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sun surfer · 07-02-2014, 04:58 PM

I'm now on a new challenge for the second half of 2014. The first half of the year I blasted through, finishing at over 9,000 pages read when my goal was 4,000, so this time I've added a few more pages (though not too many; I prefer to keep it, hopefully, relatively easy) and a longer specific list to complete - last half year I had a specific list of two (and one of those added near the end), this half year it will be 13.

My goal is 6,000 pages this half of the year. To concentrate on literary heritage, in a small way, I'm including three Irish books of any kind and three famous English classics, all that I haven't yet read and all yet to be chosen. Next, I love the book clubs here, but I often become interested in some of the nominations that don't win yet I hardly ever get around to reading them, so I'm also including three nominations of someone else's and three nominations of my own that don't win in the second half of 2014 in either MR book club, and these too should be books I haven't yet read. And finally, from my small and ever-shrinking stack of paper books yet to read, I'm including Surfing and Health by Dorian Paskowitz. I might eventually just throw all of the remaining books in the stack onto a challenge to finish them off (there's five left), but for now one good one will do.

Good luck everyone on the last half of the year!

07-02-2014, 04:58 PM	#578
sun surfer languorous autodidact ✦ Posts: 4,235 Karma: 44667380 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: smiling with the rising sun Device: onyx boox poke 2 colour, kindle voyage	I'm now on a new challenge for the second half of 2014. The first half of the year I blasted through, finishing at over 9,000 pages read when my goal was 4,000, so this time I've added a few more pages (though not too many; I prefer to keep it, hopefully, relatively easy) and a longer specific list to complete - last half year I had a specific list of two (and one of those added near the end), this half year it will be 13. My goal is 6,000 pages this half of the year. To concentrate on literary heritage, in a small way, I'm including three Irish books of any kind and three famous English classics, all that I haven't yet read and all yet to be chosen. Next, I love the book clubs here, but I often become interested in some of the nominations that don't win yet I hardly ever get around to reading them, so I'm also including three nominations of someone else's and three nominations of my own that don't win in the second half of 2014 in either MR book club, and these too should be books I haven't yet read. And finally, from my small and ever-shrinking stack of paper books yet to read, I'm including Surfing and Health by Dorian Paskowitz. I might eventually just throw all of the remaining books in the stack onto a challenge to finish them off (there's five left), but for now one good one will do. Good luck everyone on the last half of the year! Last edited by sun surfer; 07-02-2014 at 05:31 PM.