New Challenges

In the beginning there was an AJC article about a man who read 500 books. A woman who worked with me, being a fairly competitive person, was challenged by her husband to read 200 books. Secretly, being a fairly competitive person myself, I thought to myself "if she can do it, why certainly, I can as well." And although I never made my goal of 200 books, I got close enough that first year to know that I could do it, but I wouldn't enjoy the reading much.

Part of what stood in my way was my choice of reading material. Much of it came from these long lists that other people wrote, and while I found many things that I enjoyed greatly, they didn't inspire me to sneak in reading time. So over time, my reviewing petered out and this site was more or less abandoned.

The time of the new challenge has come. 15 months & 150 books. Starting now and going till the end of 2009 I'm going to read 150 books. I will be working from a list of about 200 that I put together based on things that I've heard of, things that I always wanted to read, and things I found on other lists that sounded truly interesting. I am currently compiling this list. I'm at 141. When it's done, in a few days, I will post it.

Wish me luck, I hope to be writing you all much more soon.