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Originally Posted by issybird
That’s why the non-budging TBR is a measure of (lack of) satisfaction for me. I buy the books I really, really want to read, but I borrow the trash. And then I read the trash and get marooned in books I’ve bought, which are more challenging. 
I think for next year perhaps I need a goal of reading only purchased books or classics. It needs to be tweaked and augmented, but that’s for starters. |
Exactly! My purchases have primarily been pre-orders of books I really want to read, but when they arrive I start and drop them, returning back to old favs and trash - this summer it was cheap, badly written genre thrillers ...