Correction

Upon going through my library on Excel and reorganizing, I have a correction to make. There are only about 240 books I have to read, not 300. This is because:

1. The original list included a LOT of duplicate books (e.g. both hardcover and paperback editions of the same book).

2. It also included books I never read as a child (a few in the American Girls series, for example, and some Tamora Pierce). I recategorized most of these children's books because, quite frankly, I'll probably be donating a lot of them to libraries rather than reading them.

3. There have also been a few books I've sold on Amazon. This project has caused me to sift through books and evaluate whether I'll ever read them. For example, I recently sold Philippa Gregory's Wideacre because reading it the first time, I couldn't finish due to the explicit incest going on. Normally I try to keep an open mind, but I just had absolutely zero interest in reading it. So rather than either forcing myself to read it or never truly achieving my goal of reading ALL of my books, I just sold it. Another example: At a harvest festival a few years ago, I bought some ancient Jean Plaidy paperbacks for 25 cents apiece. Some of them were parts of a series. At the time of their purchase, I didn't realize the series were out of print. So rather than purchasing the rest of the series, I just have been selling them.

So the plan remains to keep chugging along. I'll read all the stand-alone novels by themselves first, without buying any new books. Toward the end of this project, however, I have determined that I will indeed have to buy a few books. This is because I have some incomplete (and in print) series that will need to be filled in. For example, I have the first 3 books in the Outlander series. I've read the first. When I finally get around to reading the rest of the series, I'm going to be finishing the WHOLE series, not just the first 3. So I'll need to purchase the other books.

So there's an update for you! I'm still rereading Harry Potter, so there's nothing new at the moment. Next week I'll have finished 2 books, so there will be 2 updates. Until then!