I set myself quite a number of reading challenges this year. I met my main goal of 100 books for the year, and I completed the 2nds challenge. For the rest, I’ve decided to make my goals slightly more reasonable, partly so that I’ll have room for some of the other interesting challenges that have cropped up.

World Lit Challenge: I actually love this challenge, and I think it will probably be an annual thing. It forced me to search out new authors I wouldn’t otherwise have heard of, and encouraged me to read books I might otherwise have avoided.

Looking over the list of books I read this year, it seems that quite a few turned out to be favourites, and there are only 3 I didn’t like (Reading Lolita in Tehran, Like Water for Chocolate, and Portrait in Sepia, if anyone’s interested.)

I managed to finish 26 books. While that falls far short of my goal of 50, it works out to one book every two weeks, which isn’t bad at all. So I’ve decided to renew the World Lit Challenge for 2008 and read a further 26 books in 2008.

Sci-fi Classics Challenge and Fantasy Classics Challenge: I’m definitely not going to meet my stated goal of 25 books for each challenge by June 2008, so I’m lowering my goal for each to 10 books.

Tags: Fantasy Classics Challenge, Sci-Fi Classics Challenge, World Lit Challenge