/lit/ - Literature

>>14427483
No. I usually aim for 26. I have a few doorstoppers on my shelf to get through.

i just read as i please mr. cat resting in bed

>>14427483
Quality over quantity
Are you doing it for bragging rights to impress others

What good is reading if you are just rushing and you dont comprehend or absorb the contents of the book, you cant enjoy it and it doesnt make you smarter

>>14427483
Nope, probably just 30 like every year

>>14427483
Hell yeah I am.
I was at 20 books in mid October, and made it to 36 now cause I got tired of it all. Next year will be at least 52. Reading is an enjoyable hobby, but I sometimes fall out of the habit of having it as a daily routine.

I'm hoping for 30 but 52 would be cool

im gonna read only fiction and non-fiction next year. absolutely no self-help garbage. I read 6 self-helps in 2019 but can't remember a single thing but can you tell you every plot point of every fiction I read and every fact from non-fiction

fiction is the best vehicle for lessons and morals and introspection than self-help platitudes

>>14427499
Twenty six would be an improvement for me

>>14427483
Id honestly be pleased with 10 with schoolwork and all that

I'm gonna finally read the complete Shakespeare
Sorry that it has taken so long papa

I’m gonna read 10 :)

88 and I have a list of all of them.

>>14428253
post it teasefaggot

I don't set reading goals. It doesn't seem like a good thing to do, the moment I stop reading for enjoyment and for some number I decide is the moment I'd lose interest.

>>14427483
Eh. Fun over Quantity.

Are you starting with the greeks like I had done? Good. Are you starting One Piece? Alright.

>>14427483
That’s the plan. Already have my first 12 books lined up. But I’m also cheating...

I’ve already started Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Chekhov but I’m going to make sure I don’t finish it until the first of January for Goodreads logging purposes. That way it will credit to 2020.

My goal is to devote an hour a day this next year, instead of wasting the weekend just reading.

>>14427830
Self help is a meme dude

these reading goal threads always depress me

/lit/ really doesn't read -- 52 books a year as a ceiling and not a floor

What's the point of this? You just read and forget like a retard.

>>14427483
2020 goal is to write more, not read more

This is my list

>>14430627
Looking pretty based desu

Only started reading in Ernest in June this year. Read 30 (just over one a week) in that time. 2020 the aim is 70-100. Gives a floor of 70 (pretty doable with a pipe dream of the century

>>14427483
My aim is 30 as I have a pretty busy year ahead of me but 52 would be possible

>>14427483
No. Reading isn't really that important. I've learned a lot but it was mostly just a distraction from the desolation that is my life. I'm pretty sure the loneliness is never going to go away, but I'm not going to pretend that reading is of any greater benefit to me than any other surrogate activity

Get to a point with my Italian where i can begin reading whole novels, rather then the poems and short articles im doing now.

Read more English playwrights and dramatists. Not just Shakespeare but Etherege, John Ford, Congreve etc ...

Read less eclectically, spend more time with particular poets, namely: Auden, Eliot, Browning, Pope, Empson, Byron and Herbert.

Read some more travel literature. Particularly Patrick Leigh Fermor and Waugh.

Get through Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.

So yeah, just to be more focused then i was this year.

Do Turk Bros have access to 4channel?
What's some good Turkish (philosophically minded) literature? And I mean written originally in Turkish.

>>14429423
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I tend to mostly read textbooks, philosophy and biographies. I also tend to not read them in full, but that might not be all that bad.

I'll have to dig out decades old work on constructivist mathematics and I review it to make people aware.

In philosophy I jump between German Idealists and related works to find something that really clicks - that or some contemporary thinker who likes to incorporate their themes.

>>14427483
I'll aim for 12

>>14430627
What's the /?
And why do you want Whiteheads book on math?

My goal is to be able to read German much better. Self help books in German are super easy to read.

I also plan on diving into beauty and aesthetics. Finna cop me some Dietrich von Hildebrand

>>14427483
Aimed for 52 this year, ended up with 31. Next year's target is 36, 3 books per month. Or maybe rather some sort of page count, it captures way better the amount of time spent reading.

>>14427862
same
i'm content with 7 seeing as my shelf is sprawling with 400+ page books

Read 1 book every second.

Get a GF.

>>14431537
which one do you think is the most realistic?

>>14430656
Thanks.
>>14431023
I've arranged them partially chronologically. The slashes, or, the reason why some books are on the same line and our of chronological order, are because I believe that they are related and should be read along side each other.

>>14430627
A fine selection indeed, provided you can carry it out. Will provide a thorough foundation.

>>14428034
Don't forget his long poems.

>>14431731
I won't

>>14430627
Do you actually enjoy reading? Or are you just forcing yourself to read stuff you think you ought to have read?
Starting with the Greeks and chronologically making your way through the entire western canon is fine, but give yourself a break once in a while. Read something light and modern or even contemporary, you'll build up a tolerance.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe you'll get through it without much difficulty, but it's something to keep in mind.
Also is whatever's above the blank line what you've already read?