Here I am at the 3/4 point in the year, and I've read 112 books, putting me on schedule to hit 150 books read for the year. Just 10 books short of my upper stretch goal, so good. And better, I've managed to buy only 77 books this year (and that includes books borrowed from the library or otherwise free.) So, overall, I've done well in that department, though hardly on the order of some others whose resistance to temptation fill me with respect and admiration.
Part of how I've resisted this year is by NOT starting new series, mostly. Or at least only ones I can get from the Library. And by doing some serious re-reading of series that I've loved and am happy to revisit.
On my goals of updating the list regularly, and keeping track of how much I've spent, I'll give myself no better than a "C", and that a bit of a stretch on the regular updating of the list here.
However, by adding started and finished fields to Calibre, along with entering cost when I acquire a book, I've done MUCH better at tracking the total spent on books. That I'm quite pleased with, though the total is still a bit higher than I'd absolutely like, it's better than last year and I have more confidence that it's complete.
Overall? A solid B+ average, I'd say. Quite respectable, considering where I'd come from.
