Well, this was certainly a year. I managed to hit my revised goal for the year of 12,000 pages despite dropping it in September. I would have been happy with anything. 2021 here we come!
Covid-19 Update: On June 1st I reduced my goal to 12,000 pages and on September 1st I abandoned my goal entirely. I'm still tracking what I read (which isn't much) but I'm not going to aim for any specific number of pages. All I'm doing recently is some short stories from podcasts really. I've lost almost all of my dedicated reading time (i.e., my commute) so there's just no way for me to do this. Hopefully I'll be able to start reading again at some point this year.
I am keeping my goal from 2019 of 24,000 pages.
I will continue to participate in the New Leaf Book Club and want to read 8 of 12 selections there this year (leaving myself some room for unavailable titles).
Page Goal: Read 24,000 pages in 2020.
Status as of
December 31:
12,036 pages read,
44 books/short stories completed.
Final Charts:
- New Authors: 15
- New Years Read: 4
- Audio books: 19 (91 hours)
- Library books: 18
Favorite new-to-me book:
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Favorite short story:
Pockets by Amal El-Mohtar
Favorite book published this year:
False Value by Ben Aaronovitch
Completed books:
Ordered by finish date
- The Water Museum - Nisi Shawl - LeVar Burton Reads #57
- Mindstar Rising - Peter F. Hamilton
- I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld 38 / Tiffany Aching 4) - Terry Pratchett
- The Mystery of the Blue Jar - Agatha Christie - Classic Tales Podcast #662
- The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisen
- Tideline - Elizabeth Bear - LeVar Burton Reads 1/27/2020
- The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan 1) - Tom Clancy
- Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors - Matt Parker - Audiobook
- The Gray Man - Mark Greaney
- Stone Cold (Camel Club 3) - David Baldacci
- Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery - NLBC February 2020
- Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan 11) - Tom Clancy
- Ceremony in Death (In Death 5) - J.D. Robb
- Abandoned: Separation of Power (Mitch Rapp 3) - Vince Flynn
- Uncompromising Honor (Honor Harrington 14) - David Weber
- Into the Fire (Orphan X 5) - Gregg Hurwitz
- False Value (Peter Grant 8) - Ben Aaronovitch
- The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett - NLBC March 2020 - Audiobook
- Dead Lions (Slough House 2) - Mick Herron - Audiobook
- Marvels - The Marvels Podcast
- The Martian - Andy Weir - First book since March 24!
- The Murders of Molly Southbourne - Tade Thompson
- The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb - Agatha Christie - Classic Tales Podcast #679
- Nine Lives - Ursula K. LeGuin
- Triplanetary (Lensman 1) - E.E. "Doc" Smith - Audiobook
- The Hot Zone - Richard Preston - Audiobook (Abridged)
- The Fight with the Gorgon - Robert Silverberg - Read by Wil Wheaton on RadioFree Burrito
- Wikihistory - Desmond Warzel
- Pockets - Amal El-Mohtar
- The Honour of Israel Gow - G. K. Chesterton
- This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- Sheepfarmer's Daughter (Paks 1) - Elizabeth Moon
- Divided Allegiance (Paks 2) - Elizabeth Moon
- Oath of Gold (Paks 3) - Elizabeth Moon
- The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe - Read by Wil Wheaton on Radio Free Burrito
- The Intern (Orphan X 3.5) - Gregg Hurwitz
- The Cipher - Isabella Maldonado
- The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason - Audiobook
- Low Energy Economy - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Read by LeVar Burton on LeVar Burton Reads podcast
- The List (Orphan X 5.5) - Gregg Hurwitz
- The Fellowship of the Ring (LotR 1) - J.R.R. Tolkien
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - Audiobook read by Patrick Stewart
- Little Man - Michael Cunningham - Read by LeVar Burton on LeVar Burton Reads podcast
- The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown 1) - G.K. Chesterton
- A Spell for Chameleon - Piers Anthony
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