We went to Borders today, but I didn’t buy any books (apart from the one on CD) because I have so many at home that I haven’t read yet. While I was browsing it occurred to me that I should make a reading list for myself to work through and set myself the goal of not buying any more books until everything on the list has been read.
Then it occurred to me that this is very much like Girl Detective’s annual reading challenge. And I figured that if I was going to steal someone else’s idea it was a pretty good one to pinch. Mark has done something similar with his Summer Viewing list.
So sometime in the next few days I’m going to post a list of the books I plan to read this year. They’ll all be books I already have here in the house and I will not buy any more books for myself until they are all read.
I’ve made a start with the His Dark Materials trllogy that Mark gave me for Christmas. I finished The Golden Compass yesterday. For the record, it’s really, really good.
I’ve jsut finsihed the second in the trilogy, and I reakon it’s an even better read!
I’m flattered you borrowed the idea, and I wish you more success than I’ve had with it. My self-imposed challenge has ended up being more about reading in spite of the demands of parenting than reading what’s on my shelves. I think I read 14 shelf sitters last year, but still have 95 (sigh) gathering dust. And I can’t imagine not buying or borrowing or being given or lent books for the time (two years?) it might take to read them. But I’m thinking that maybe it’s like debt–I’ll set myself a four year goal. That’s reasonable, right?