A little only slightly creative accounting and I'm essentially on track for my sub-goals. I wish I had made some better (read: more difficult) choices along the way, but that's why it's a challenge. If my reach didn't exceed my grasp at least a bit, I wouldn't be trying hard enough. I'll see what I can do about upping my numbers before year-end, but this year, the holiday crunch seems to have started even earlier than usual. I've had very little reading time lately.
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Originally Posted by DrNefario
I've finished all of my sub-challenges, but I'm really hoping I can finish the year having made some downwards progress on my TBR. Without cheating and reading a load of standalone short stories. I had slipped to -8 earlier this month*, but have clawed my way back to -3, with another two books imminent. It's just a question of how well I can keep a lid on the acquisitions.
*My progress is negative. -8 actually means I have 8 more books than I started with. I prefer to count that as a negative, for some reason.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Congratulations! Alas, I've slipped to -31.
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One of next year's challenges will be a stringent goal in regard to my real, not virtual, TBR. The stacks of unread books are putting me into Collyer brother territory (non-Yanks and the kids can Google). In fact, and no small thanks to
this thread, I seem to have the ebook problem licked. Knock wood. As evidence, I'll offer that I keep a master list outside Calibre of just where I've bought my epubs, and when I recently had the thought that I hadn't been maintaining it, I had to go back months in Calibre before I found my last purchase-but-one from anyplace but Amazon with Prime no-rush shipping credit. (I had a recent purchase,
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries, but that was it in yonks.)
TL;DR: I'm right there with you, with the life-crushing aspect added in.