[Mission 101] I'm at it again

[deana_in_texas]

I finished my previous attempt at mission101 back in August with very little fanfare. I didn't even make a post about it. I learned quite a bit about myself during the experience and decided I would give it another go. Originally I wanted to start on December 1, but I had some trouble finishing up my list. I spent a lot of time on it today and I'm pretty

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[i_hate_music]

should have put the 50 Banned Books That Everyone Should Read on my list, too, dammit!

[deana_in_texas]

Heh yeah they are pretty great. If you have a reading goal you could always change it to "read X books (10 of which must be from the 50 banned books..." But not sure how you feel about modifying your list - some people are more ok with it than others.

[i_hate_music]

Thanks. But, um: http://i-hate-music.livejournal.com/259139.html
Here's my list if you scroll down to the "books" part you can probably see why adding another one of these would just be kind of TOO much. i ll remember it for next time, though.

[deana_in_texas]

Wow, nice! You must be quite the reader! I really wish I had time for goals like that :/ Are you allowing some of your goals to overlap, like if you read a book by X then it also counts as one of your 500 books? Or are these 500 books different from the books read for the other goals (I've seen it done both ways, but I prefer the first just because... I'm lazy? I dunno)

[i_hate_music]

oh yeah, they definitely count towards the goal! i mean, its already down to an average of two books a day, if i added all the other ones seperately it would be, uh, crazy!

Im looking forward to a few short books on my list. I sometimes wish I wasnt so much into heavy stuff/classics/philosophy. If I enjoyed stupid chic lit novels now and then I'd do this so much quicker. But of course, since they actually bore me reading just a short one like this makes me want to shoot myself.

[deana_in_texas]

Yeah I have the same problem. I've been told the reason I can't read 50 books in a year is because I am reading the wrong books. Which to a point, they are right - I got through a "chick lit" book recently in about 3 hours. If I did all the books like that, I could read a hell of a lot more books.

I wouldn't say those books -bore- me ... every so often they are good for a change of pace and if I'm really stressed with work/school/life they are good because they don't require much thought. But as an all the time thing, I think they would drive me bananas.