It is mind boggling to think that we are already halfway through 2019. It feels like it only just begun if you ask me. I almost totally forgot that I needed to do another check in on my year long goals. I felt like I had all the time in the world. Turns out, I only have another 6 months to meet all of these. If you want to see where I was. 3 months ago, you can see my previous check in here; Reading & Blog Goals | 2019 First Quarter Check In.
-My Goals-
- Read all of the short listed books for the 2018 Man Booker Prize
- Read a book set in each of the 7 continents
- Read 50 books
- Read 30,000 pages
- Read at least one book per month from the library
- Read 12 non-fiction books
- Read a book recommended by someone I look up to
- Read my classic of 2019, War and Peace
- Take part in 2019 Beat the Backlist
- My backlisted books are here.
-My Updates-
- I recently did an update post on this goal in particular, Revisiting | Reading a Shortlist. To summarize I have read/DNFed 3 books out of the 6 on the list. If you want to see my reasonings and such, please look at that post I go into a lot of detail.
- At this point in the year I have read a books that take place on 4 of the 7 continents. I am still working on South America, Asia (already have a book picked), and Australia. If you have any reconditions from these continents please share!
- As of writing this June 10th, I have read a total of 38 books, I am very close to reaching this goal.
- At this point in time I have read 16851, so I am once again in pretty good shape and on track to hit my goal!
- So far I have read a book from the library for Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, and Jun! So I am sticking to this one for sure!
- I am happy to report that I am ahead of schedule on this goal, I have read a total of 11 non-fiction books this year. So, more than 25% of my read books are non-fiction. It is my most read genre.
- So, this goal I am a little on the fence about, I tried to read a book reccoemnded by Megan Mullally, Milkman, but I ended up DNFing it. So, I kinda did and kinda didn’t meet this goal? I am going to maybe try one more from this list since I only need to read one.
- So, reading War and Peace is progressing slowly, but surly I am currently on Book 7 out of 17 sections. I am a little behind, but I plan on catching up over the summer when I will have more time outside taking care of my plants.
- So, beat the backlist I have been keeping track of in my monthly wrap ups, As of writing this I only have 9 books still to read from 2018. I stared with 34, so not to shabby.
-Bujo Spreads-
How are your goals progressing so far?
Have you changed any of your goals?
Classic Bhaer 
Wow! You’re doing so well with all of your goals!
I have heard so many mixed things about Milkman and I keep going back and forth on whether or not to read it.
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Thank-you! I am trying hard to stick to them this year.
If you can get it from the library or read an excerpt of it before buying I think it would be best. If you read the first chapter or at least the first few pages you will get a good sense if you will like it or not.
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Progress is looking good!
(Www.evelynreads.com)
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Thanks!
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You’re doing so well! Congrats!
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Thanks! 🙂
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Such great progress!
(I’ve said it before, and I will say it again, I am in love with your bujo spreads!)
-Emma 🙂
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Thanks so much, I am glad you like them so much!
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Wow, you’re doing so well!! Honestly, I’m trying to not think about my goals I set!! 😂
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Thanks I am really trying to hit my goals this year.
Oh, goodness feel like you are doing that well huh? 😂
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Hahahaha, it might just be better to live in denial!! (I actually can’t remember what I wrote in my goals, so I’m assuming they aren’t doing well!)
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That was me last year. That is why this year I am checking in every month in my bullet journal.
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I am not that organized!! I do have spreadsheets, but I’ve gotten behind in filling them out. I spent a good hour last night updating a bunch of them!!
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I have to catch up on my spreadsheet, I half filled it in and then kinda left it. 😂
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OMG that’s my bullet journal!! 😂😂
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😂
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It sounds like you’re doing really well with all your goals. The only ones I really set in stone this year was my reading goal which I set low and so already reached…. Oops.
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Yeah, I am doing my best to stick to them this year. Some years my goals are more flexible than others. What did you set your reading goal at?
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I set it at 52. Which is normally a decent number for me (the last few years I’ve read about 65) but I’m art 58 already!
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That is awesome though! I normally just set mine at 50 incase life gets a little too much at some point during the year and I need to put reading on hold.
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