I probably should have checked in earlier on my goals but, looking at my posts this past year, it's obvious that I lost my reading oomph. It's also obvious that I have it back. So let's check in, yes?
My initial goal for the year overall is to read 50 books. Goodreads informs me that I'm at 37 which isn't a terrible amount. Here's my current list of books for 2016. I will say, I've really enjoyed the books I've read. I've ended up reading things I normally wouldn't have picked out for myself thanks to the Postal Book Club started with the Books on the Nightstand podcast (now a defunct podcast which hurts my heart!). The current postal book club will be ending soon and I already signed up for the Before They Were Movies postal book club. I just need to find a good book to read and send on!
My next goal was to have 10% of my reading be classics. I was hoping to read 5 classics this year:
Wuthering Heights
The Handmaid's Tale (this technically could have fit in the re-reads but I moved it)
A Tale of Two Cities
I think I can knock 2 more classics out by the end of the year.
My other goal was to have 10% of my reading to be historical reading, either true stories or biographies.
Dead Wake
The Harlem Hellfighters
Looks like I need to beef this up a bit. Right now, I'm reading American Heiress so that will land nicely in the historical category!
I was also going to re-read 2 books. Because of the Dark Tower movie coming out, a friend and I are re-reading the entire Dark Tower series so that, including re-reading The Stand, covers my re-read goal (and more!).
I'm really not doing too badly here. Honestly, any year where I read this many books is a good year!
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