• 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
    8·
    9 hours ago

    I appreciate this, and honestly, I’m not being contrarian (in this instance), but among the books I’m really glad to have once read are some that I didn’t want to, and was forced to because of school. So I think the list is incomplete.

    There are also books I’ve forced myself to read, and which I thought were a slog at the time, which in retrospect I’m glad I made myself read. Almost all of the “classics” fall in this category. So technically, I “wanted” to read them, but not because I wanted to read them, if that makes sense.

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 hours ago

      Came here to say basically the same thing. There are books I want to have read even if I don’t necessarily want to have to slog through them. And for at least some of those books, the “want to have read” wins out over the “don’t want to slog”.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah just like with movies. I’m not really a movie person, but there are certain pieces of media that I watch just so I can take part in the broader culture.

  • CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 hours ago

    I’ve finally started reading what I want and not worry about the number of books. I mean, I can’t read/listen to300 books a year like some people on reading sites. I also have games to play :)

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
    1·
    6 hours ago

    In a similar vein, I always set my Bookwyrm “reading goal” to 1, so that I hit it immediately.