Malaysian Reads discussion

2016 has started so is the new reading challenge!
How many books you pledged to read this year?
Do you plan to read the genre you prefer or try venturing into the unknown?

I'm putting my goal at 120 books
https://www.goodreads.com/user_challe...

It's currently at zero lol!

I prefer reading dark erotic romance, but last year I've broke into paranormal. I'm very selective in my reading though. I won't read anything that doesn't appeal to me.



This year I'm going to break my m/m cherry. I've read m/m side stories from books but never as full story. I also haven't read any historical romance, so I might try that also :D

I set my goal at 70. I planned on reading genre that I prefer...
This year, just to spice up my list, I decided to try on Book Riot Challenge:


My concern would be that the first on the list is horror, a genre I avoided every year.

I haven't decided on how many I would like to attempt for this year but like Adhwa, I also intend to follow the Book Riot Read Harder challenge as well :D

Best wishes everyone for 2016!

The Read Harder Challenge looks good and not too many :D

This year my target is 100 books. I also would like to try Jojo Moyes, Cecilia Ahren and etc. I'm such a hardcore fantasy so maybe I need A slice-of-life book.

Goodluck everyone for your reading challenge!

2016 is gonna be a hectic year for me so I'm targeting 30 books, not too hard to achieve but would be a challenge too :)

55 books for this year (which should be a good pace improvement after 35 books in 2015).

Might not be a lot compared to avid readers here, but still progress aiming at consistent pace improvement :-)

I also wrote a humble post about reading faster to share with someone who asked how I'm reading: https://medium.com/@yohansen/6-tips-o...

@Olya
Thanks for the link. I'll check that out later because I do need to read faster lol!

Mine is 150 titles. And it lot easier coz my job is an editor.

Nazmi wrote: "Mine is 150 titles. And it lot easier coz my job is an editor."

Just like to throw one stone at two birds. it's really heaven job for a book nerd!

My goal is 35 this year. Last year, I only hit 30.

Ask wrote: "Nazmi wrote: "Mine is 150 titles. And it lot easier coz my job is an editor."

Just like to throw one stone at two birds. it's really heaven job for a book nerd!"

oooo not at the birds ... but at the books :)

mine is one book per week T.T

Emie wrote: "mine is one book per week T.T"

that's great! I usually up to 2 weeks

My target this year is to read 30 books. I might try to read new genre like horror or maybe contemparary and see how it turns out. I hope 2016 will be the best reading year ever for me and to you guys too

I have no targets. I read to enjoy. I hate treating my book like McD. I want to savour every prose, immerse into every mind blowing plot twists and experience every emotion that the authors tries to evoke from me.
Happy reading guys!

Nazrat wrote: "I have no targets. I read to enjoy. I hate treating my book like McD. I want to savour every prose, immerse into every mind blowing plot twists and experience every emotion that the authors tries t..."

I agree with you, sometimes in the midst of fast reading we should slow down and enjoy the very journey of reading a book~

Hello everyone,

Thought of joining your group's conversation, I haven't been reading a lot of books. You guys inspire me to do differently.

Beni

@Nei
Hi!
Sometimes it just take one book that speaks to you and then BAM! You can't stop lol!

What kind of genre that appeals to you?

I put 30 books to my reading challenge this year. I believe in quality over quantity but I do love to challenge myself to read and more and more. I became inspired by some of my friends that are able to read over 50 or 100 books a year , that was amazing!

Sarah wrote: "I don't understand the obsession of reading as many books as possible in a year. Does that make you well read? Reading books should be enjoyable. Heck even if you read only 5 books in a year but yo..."

>>> Reading is very personal. People do it for many different reasons. Some people only read while the mood strikes, while some it's a responsibility (like for bloggers/reviewers)

No matter whatever reason one reads, putting a goal is a form of personal challenge. Some people like to challenge themselves, some people don't. So everyone has his/her own reason/right to do things that works for them and make them happy ;)

Mine is 100. And so far, I'm on my 20th book. Haha. Btw, now I'm hooked up with Pamela Clare and Linda Howard. Their works are so good. I think I'm gonna read them till I'm bored.

I don't like reading other genres, other than what I'm used to which is romance. I tried so many times but since I have the attention span of a goldfish, I avoid them. However I do have a problem with my ever growing tbr list. I did hear somewhere of this trick where you write the title of the books you haven't read yet on a piece of paper and put it in a bowl and blindly choose one. I might try that one day.

Wow! That's was fast! I'm sure you will reach your goal in no time!

Just like you, I too had a problem reading beyond my comfort zone (I love fantasy). I try to read others genre and it's only last for 3 days...

@Liely
Whaaat?! You're a machine hahah!

As for the blindly choosing a book, I could never do that. I have list of books I want to read, but I need to be in the mood to read a particular type of book :D So it depends on my emotional needs lol!

Liely wrote: "Mine is 100. And so far, I'm on my 20th book. Haha. Btw, now I'm hooked up with Pamela Clare and Linda Howard. Their works are so good. I think I'm gonna read them till I'm bored.

I don't like rea..."

Never too late!

warhawke wrote: "@Liely
Whaaat?! You're a machine hahah!

As for the blindly choosing a book, I could never do that. I have list of books I want to read, but I need to be in the mood to read a particular type of bo..."

Same here. I noticed I read much faster when it's the 'themed reading', for example, I get curious about the topic of time and perception of time and start reading books on the subject, then get tired and read a piece of fiction and get back into the flow of to-reads.

How do you choose which book to read next?

Olya wrote: "How do you choose which book to read next? ."

>>> Since I'm a reviewer, I try to read the latest releases first. But sometimes when I'm just not in the mood, I just go with whichever tickle my fancy at that moment lol!

I had set mine very low this year - 20. Reduced 10 from last year. 30 books last year had pushed me a lot and I was not enjoying the book very much. I had bought a couple of more-than-700-pages-Stephen-King books that I intended to enjoy and consume so a 20-target is good enough for me in 2016

My challenge for this year is 50 books, which might be a tad too ambitious considering half of what I read are 1000-pages tomes of fantasy fiction.
I read almost anything except for Romance and Poetry, but I don't feel inclined to venture into those for my challenge.

Even if I am not in the mood for a specific genre, I find that when I started, I will usually be engrossed in it if the book's decent. I also supplemented some of my history reading with some board games on the same topic and that makes it interesting as they can be dry reading sometimes.

@Jian
I have commitment issue. Series scares the shit out of me. Books more than 250 pages also makes me sweat hahah!

I have commitment issue. Series scares the shit out of me. Books more than 250 pages also makes me sweat hahah!

Those tomes let me form a deeper connection to the characters as I grow very attached to them :). Having said that, the story has to have meat and not just be a 1000-page book just for the sake of having a 1000 pages.

I'm so busy with my studies that 12 books this year would be epic enough for me. But I want to challenge myself to read different genre and such according to the popsugar challenge 2016. if I complete that...should be good for me.

And yes, I agree that it shouldn't be about how many books we read. Some books takes longer than others, some we read again, some is so draggy it feels like a nightmare. but I always force myself to finish. coz sometimes (not always) the ending suprises u.