Self-explanatory title. I will look at how I'm doing on the challenges I placed upon myself. This is irrelevant to everyone but me, that is part of the fun.
So far I have read 144 books. According to GR, this means I am 1 book ahead of schedule but from StoryGraph I am just on track, not ahead or behind at all. We are almost at the end of April so over a quarter of the year has already past. We need to see what exactly I need to focus on to stay on track with everything.
I never ended up creating a list of what to reread for this year. I'm just winging it- I am doing GREAT! We already completed 10. So I'm two books ahead. Not bad for just winging it
For the Authors: I am going awesome. I am only missing N, U, and Z. And for Titles, I have yet to do Q, X, Y, and Z.
I am falling behind on this one big time. So far I have only got to 27 countries considering there are over 204, well that sound like a very small dent. So I'm behind by 12% (around 25 countries). I am reading authors from different countries each month but there are some nationalities that I keep repeating mainly due to the fact that they are the works more readily available to me.
I really need to pick up the pace here.
For the author's challenges I am also falling behind a bit.
Matt Haig and John Grisham- I kind of keep putting them on my TBR but don't get to their books. So I will try to read 2 of them per month until the end of the year, wish me luck.
As of right now 27th of April I have read 0 for Haig and only 1 for Grisham so that should give you an idea. I just keep running out of time.
Stephen King is going, but I have not been able to read the two per month. I'm running on fumes, after having the same challenge for over a year. I'll get my sh*t together, I need to catch up in this one for the upcoming months.
Agatha Christie was completed, it took me around 2 years but one is complete. It feels nice to have one done.
The other goal was to complete 24 series and on the side to continue the series I have started. So to begin with I have been in the middle of too many series so completing all of them is out of the question. But each month I have read several.
I have almost succeeded in getting half and half. But the series is slightly winning with 75 books to the 73 standalone.
The effort is paying off really. Another win. The ones I didn't count were the DNF, in theory, I didn't complete the series but I will not continue it, so maybe I should count the two of them in my final numbers.
Considering that we are getting close to halfway through the year, I am keeping up and even have 4 ahead.
Lastly, I wanted to read 2023 releases and that is going great as well. I am ahead by 5 books, so it gives me a nice.
The total books published in 2023 so far has been 13. We'll see how many more we van get our hands in.
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