In July of this year, I had been reading about 4 or 5 books a week on my new Kindle. While I had not read so many the earlier part of the year, the birthday gift of the Kindle and plethora of free and inexpensive books started me on a reading binge. Then I started to read the classic North and South and got bogged down in all the ideas and such. That took me 10 days to read, but it was worth it. I read most of the other books in a day or two, with the exception of Uncle Tom's Cabin which took me a week. I realized in early November I would never make my goal if I only read novels that were over 200+ pages and were for adults. Light bulb flashing above head. Then, I thought I might as well get in some reading from YA -- Young Adult --since I enjoy the genre, work with two young elementary students on their reading, and needed something shorter and faster to complete my goal.
One bit of advice: Don't set a goal of 100 books for the calendar year in July, do it in January OR give yourselves 365 days from the time you decided to do that to complete the task.
So it is December 13th and I have 14 more books to get in before December 31st. So far 85 of them have been chapter books. Only one was a picture book with lots of words. Well, I'm not cheating I think by letting myself read some picture books to get there....so that's what I will do to round out some of the 14 books.
Next year's goals are 100 books also, but added to that: 3 classics that I think I should try at least: Moby Dick, Finnegan's Wake, and some novel by Charles Dickens. I am thinking Oliver Twist, as I have it handy and read a bit of it years ago.
