reading challeng – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Wed, 01 Jan 2014 16:05:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg reading challeng – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 On the seventh day of Christmas: a new chapter https://shepline.com/2014/01/01/on-the-seventh-day-of-christmas-a-new-chapter/ https://shepline.com/2014/01/01/on-the-seventh-day-of-christmas-a-new-chapter/#respond Wed, 01 Jan 2014 16:05:36 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=5925
  • And so we reach 2014, and what a wet and bedraggled 2014 it looks to be so far. We stayed up for the fireworks last night and a small finger of whisky to see in the New Year but that was it. Today has been one for hibernating by te artificial fire, for reading books recently recieved and for editing.
  • I’ve set my Goodreads Reading Challenge for 2014. After last year’s success I did consider upping my target to 40 but I my average based on a decade of prior figures is still more like 14 or 15 and I even last year I only managed 39… so I’m still going to push myself but have opted for a hopefully more achievable 30 books. Hopefully my time on the buses will help me with that.
  • Particularly at Christmas time I like to have two books on the go: a fiction and a non-fiction. At the moment I’m reading Alphabetical by Michael Rosen and The Girl Who Rained by Ali Shaw.
  • Just after Christmas Day I got my novel, Mr Tumnal, back from the editor. I had a bit of a look but then, but I’m having a proper look now. I’ve not really spoken much about new year’s resolutions because I don’t really make them. However I have ambitions. One would be to continue to read more (or at least as much as last year); another would be publish Mr Tumnal this year (maybe ahead of my birthday in May?); and a third would be to lose more weight, further reduce the tummy, and be healthier.
    • ]]>     https://shepline.com/2014/01/01/on-the-seventh-day-of-christmas-a-new-chapter/feed/ 0     On the sixth day of Christmas: review of the year https://shepline.com/2013/12/31/on-the-sixth-day-of-christmas-review-of-the-year/ https://shepline.com/2013/12/31/on-the-sixth-day-of-christmas-review-of-the-year/#respond Tue, 31 Dec 2013 18:35:08 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=5920 At the beginning of 2013 I reset my perennial new year’s resolution to read more, and resolved once more to try and read 20 books this year.  Today I can report that I have smashed my target, ground my previous average over many years into the dust, and read an incredible 39 books! That’s 195% of my target! I love reading. 🙂

    Okay, so some of them are short picture books, and one might be my own work in progress (but I read it as a first-read novel…) but I think there’s a good mix of fiction and non-fiction, adult and children’s, and fantasy to other books in there. What I particularly like is there are some good re-reads in there. In previous year’s I would have been cautious of re-reading because of the need/time to read so many ‘new’ books.

    So why have succeeded this year when in previous years’ I haven’t? I put it down to the acquisition at the back-end of last year of my Kindle Fire tablet, and the banishment of the laptop (and thus much distraction) upstairs to the study. I’ve read variously and voraciously from paper books and ebooks, dovetailing it with my own writing. For reading, this year has been a good one.

    Tomorrow, I shall set my reading challenge for year ahead. Hopefully it will be more of the same.

     

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