This year I set up a goal of reading 50 books on Goodreads Reading Challenge. I thought 50 was a decent number; only 4-5 books per month. What I didn't take into account is the fact that in order to put a book on the list, you have to specify the date you finished reading it. Here's another fact: I read a lot of books, most of which are rereads or left unfinished. Of course, I can change the goal into a more reasonable number, but then I thought: hey I can do this.

And seeing from the progress today, indeed I can do it. But having a deadline for finishing a book, my friend, wasn't fun. Goodreads gave me this annoying message whenever I spent too much time not facing a book:
At your current pace, you are 1 book (2%) behind.
If anything, I hate being behind target.

Before this afternoon, I only had one more book to finish to complete the challenge. Kurt Gödel's biography Logical Dilemmas looked like a good choice for the 50th book. But then there's this chapter about Georg Cantor's work and I thought: screw this transfinite numbers, I'll read The Baby Sitters Club.

So, that's it. The book that completes my reading challenge is titled Stacey and the Cheerleaders. Oh well.

I don't think I will be doing reading challenge again next year; even if I do, maybe for only 20 books or so. The university library has more books than I could ever read in my entire life and I will be busy checking out those on math history and logic. Some might take ages and loan renewals to finish, some might be returned unfinished. Either way, I want to spend as much time as I like when reading a book.