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Originally Posted by Catlady
Unlike so many others, when I read a book, I plow straight through, no other books allowed to interrupt. So I don't know how any timetable with specific benchmarks would work for me.
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For me, it’s a reality check. Nothing wrong and everything right with plowing ahead, but if I”m falling behind, benchmarks let me know I’m screwing up.
As does Jon, I generally have several books on the go. I blush to confess that sometimes a book falls through the cracks (and sometimes it’s a book I like a lot) and I lose the drift entirely. And then what? Start over? Pick it up where I left off, knowing that I’ll have forgotten much? I don’t have an answer.
The online read this spring of
War and Peace is a good example. Some days I could have kept on going, and I admit I lost some of the grand sweep of the novel in keeping to the schedule. But for me, that was more than offset by the fact that I actually did pick it up every day, even if I wasn’t in the mood, and ground out the daily stint. It could all too easily have been another case of, “I’ll catch up tomorrow,” but tomorrow keeps getting put off. (I admit that when the end was in sight, I did plow ahead.)
But it’s very much a situation of to each, her own!
