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2015 Goals/Mini-Challenges

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1lorax
Déc 22, 2014, 10:29 am

It's that time of year again! Anyone still participating? Any goals for 2015, either for reading or for updating your threads?

2lorax
Déc 22, 2014, 10:32 am

I'll start. My 2014 goal was to read one new section in each class. I liked the enforced breadth a lot, so I'm going to do the same thing this year. I'm also going to try to focus on new divisions, and get at least five. (Obviously these can overlap substantially - in fact, I already have four picked out, in four different classes, so I may be able to get both goals with just ten books.)

3AnnaClaire
Déc 22, 2014, 11:07 am

Well, I'm sort of participating. It's on hold for a while since my reading involves a lot of textbooks right about now. The upside is that I think I'll have my degree a year from now, provided CUNY doesn't pull something stupid. And I might make some progress in January (no class) and the summer (probably won't have anything I need again).

4lucien
Déc 26, 2014, 1:25 am

I think my first goal for 2015 is to keep up with posting as I read (rather than the dump of books I still need to add for this year).

Other than that, I find I still need to set a goal to read one new section (preferably new division) from the 0xx, 1xx, 2xx, and 4xx classes which are my least read.

I'd also like to add a new section from the 800s as I didn't have any new ones here this year.

5lorax
Déc 30, 2014, 2:10 pm

New sections from the 8xx are surprisingly difficult! I started a thread a few months ago where there are some suggestions; you might find it useful.

6fundevogel
Modifié : Sep 30, 2015, 10:34 pm

I would like to get through 5-10 of these books which are already occupying my shelves.

070 Just the Facts - David Mindich
070 All Over But the Shoutin' - Rick Bragg
070 The Reporter's Handbook - John Ullmann
155 The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
193 The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: The Early Years - Bertrand Russell
284 Luther's Table Talk - Preserved Smith
291 The Golden Bough - James George Frazer
299 Forests of the Vampire - Charles Phillips
303 Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
421 Righting the Mother Tongue - David Wolman
438 Mastering German - A. J. Peck
438 German Grammar - Eric Greenfield
438 Essentials of German Grammar in Review - Roselinde Konrad
438 German in a Nutshell - Henry Regensteiner Ph.D.
491 English Grammar for Students of Russian - Edwina Cruise
491 The Russian's World: Life And Language - Generva Gerhart
590 Kingdom Under Glass - Jay Kirk
610 Charlatan - Pope Brock
818 Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
828 The Mystery of Lewis Carroll - Jenny Woolf
853 The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
863 Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
896 The Devil on the Cross - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
900 Bloody Foreigners - Robert Winder
909 Laxdaela Saga - Anonymous
963 Dead Men Do Tell Tales - Byron Khun de Prorok
974 The Sun and the Moon - Matthew Goodman
978 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown

7lorax
Juin 30, 2015, 2:01 pm

>6 fundevogel:

It looks like you've already got eight down and we're only halfway through the year! That's great!

8lorax
Nov 19, 2015, 10:34 am

As for me, I'm currently reading the last one for both my "one new section in each class" and "five new divisions" mini-challenges, so while I'm not exactly going to have oodles of time to spare I am going to make it. I'm already thinking about 2016, and will probably repeat the same goal (which means a little strategizing for what to read next month and not reading another new division!)

9lorax
Nov 25, 2015, 1:21 pm

All done! Here's what I ended up with (for some classes I read more than one new section this year, in which case the one listed is the one I read first):

0xx The Story of Libraries
1xx Descartes' Bones
2xx The Happy Atheist
3xx Escape from Camp 14
4xx The Story of Spanish
5xx The Kingdom of Rarities
6xx On Paper
7xx The Elgin Affair
8xx Sunjata
9xx Surviving Paradise