I have spent a lot of the last few weeks of the month lost in The Selected Letters of Willa Cather. I am reading the book on paper and taking as much time with it as I like.
Length Goals:
- Total Books: 50 (stretch goal of 75)
- Total Pages: 15,000
- E-TBR Reduction: 25
- Read from Print-TBR: 10
Substantive Goals: - Read at least 51% non-American authors
- Read more female/nonbinary authors than male
- Read at least 52 short stories
- Read each Poem of the Week (52) posted by The Guardian
- Read at least 10 books across all our collections that are selected by my wife. It's a great way to read things I would not ordinarily do, and I almost always end up enjoying them.
Cumulative Totals- End of
July:
- Total Books: 35 - 70% of goal, 47% of stretch goal - ON TARGET
- Total Pages: 9728 - 65% of goal - ON TARGET
- Gender Goal: 37% Female, 5% Nonbindary, 58% Male - OFF TARGET - trending in the right direction now at least.
- Country of Origin Goal: 47% USA, 53% out of US - ON TARGET
- E-TBR Reduction: + - 6 - 24% of goal ON TARGET
- Read from Print TBR: - 23 - 230% of goal GOAL MET!
- Short Stories: 15 - 29% of goal - OFF TARGET
- Poems 5 - 9 % of goal - ABANDONED
- Books Recommended by my wife: 7 - 70% of goal ON TARGET