LOL
I'm doing OK as well. I've set a goal of 14.600 pages (counting at 2400 characters per page). This means:
- 14,600 pages in a year.
- 1,217 pages in a month.
- About 3.5 novels of 350 pages a month (which is a "normal" book, IMHO)
- Yoshikawa's Musashi (~1200 pages) will take me a month
- Clavell's Tai-Pan (~1200) will also take me a month.
- Together, Musashi and Tai-Pan equate 7 normal novels.
- My subchallenge (reading 6 non-fantasy novels, and 6 classics by 6 different authors) is 12 books in total, which will take me 3.5 months to finish. I might opt to go for shorter than normal books. Most of the challenge of the non-fantasy books will be filled in by the five books from the Hitchhiker's trilogy, for a total of 705 pages. (Yeah. A trilogy of five books.)
As I don't want to make subchallenges overlap, I can't file a book under "non-fantasy" and "classic" at the same time; I must actually plan what I read to be able to meet the subchallenges. Reading something like War and Peace this year would be a bad idea
At this point in time, I've finished five novels, am 75% through my sixth, and the projection is that I will succeed in this years challenge, reading 15,622 pages.
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For some reason, I'm on a Shannara re-read streak.
After finishing "Heritage of Shannara", I immediately followed that up with "The voyage of the Jerle Shannara", and "High Druid of Shannara". This makes 10 Shannara books in a row. Normally, I don't do that. When finishing my current book (Straken, High Druid of Shannara 3), I'll have re-read every Shannara book I also owned in paperback (before giving them away).
I'll turn my attention to something else for a while, probably the Professor Challenger stories. When I return to Shannara and Word/Void, the books will all be first-timers for me.