I'm glad I set my goal to a sedate 120 books this year, instead of 150 (after last year's nearly 170 books, I contemplated 150 this year).
I'm currently a comfortable 7 books or 5% ahead, Goodreads informs me, so at this rate I shouldn't have a problem meeting my goal while not having to feel bad about it when I'm too tired or busy to read at all some evenings.
Granted, the 46 books read this year also includes four separate short stories, which I've counted, but on the other hand, there's also at least one two-book omnibus which I counted as one and several reasonably lengthy (6000-8000 Kindle locations) novels, so all in all, it evens out to "average length novel" nicely.
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