The Bookworm Challenge discussion

Anybody set any personal reading goals aside from the challenges in our group?

I have decided that this year I want to read a few of the "big" books on my physical shelves (not e-books).
Right now my goal is to read Infinite Jest and the Wheel of Time series. (Read the first 3 a few years ago but will give it another try.) The other big ones are on my reread list - Les Miserables and Lord of the Rings. Also want to get through a couple of my Charles Dickens collection that have been collecting a little dust lately.

My main goal for this year is to finish/catch up on some series, and make significant progress in others. I'm going to fulfill as many of the challenge prompts as I can with series. I'm hoping to finish 20 series, but most only have 1-2 books left in them, so it should be an attainable goal.

I'm considering reading The Count of Monte Cristo this year as my "big" classic. I didn't do a big one last year, so I'd like to get back to tackling one of those per year.

Rhonda wrote: "My main goal for this year is to finish/catch up on some series, and make significant progress in others. I'm going to fulfill as many of the challenge prompts as I can with series. I'm hoping to f..."

Coincidentally, I had just mentioned to my husband that I had The Count of Monte Cristo and The Hunchback of Notre Dame on my shelf for many years and hadn't read either of them - I might just tackle one of them as well.

i LOVE the count of monte cristo and fully support your goals of reading it haha

My goal is to read more of the books i own! mostly the ones i havent read yet, but a couple re-reads as well. i re-read the first 2 lotr last year, so one more to go..

Larger books are my goal as well. I would like to get my average book read to close to 400 pages. I also want to read as many from my TBR list as I can. So, yay for the TBR category on Bookworm! Oddly, I've been thinking about re-reading the Count of Monte Cristo as well.

One of the ideas I was considering for the group this year was a quarterly buddy read of a book from one of the Challenges. From the chat on this thread, it sounds like a buddy read of The Count of Monte Cristo from the Classics challenge might be in order.... Anyone interested in doing this as a buddy read?

Stephanie wrote: "One of the ideas I was considering for the group this year was a quarterly buddy read of a book from one of the Challenges. From the chat on this thread, it sounds like a buddy read of [book:The Co..."

I am!

Stephanie wrote: "One of the ideas I was considering for the group this year was a quarterly buddy read of a book from one of the Challenges. From the chat on this thread, it sounds like a buddy read of [book:The Co..."

I would give it a try.

My main goal this year is to complete the PBS Great American Read list. I have just over 20 books to complete that. I'd also like to read more of the physical books on my book shelves. I'm really grateful for the direction that The Bookworm Challenge gives me.

I highly recommend the The Count of Monte Cristo too! Loved it. My goal is to try to mix up my genres more. I want at least 30% of my books to be non-fiction and of the literary variety. Sometimes I keep just reading mysteries, sci-fi or fantasy.

Linda wrote: "My main goal this year is to complete the PBS Great American Read list. I have just over 20 books to complete that. I'd also like to read more of the physical books on my book shelves. I'm really g..."

A few weeks ago I attacked my bookshelves and pulled a bunch of them off and stacked them in plain sight so I'd read them sooner! I went for the ones that I've been meaning to read or reread for ages. It's working lol

Stephanie wrote: "One of the ideas I was considering for the group this year was a quarterly buddy read of a book from one of the Challenges. From the chat on this thread, it sounds like a buddy read of [book:The Co..."

A great idea!