oo, look: I made a table:
My 2015 reading challenge was to complete a 48-hour book challenge. I later added the additional goal of making greater strides in my nonfiction survey. At some point, I also determined I wanted clean up the messy, non-standardized capitalization when entering titles.
I get another gold star for these. I organized my 48-hour reading challenge in July, and loved it, despite the rain. I was hoping to squeeze in another one in early December-- the spouse and I tentatively planned a cabin-camping weekend, but both boys were horribly sick the day before and day of and it didn't materialize. The 48-hour reading challenge is not to be missed. A 2017 edition is not going down as an actual resolution, per se, but it will certainly stay as a personal goal.
Before counting this year's reads, I felt I did really poorly on the nonfiction front. I didn't realize how many I'd read. Many turned out to duplicate numbers I've already covered, but I was able to add a small handful of new numbers.
Finally, I embraced the APA and only capitalized first words, first words after colons, and proper nouns when reporting book titles. It matches up with some of the special cataloging stuff I do at work, so the conformity makes me calm and happy.
I spent a few weeks letting 2017's challenge percolate. It seems like many readers like to-do-type lists. These from Popsugar, Bustle, and this Read the World Challenge all had elements that appealed to me. Removing the duplicates and the self-help entries, I have a very nice list of 70 suggestions.
This is a good list for me: much of what I'm likely to read without any prompting will check off many of the boxes. The rest of the to-dos will be a nice stretch, to make me remember there's more out there than my five fave genres/authors/story formats. Rules for myself: one book can only count for one box.
Happy 2017. Now get reading.
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