OBJECTIVES:
1. Read more books than my average for the last two years (at least 120) (upgraded from 75, 100)
- Current read count: 123
2. Read better-to-me books, including more nonfiction and more classics (EOY average rating should be 3.6+)
- Current average rating: 3.66
3. Read more books from my paid (ebooks) TBR pile (more than half of the read total/~40)
- Current read count for paid ebooks:
14
4. Listen to more audiobooks (plus reach Master level in Audible)
- Starting point: 308 hours to go
- Current status: 0 hours remaining
SUB-CHALLENGES
Spoiler:
(listed as they get underway)
A. Complete the two remaining books in the Anna Katharine Green collection ($0.99)
1. The House of Whispering Pines - Jan 3, 2022
2. The Leavenworth Case - Jun 6, 2022
B. Read my five remaining Georgette Heyer ebooks
1. Beauvallet - Jan 10, 2022 ($1.90)
C. Read one book every month from the monthly lists in Book Smart by Jane Mallison
1. Jan: Beowulf - Jan 11, 2022 (library loan; Seamus Heaney translation)
2. Feb: Eminent Victorians - Feb 28, 2022 (freebie)
3. Mar: The Great Gatsby - Apr 30, 2022 (from collection-$1.80)
4: Apr: A Room of One's Own - Apr 29, 2022 (from collection-$1.59)
5. May: The Scarlet Letter - Jun 25, 2022 (freebie)
6. Jun: Things Fall Apart - Jun 28, 2022 (from collection-$1.99)
D. Complete one book a month from the Penguin Little Black Classics 80-book collection (print/owned)
1. Jan: The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue - Jan 12, 2022
2. Feb: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Feb 22, 2022
3. Mar: Aphorisms on Love and Hate - Apr 23, 2022
4. Apr: Traffic - Apr 30, 2022
5. May: Wailing Ghosts - Jun 1, 2022
6. Jun: A Modest Proposal - Jun 24, 2022
E. Read daily (~15 minutes) from the Harvard Classics collection ($0.00)
1. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus (from vol. 2) - Jan 18, 2022
2. Meditations (Marcus Aurelius (from vol. 2) - Apr 23, 2022
F. Read at least two books of Asian fiction
1. The Decagon House Murders (Japan) - Jan 18, 2022 (library loan)
G. End Games: catch up on series in progress
1. Archangel's Sun [Guild Hunter] - Jan 19, 2022 (audiobook/library loan)
2. Archangel's Light [Guild Hunter] - Jan 24, 2022 (library loan)
H. Complete the books in the Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1 collection ($2.82)
1. Frenchman's Creek - Jan 19, 2022
I. Complete an epic Fantasy series (Lord of the Rings - $1.99)
1. The Fellowship of the Ring - Jun 15, 2022
J. Complete an epic Science Fiction series (Dune Chronicles)
1. Dune - Jun 29, 2022 ($1.31)
K. Read A History of the English-Speaking People series by Winston Churchill (4)
1. The Birth of Britain ($1.99)
Books not tied to a sub-challenge: 99
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