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100th book in 2017
Nov. 24th, 2017 06:26 pmWell, I was very proud of myself when I hit this point last year, so I'm going to post about it again this year:
I finished reading my 100th book of the year last night!
Once again, I noticed I was approaching that big number 100 in time to make an active choice about what book specifically I wanted the 100th to be (choosing out of the way-too-big stack of library books I have sitting here, because I got overly eager at the library again...) I decided to make it Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding, because she's one of those "classic authors I can't believe I haven't read yet" who's been on my want-to-read list for a very long time.
So, 100th book, and I'm rather proud that last year I hit that milestone on Dec. 20, which means this year it's nearly a whole month earlier. :-)
(It would have been earlier still – I was already reading books number 97, 98 and 99 more or less simultaneously right at the start of November – but then I got uncharacteristically slowed down by coursework piling up, plus my questionable decision to try to read all of this year's RS Games. A fest that ended up with 66 entries, some of them novella-length fics. I have this problem that once I start reading (and commenting on) some fics in a fest, I feel I have to read them all, or at least give them all a shot, because otherwise it's unfair to the other participants. ...This is one of those "must be kind and fair to everyone" impulses that's very good in theory, but I probably need to get over for my own sanity.)
Anyway, books! Next is Olivia Laing's very interesting meditation on loneliness, The Lonely City, which I've nearly finished, and then Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give, because I finally got the library audiobook after having placed a hold on it sometime back in the summer, so I need to grab my chance! Then onward with the ridiculous pile of library books. It's been very interesting seeing what from my want-to-read list is and isn't available in the UK. Since so many of the books I might otherwise be choosing to read aren't available in the library here, I've been using this time instead to get around to some of the more classic authors that have been on my list absolutely forever.
Is the stress of grad school throwing me into that state where I ineffectually try to manage my anxiety about bigger things by compulsively micromanaging the smaller things, such as checking books off my want-to-read list? Why yes, yes it is. If only I were this motivated to devour texts about information-seeking behavior. :-P
As always, thoughts about favorites from among these books will follow at the end of the quarter!
I finished reading my 100th book of the year last night!
Once again, I noticed I was approaching that big number 100 in time to make an active choice about what book specifically I wanted the 100th to be (choosing out of the way-too-big stack of library books I have sitting here, because I got overly eager at the library again...) I decided to make it Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding, because she's one of those "classic authors I can't believe I haven't read yet" who's been on my want-to-read list for a very long time.
So, 100th book, and I'm rather proud that last year I hit that milestone on Dec. 20, which means this year it's nearly a whole month earlier. :-)
(It would have been earlier still – I was already reading books number 97, 98 and 99 more or less simultaneously right at the start of November – but then I got uncharacteristically slowed down by coursework piling up, plus my questionable decision to try to read all of this year's RS Games. A fest that ended up with 66 entries, some of them novella-length fics. I have this problem that once I start reading (and commenting on) some fics in a fest, I feel I have to read them all, or at least give them all a shot, because otherwise it's unfair to the other participants. ...This is one of those "must be kind and fair to everyone" impulses that's very good in theory, but I probably need to get over for my own sanity.)
Anyway, books! Next is Olivia Laing's very interesting meditation on loneliness, The Lonely City, which I've nearly finished, and then Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give, because I finally got the library audiobook after having placed a hold on it sometime back in the summer, so I need to grab my chance! Then onward with the ridiculous pile of library books. It's been very interesting seeing what from my want-to-read list is and isn't available in the UK. Since so many of the books I might otherwise be choosing to read aren't available in the library here, I've been using this time instead to get around to some of the more classic authors that have been on my list absolutely forever.
Is the stress of grad school throwing me into that state where I ineffectually try to manage my anxiety about bigger things by compulsively micromanaging the smaller things, such as checking books off my want-to-read list? Why yes, yes it is. If only I were this motivated to devour texts about information-seeking behavior. :-P
As always, thoughts about favorites from among these books will follow at the end of the quarter!
