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Originally Posted by Luffy
My aim is to read 700 more books, so that I'll reach 1000 books on my goodreads account. My greatest fear is dying before that target is reached. I read 154 books last year. This year I slowed down after having read 100 books. I'll reach my goal in 6 or 7 years. Hopefully. Whenever I feel a random pain on my fingertip or something, I fear it's going to be terminal. I'm mainly joking, but I'm not lying.
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Hilarious, Luffy, and you are not alone. In recent years there have been icy winters when the only emotion motivating enough to get me to the gym or to consume broccoli has been the desire to increase my life span to match the length of my TBR pile. Somehow I have to make it to 156 years without adding more books to the list.
Do we actually fear death less than leaving books unread or are we really only joking (but not lying)?
No wonder I am so attached to MR. Here are my people.
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Originally Posted by Geralt
The worst thing is making too many challenges, and then they turn in to a chore to finish.
Turning reading in to a chore is about the easiest way to fall into a slump. But that might be a good thing, because not all people want to read all the time. It's just that with tracking and social media, forums and so on, we came to this idea that we HAVE to be reading all the time. I think slumps can be beneficial. Your mind takes a break, and after a while most people will genuinely want to read something.
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Exactly right. Before MR and Goodreads I never thought about reading slumps. I had no idea how many books I read in a year. Today I am 11 books behind in my reading challenge, a concept never experienced before. Yet MR and Goodreads have brought so many wonderful books and people into my life that it is worth learning how to accept the slumps and set realistic challenges or no challenges at all.