Comments on: 2025 goals, one month in

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:18:38 +0000

In reply to Anne.

@Anne- hilarious…reading a set piece on knots at 2 a.m. or something…I love Moby Dick.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:40:18 +0000

New Bedford! If you ever use Moby Dick as a yearly reading goal, the New Bedford Whaling Museum does a 24 hour readaloud marathon every January and anyone can take part (signups are in the fall).

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:15:56 +0000

In reply to Mandy. @Mandy- it reads pretty quickly so one doesn't *need* to read it one chapter at a time. But that pace does keep me from rushing through. I read it years ago and so I'm hoping I'll pick up more subtleties/foreshadowing this time around.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:33:12 +0000

I am reading Anna Karenina as well. I had not thought to do a chapter at a time. I am enjoying it so far.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 02:56:38 +0000

In reply to Laura Vanderkam. I think I’m also more likely to read Christie’s “Greatest Hits” than to try getting through all of them! I might want to read all 6 of her books written as Mary Westmacott. These aren’t mysteries at all, but psychological portraits of flawed characters and the effects they have on those around them. I read Absent in the Spring a couple years ago, and it was really interesting, not at all what I was expecting.

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:24:05 +0000

In reply to Beth.

@Beth – that sounds like a fun challenge. I had thought of doing Agatha Christie but decided there was so much and I wasn’t that into mysteries…I probably will do some of the ‘greatest hits’ at some point.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:21:13 +0000

So far I’ve been keeping up with my year-long read of The Complete Sherlock Holmes, and am enjoying it enough that I don’t think I’ll abandon the plan. I’ve also decided to do a reread of Anna Karenina for February; I’m doing the 2025 Reading Challenge at Tea and Ink Society and February’s is to read a Russian novel. I’m already starting to think about what I want to do for the rest of the year’s challenges.

By: Yukun Wu

Yukun Wu — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:19:08 +0000

In reply to Yukun Wu. I later found that "Wish me luck on finishing…" is about finishing the book Big Time by April 1, Ms. Laura Vanderkam. I'm not sure how much more you'll need to work on, Ms. Laura Vanderkam, and I think that you know how to ensure the completion of the book by April 1 even better than I do.

By: Yukun Wu

Yukun Wu — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:56:47 +0000

As I have written in the comments of one of the blog posts, if I ever have resolutions for a whole year, they will be about day-to-day and week-to-week routines, not the year’s goals. In January, I followed this year’s day-to-day and week-to-week routines about two-thirds of the time.
I think it is great that you’re now regularly emailing 50,000 people, Ms. Laura Vanderkam. On the other hand, you said “Wish me luck”, but, I’m not sure if you have systems to manage emailing 50,000 people which is different from what you have in the past. Basically, 50,000 people a year come down to about 140 people a day. That’s all I know.
I assume the tale you found is about Dr. Aleksandr Lyubishchev.

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:16:51 +0000

In reply to Lisa’s Yarns.

@Lisa – I think my kids would like Dogman – I’ll have to look into that. And so glad you’re joining us for Beethoven! It’s easy enough to follow along with the existing calendar (so much easier than creating my own Bach one last year…) so this has felt pretty doable…