Going pretty well, but I've also counted five DNFs/partially-reads.
Reached my goal of 32, changed it to 46.
Now 34/46
17/30
Best reads so far:
Father Sergius, Tolstoy
In the miso soup, Ryu Murakami
Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo
On a Bender, Blanco Amor
>In the miso soup, Ryu Murakami
this is a good one. i wish north america was sexy (it's not)
that's a lot of books anon. i haven't read for the last two days
Yeah but I have a train commute to work over an hour each way that gives me lots of time to read everyday.
sounds nice
What do you do for a living? where do you live?
My goal for the year was 20.
I am at 38 by some counts. More by some other less by others.
23/18 rn. If I keep pace I should end up somewhere between 35-40. I'm 19 and about to get a full time job which is why I made the goal lower cus I'm not sure how much I'll be able to read once I'm working, but I'm gonna try to keep with the 30 pages a day that I normally do.
it's harder to read after work, usually i just feel bad and see red and am too stressed out to focus on reading. that's why it's better to get drunk and/or have sex after work
post the books you read though
cheater
doing ok