Can You Be Too Competitive With Yourself?

I'MMMM  BAAAACCCKKK!

What the heck happened? Where did I go? It was the classic tale...Girl loves to read, girl starts book blog and talks about her Goodreads reading challenge...girl falls behind in reading challenge, panics and goes reading crazy(is there such a thing?) and forgoes blog.

I mean I also started working a bunch but I think the internal competitiveness was a huge contributing factor. My goal last year was a hundred books and I did reach/surpass it with 107 books finished in 2015. 

I of course am doing the same thing to myself this year with another goal of a hundred books for 2016. The only thing I'm changing about the goal is I am going to try to focus on reading more classics since my two favorite books of all time are Jane Erye and Little Women.

If you want to check out my reading challenge from 2015 heres the link: 

https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/2495260

So how has my 2016 reading challenge been going this year? Pretty good, I think I'm on track to not have the same panic this year as last year. I am 22/100 books with quite a few classics thrown in. The favorite so far has been Pride and Prejudice which to be honest was a surprise for me because I've honestly always been kind of Prejudice towards it. I loved it though Darcy is such a heart throb and Elizabeth is just the best protagonist. The romance, the catty gossip, I understand now why it has remained such a favorite among the public since it was published.

On a different note a read Lolita which has HORRENDOUS. It wasn't the concept of it...I was well aware of what the story was about. It was the writing and how it seemed to DRAG on much longer than its three hundred and something pages.