My 2016 Reading Challenge hosted by Goodreads.com began with the start of this amazing year. This year, I challenged myself to read 150 books, incrementing the amount of books from last year’s challenge(2015) by 25. At first I wasn’t event sure that I’d be able to complete the challenge and then after doing a good start and reading a proper amount of books and then failing to find overcome the procrastination of not reading, I found myself in a fumbling three months back. I was behind in the challenge by almost a decade of books and was ready to give up. I am below par as not exceeding my limit of 150 books this year in contrast with the last year in which I exceeded by a good margin.
I know, you might say the “number” doesn’t matter. It does not to me, most of the times, but I must confess this “number” or the amount of books at a given time drives me to read more when I am either procrastinating or not fully utilising my time such as by visiting sites that put cute images of cats on display. Somehow this year, I have managed to escape that feeling of personal disappointment of not completing the challenge but I am looking forward to the next year and hopefully, reading more, and exploring more wonderful books.
What do you think? Should I increase the next year? Should I take it to 175?
Are you taking the Goodreads challenge this year?