While the reading challenge I think I’d most succeed in is the one on RuPaul’s drag race… I’ve started a new personal challenge that’s sure to keep me busy.
As you may know, I’m an organization freak. I love a good spreadsheet and “completing” collections. So when I say I have over 1,000 books I know I have 1,167 in 32 boxes.
The last thing I want to do is unload all those boxes onto shelves and then, at some point in the future, repack slightly dustier volumes when I move next.
So I got the idea to read my books. Groundbreaking, I know. But I mean ALL my books from the Art of War to 2020’s newest release. I’m starting with the easiest ones, paperback books to young readers that I collected as a kid and once loved.
I am finding that some are as charming as I recall, even though they’re nearly 100 years old, and some have NOT aged well at all and are barely 40 years old.
While I work on this challenge I have a few guidelines:
1 – I’m unpacking books as I read them, which should give me plenty of time to source and install my office bookshelves.
B – The only new books I can buy are ones that complete a series. This should be somewhat affordable since most of my series are older, though there is one volume left that is $70-150 in a great series that I can’t bring myself to purchase.
3 – I’m tracking all of the books I finish on Goodreads where I have all of my books on a “to be read” list. This was mostly so I can look up books at stores and find out if I already own them or not but now I’m going to crush that 2020 reading goal.