Reflection | 2020 Goals, 6 Month Checkin

Hello everyone and welcome to my 6 month 2020 goals check in. I cannot believe that wee are halfway through 2020 already. Anyway, I am going to keep this short and sweet and just get into the goal. The thing is I wanted to give you a bit of a heads up. I am writing this blog post in advance so my numbers might be a tad bit higher in real time.

The List

1. Read a shortlist: Man Booker 2019
   • The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Not really excited about this one…
   • ✔️Ducks, Newburyport  by Lucy Ellmann
   • ✔️Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
   • An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
   • Quichotte by Salman Rushdie Owned
   • 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak Owned
2. Read 50 books, 55 books read. 
3. Read all backlisted books, 46 books in all. Down to 10.
4. Read 30,000 pages. Read 20,068 pages so far. 
5. Read 16 nonfiction books. Read 8 so far. 
6. Read 16 books from the library. Read 7 so far. 
7. Read a book from each continent
   • ✔️North America: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
   • South America
   • ✔️ Europe: Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
   • Asia
   • Australia
   • ✔️Antarctica: The Magicians by Lev Grossman 
   • Africa
8. Read a book recommended by Joe Hill or Stephen King
   • The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard
   • Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman Purchased 
   • Brutal Youth by Anthony Breznican
   • Frankenstorm by Ray Garton
9. Read a Shakespeare play a month, you can join the fun by going to the goodreads group 2020 Shakespeare Challenge Group.
   • January: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
   • February: Othello
   • March: Hamlet
   • April: Macbeth
   • May: The Taming of the Shrew
   • June: Twelfth Night
   • July:
   • August:
   • September:
   • October:
   • November:
   • December:

Reflection

1.  I read two of these books and did a review here:Reflection | Reading a Shortlist Vol. 1. I picked up two more I am veery excited to get to. Two I still need to buy or get from the library. One I am really not looking forward to it The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. I read the first book and I did not like it at all. I am technically a little behind on this one, but I am not too far behind.
2. Did it!!
3. I only have 10 more books to go, so I am very excited about that, I thought I was going to have a lot more left on my TBR.
4. I am more than halfway to my page goal, yay! This is always the goal I am more worried about since I can’t just read short books, manga, or graphic novels to just pump up my numbers. I need to put in the reading work for this one.
5. I am exactly at the halfway mark for reading 16 non-fictions books. I am really happy to be on track for this one. I have been really in the mood to learn lately and I feel like I will have this goal done very soon.
6. With everything going on with a pandemic, my library was closed for a very long time so I was not able to borrow from them too much. I could request ebooks, but the ebook waits have sky rocketed since that is the only option for many people. I am not too worried about this goal though since I am not too far off.
7. I am halfway through this one so I am very much on track. I also have the 3 books in mind I am going to be reading. So, I think this is another “win”.
8. I picked the book I am going to read and purchased it, I just need to get my butt in gear and actually read it.
9. As for this year long challenge I am very much on track. I was kinda worried I would have given it up at this point.

How are your goals going?

Have you decided to change any of yours or introduce new ones?

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