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Jun. 1st, 2023 07:37 pmOn pointless milestones:
At some point either quite soon or in the middling distance, depending on the outcome of this, I will mark 3000 books read since I started counting in January 2005.
I am thinking I might read something special as the 3000th book.
But, should I:
a) count it as the 3000th book completed, even including rereads? (When I post my annual book counts this is including rereads.)
b) count it only when I read the 3000th discrete book?
If I go for a) then I hit 3000 this year, probably next month. If b), then more likely 2025, or very late 2024.
I don't know what I would read as a special book, either. I have already read the Booker of Bookers (Midnight's Children). Perhaps if I go for a) then I could reread a favourite book. I cannot think of anything that's coming out in the next year or so that I have been so eagerly awaiting that it could be 3000. I could read something completely out of character; I could read a classic everyone is supposed to have read. I could read the oldest book by a woman in English (Revelations of Divine Love, by Julian of Norwich). Or the oldest novel by a woman (or anyone), which is Tale of Genji. However, that is 1300 pages long. The Epic of Gilgamesh, on the other hand (which a cursory google, perhaps wrongly, suggests is the oldest literature), is conversely rather short. If I am reading while in Senegal, I could read Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter. Oh! or rather ugh. I suppose I could mark it by finally reading a book in stupid French.
Thoughts welcome, as are suggestions for books for 3000th or more generally.
At some point either quite soon or in the middling distance, depending on the outcome of this, I will mark 3000 books read since I started counting in January 2005.
I am thinking I might read something special as the 3000th book.
But, should I:
a) count it as the 3000th book completed, even including rereads? (When I post my annual book counts this is including rereads.)
b) count it only when I read the 3000th discrete book?
If I go for a) then I hit 3000 this year, probably next month. If b), then more likely 2025, or very late 2024.
I don't know what I would read as a special book, either. I have already read the Booker of Bookers (Midnight's Children). Perhaps if I go for a) then I could reread a favourite book. I cannot think of anything that's coming out in the next year or so that I have been so eagerly awaiting that it could be 3000. I could read something completely out of character; I could read a classic everyone is supposed to have read. I could read the oldest book by a woman in English (Revelations of Divine Love, by Julian of Norwich). Or the oldest novel by a woman (or anyone), which is Tale of Genji. However, that is 1300 pages long. The Epic of Gilgamesh, on the other hand (which a cursory google, perhaps wrongly, suggests is the oldest literature), is conversely rather short. If I am reading while in Senegal, I could read Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter. Oh! or rather ugh. I suppose I could mark it by finally reading a book in stupid French.
Thoughts welcome, as are suggestions for books for 3000th or more generally.
