It's 2012, everybody! I can't believe it! Time really seems to fly and as I'm getting older I realize that. When you're young everything seems to go at a snail's pace.
"I can't wait until I'm out of school! How many years are left?"
"Summer vacation is in three whole months! That's not fair!"
"Lunch is in an hour! I can't wait to get a break!"
Now my days fly by and at the end of the week I find myself asking, "What did I do this week?"
Regardless of how fast or slow time may seem to disappear or linger in your life, it is a new year and, as most people do, you probably made at least one resolution. Personally I gave up on making "New Year's Resolutions" years ago because, like many others, I have failed and knowing I "failed" was a downer. It shouldn't have to be a start of a new year to make "resolutions." Change can happen at any time. But since it is the beginning of a new year I have made a goal, and I did this last year, about reading a certain number of books within one year's time. Last year I picked January 1st as the starting point because I thought of the idea right before New Year's and figured it was a good starting spot so here I am again setting a new goal for myself.
Last year, I set a goal to read 40 books. Here was my logic:
I figured that since there are 52 weeks in a year, 40 seemed like a fair number. It allowed some leniency that didn't make me have to rush to read a book a week and in case there were times I couldn't read I didn't have to panic. I had never kept track of how many books I had read previously to last year so I had no idea if this number was too easy or if it would be hard. But the fun in it was finding out and reading some great books.
But the results are in...I read a total of 50 books in 2011! Woot! Ten over my goal.
I read fairly consistently over the year, and yes there were some weeks I didn't read much, but watching some YouTubers and reading some blogs it amazes me that some people read 100+ books last year! Wow! That's some hardcore reading!
But my new goal isn't that lofty. I don't think it'd be possible to double last year's number. And even if I did, I don't think I'd be able to top it so the fun in the challenge would be lost.
My new goal is based off the volume read from 2011. If I read 50, it's very possible I could do that again so 50 wouldn't be much of a challenge.
So the magic number of books I plan to read this year is...60!
It's quite a jump from last year's goal, but as I've said, 40 was no match for my love of reading.
There you have it! My goal for 2012! In doing this reading challenge I plan to post book reviews on my favorite books as I get done with them and as I finish many 2012 new releases. Do you have any reading goals? If so what are they? Let me know!
Happy Reading!
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