CrunchyChocobo https://www.crunchychocobo.com Books, Games, Gadgets, and Life with the CrunchyChocobo Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:15:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.crunchychocobo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-favicon-32x32.png CrunchyChocobo https://www.crunchychocobo.com 32 32 63456164 Failing My 2015 Book Challenge Because Comics https://www.crunchychocobo.com/2015/07/failing-my-2015-book-challenge-because-comics/ https://www.crunchychocobo.com/2015/07/failing-my-2015-book-challenge-because-comics/#respond Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:15:30 +0000 http://www.crunchychocobo.com/?p=737 Not doing so hot with my book reading challenge I imposed upon myself earlier this year. I blame comics. After all, comic books don't really count as books.

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]]> For whatever reason, I decided to take on a book reading challenge from GoodReads at the start of the year. The goal is to read 2 books a month, which is fairly low, but considering how I spend most of my free time in front of a video game console, I figured this was the most reasonable. Plus, I really wanted to get back into reading books more often. I used to read 1-2 books a week, and before this challenge, I barely cracked a cover on anything. Perhaps if I had a goal, I could motivate myself to read more.

I started off with a failure, but then I really picked up speed and was doing so well. And then July hit, and suddenly my motivation has just plummeted to do, well, anything outside of work. I am reading a rather large book that I like, but I can’t pull it together enough to sit down to read it.

And, well, lately I have another distractor that’s taking me away from reading a proper book: comics.

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Lots of people on GoodReads count comic books as books they have read, and while I can justify a bit of it for the trade paperback collections, I can’t do the same for single issues. (Otherwise, I’d be tearing through this book challenge.) Right now, thanks to a lovely birthday gift, I am reading all of the back issues of the Mortal Kombat X comic series. 30 issues are available, and I’ve been staying up rather late the last few nights trying to read as much as I can before the eyes get too heavy. I have about 10 more issues to go, and while I’ll probably finish it tonight, I know I’ll dive into a few other trades I picked up instead of the book I’m supposed to be reading.

Of course I’m not serious in insinuating that comic books don’t count as real books. Comic books are definitely real books, but it’s kind of cheating to say that a 32-page comic book counts the same as a 200-page novel. However, I did buy some trades recently, which are close to 200 pages so those can count, right? Don’t you glare at me, GoodReads, and you keep your guilt to yourself.

I’M DOING THE BEST I CAN, DAMMIT.

Oooooh, look at all of the The Flash collections I haven’t read yet…

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