もともとあまり本を読むのが早いほうではないんだけど、英語で本を読むのは、慣れてはきたけど、時間はかかる。今読んでいるのはロバート・ジョーダンの「時の車輪」というファンタジーシリーズで、このシリーズ、なんと15冊もあるのです。長いよ、長すぎるよ、このシリーズ。（日本語訳版は1冊の本を5冊ぐらいの文庫に分けて出版されているらしい）今3巻目を読んでるんだけど、毎月1冊読めば今年中にシリーズ全巻制覇できるのです。
全巻制覇できるように頑張ります。
Let's follow the rule of goal setting: declaring it out loud and making it measurable.
My new year's resolution for 2019 is to read one book a month. I always made it my goal but almost never followed through.
You see, I grew up as a bookworm. I liked reading and I read quite a lot of books as a child. However, my reading habit sadly disappeared when I moved to the U.S. I was learning English so reading in English was itself a chore, and my reading speed was a snail's pace so it took a looooong time to read anything (it still does). I spent hours every day reading text books for school and I had no time for pleasure reading.
My reading speed in English is still quite slow. I'm kind of a person who reads out loud in my head. If you know any speed reading technique, you know that's not how you are supposed to read if you want to read fast.
Anyway, one book a month. I have set this goal before, and I'm setting it again for this year. One difference though, is that this year, it's a bit more specific: I am trying to finish reading The Wheel of Time series this year.
The Wheel of Time series is a fantasy novel by Robert Jordan, who unfortunately passed away after Book 11, so the last 3 books were finished by Brandon Sanderson. It is a series of 14 books plus a prequel, so 15 books total. Yup, it's a big series.
The Man of the House had been recommending me to read it for years, and I actually got a Book 1 from a library few years ago. Sadly, I could not get into the book; maybe the slow pace, maybe how the story unfolded at the beginning, I don't know why, but I just wasn't into it. I extended my loan twice (1 loan is for 3 weeks) which was the maximum time I could keep the book, and I only read less than a third of the book.
Then last year, MOTH got me a Windows Surface Pro, which is sort of like a hybrid of laptop and a tablet, and he loaded it with the entire series of the Wheel of Time.
I wanted to see what it was like to read a book on a e-reader, so I gave it a try. And this time, I started from Book 0, a prequel.
Well, what can I say; it was much more pleasurable reading the prequel, and it was much easier reading the Book 1 after that.
In 2018, I tried to read 1 chapter a day. Each book has about 50 chapters so with the days I didn't read, it was taking about 2 months to read a book. I haven't been reading much for the past couple of months with all the moving, and I am still in the middle of Book 3. At this rate, I would be reading the series for the next couple of years. I like reading books, but I like reading different books than reading one story for so many years!
Hence my goal for 2019: I will cut back on my YouTube watching time, and devote more time on reading. If I can read 1 book a month, I can finish reading the Wheel of Time in 2019.
Now I have said it, and that's a very measurable goal, isn't it? I shall report back on the progress.
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