2010 was a big year for me.
For one, I had to readjust with living at home with my mother and sister after living on my own at college for five years. Secondly, I had to deal with "the real world" and not the little collegiate bubble I had previously lived in.
At the beginning of 2010 I made a 93-item list of resolutions (or as I call them "goals") that I wanted to accomplish during the year. They ranged from getting my driver's license to completing a knitting project. Out of the ninety-three things I listed, I only accomplished eleven. While eleven goal accomplished in one year seems pretty damn impressive, I seemed to have lost motivation a few months in. Some, like getting my license and buying a car seem rather ridiculous in hindsight.
The one goal that I worked my hardest on was number one of the list: Read 100 new books (i.e. books I've never read before. This includes, but it not limited to: books of poetry, short stories, novellas, plays and novels). I had had similar goals for the past three years. In 2008 I saw my first victory with reading 52 books (the challenge was to read 50 in one year). In 2009 I smelled the stink of defeat with reading on 56 books while the challenge was to read 100.
This past year, it was difficult in the last month of my challenge. The final days had me reading a book a day (or in some instances multiple books in a day). There were many times I thought I wasn't going to finish. However, it was the support of my friends that made me push my way to the very end. I finished my 100th book on December 31st at 9:30pm.
For 2011 I have a similar goal. I'm attempting to read 100 books in a year, but I'm hoping to go beyond the base 100. Basically, this means I can't procrastinate as much as I did in 2010.
On top of just reading, I'm also going to attempt something that I have always failed in the past: writing reviews for every single book I read.
That is were you come in.
In a couple of days I'll start reading again for the year (honestly, I needed a short break to just relax after the cluster-f*ck that was the end of the year).
So, my dear future readers, enjoy my further descent into insanity. Feel free to yell at me if I'm not keeping up, encourage me, discuss and/or recommend books or even to just wonder how I'm doing.
Cheers,
Bookworm
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