finish reading all the books I own

Only got 3 books for my birthday this year. And started in one already.

So that’s 11 books in, 17 books read I own and haven’t read before. Quit a nice score.

The first half of the year wasn’t that bad.

I got two books as present. I bought two books two cheer myself up after hearing some bad news. I bought 4 other books. So that totals to 8.

So far this year I read 16 books which I owned already (or bought/got this year). So that’s 8 books from my TBR shelves.

However, next week is my birthday and I tend to get a lot of books. And then in at the end of august I’ll have to restrain myself. I usually go to a massive bookfair with a lot of books with more than 50% off. I’ll have to behave if I go, but it will be wiser not to go at all.

Yesterday I heard from the doctor that it will probably more than 2 or 3 months before I can start working out againd. I felt really bummed out. I wanted to cheer myself up and almost got myself some really good chocolate, but then I realized that wasn’t such a good idea because the not being able to work out will probably effect my weight in a not so pleasent way enough as it is.

So…. I bought two books instead. They were on my wish list for quit a while, and have read 5 books this year already that were waiting for me from my TBR pile. Combining this with my doctors visit makes it all okay for me!

Still working on this goal, I only bought 2 or 3 books after I posted my last entry. And read another 10 or 12 books. So I am well on my way.

For this year I hope to read about 50 books, 40 of which I would like to read of the “to-be-read” shelve currently present in my bookshelves.

Have read the first book, and read a book I borrowed. A book from the shelve is next! So 2008 is starting off nicely!

Still have like 125 or so to go however…

A Ducth saying states that a good start is half the work (een goed begin is het halve werk). Therefore I decided to go to a massive book manifestation where new books were sold for really low prices. There I bought a staggering 18 books (for 75 euro’s, which is practically nothing!), so I’m really happy. However, this bring the score, for this moment, to owing 278 novels, and still having to read 140. I’ve only read slightly more than half. Not so good, especially since I’ve not counted my books in the popular science category. That would probably tip it over in to more books that I’ve not read than books that I’ve read.

Therefore, my subgoal to achieve this goal is to read 3 books I already own and than buy just 1 new one. Saying I’m not allowed to buy anymore books will just be impossible to keep up, and hopefully this will motivate me to read more, and spend less time watching tv!