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I've just upped my target from 45 to 80 since it's only April and I've already read 32 books.
As for abandoning books, I agree it's a good thing to do, however...
There's this episode of the sitcom Friends where they're throwing a ball to one another. After a while someone notices they've been doing it for a while continuously without dropping it. Then it becomes a thing they try to keep doing, with increasingly bizarre things they need to do to achieve that.
I feel a bit like that about my books. At some point, without planning it, I realised that I've finished every book I started this year. So far...
However I may need to let that go. Because it's now making me wary of picking up certain books because they may not be that great (or they may be but who knows before hand). I think I value being more experimental in my reading than always finishing everything. But there's still that obsessive part of me that doesn't want to let go.
Historically I've usually stopped reading for days or weeks when I'm in the middle of a book I'm not loving. Even when I 'power through' and finish it it often leaves me feeling I don't want to read for a while.
So I guess the key is to feel OK about stopping and pick up something else right away.
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