Sometime mid August, I made my reading goal for the year of 100 books. I've cruised on through and am about to hit 110. This early success has taught me two things: 1. I really love reading 2. I need more guidelines for next year.
Much of my reading this year has been in the form of YA novels and Middle Readers. This has been immensely helpful in my quest to get the right book in the hands of the right kid at the right time. However this reading material is also artificially inflating my count of books. I can blast through a middle reader in 2 or 3 hours, I can read most YA titles in about a day, but a book intended for an adult audience can take me anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks.
So clearly, my current reading habits make it much easier to hit a goal of 100 than if I were limiting myself to books intended for adults. I don't mean to diminish my achievement. I'm completely stoked to have met my goal this year. I worry though that I will get a little lopsided in my reading habits. So next year I think I will have to come up with some ratios or somesuch.
Anyway. Yay!
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