---------------------------------------- cheating at my reading goal January 01st, 2022 ---------------------------------------- A new year is here and a new reading goal is set. I'm sticking with my goal of 100 books like the last few years. It's attainable even if I hit a slump. Even so, to start my year off on a good note I like to read easy, quick stuff. Last year I read like 10-15 books of this Witch P.I. series that's honestly pretty terrible, but I just tear through it. It helps that the books are cozy as hell and nothing serious is ever at stake more than a knitting contest. This year I was thinking about what series to binge to get ahead. I'm just getting started on the Jill Kismet series (I have the whole thing in an omnibus). I also have the Alex Verus series of which I've read book one and will likely binge quickly. But instead of either of those I realized that my Calibre library has page numbers in it (because I'm diligent about good data). So... I'm going to sort by shortest book and clean house on a bunch of novellas I've been sitting on for years. I have about 20 books under 50 pages! If I want to read a bunch of the Shadow stories this year I could do my entire 100 and stay under 150 pages each. Wild! Such cheating! Hahaha. I'll mix it up soon enough and I don't stop at 100 books, so I'm not really cheating anything. This is just a little mental trick to help me feel like I'm well invested in reading for the year. My own motivation wanes if I fall behind schedule and it becomes increasingly hard to pick up my Kindle. It's best to stay well ahead of goal. Anyway, here I go!