You'll get there Sage, don't worry!
Listen to audiobooks at every opportunity, and choose a few short old favourites that you've been meaning to re-read for a while.
Well, I've finally done it... I've done what I would have thought was impossible a few months ago and read 100 books in a year! The final five were -
96.
A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro (to remind myself of the brilliance of this year's Nobel prize winner!)
97.
Death Sentence - Don Watson
98.
The Quantity Theory of Insanity - Will Self
- and, just to finish with style
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99.
Psmith in the City - P.G. Wodehouse
100.
Leave It To Psmith - P.G. Wodehouse
I've done it! It has been
GREAT fun, but I'm not sure that I'll try to reach 100 books next year. I have neglected my writing a bit over the last few months in the name of meeting my reading targets, and I've also avoided reading books that I really wanted to read, just because they were long or dense. This is a bit self-defeating for a prospective writer, so, while I'll join in with the thread again next year, I won't fixate on reaching 100. I'll just follow my usual reading habits and see how far they get me. If I get to 70, say, that'll be enough for me.
Meantime, I will carry on reading and adding to my list for the rest of the year, but I'll be reading at a saner (i.e. slower) pace now that I've reached the 100. There are also a few long books that I've been hankering to read for a while now but have avoided, and I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into them! Lonesome Dove, here we come...