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For 2020 I decided not to make any reading goals except to reevaluate my lack of goals once a quarter and see if I wanted to add some goals. Given how intense this year has turned out to be, having no reading goals has been great. I didn't do a first quarter check in but now that its almost the middle of the year I thought a check in would nice.

So here are some numbers for how my reading has been going so far in 2020

Books Read:38
Nonfiction: 7
Oldest book: Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast by Paige Raibmon (2005)
Most recent book: Network Effect by Martha Wells (May 2020)
Books by non-white authors: 17
Graphic stories:15
Novellas: 10

Given everything I feel pretty good about those numbers. I have certainly read more books in other years but that's ok. Recently I've been into Chinese history and I'm not on my third book about the history of food an drink in China (the 1st two where about tea, and this one is about chiles)

Also my library is just now starting to be open for curbside pick up and I'm hoping that access to more books will make me want to read more.

Things I'd love recs for: Chinese history, Cute graphic novels, slice of life manga

How has your reading been going. Did you make any goals? If so how is that going?

Date: 2020-06-30 11:37 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mrissa
I don't have a goal to read my tbr AND my library list down to nothing, but I seem to be doing it anyway. Any given day is not more reading time than I had before the pandemic, but before the pandemic not every day was this much reading time--I would go to a concert or a play or out with friends some of the time. Instead of none of the time.

So the book supply is...well, we have plenty of books in this house. But I've said for years that I should get better about reading things on my Kindle, and it looks like I may finally have the impetus toward that. And toward rereading things I've had on the shelves but don't strongly remember. Some of those will go in the bag to take to the used bookstore when that's a sensible thing to do, but there may be delightful hidden treasure on my shelves, who knows.

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