In Poland we used to say "habit is second nature of man". On the long run we're nothing more than our habits – so work on them, Timboli! :D

Indeed, habits can grow on you, and new ones arise. It's an habitual problem or benefit ... no doubt both.
Old habits die hard, and new ones fight for existence.
A habit may be good until it's not ... a bit like bacteria.
At least I am free from a drug habit ... unless you call music, games, movies and books a drug. ;)

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My projected list for the year (intent) RELOCATED HERE from my previous post above.

Complete the Foundation series by ISAAC ASIMOV and others.

Get up to speed with CRAIG A. FALCONER's Not Alone (Contact) series.

Read more RAFAEL SABATINI ... perhaps complete his works.

Read some more of other writers who do Historical Swashbuckling Romance - JEFFREY FARNOL, GEORGETTE HEYER, STANLEY J. WEYMAN, etc.

Complete the Shannara series by TERRY BROOKS ... two sub series to go I think.

Finish reading the remaining works of TERRY PRATCHETT ... last Disc World novel and Juvenile works and the co-authored 'Long Earth' series, etc.

Get up to speed with VAL McDERMID.

Get back into reading DAVE DUNCAN, DENNIS L. McKIERNAN, PIERS ANTHONY, RAYMOND E. FEIST, ROBIN HOBB, TERRY GOODKIND, WILBUR SMITH.

Read the other ROBERT JORDAN novels and series ... some written under different names ... have them all I think.

Continue on with the extra DUNE novels and stories by BRIAN HERBERT and KEVIN J. ANDERSON.

Continue on with novels by ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH.

Keep reading J. ROBERT KENNEDY regularly.

Finish a few outstanding PERN stories by TODD McCAFFREY and GINNY McCAFFREY.

And who knows, maybe we will see the next novel in the Song Of Ice And Fire series by GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ... one can always hope (dream).

I have some non-fiction (biographies) to read ... mostly music (PINK FLOYD, WISHBONE ASH, BILLY CONNOLLY, etc).
Perhaps read some things recommended to me.
etc

P.S. And of course continue to eat away at my huge backlog.

All true. That's quite interesting how you can change your perspective by realising that some of your problems (of do or don't) are simply habits (or lack of them).

I really enjoyed Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results by Stephen Guise and I recommend it. It's very effective approach to extremely difficult task of growing habits. It really helped me in my constant (but not always successful) attempts to change for the better. I still use knowledge/tricks from this book.

Good luck with reading and all the other intellectual and cultural drugs ;)

Thanks, thanks and thanks. Indeed.

Well I didn't quite finish my last book for 2020 in time ... too many things happened to prevent that.

In any case it was a good book to end/start with, being the very first book written by ROBERT JORDAN and his last published (so far).

The Warrior Of The Altaii was an excellent story, and a crying shame, perhaps a crime, that it never got published during his lifetime, because he sure deserves acclaim for it, even though it will always be overshadowed by his Wheel Of Time series. They often say, that an author's best book to some degree is his first one, despite its flaws, and that may be so in this case, though for sure he went onto bigger and better things, and if not for them I would have been unlikely to have read this one. You can certainly see echoes of The Wheel Of Time and the Conan books he wrote in this wonderful story of the Altaii. There is also echoes of Edgar Rice Burroughs, another favorite author of mine, along with Robert E. Howard.

My reading list for 2021

I am about to start what will essentially be my first book of the year, having actually been started in this year. It was a free ebook, that I chose as a part of the VIP Membership at Kobo ... you get one free ebook a year. It is by an author I have never heard of, and was one of two books I had narrowed it down to out of less than a hundred to choose from.

For those who might like to know, that while I have a library at Kobo of over 100 ebooks, most of them free, I have just gotten my first Kobo ereader device - Kobo Libra H20. Up until now, I have been mostly reading Amazon ebooks with Kindle devices, especially the Paperwhite Kindle (2nd version) ... before that the Kindle Keyboard. I read any graphic related ebooks (especially color) or PDFs on a 10" Samsung Galaxy Tab A tablet.

The Kobo was a Xmas present from my wife, and so I start the new year with a new ereader device and a new author.

The novel in question, is a SciFi one and first in a trilogy - SINthetic by J.T. Nicholas.

https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/sinthetic-2

I hope I chose wisely ... not that Kobo gave me much to choose from ... only a couple of author names I even recognized, and nothing I really wanted ... though the one I chose seems promising, and reminiscent of Isaac Asimov's robot mystery stories .... synths, murder and Scifi ... what else could you want.

I'm only a few chapters in now and need to take a break for a bit, but I am enjoying it, and it has a Blade Runner feel to it as well.

Seems I made a good pick and buying books 2 & 3 are likely ... but alas from Amazon, where they are cheaper.

While I did enjoy the Eric stories, I preferred some of his other personalities as the Eternal Champion ... Corum for one ... same goes for the stories.

I loved all the Sherlock Holmes stories ... classics.

Hm, I`d rather jump in here from time to time, without being enlisted. Possible or not?

I'm pretty sure it is, the "enlistment" is optional, just if you want to maintain a list of the books you've read.

There is another alternative you might prefer, but you are still welcome here.

What are you Reading?

Any particular reason you don't want to share your reading list here? Not that you should feel obliged to. And it's not a competition.

On a personal level, I see this topic especially as a nice way to get to know others etc.
There is perhaps more of a community spirit here than in most other threads in the forum.

I think the Corum books are the best overall Sword&Sorcery series I've read.
Elric is more uneven. Same with Conan; Robert E. Howard could write action scenes like few others, but there's too many formulaic Conan stories, at least if you read them in succession.

I'm totally sure you're welcome here, no matter with or without a list :)

My personal tactics is to first report in "WAYR?" thread the books I'm currently reading and bringing them here as soon as I've finished ;)
Ambitious! I suppose you should start now if you want to make it on time ;)

cant i still have 3 other books i should read :D

Yep.
And there are some great Conan stories and as you say, some not so great ones ... especially those that have been modified by others. Robert E. Howard is a descriptive genius at times ... if only he had lived long enough to see his rise in popularity ... what other wonderful stories might he have later developed.

What is it about such literary heroes as Tarzan, Conan and Elric, that makes you and I and others prefer the other writings of their authors ... seeing them as better productions?

I have considered doing that, and have a few times, but as it kind of feels like double posting, my mental jury is still deliberating.

There are a lot of posts in that other topic too, some quite huge, and somehow yours here always seems far more manageable, even though we do get large ones here as well.

I guess my approach is a bit different too ... I rarely post much about a book unless I am sure others are interested in it, or I have a broader message to impart, so I tend to be more a responder to what others post here that I can relate to.

I'm also not really into reviewing stories too deeply, preferring a general overview without too much opinion and no spoilers.

Other aspects for me are due to the limits of this forum software and or implementation. Some kind of book title and author name index would be welcome, for instance.

"The Emperor's Soul" By Brandon Sanderson. Short and sweet, the book's a combination of great story, convincing world building and memorable characters enclosed in a hundred-something pages. I won't beat around the bush and just say that it's the best book I've read in recent years.