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Post your personal reading goals for 2016 here.

I just posted this in the new Around the Year in 52 Books Group as my plan for 2016. I thought some of you might want to also join that group.

��1. Read at least 120 books. (Update -138 of 120 as of 12/31/16)
��2. Complete both the challenge and sub-challenge for all four seasons in the Reading With Style Challenge.
✔Winter challenge and sub challenge completed on 2/24/16.
✔Spring 2016 challenge and sub-challenge completed on 5/28/16.
�� Summer 2016 challenge and sub-challenge completed on 8/29/16.
��30 of 30 completed for the Fall.
Winter 2017 - 15/30
��3. Complete the Year in 52 Books challenge. (Update- completed 52 of 52 as of 12/26/16).
4. Complete the A to Z challenge using the initials of novel authors. (One of my reading groups breaks this challenge down to books at least 10 years old and those which are younger than 10 years- so, I may actually have three lists for this but in addition, I will do a non-fiction list as well...with less hope that I will complete that one. I finished the list for older books in 2015 but fell short on the newer books.)("X" and "Q" don't need to be initials but can be found anywhere in the author's name. I'll follow this rule for the Book Titles and Mapping challenges too.)
✔Pre-2006 books (Fiction): 26 of 26
Post-2006 books (Fiction): 12 of 26
Non-Fiction books: 13 of 26

��5. Complete the A to Z Book Title challenge.

26/26

A- Alchemist, The by Paulo Coehlo
B- Billy Liar
C- Cassandra by Christa Wolf
D- Devil's Pool, The by George Sand
E- English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
F- Fables for Our Times by James Thurber
G- Garden Where the Brass Band Played
H- Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
I- I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
J- James Herriot's Cat Stories
K-Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
L- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
M- Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
N- No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
O- Old Rosa by Reinaldo Arenas
P- Princess de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
Q-The Quiet American by Graham Greene
R- Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
S- Stranger, The by Albert Camus
T- Trouble for Lucia
U- Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
V- Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
W- Wise Blood
X- X Out of Wonderland by David Allan Cates
Y- Year 1000, The by Robert Lacey
Z -Zero K y Don Delillo


�� 6. Pop-Sugar (I'll also keep track of... Rejected Categories Challenge. see post #48)

POPSUGAR
�� 40/40 tasks completed ��

��1. A book based on a fairy tale - planning A Wild Swan: And Other Tales
��2. A National Book Award winner- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
��3. A YA best seller- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
��4. A book you haven't read since high school- The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
��5. A book set in your home state - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
��6. A book translated to English- Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays by Christa Wolf
��7. A romance set in the future- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
��8. A book set in Europe- The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
��9. A book that's under 150 pages- The Devil's Pool by George Sand
��10. A New York Times best seller- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
��11. A book that's becoming a movie this year- Jungle Book
��12. A book recommended by someone you just met- Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
��13. A self improvement book- Fifteen Years in Hell An Autobiography by Luther Benson
��14. A book you can finish in a day- Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
��15. A book written by a celebrity- Romanoff And Juliet by Peter Ustinov
��16. A political memoir- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
��17.A book at least 100 years older than you - Two Hussars by Leo Tolstoy
��18. A book that's more than 600 pages- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
��19. A book from Oprah's Book Club- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
��20.A science fiction novel- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
��21. A book recommended by a family member- The Traveller's Histories: India by Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda
��22. A graphic novel- Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan
��23. A book that is published in 2016- Zero K: A Novel by Don DeLillo
��24. A book with a protagonist who has your occupation- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
��25. A book that takes place during summer- Death in Venice, California by Vinton Rafe McCabe
��26. A book and it's prequel- The Mersault Investigation and The Stranger.Jan Morris
��27.A murder mystery - The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon
��28. A book written by a comedian - Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? Billy Crystal
��29. A dystopian novel- The Iron Heel by Jack London
��30. A book with a blue cover- The World: Travels 1950-2000 by
��31. A book of poetry- Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
��32. The first book you see in a bookstore- Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
��33. A classic from the 21st century- Heat & Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
��34. A book from the library - The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Robert Lacey
��35. An autobiography- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
��36. A book about a road trip- Tales of a Traveler with Selections from the Sketch Book by Washington Irving
��37. A book about a culture you are unfamiliar with- Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
��38. A satirical book- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
��39.A book that takes place on an island- Trouble for Lucia by E.F. Benson - all takes place in England.
��40.A book that's guaranteed to bring you joy - Fables For Our Time/Further Fables For Our Time by James Thurber


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��7. I just saw that Amanda had this goal: "Read as many books published in different years from 1900 to 2016, minimum of 60." I think I will try that too. 73 of (60 for the year) and (116-total) as of 12/28/16.
��8. And just for fun.... with the new group Reading Map in the 52 Books challenge group....I will try to add a book corresponding to 26 places using the alphabet using the same rules for Q and X as for authors.

26/26

A - Australia- Remembering Babylon
B - Burma - Burmese Days (Yes, I know it is now Myanmar...taking a liberty here.)
C- Canada - The English Patient
D-Denamrk - Quicksand
E- Egypt - Crocodile on the Sandbank
F- France - The Devil's Pool
G- Greece- Lysistrata
H- Hawaii - Unfamiliar Fishes (history of Hawaii as a nation and as a state)
I- India- Heat & Dust
J- Japan- Acts of Worship
K-Kenya- Ade- A Love Story
L- Latvia-Tit for Tat- Latvian Folk Tales
M- Morocco- The Lemon
N- Nigeria
O-Oman- Sultan of Oman
P- Peru - The Cubs and Other Stories
Q- MozambiQue- Wirriyamu
R- Russia - Two Hussars
S- Sweden- The Messiah of Stockholm
T- Turkey - Cassandra
U- UK- The Year 1000
V- Vietnam - The Lover
W-Wales - A Writer's House in Wales
X- MeXico - Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
Y- Yemen-The Hostage
Z - Zimbabwe - The Hairdresser of Harare: A Novel


��9. In line with the Mapping idea I also joined the 666 challenge on Bookcrossing.com -

read 6 books which are set in OR are written by an author from 6 different countries in each of the 6 continents within the 12 month period of the 1st day of 2016 and the last. You cannot count books of the same country twice; you cannot count one book for more than one country. NOTE - The United Kingdom is made up of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. These are not considered independent countries.
35 of 36 as of 12/12/16
The 6 continents are:
✔AFRICA (1)-Egypt- Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters. (2)- Algeria - The Mersault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (3) Mozambique- Wirriyamu by Williams Sassine (4) Tunisia- Amyntas by Andre Gide (5) Nigeria- No Longer at Ease by China Achebe. (6) Morocco- The Lemon by Mohammed Mrabet.
✔ASIA (INCL. MIDDLE EAST & S.E. ASIA) (1) India- Heat & Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (2) Turkey - Cassandra by Christa Wolf. (3) Two Hussars by Leo Tolstoy (4) Vietnam- The Lover (5) Japan- Acts of Worship by Yukio Mishima; (6) Iraq- Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan.
✔EUROPE (1) Sweden- Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick; (2) Greece- Lysistrata by Aristophanes; (3) France - The Devil's Pool by George Sand; (4) UK- The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey; (5) Latvia- Coup de Grace; (6) Italy- Death in Venice.
✔NORTH AMERICA (INCL. CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN)(1) Canada- The English Patient (2) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. (3) Cuba- Old Rosa by Reinaldo Arenas. (4) Mexico- Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, (5) Haiti- Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Dandicat.; (6) Dominica- Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys.
✔PACIFIC (INCL. ANTARCTICA)- (1) Australia- Remembering Babylon by David Malouf; (2) Hawaii- Unfamiliar Fishes; (3) Solomon Islands- Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent.; (4) Antarctica- The Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft; (5) French Piolynesia- Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry; (6) New Zealand- The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield.
✔SOUTH AMERICA-(1)- Brazil- The Alchemist; (2)- Colombia-Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez; (3)-Ecuador- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories; (4) Argentina- The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges. (5) Peru - The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa; (6) Chili- Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra

10. Read at least 20 more books on the Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die List:
(1) Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
(2) The Devil's Pool by George Sand
(3) The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
(4) The Lover by Marguerite Duras
(5) Princesse de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
(6) Billy Liar
(7) Death in Venice
(8) Northanger Abbey
(9) The Sorrows of Young Werther
(10) The Brothers Karamazov
(11) I, Robot
(12) The Color Purple
(13) Look Homeward Angel
(14) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
(15) Lord of the Flies
(16) Vile Bodies
(17) Ficciones
(18) Three Lives
(19) The Postman Always Rings Twice
(20) Burmese Days
(21) The Garden Where the Brass Band Played
(22) Vanishing Point
(23) Lolita
(24) Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
(25) The Iron Heel
(26) The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
(27) The Immoralist
(28) Where Angels Fear to Tread
(29) The Mountains of Madness
(30) Mr. Norris Changes Trains
(31) We
(32) 39 Steps
(33) The Cubs and Other Stories
(34) The Quiet American
(35) Good Morning, Midnight
(36) Kidnapped
(37) Quicksand
(38) The Garden Party and Other Stories
(39) Breakfast of Champions (Total 178)

I will not try to do all new books for each challenge...there will be much overlapping.

Boy..I think my OCD is showing.

Shorter and perhaps also less ambitious than Ed's list.

1. Read every day. (This will be my easiest goal.)
2. Read 10 novels by Anthony Trollope. (He also has 5 short story collections, which I hope to get to eventually, and a slew of non-fiction titles which I'm less likely to ever read.) [4/10]
3. Read 5 titles by Honore de Balzac. (I've read 33 and this won't get me halfway, but I'll keep plugging away at the list.) [2/5]
4. Reduce the number of my onhand and unread books to fewer than 200. (This means I'll have to borrow fewer library books, but it especially means I'll have to stop buying more than I read to still be able to make purchases at the book sale in October.) [200/200]
5. Pay extra attention to Goal Number 4, which will be my toughest challenge.
6. Read at least 30 women authors, which includes at least 25 different authors.
[30/30; 29/25]

I struggle to be realistic in my goal setting, but I will try!

1) To get up to 200 books read from the combined 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list 155/200

2) Read 50% of texts by women out of total reads. 30/47

3) Complete either both RWS and sub challenge each season OR finish RWS challenge twice (preferably both!) 0/4

4) Read 4 stories each month from The New Yorker ( I think that is the limit that you can access for free). 11/48 ( 3 stories have disappeared off GR, so my totals on GR are not adding up!)

5) Read 200 texts for 2016. 47/200

6) Read globally, with representation from all continents and regions, trying to read from at least 70 different countries / states from this list : 14/70



7) Read as many books published in different years from 1900 to 2016, minimum of 60. 27/117

Now I think I need to go set up a couple of spread sheets to keep track of all of this. I'll be back in a couple of days @_@

Yea goals! I set some every year so here's my set for 2016:

- Have at least 20% of my reading be by an author who is a person of color or otherwise diverse (LGBTQ, people with disabilities, ethnic/religious minorities, etc.)
- Read from more library categories than last year
- Add at least five ten! titles to my ongoing Dewey list
- Add at least five titles to my ongoing 20th Century list
- Read at least one more book than last year

Library categories: The e-library lists genres or "subjects" for each book and I collect them as I read through the year. I had 31 in 2014 and 33 so far in 2015, split basically evenly between fiction and non-fiction categories.

Dewey list: It'll probably take my whole life, but I'm trying to read a non-fiction book for each Dewey Decimal number. Currently I have 30 out of 99 divisions (groups of ten numbers) and 61 out of 908 individual sections.

20th Century list: Like the Dewey list, but for each year of the century. I've read 41 out of the 100 so far.

Clear as mud? ;)

eta: Progress through March:

35 books read - on track to read more than last year
13 POC+ books - 37% diverse
2 out of 5 books added to 20th Century
4 out of 10 books added to Dewey list
Too early to tell with the library categories - the beginning of the year is scooping up the easy ones

So far so good!

eta2: Progress through June (50%):

62 books read - on track to read more than last year
19 POC+ books - 30% diverse (June was really bad for this, sadly)
3 out of 5 books added to 20th Century
5 out of 10 books added to Dewey list
25 library categories read - need 9 more

Hanging in there, but I'd like to do better with POC+, especially.

I think I will try to read 90 books in a year. I haven't reached it this year. I reached 92 books a few years ago when my goal was 100 books.

My goals for 2016:

1. Continue reading both non-fiction and fiction set around World War I, as well as reading about the first half of the 20th Century.
2. Read a few books set in the Mid-East region since that area is so prominent in the news.
3. Read the selections every month for my two library book groups.
4. Continue on my "trips" around the historic counties of the UK, and around the regions of France for the Around the World in 80 Books group.
5. Read at least one of the monthly group reads for a couple other ŷ������ groups.
6. In January I'll be starting Anthony Powell's first book in the "Dance to the Music of Time" series. If I like his writing, I would like to read the 12 books in the series.
7. Read a few chunksters on my shelves.
8. I've got about 20 "The New Yorker" magazines from a subscription in 2014-15 left to read. I love their articles and short stories, but haven't had enough time to read them all. I want to read at least one article/story every week.
9. Read some of the best contemporary books.
10. My 2016 goal is 90 books.

Goals for 2016

1. Read the 4 Great Chinese Classic novels

2. Read at least 25 Hugo and/or Nebula Award Winning Novels

3. Read another 60 books that I owned already and did not purchase specifically for a challenge or for goal #2 above.

I'll be doing other challenges as I go. But these will be my focus.

My goals for 2016:

1. Get the TBR below 200 and keep it there. (These are books I own and have not read.)

2. Read 25 books from the 1001 list (bringing total to at least 478).

3. Complete the Year in 52 Books challenge (decided this would be too much!)

3. Read the Quran, or a book about it. With the things going on in the world right now, I would like to be better informed about Islam.

I haven't thought deeply about this, but I think my reading goals will look like this:

1. Read at least 100 books (for 2015, I reached 130 however the next goal may slow my pace....)
2. Read one non-fiction per quarter
3. Complete the A-Z author challenge, again, for the "Classics w/o all the Class" group
4. a. read 20 unread books on my personal (real) bookshelves
b. use these unread books for rws challenges (rather than borrowing from library)
5. continue with series started in 2015
6. complete the rws 10, 15, + 20 challenges for one season (not including group reads as I usually can't access the choices and am on very strict book buying budget!)

My goals are a work-in-progress at this time. Presently, they are:

1. Complete old challenges (the ones I track). Currently that is 81 books yet to read. I will make it a priority to use these books as the basis for current challenges. 64/81
��2. Read no less than 180 250 books this year.
COMPLETED
��3. Continue to read books I own or library books primarily. That will help me to keep spending down.
��4. Donate books that I have read to the library or other worthy venues. What to do with old, decommissioned library books?
5. Finally, I want to reduce the number of challenge book lists on my profile by reading the books on the list or moving them to a new challenge. A lot of these books are 400+ pages and so not the first choice for many challenges. I will commit to reading the books on my single digit book lists - 8 lists, 26 books. 7 lists completed, 1 books to go
6. Complete old games: LOST 2014 (2 books), Pursuit (Round 3 - 1 book), Scattegories (2 books).
��7. Complete new games/challenges: LOST 2016, Moving Mountains, Panels, Book Riot (1 book). COMPLETED

Goals updated as of 12/31/16

Definitely doing the Popsugar challenge. I'm happy that they have only 40 this year so that I can actually complete it without duplicating entries.

My personal made goals will be: Finish the Women's Murder Club series (on 7/14 right now), Finish the Sookie Stackhouse series (on #4 right now), Read the complete Dexter Series (almost done with #1), His Dark Materials trilogy, Finish the Fingerprints series, Read at least 10 books I personally own outside of the above series and finish all of the books I get from the library. Nothing too extremely challenging as I have cross stitching projects to work on too.

I've signed on too many challenges already but haven't really thought out my personal goal but I really liked Elizabeth's & Rosemary's goal re: reducing own-tbr!

1. Reduce my own-tbr by minimum 20% (in numbers, this should be 208 or less)

2. Read and review, at least, 25 books by Australian Women Writers for #AWW2016

3. Complete Aussie Authors Bingo

If I'm a good girl, I should be able to overlap all 3! Though with new challenges popping up all the time, I doubt the likelihood of achieving #1

Turn, I checked out #AWW the other day and looked for the 2016 challenge but didn't see it. Thought I would give it another go next year.

Might have to checkout Aussie Authors Bingo, should really show more patriotism in my reading, although I am getting better.

Amanda wrote: "Turn, I checked out #AWW the other day and looked for the 2016 challenge but didn't see it. Thought I would give it another go next year."

Here's the link, Amanda: or... they also have a group here on GR (AWW GR Group)

I went to the GR group to look. Will have to wait until my daughter gives me back my laptop, I hate using the tablet with GR!

My goal for 2016 is to reduce the number of uncompleted series as represented by my to-be-continued shelf to no more than 50 (currently at 63).

My goal is complete all the seasonal challenges in this group! lol

So...I have been updating my progress in post 2...but thought I would do a summary at the beginning of each month on my goals:

1. Read at least 120 books. (Update -10 of 120 as of 2/2/16)
2. Complete both the challenge and sub-challenge for all four seasons in the Reading With Style Challenge. - read 19 of 30 books as of 2/2/16.
3. Complete the Year in 52 Books challenge. (Update- completed 10 of 52 as of 2/2/16).
4. A to Z Authors challenge- 9 of 26 completed..
5. Complete the A to Z Book Title challenge- 9 of 26 completed.
6. Pop Sugar challenge- 9 0f 40 completed.
7.Read books published in different years from 1900 to 2016 - 8 of 116.
8. Reading Map-a book corresponding to 26 places using the alphabet- 7 of 26.
9. Bookcrossing's 666 mapping challenge- 10 of 36.
10.Read at least 20 more books on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die List- completed 3 of 20.

Ed wrote: "So...I have been updating my progress in post 2...but thought I would do a summary at the beginning of each month on my goals:

1. Read at least 120 books. (Update -10 of 120 as of 2/2/16)
2. Compl..."

I've been trying to update my post every time I finish reading something, otherwise I am likely to forget.

You're doing really well with all of the challenges, I am sure you must be pleased looking at those figures! :)

Amanda wrote: "Ed wrote: "So...I have been updating my progress in post 2...but thought I would do a summary at the beginning of each month on my goals:

1. Read at least 120 books. (Update -10 of 120 as of 2/2/1..."

Thanks Amanda..... yeah...doing well so far...but it is going to get more difficult to find time to read as the year goes on....a lot of traveling coming up this year...which is great... but it will make it difficult to make major progress on my challenges.

Ed wrote: "Thanks Amanda..... yeah...doing well so far...but it is going to get more difficult to find time to read as the year goes on....a lot of traveling coming up this year...which is great... but it will make it difficult to make major progress on my challenges.

I thought having time off over Christmas would help my reading challenges as I would spend more time reading. Spent more time with the family instead, so still a win. Just now getting back into the swing of things, but, as school only just started for us last Friday, we are still yet to find our rhythm and routine for the year.

Look forward to hearing of your travels!

I've been scanning your Post #2. You're making great progress! You had me trying to remember to update mine, except for the reducing my onhand/unread books. I'm making progress there, too.

Seems everyone has been doing well.... we have almost met all three of our group goals and there's 4 weeks to go.

My goals for 2016 are:

- have read 1 book in french by the end of the year [0/1]
- read at least 12 books (1 a month) that were originally written in dutch [1/12]
- Read the five history books that I have [0/5]
- Start a book worldtrip (based on setting: 1 setting per book) around the 193 UN member states. [0/193]
- Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge [0/24]

My March 1 summary update:

1. Read at least 120 books. 19 of 120
2. Complete both the challenge and sub-challenge for all four seasons in the Reading With Style Challenge. - completed the Spring challenge and sub-challenge.
3. Complete the Year in 52 Books challenge: 20 of 52.
4. A to Z Authors challenge-
Pre-2006 books (Fiction): 12 of 26
Post-2006 books (Fiction): 1 of 26
Non-Fiction books: 1 of 26

5. Complete the A to Z Book Title challenge- 11 of 26 completed.
6. Pop Sugar challenge- 11 of 40 completed.
7.Read books published in different years from 1900 to 2016 - 16 of 116.
8. Reading Map-a book corresponding to 26 places using the alphabet- 11 of 26.
9. Bookcrossing's 666 mapping challenge- 14 of 36.
10.Read at least 20 more books on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die List- completed 5 of 20.

My goal progress:

1. Get the TBR below 200 and keep it there. (These are books I own and have not read.) - Negative progress - my TBR has crept up from 226 to 232 :(

2. Read 25 books from the 1001 list (bringing total to at least 478). - Read 7 in the first quarter, on target

3. Read the Quran, or a book about it. Done.

I have read less than I would have liked by this point in the year ( my home page tells me I am about 8 books behind schedule ), but I am still pleased with how things are going.

Up until now 2/3 of my reads have been written by women, but this will balance out some this season.

This season is going to really see a burst with my global reading and 1001 goals, I am sure I will be halfway to target on 1001 by the end of the season, but I have no idea on the global part. I should add at least 10 more nations, so should be at least 1/3 of the way through that goal also.

Due to a bad season last season, I will not meet goal 3, but I figure if I manage to finish 3 out of 4 seasons it will still be a huge success for me.

I'm doing alright with reducing my on hand books. All of the books I have scheduled for Spring are ones I own, and fewer jumbo books, so I should make good progress. Also, many of them are women and feel as if I'm on track to accomplish that goal.

I got only 1 Trollope read Jan/Fed, so will need to read 9 in the 10 remaining months of the year. I might not make this goal, but I'll be very close if not. I'm reading a Balzac as I write, and that goal is more easily accomplished.

Rosemary wrote: "My goal progress:

1. Get the TBR below 200 and keep it there. (These are books I own and have not read.) - Negative progress - my TBR has crept up from 226 to 232 :(

2. Read 25 books from the 100..."

Your friends and relatives are probably trying to figure out why you are now saying saying "Don't give me books"! :)

No, that's the problem *blushes* I'm still asking for books at every opportunity

Updating my progress (as of today)!

1. have read 29/100
2. so far have read 2 non-fiction!
3. for the A-Z classic 7/26 (I plan on knocking off a bunch during this season's rws challenges)
4. This season's challenges will be good for helping with this 2 part goal - potentially I can knock 15 books off my "in real life" tbr shelves! Sadly, I went to our library's book sale a week ago and added more.... boo. Anyhow, so far 5/20.
5. not done...
6. I am (very) hopeful that this will be season that I complete this goal. It is the first season that I actually own a group read book, so IF I keep on track it will be possible! That can be a big 'if' - I get distracted by books(!) or after books like Memoirs of Hadrian (which I did like, but was a slog) I like to read a 'fun" book rather than jumping into a big fat challenge! Luckily, my idea of fun is one of this season's challenges - mystery.

4. Reduce the number of my onhand and unread books to fewer than 200.

I'm making great progress on this - or so it looks. Actually, I sort of cheated to get this to 212/200. I have a number of Kindle books "complete works of" which I had marked as having. However, they are never going to move to the Read shelf, and many of the books contained in these are also included in my onhand books. So I just made an exclusive shelf of these, thereby quickly reducing the number of onhand books.

The goal is still to be below 200 by year's end, and next year my goal will be to reduce further, so we'll see how much more progress I can make without trickery.

Just updating and I have noticed that 3 New Yorker stories I have read have disappeared off GR!! Now all my totals on my spreadsheet don't match what I have on GR.

Any idea why this might be ? Wondering how this will impact my Reading Women challenge group stats, as all of them were women writers!

Amanda wrote: "Just updating and I have noticed that 3 New Yorker stories I have read have disappeared off GR!! Now all my totals on my spreadsheet don't match what I have on GR.

Any idea why this might be ? Won..."

I don't keep up with the librarian rules when it comes to short stories. There are some rules about when they can be part of the database and when they cannot. I think stories published in magazines are on the side of not supposed to be here, but, as I said, I don't really keep up those.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Just updating and I have noticed that 3 New Yorker stories I have read have disappeared off GR!! Now all my totals on my spreadsheet don't match what I have on GR.

Any idea why this..."

Thanks Elizabeth. I always check before reading if I can find them or not, and they have always been hit and miss, but if they are listed they are with the link to the story.

I was hoping to replace them on my lists with other longer texts when i read them, so I guess this is more incentive to read more!

Updated my goals.

I've reduced my # onhand to 207 on my way to 200. With the ones I have scheduled, I should break 200 sometime in May.

With Alice Munro a few days ago, my women authors are 7/30 and 7/25 different women. April is a read women month, so I should make great progress on this.

I am tracking three of my goals (/topic/show/...). I am on track with Goal #1, ahead on Goal #2, and also ahead on Goal #5. Regarding Goal #3, I have purchased 2 used books in the past three months. In my defense, though, the two books I purchased were not available in either library system (I have library cards for SC and GA) nor through interlibrary loan.

Updated my goals. April is moving slowly for me and I am behind where I want to be. Hopefully I can squeeze a couple of finishes into this weekend.

Updated my goals and added to the list. I am still making good progress on number of books read and deleting old lists.

My goal progress:

1. Get the TBR below 200 and keep it there. (These are books I own and have not read.) - It went up from 226 to 232 in Jan/Feb, but is now moving in the right direction - down to 212 :-)

2. Read 25 books from the 1001 list (bringing total to at least 478). - Achieved on May 7th and now at 32! Almost all of my Waterways of the World books were from the list, which helped.

3. Read the Quran, or a book about it. Read in Feb.

Updating

1. have read 60/100
2. so far have read 4 non-fiction!
3. for the A-Z classic 12/26
4a+b. Wow, the spring challenge netted me 13!, so far 18/20.
5. done with the Rhys Bowen mysteries
6. I completed this goal, including the group read! Yay!

I really need to update my goals. I know I am at 163 from the 1001 list, but that's about it.

Hopefully Sunday I can have a look at it, as it seems there is the potential I am at an aerobics comp on Saturday, leaving home at 5.30 and getting home a 10.30.

I am soooo taking a book or 2 with me...

I am hoping to read 12 books this summer and to read more books off my TBR list.

I haven't been updating my progress... in fact, I refuse to look at my #1 goal because I'm failing miserably! Not for lack of trying :'(

An update to all my goals :

1) To get up to 200 books read from the combined 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list 164/200 6 books short of where I hoped to be at the end of last season, but still happy with my progress. Not reading so ferociously on this one this season, but I still have books selected from the list. I think I can still achieve it

2) Read 50% of texts by women out of total reads. 35/56 Still over 50% !

3) Complete either both RWS and sub challenge each season OR finish RWS challenge twice (preferably both!) 0/4 This not going to happen. Maybe one season, but since we're already halfway through it won't be more than 2

4) Read 4 stories each month from The New Yorker ( I think that is the limit that you can access for free). 11/48 ( 3 stories have disappeared off GR, so my totals on GR are not adding up!) Haven't touched this one in a long while. Depending on what happens the rest of the weekend, perhaps I could catch up ( Would also help with Goal 5)

5) Read 200 texts for 2016. 56/200 Well behind schedule on this one, hopefully my choices for this season will allow me a bit of a catch up, but not likely to meet the 200

6) Read globally, with representation from all continents and regions, trying to read from at least 70 different countries / states from this list :... 17/70 Not going so great on this one either. Not quite sure how I am going to pick up the slack here

7) Read as many books published in different years from 1900 to 2016, minimum of 60. 34/117 - Over my halfway goal of minimum of 60, so going well!

My update

2. Read 10 novels by Anthony Trollope. (He also has 5 short story collections, which I hope to get to eventually, and a slew of non-fiction titles which I'm less likely to ever read.) [3/10] Not going to make this, although it won't be as bad as 3/10. Probably won't get to him this season.
3. Read 5 titles by Honore de Balzac. (I've read 33 and this won't get me halfway, but I'll keep plugging away at the list.) [1/5]My goal is more conservative than the Trollope, but I'm not going to hold my breath I'll have 5 by December 31.
4. Reduce the number of my onhand and unread books to fewer than 200. (This means I'll have to borrow fewer library books, but it especially means I'll have to stop buying more than I read to still be able to make purchases at the book sale in October.) [203/200] This, on the other hand, is going great guns. I thought I would be at or under 200 during May, but darn it!, I started sorting books for the fall library book sale and found a couple of things I could live without. Still, I have enough owned and unread on the list this season, that I might even hit 190 by end of summer.
5. Pay extra attention to Goal Number 4, which will be my toughest challenge.
6. Read at least 30 women authors, which includes at least 25 different authors. [11/30; 11/25] I have few to whittle away at this this season, but who knows?

Had to create a separate post for updating my Rejected categories portion of my #6 goal because I ran out of space in my original post-

REJECTED CATEGORIES FOR 52 WEEKS CHALLENGE (and books that did not fit into a Pop Sugar Challenge category)
1. A book about a taboo subject- Although not taboo now, E,M. Forster did not publish Maurice during his lifetime because it dealt with homosexuality.
2. A short book written in another language (not english or your mother tongue)- The Lover by Marguerite Duras
3. A book with a strong female protagonist - Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
4. A book set in the country of your ancestors - The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette
5. A book that is set in a location you would like to visit - The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute (Paris)
6. A book you can finish in a day with a title that starts with the word "The"- The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon
7. Any genre with something from nature in the title - The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas-fils
8. A book that is short but really packs a punch- Old Rosa by Reinaldo Arenas
9. A book that you got for free- Wirriyamu by Williams Sassine
10. A book with a male or female noun or pronoun in the title (i.e. he/she, boy/girl, man/woman, etc.)= Madmen and Specialists: A Play by Wole Soyinka
11. A book with a plant (tree, flower, etc) on the cover- Amyntas by André Gide
12. A book from an author born the same month as you -Acts of Worship: Seven Stories by Yukio Mishima
13. A book with a hero from a different ethnic group than yours - No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
14. A book you bought or will buy from an independent bookstore or from a charity shop- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
15. A book with less than 100 reviews- The Sufferings of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
16. A book written by a Nobel Prize winner - Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
17. A book with an animal on the cover - Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
18. A book that takes place in more than one country - I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
19. A book featuring a fictional trickster- A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan
20. A book written when your mother/father was a teenager- Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
21. Any genre with something from nature in the title - Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
22. A book based on an ancient epic- Theogony by Hesiod
23. A book set during time of war- In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir: One Family in a Changing World by Justine Hardy
24. Re-read a favorite - Marcel Proust by Edmund White
25. A book by an author who is from a country different than your own- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda
26.A book set during world war II - Lucia in Wartime by Tom Holt
27. A book of fiction that mentions, or is about a real person/ or someone who was a real person- Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
28. A book that takes place during a holiday- Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
29.A book from a prolific author (wrote 50 books or more so far) - Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
30. A short story collection - The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory by Jorge Luis Borges
31. A book with a blue spine or cover- Fair Weather by Richard Peck
32. A book with a male or female noun or pronoun in the title (i.e. he/she, boy/girl, man/woman, etc.)- A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
33. A book with a weird/wacky title- Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
34. A book from genre you don't normally read with 200 pages or less- James Herriot's Cat Stories by James Herriot
35. A book with a number in the title- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
36. A classic romance written before you were born - The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
37.A book in a genre you normally don't read- Adé: A Love Story by Rebecca Walker
38.A book about an obsession- The Garden Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk
39.A book about second chances/starting over- X Out Of Wonderland by David Allan Cates
40.A book written for adults that you would read to a child- The Crescent Moon by Rabindranath Tagore
41. A book with a child as the main character (or one of), but not a children's book- Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe

WhooHoo! Let's see if I can keep from going back above 200!

4. Reduce the number of my onhand and unread books to fewer than 200. (This means I'll have to borrow fewer library books, but it especially means I'll have to stop buying more than I read to still be able to make purchases at the book sale in October.) [200/200]

Well done Elizabeth!

I had the same goal. I am on 209, moving in the right direction!