My book challenge sounds underwhelming compared to the rest, but I just keep track of my reading on Goodreads and my goal is 60 books this year (I hit 61 last year but that’s including novellas and series).

Time blocking. Make an appointment to do your chores. Make another appointment to do your reading.

PS Listen to audiobooks and you can do chores and reading at the same time.

I have saved a challenge from the German sub which looks like a lot of fun. It doesn't focus an numbers but asks you to pick books based on the cover, release date, home country of the author, setting, genre that is new to me, re-read ...

I'm using this as a guideline to work through my TBR. Doesn't make sense to buy a new one just because it has a purple cover of course.

i found out about r/52book just before new year, so i’m super ambitious and set myself the goal of 52 books. every book counts, if i read it from start to finish (so no text books from uni)

idk how much i read last year (didn’t track) but the year before i got 45, so i’m optimistic :)

That is an excellent description.

My free time to read dwindled massively over the years to the point where I was barely reading at all (especially if I wanted to relax any other way). Audiobooks really made a huge difference to me, because I can listen to them doing a lot of the more menial tasks in life (cleaning, traveling, exercising) where I can devote my attention but can't physically hold a book.

I don't do this thing where people listen to them at x500 speed, I just listen at their standard speed and get to enjoy and consider books once again. I got through 70 last year.

I still always have a physical book on the go for bed times, but it's a slow burner.

>Some good stuff at the beginning now not so much.

Like Riley Sager lol

Honestly I didn’t care for it. I didn’t care for the characters so couldn’t really care for what happened to them. So much angst kinda gets on my nerves. To me Ruth Ware is the new Mary Higgins Clark. Some good stuff at the beginning now not so much.

Please don't feel bad about how many books you read. I had to retire to finally get to read a lot of books. When my kids were little we were planning a vacation and I told them my one and only condition is we needed to go somewhere that would allow me enough free time to read a book cover to cover.

I love reading challenges. I posted recently about the challenges I've participated in recently and others have shared their challenges.

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/z8gypn/i_know_some_of_you_are_looking_for_a_new_reading/

Since I joined StoryGraph this year, I've joined a few other challenges:

Book Hoarder: has 5 prompts to help me tackle my physical TBR pile

2023 Reading challenge by Millisabv with 12 prompts to promote diversity

A cozy mystery challenge with 20 prompts for cozy mysteries

Crime Queens Crime Read with 9 prompts focused on crime novels

Leave the comfort zone with 7 prompts based on my Storygraph stats

The Linzthebookworm/Logophile challenge with 5 levels and up to 60 prompts for a variety of genres and authors.

In addition to the newly-minted r/365book bingo challenges, I have three I'm working on this year:

• Backlog Challenge, where I finally read all the older works by three favourite authors, Mercedes Lackey, Neal Shusterman, and K.J. Parker. It's a lot of books but I try to do at least one per author every week, so I'm making progress.

• Complete the Pot Thief Series Challenge. I've been meaning to complete this series for a while, so I'm slotting in one per week until it's done. I have another series planned for after I finish it.

• Read 50 Nonfiction Books Challenge. I did this last year and found it so enriching to my life to be just constantly learning about all sort of different topics.

For straight numbers, I do a 365 book challenge because it's a nice round number.

I think that's a good description of it. Thank you for identifying my issue with it.

Comfortable-salt I’m with you - i love slow and rambling - this book however i felt was trying way too hard, i dunno how to describe it - it didn‘t feel authentic i guess

It doesn't really matter me if they went bankrupt ... and of course i know it.

I care about what the book it self can teach about personal behavior

Take my upvote, you bastard.

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Please post lists of books in /r/booklists.

I find book challenges and tbr's limiting. I tend to embrace what I'm curious about at the moment rather than saving it for another day. Carpe diem is my reading style/challenge. It's honestly the mindset that got me through some dense classics.

The Rich Dad Company also went bankrupt in 2012 so.

I really would like to read it, going to check it out.

but still in my opinion and in some other point of you it can teach a lot

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Yeah Kiyosaki is the Amway guy.

Bill Gavin, founder of Amway, helped get Robert Kiyosaki published and also had a distribution deal with Gavin that made Kiyosaki millions of dollars by forcing Amway reps to buy the tape for Rich Dad Poor Dad. His books become required reading for MLMs and he never speaks out against them for being predatory "businesses" which don't align with his views on financial literacy.

Here is a great post showing how Kiyosaki's books get used by MLMs to scam people. They hear Kiyosaki and mistakenly draw the same conclusions that you do.

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/ka0zdo/feeling_a_little_betrayed_and_embarrassed_amway/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I am just sharing my experience dear I aint a service , just do it in my free time