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How far ahead do you plan your reading?

I plan. I don't stick to it much, but I still plan.

When I came to Spain three months ago, I brought two English language books with me, so I planned to read those. I haven't read them yet.

Like Polly, I'm studying literature modules, so my reading is pretty much set with regards to that, and those texts seem to take up all my time.
 
I have a bookshelf with five shelves filled with many books I haven't yet read but will get around to eventually. That's my plan.
 
I am a slow reader so forgive my short list for 2010:

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (309 pp) - 12
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (493 pp) - 20
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (533 pp) – 21
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (260 pp) - 26
The Tin Drum by Güntar Grass (589 pp) - 23
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Brothers Karamazov By Fyodor Dostoevsky (702 pp) - 28
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (654 pp) - 26
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (246 pp) - 10
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (206 pp) - 8
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (335 pp) - 13
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (362 pp) - 14
Independent People by Halldor Laxness (461 pp) - 22
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (211 pp) - 8
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (694 pp) - 28
Animal Farm by George Orwell (139 pp) - 5
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (442 pp) - 18
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (165 pp)
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle (226 pp) - 9
Atonement by Ian McEwan (351 pp) - 14
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (215 pp) - 8
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My goal is to read at least all the books on this list.
 
steffee said:
I plan. I don't stick to it much, but I still plan.

When I came to Spain three months ago, I brought two English language books with me, so I planned to read those. I haven't read them yet.

Like Polly, I'm studying literature modules, so my reading is pretty much set with regards to that, and those texts seem to take up all my time.
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I buy books I want to read all the time but then the mandatory reading gets in the way and I don't have any time left.
 
Not very far ahead. I usually have an idea about the next 2 or 3 books I want to read, but that can change when I finish my current book.
 
how i plan my reading

I plan my reading around 2 things:

Free weekends
Vacations

I basically look at which free weekends and vacations I have planned, and then push my book schedule to work around those...
 
I don't plan that far ahead, however, I do have a stack of emergency books (3 at the moment) that I keep around just in case I haven't figured out what I want to read next.
 
While I have over 150 books on my To Be Read list, I don't plan very far ahead. I usually know which book I'm going to read next when I'm about half way through the book I'm currently reading.
 
I never plan reading, just pick up one from my bookshelf depending on my mood. However, I have four books left unread from my last purchase, while my recently bought five are on their way to reach me. I think its high time I finish with the earlier ones.
 
I have like 5 books I plan on reading, but can't until I graduate the border patrol academy :( no time to read anything other than immigration law lol:(
 
I plan ahead very accordingly; rather than keeping a record of it on paper, I etch it into memorization. I already apperceive that tonight I will finish Dear John and will begin Romeo and Juliet tomorrow. Then I will read New Moon the next day, and afterward finish Eclipse, and so on. Since my ambition is to read one book a day (on average) it is fairly easy for me to comprehend the next book I will read.
 
I don't really plan. Usually, I read 4-5 books at a time and just cycle through as necessary. Some books bore me so I kind of struggle to finish them. I usually keep a stack of books from random book sales, so I'm never really without books.
 
Just finished a book tonight. I picked up one book, put it down for another, and then replaced it with a third book. Interesting how my level of commitment changed in under three minutes, LOL.
 
SFG75 said:
Just finished a book tonight. I picked up one book, put it down for another, and then replaced it with a third book. Interesting how my level of commitment changed in under three minutes, LOL.
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Mood is everything Brother Reader:flowers:
 
Just one book ahead (see sig below) in nearly all cases...but I might, just might, read some Bernard Malamud after I am done with the Marquez novel.
 
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