The Next Best Book Club discussion

I am trying to read 200 books this year. I am already a bit behind my set pace but the first book I finished was "Bend of the Snake." I will keep everyone posted on my success.

I recently finished The President's Plane Is Missingand began reading S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst and just opened up

Just finished book #5 for the year, Blackett's War. Beginning #6

Started #6 and #7 simultaneously. Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo and The Inventor and the Tycoon.

I'm behind on my personal reading goals. I hope to find more time in my schedule to pick up the pace? Is anyone on pace to achieve theirs?

I just finished #6 and #7 and am nearing completion on #8 but still behind my pace.

I just completed #9 and started #10. May have to take a weeks vacation just to read to get closer to my intended goal.

Just completed #12 The Love of Marisol and started #13 and #14

Just finished #13 and starting #14 The Phoenix Year by David Blond

Finished #14 and started #15 The Hour of Peril

Just also started #16 Black Sunday by Thomas Harris

Just started #17 Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridason

Just start #18 Marathon Man by William Goldman

Since my last post I have finished:

#19 Company of the Dead by Donald Kowalski
#20 Black Country by Alec Grecian

Just finished #21 Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

Haven't posted in a while but I am up to #27

#22 Alien
#23 Duel With The Devil
#24 The Spy
#25 The Antiquarian
#26 The Race
#27 Murder on The Orient Express

Up to #31

#28 The Police
#29 Joe Ledger: Special Ops
#30 Rio Bravo
#31 Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

If you read 100 books in a year it would be approx be 2 books per week. Two hundred is crazy. How much are you really getting out of this endeavor? Are you really savoring any of these? Digesting them? Reflecting on them? 'Black Sunday' is a dense read, how much of it are you retaining? 'Marathon Man' has a lot of subtle nuances, how much of it will stick with you?

But then the pendulum swings the other way. The rest of the titles you list, look measly and piffling. What's the point of reading so many books if they're mostly unmemorable?

Another thing to consider: if you just want to read mass quantities of books; enroll in a college course and get college credit for behaving in this rash manner. That way you're at least getting some tangible reward for all this frenzy. English lit courses frequently demand high volume reading programmes of their students.

More power to Robert R. if he can reach his goal but if he's only on #31 in August, I'd say he's going to fall short (sorry Robert!). My goal this year is 120 and I'm in the 80s already.
I manage to read about 2 books a week and several of them are the cozy mystery, feel-good-reading-them books and there is nothing wrong with that. But I'm also managing to get through some more 'dense' books, like "The Circle" which took me a couple of more days to get through and is very thought provoking. I like a balance of a wide variety of books (other than romance and paranormal) and find that a good balance. Too many of one type and I begin to feel bogged down.

My free time didn't end up what I thought it would be with a new job and writing so I overshot my goal but proud nonetheless that I tried.

At #43