Do you set goals like reading a certain number of books in a year? Participate in reading challenges?
I don’t set goals around reading a certain number of books. Those have always seemed arbitrary and not helpful for my reading. I have done reading challenges in the past, though—the yearly Book Riot Read Harder Challenge, the yearly reading challenge from PopSugar, book bingo. I like those types of challenges for helping me to break out of my comfort zone and try new authors and genres! I’ve also made my own challenges. What are some of your favorite reading challenges?
Not for me, I read when I feel like it. I don’t want it to feel like work or an obligation. Sometimes I’ll go months without a book, other times I’m inhaling them like oxygen (went through about 10 books on trans topics in about a week using ebooks from the library awhile back). After suffering Hegel in my philosophy days, everything feels like light reading in comparison lol. As I’ve gotten older, I find I have more of an attention span for informative non-fiction versus reading fiction for pleasure. I scratch my fiction itch with TV/films and video games.