January Thoughts - The month started rough with two books dropped. We had three Mondays in a row where a holiday or ice/snow really helped me hit my stride. I read some fabulous short stories and poetry. None of the books has cracked 4/5 yet though.
Length Goals:
- Total Books: 50 (stretch goal of 75)
- Total Pages: 25,000 (stretch of 30,000)
- Read from Print-TBR: 20
Substantive Goals: - Read at least 51% non-American authors
- Read more female/nonbinary authors than male
- Read at least 52 poems
- Read at least 12 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 Through End of
Month:
- Total Books: 14 - 28% of goal, 18% of stretch goal - ON TARGET
- Total Pages: 4067 - 16% of goal, 13.5% of stretch goal - ON TARGET
- Gender Goal: 48% Female, % Nonbindary, 52% Male - OFF TARGET - Working my way through the Nero Wolfe novels is skewing this.
- Country of Origin Goal: 56% USA, 44% out of US - OFF TARGET - ditto on Wolfe
- Read from Print TBR: 6 - ON TARGET
- Poems 7 - 13% of goal - ON TARGET
- Books Recommended by my wife: 4 - 33% of goal ON TARGET