50 Book Challenge Update
I have reached and now surpassed my 50 book challenge for the year, coming squeakily close to doing it by the end of June, if it hadn’t been for the overlong Prep. Since I managed to reach my goal just past the middle of the year, I have re-evaluated. In general, the goal is a good one–approximately one book a week for a year. But I also read graphic novels and teen fiction, both of which are usually very fast reads. I wondered if I should stop counting these books, and only list the so-called adult books. Yet that seems unfair. They may be faster to read, but they’re still books, and books deserving of wider attention and appreciation than they’re usually given. Based on my personal choice of reading matter, I think a goal of 100 books for the year would be a more suitable challenge. It would urge me to read, on average, one “big” book and one young adult or graphic novel a week. The new goal, then, is 100 books for the year. I’m already behind!
July 20th, 2005 at 5:13 pm
maybe instead of adding them all into the same 100, you could make the goal 50 books + 50 graphic/YAs. so that you give yourself credit for them, but not necessarily the same level of credit. (thus you might just miss the book goal, but go way over on the G/YA goal. or some other split-up outcome.)
July 20th, 2005 at 8:32 pm
That still implies that graphic novels and YA literature are somehow at best different from, if not less than, so-called real books. They’re dismissed, derided and ghettoized enough that I don’t want to replicate that in any way.