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Originally Posted by issybird
It was valuable for me to log my books as I read them. Looking over the list, I've decided to be more thoughtful about my reading next year. I don't know how to quantify these, but my aims include:
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Expand my horizons, get out of my comfort zone.
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There's no reason to be ashamed about anything we read and your list is far from one-dimensional or easy in many places.
I've already compiled my challenge list for next year. Only 26 books on the challenge list, but it should let me fit in some other options along the way as a realistic goal for me would be about 36-40 books. I based my challenge list on years and letters of the alphabet. At least one book from every decade since 1900 and at one book from an author with a last name beginning with every letter of the alphabet. My list is already on GoodReads
here.. At the start of the year I'll move them to the to read pile and start checking them off.
I'm hoping it's a strange and wondrous journey. It's also a bit of a catch-up on some things I should have read by now with a few favourite authors thrown in (Mistry, Pratchett, Valente).
I like the country angle mentioned. Maybe next year will be at least twenty-four countries or maybe an all-Canadian list as I don't read enough local content.