How has your progression been?
This is the first year I've signed up for a reading challenge, because I don't like to set myself targets. They seem great to me really: I can easily motivate myself, I like long term goals and working towards them, as well as never setting myself unachievable targets. I tend to set them more as a way to maintain what I have already managed. The reason I would rarely set them is that if I missed the target, it would only be by a small amount and I'd really get on my own nerves for having done that.
However, I did sign up to read 50 books this year (via goodreads) and I am on top of it at the moment. In fact, I'm ahead. But I expect to fall behind now I've started school. Ah, well. 'twas good while it lasted.
Q. Do you have a favorite series that you read over and over again? Tell us a bit about it and why you keep on revisiting it.
Yes, yes and yes! Until I started really reading properly (this year) I used to be re-reading all the time. I've read Harry Potter more times than I can count, I read The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver at least thrice, His Dark Materials four times and, my most re-read, the Belgariad and the Mallorean. I must have read them into the twenties.The reason I re-books tends to be because I can't really get over the fact the book finished. The characters, with whom I've enjoyed many hours laughing and crying with, forever call me back. This is first year that I haven't read The Belgariad and Mallorean in a long time, but I want to. I just feel I can't because I always have a new book I could read and I feel I must read. I kind of think I might set aside a month each year for any re-reads I want. I have many books I want to re-read too because I was so in love with them (e.g. To Kill a Mockingbird) while I want to re-read ones I've read and disliked to see if my opinion has changed (e..g Dorian Gray.
Happy Hopping everyone! I hope I was at least bearably interesting.
