Makrand's Reading Bench - 2021

[Makrand]

Rags wrote: "Makrand wrote: "I finally picked up Dune and oh i regret so much not picking it up earlier!!

5% in the book and i'm massively fanboying on it already!!!
Sci-Fi's made my year with ..."

Hey...It's less than 600 pages not 800 however i get it, anything greater than 500 is difficult to handle especially with so many books in the series Dune has.
However, the experience of reading this is quite unique. I'm sure i'm gonna rate this highly considering the progress so far which is barely 15% :P

[Makrand]

2021 had been quite a difficult year in the reading sector for me.
I could read only 50% of what I would have achieved.
There were quite a few books/series I had planned to do at which I failed miserably!

No excuses whatsoever :)


However, the good thing about this year was I picked books for reading impulsively (despite having a list ready at the start of the year already!! Meh!!) and those were really really good ones!!

I also had the most BR's this year than ever and a BR works ALWAYS better than standalone for me.

Similarly, i feel happy that I did great in reading Indian Books this year which has always been my agenda every year!

There were some masterpieces that I'd really really like to recommend to anyone visiting this. Ofcourse, you can read the reviews of each of the book I've ever read, before moving ahead :)

Goat Days
The Road
Project Hail Mary
The Song of Achilles
The Wasp Factory
The Pledge


All in all, let bygones be bygones and wishing I'd get back to my actual self in 2022 on reading agenda's.
More power to everyone!

2021 Signing off

[Gorab, TheGunman]

Cheers to an amazing 2021. In spite of all the busy schedule, you did a great job of keeping this thread alive and updated.
Have only read 2 from your recommended books. Recos with lesser number of pages work better for me ;) Looking forward to it.

[Leena]

All the best Makarand, and hope this yr you smash your reading records

[Makrand]

Gorab wrote: "Cheers to an amazing 2021. In spite of all the busy schedule, you did a great job of keeping this thread alive and updated.
Have only read 2 from your recommended books. Recos with lesser number of..."

Yeah. I think you might have read Hail Mary and Goat days. The others are much shorter!
Thanks and hope you have a better 2022 as well!

[Makrand]

Leena wrote: "All the best Makarand, and hope this yr you smash your reading records"

Thanks Leena. Geared up to the task :D
Wishing you a blissful and busy (with reading ofcourse) 2022 :)