/lit/ - Literature

>>14263601
Well done Macquart
-Omar

>>14263601
its my first year getting into reading and im going to finish the year with 20

>>14263687
Gj Fren! I stuck to 20-25 books for my first 3 years of reading. This year it will be 35, and next hopefully 52. We're all gonna make it.

>>14263601
My goal was 50, I don't think I will reach the goal. I've read 38 and I'll be very fucking busy until Christmas.

I'm hoping to read a few more. I'm currently reading The Portrait (Joyce) and Leaves of Grass (Whitman).

>>14263687
not bad for a first year
you'll figure your taste out rapidly

>>14263717
the 4 consecutive years of reading is impressive desu

>>14263724
just update your goal to, like 41 or 42
it will make it easier to reach if you see it in baby steps

>>14263675
thank you my japan enthusiast friend

>>14263601
Might break 100 but I doubt it. Around 90 now.

Couldn’t do it this year boys. There’s always next time

>>14264106
Damn forgot pic

>>14263601
Do short stories count to my reading count?

I'll probably end up at 23.

i lost a couple of months to alcohol, but i'm doing better now and i think i should hit my yearly target of 50 if i don't succumb

any slow readers itt?
it literally took me a year to read Lolita

>>14264143
The problem isn't that you're a slow reader, it's that you just don't read. I'm a slow reader and I'm at a 120 books this year and this is because I read all day long. Don't act like the fact that it took you a year to read a 300 page book is just some weird quirk that's out of your control. You read less than 1 page per day because you're retarded and you had no idea what was going on by the time you got to the end of the book because your working memory will not stretch that far back in time. You effectively haven't read anything.

I wanted to read a book on 2019 and I think I'm doinh fine so far.

>>14263601
I think I only read 20. I stopped counting after 10

The Mimi I got 52 I basically stoped reading that much this was I bad choice to start.

>>14264143
Tf? How can you be so slow? I'm painfully slow but books like Lolita at 300-400 pages are perfect for me because I can finish them in a week with one sitting per day.

>>14264075
i'll never know how people can read this much.
props

>>14264111
there's still time for a million of soft core erotica

>>14264124
yes
i just trust goodreads

>>14264130
you could push to 24 (two books a month, on average)
but props for reading big books

>>14264131
>lost a couple of months to alcohol
truly living the /lit/ life i see

>>14264169
>I read all day long
are you a neet? how do you afford it? share your secrets

>>14264143
a mind trick would be to force yourself to read 1 page every night
once you've read one, the brain will be too lazy to switch to some other activity

>>14264239
>only
that's good enough desu

>>14264256
>Mimi
who's mimi and why don't you make sense
do you have brain damage
are you saying that reading 52 is too much to appreciate it?

>>14264169
no need to get so defensive, i wasnt trying to act like it was out of my control or anything
and i dont know why youre projecting your shitty memory, i can literally recite certain passages i really liked from the text from memory
>>14264261
i simply dont have time to read everyday, once i got off on break earlier this week i finished another book (about half the length of Lolita) in just a few days

read 32 books so far, right now finishing Faust part II

Am at 86.

Should break 100.

Props to everyone hitting their goals. :-)

>>14263601
First year, started in March and I'm at 51 books, at an average 310 pages /book.

>>14264981
Congrats Anon, how many hours do you read daily?

>>14265026
Phoneposter 2.0 reporting in

>>14263601
hope i can manage to hit the 100.
i had 70 in the first half of the year, than plunged into mild drug abuse and apathetic state of wasting time inertly. never again.

>>14264124
i include short story collections in my list if i've read over 50-70% of stories in it, as a single book of course

I'm at 48 but I read mostly short stuff this year. Working through Fear and Trembling right now. I can probably hit 50 before the year is up.

>>14265099
forgot to add: i'm at 94 or 95 right now, can't access my reader's diary to check.
it's a book i've bound while learning how to sew a text block, utilized it for good, very comfy format for brief thoughts and sketches

Just look at this mindless peacocking. People who have to scratch out another tally mark in public because actually discussing the books they have read is totally beyond them.

It's pathetic, really.

>>14265140
lol this

>>14265140
We have separate threads for that brainlet.

>>14265140
90% of the threads on /lit/ in the last month weren’t even remotely on topic, stfu and go bitch in one of our daily blogpost threads

>>14265004
3.

I'm a pretty slow reader if you do the maths...

>>14265140
Bragging about # of books read is healthy. Encourages you to read, and shames others into reading more. Win/win.

>>14265476
>Encourages you to read, and shames others into reading more
perhaps, but i feel like if youre reading books because people on an anonymous vietnamese tamadachi maintenance forum are reading more than you are, then you might be reading for less than legitimate reasons

>>14265508
Who cares if it gets people reading.

>>14265522
well, its kinda like putting a monkey in a suit

>>14265140
i try and discuss books here but most people are more interested in 'philosophy' and identity politics these days

I read like a third of what I read last year. But I think I can push 2 or 3 more books on December.

>>14264143
I've been on Les Miserables for two months now, only a third through. Fucking school is raping me hard

>>14265540
same, anon
what are you studying?

>>14265547
A bunch of bullshit, how about you?

>>14263601
need to finish democracy in america + some poetry books

I have read two books :)

>>14265729
which ones?

>>14265578
EE, taking 17 hours with three math classes rn, taking 18 in the spring
hang in there, anon, you can do it! c:

I started reading this year again for the first time since high school assigned books (well, I did read VNs in the meanwhile, but no "actual books").

First book I started on the 20th of June so this is about 5 months now, pretty satisfied. Many of them are shorter books I know, but it's not a bad result I think. Next year I'm gonna gun for 30 since I will start from January but I also wanna try reading more longer books.

>>14264131
How was the Laszlo K. book

>>14263601
I'm doing bad, won't be able to reach 80. Nevermind though. Gonna read some Shakespeare plays so at least it should be a year of great discoveries. It better be.

>>14265881
Excellent job anon, keep it up. I don't like seeing Douglas Adams on there, though.

>>14265762
The Little Prince and Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman.

>>14263601
Is this goodreads? Where do I look at this?