A considerable amount of people dislike setting goals for their hobbies. For them, the goals realign their relaxing pastimes into stressful, quasi-competitive undertakings. This is easily understandable — different strokes for different folks.
Others, like me, take pleasure and profit from setting goals. We consider goals muy bueno because they help provide direction and motivation to make progress within our hobbies. This is well-understood, and yet I opted to waste everyone’s time and explain the obvious. Forgive me.
Are you considering setting a reading goal for next year? If so, please share it in this thread.
The past few years I’ve set out to read (on average) a book a week, and I’m aiming to hit that mark again. In addition, I would like to become better acquainted with a particular genre I’ve largely neglected: the crime novel. So I put together a list of ten (interesting to me) crime novels I hope to read before 2026 wraps up.
They are:
Others, like me, take pleasure and profit from setting goals. We consider goals muy bueno because they help provide direction and motivation to make progress within our hobbies. This is well-understood, and yet I opted to waste everyone’s time and explain the obvious. Forgive me.
Are you considering setting a reading goal for next year? If so, please share it in this thread.
The past few years I’ve set out to read (on average) a book a week, and I’m aiming to hit that mark again. In addition, I would like to become better acquainted with a particular genre I’ve largely neglected: the crime novel. So I put together a list of ten (interesting to me) crime novels I hope to read before 2026 wraps up.
They are:
- Double Indemnity - James M. Cain
- Hard Rain Falling - Don Carpenter
- The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Marathon Man - William Goldman
- The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
- Angels - Denis Johnson
- Defending Jacob - William Landay
- The Lodger - Marie Belloc Lowndes