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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
My goal is to finish the books I set out to read (unless I truly hate them). My habit is to pick up a new book and borrow it and then get very distracted by the next thing I want to read.
I must stop that if I want to truly enjoy the books I read.
Here are my first three in order:
"Watership Down" by Richard Adams. I just learned of his passing in the news. This is a classic I had never gotten around to reading. So this goes first on my list.
"Nineteen Eighty Four". It's one of my favorite books, and I'm reading it to celebrate my purging of my Facebook account
"The Princess Diarist" Carrie Fisher just passed away and I want to read that book. Our family loves Star Wars and her other work, so I want to give that a read.
I have a bunch more on my list, but Those three stood out as having intent for me.
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I'm glad to hear I'm not alone in jumping around to new books instead of finishing what I've already started first.
It's so annoying when I go back to something I've started and find I've already forgotten enough detail that I should start over.
#1 goal, only have 2 book going at a time, 1 audio and 1 e-print.
#2 Don't buy anything, between the library and what I already own, I should be set for years. Freebies allowed, if carefully vetted first. Exception, maybe, for Audible versions of my favorite authors if I absolutely can't get them anywhere else.
#3. Track on Goodreads at least.
#4. 52 books. I read somewhere around 55 to 60 this year, but wasn't really tracking.