How many books did you aim to read this year? How many have you read up until now?

I don't aim for a specific number of books per year. Instead I aim to engage with particular works, authors, or movements. For example, I wanted to read more poetry and introduce myself to psychoanalytic and cyberpunk literature this year, all of which I did.

The book total came out to a bit over 30.

>How many books did you aim to read this year? How many have you read up until now?

My aim was 100. I have read 788 up until now.

50

37

Not going to make it.

I don't aim to do shit.
I've been reading about 5-20 a month so I don't know. I'm not keeping track.
This thread is as bad as nanowrimo people writing just to bump their word count.

>tfw not going to make it.

Just 1, Infinite Jest.

Literature is over.

Yes, that's all every nice everyone. But how many of the books that you've read are actually Veeky Forums tier and/or are of any literary merit?

I fucking hate that book. I could never get past the beginning, all he's talking about is tennis, school and math. This is a thousand page book, how are you going to convince people to make that investment with tennis/school/math? I could read like 5 books in that time.

Sure he's a nice writer but you can read his essays and still get the same thing. Am I wrong on this?

sebastian please stop embarassing us.
I aimed for 70, 56 so far lel

It is way, way, way more than tennis, school, and math. There is anxiety, depression, a dysfunctional family, addiction to weed and pills and most importantly: entertainment, and then some and then some...

"Sports." Anyone familiar or interested about reading the rigorousness of teenage sport training and why anyone would bother to ever put themselves through that, can get down on the sports bits. DFW's Michael Joyce essay supplements this, sure. And plus, this is probably about 10% of the novel, if that.

Chalking the rest up to just "school" and "math" is a disservice, and I'm gonna suggest you just read it yourself. It's good.

add "improve handwriting" to your goals

Have you been working out three times a week?

I've read a little over 30 books. A couple I've read twice.

I think what I've learned is that is important to have a target, but it's more important to get as much as you can out of a text

I read
1984
Brave New World
TKAMB
The Doors of Perception/Heaven And HELL
The Green Mile
The Republic
Fear and Loathing
Call of the weird -L.Theroux
Animal Farm

Currently reading Freedom in Exile can anyone make any suggestions based on this list I'd say i enjoyed all of them to varying degrees

next year I want to read 200

read Fahrenheit 451

I planned to do at least 52, but shit got weird and didn't start reading until 4 weeks ago.
I'm at 14 now.
Making up for lost time.

Ive sunken back to depression and so no i havent. I did tho work out 6 times a week back in september but realised it was all superfluous and just to show off. I thought id quit and focus on music and then depression and i am doing neither.
Thanks i get that a lot, which is why i type. How do you propose i improve my handwriting?

I'm sorry to hear that.

Read about 60 books a year.
Have done for about 25 years now.

How old are you ?

so you aimed at 1 a week, waited until october, and then read one per day. are you reading golden books?

The first week I plowed through 6 Vonnegut novels, then polished off some novellas later on.
I plan to start the bigger ones when winter sets in here.

I've already seen the documentary though

I've read exactly 25, which was my goal. I'll probably make it to 30 but I won't update my goal because that's cheating.

You can improve by actively focusing on making your lettering look good. If you have an eye for aesthetics you know what a good word looks like so treat everything you write like an art piece. Doing writing exercises is unrealistic unless you're an unemployed neet so you have to improve by treating everything as an exercise.

I did not aim to read any books.

In the last 4 months I read 46 audio books like a true junky.

I learned a lot from it. It has had great effects on: My personal happiness, the relations I have with family&friends, self-control/confidence, imagination and general knowledge.

Some of the books I disliked, most I enjoyed. Out of 46 books about 40 were quite simple books and not very long. They just had a couple of interesting concepts which were made very clear in it. It were the kind of books I "always kind of wanted to read but not really am all that excited for".

I'd only recommend a couple of them: 1) Crucial Conversations 2) 7 habits of highly effective people 3) Gabriel Garcia Marquez' book One Hundred Years of Solitude 4) The five love languages 5) 8th Habit 6) The happiness advantage

>read
>audio books

50
read 37

i'm behind. I was blazing through books in summer but school is slowing me down a lot.

>5-20 a month
So at lease one point this year you have read about 5 books every week for a month. Were they all short?

If you didn't like the start do not continue. You pretty much know what you are in for after the first 100 pages. If you don't like it already you will dislike the next 900.

Don't do that, the book is God awful.

>Doing writing exercises is unrealistic unless you're an unemployed neet
Spending an hour a day-and hour a day that can be spend listening to something-doing writing exercises is hardly unrealistic.

Just one book, since I have crippling ADHD.

>It will take him his whole life to read what you do in one year

Off to watch tv or play some vidya instead of doing something patrician like reading.

i aimed for a book a month, and am currently reading my 12th book, a son of the sun, by jack london.

maybe i'll get to 15 this year, that would be nice, but there's lots of other things to do.

>Spending an hour a day-and hour a day that can be spend listening to something-doing writing exercises is hardly unrealistic.

You can write and listen to something else at the same time? Are you a schizo or something? I can't even listen to songs with lyrics when reading, much less when writing. The closest I've come to multitasking language tasks is talking and reading in two different languages.

We aren't talking about creative writing or anything like that. It's just exercises. If you can listen to something and drive a car you can do this.

>5
>0

25

>Draw up to 5 hours a day
>Have no time to read books in-between drawing and posting on Veeky Forums
>Can only watch one episode of JoJo's bizarre adventure a day at the most

I get depressed when I don't study something for the day.

My goal was 50 and I've read 29

I guess I can see that working with a pre-written sentence or word. I find that I can't form a sentence and listen to words at the same time.

How about you stop posting here? Clearly you enjoy drawing and I think you shouldn't cut any time from it but you gain little by posting here. Make a goal for yourself to browse Veeky Forums only after you've finished 5 pages and soon enough you'll be reading a book a month.

Also post some artwork, nobody here draws so our standards are low.

I don't really draw much because I'm constantly doing studies, but here you go. It's still bad, but I've since gotten better.

I was aiming for one each week, 52, but around July I started to focus on writing my own and I've only read once since.

>more than one
>more than one

I succeeded by a margin of about 15 which is not too bad considering last year I didn't read a single thing. Not one whole book. The year before that, all I read was Room.

It's pretty good user. Have you read any books on drawing? I'm halfway through Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain but goddamn it's awful.

Writing is the only time you're exempt from reading I think.

Goal 0
I read books I want to read, not a specific number
Actual
I don't fucking count I'm not a stat whore

I'm reading a bunch of them. I'm currently running through Bridgman's constructive anatomy. When you get to that point if you want to draw people, Bridgman is the best person for anatomy. His drawings are bad quality, but that won't matter when you start to break them apart/re-draw them. His muscle groupings and writings are very informative, and when you combine his book with something like the website "Bio-digital human" and "Anatomy for sculptors" you've got some good stuff going on. Also, be sure to draw yourself in a mirror after you see the forms Bridgman breaks the human body down into to further cement it into your mind.

>So at lease one point this year you have read about 5 books every week for a month. Were they all short?
Some of them were short, some of them were long. 175-500 pages I think. It would be a bit weird if they were all the same length.

Bridgeman is only mentioned once in the /ic/ sticky, no wonder I've never heard of him. Thanks for the tips.

>Writing is the only time you're exempt from reading I think.
That's a good way of thinking about it.

Confirmed for pleb.

I aim to read fifty every year and I have read forty two so far so I'm on track.

44/52

I'm new to """""""""real"""""""""" literature, just getting started with classics and entry level stuff

Goal: 300
I passed it the other day

>Writing is the only time you're exempt from reading I think.
Reminder that sleeping and being dead is for non-reading plebs.

>I don't count the amount of books because I don't gloat
>Precedes to gloat about being better than everyone else in the thread

TEACH ME
I'm assuming you're a NEET

Stop watching tv desu

I didn't plan to read a certain amount. 0

seek help you disgusting rat

1984
Brave New World
fahrenheit 451

goal: 52
yet: 32
means i have to read twenty hundred-pagers till the end of the year

>getting into a relationship
>fixing all the problems in my life
A bit of an oxymoron don't you think?

Goal: 50

So far I've read like five or six.
I know, but please do not worry, I will kill myself soon.

don't say that

I set my goal when I was still somewhat a NEET but now I spent most of my day out and doing other stuff so just 14

Yeah, just FUCKING DO IT ALREADY YOU PATHETIC PIECE OF SHIT. NOBODY IS GOING TO MISS YOU WHEN YOU LEAVE. TRUST ME, SOME PEOPLE WILL EVEN FEEL RELIEVED. HEY, IF YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT YOUR TASTE IN BOOKS SOMEHOW ELEVATES YOU FROM EVERYONE AROUND YOU TO BE SUPER INTERESTING AND THE CENTER OF THE WORLD THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF. THINK ABOUT IT, WE COULD FINALLY TEST IF BEING A PRETENTIOUS PRICK WHO BASES LIFE OFF READING OTHER THINGS PEOPLE WROTE MAKES YOU AN ASSHOLE OR NOT.

See a therapist, user

What are you talking about? Who say anything about being superior or more interesting because their taste in books?

Don´t worry I would never do anything to hurt you, user.

I was serious though

I was too. I don´t know how to tell you this but... user... I....I-I love you user.

I love you too, user.

YEAH MAN I AGREE WITH THIS GUY^ FUCKING GAY user HASN'T READ ENOUGH BOOKS TO NOT BE A BIG ASSHOLE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Lets get married in Patagonia then.

>You will never married in Patagonia and you no one will ever tell you in a very soft way that truly loves you.

But I´m getting married with user ;_;

pleb

i have 22 of the 24 books i set out to read this read. i read nearly all of them in the last 4 months. i think i'll up my goal for next year a little to 30 maybe.

I own 0 out of 32

Started reading "serious" literature in June and have read 23 works so far. I'm pretty happy with that.

0 and 6
I also managed to read about 300 academic journal articles and no longer enjoy my field

Which ones did you like the best?
A general suggestions would be Siddhartha. It's good

It makes little sense to measure in books when you can move from The Spanish Tragedy to Clarissa to La Recherche.

Anyway, my goal is to read 100 pages a day, which roughly amounts to four hours.

I've done four this year because I've been reading ASOIAF, kek get mad

Why the fuck is Elliot Rodger's manifesto on there? Have you seen his videos? There's nothing interesting about his worldview.

>Iliad
>Odyssey
>Theban plays
>Old Man and the sea
>Slaughterhouse 5
>Notes from Underground
>The Stranger
>Cien años de soledad
>The Road
>Taming of the Shrew
>Crime and Punishment
>Lolita
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Heart of Darkness
>Anthem
>For Whom the Bell Tolls
>Brave New World
>Moby Dick
>Of Mice and Men
>Grapes of Wrath
>Dubliners
>The Metamorphosis

>writing out his goals
>fell for the napoleon hill meme

100, and I'm probably gonna make it, right on schedule. But I feel like I'm cheating since most of them are short non fiction crap books. Next year I'm probably going slower and with better books.

>Anyway, my goal is to read 100 pages a day, which roughly amounts to four hours.
??????????
100 pages is about an hour?

Around a 100 would be nice, I'm at 85 or so right now. Will finish up 2 books tomorrow and another 2 are around 1/3 read.
It's been a splendid reading year, my passion for it is always growing.