My page a day challenge

How I hope to tackle my shelf of shame

Welcome to my shelf of shame.

Here lies every ttrpg book I got excited about reading but am yet to break the spine.

The shelf grew a little bigger throughout last year, but exploded over the festive period thanks to Christmas presents and Kickstarter fulfillments.

So I’ve come up with a plan to tackle it.

When I was a child, I read voraciously.

I’d visit a bookshop most weeks, buy something new and read it at least twice before my next purchase, staying up late at night to read another chapter.

So you can imagine my horror when my own father told me he only read a single page a day:

“That’s all I have time for.”

Now, I can relate. This picture only reflects the ttrpg section of my reading list, the fiction shelf creaks at least twice as loudly.

In January I had great fun with my ‘Dungeonary’ challenge - creating a single room of a mega dungeon every day.

I loved having a moment of creativity and holding myself to account by sharing it.

Even if it was late at night with a silly joke thrown together as an NPC, it was nice to keep it going.

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So from today I’ll be starting a new challenge inspired by my Dad: reading at least one page of one of these books every single day and posting my reaction to it.

I know full well that 333 pages will hardly make a serious dent in that shelf.

But if I only manage a page a day, that’s one more page than I managed most days last year.

And who knows, some days I might even manage two pages.