Mid-Year Reading Check-In

[owlmoose]

With July comes the middle of the year, which is a good time to take stock of reading goals for 2019 and share some of my favorite books so far. Starting with goals:

• I read 20 books as of June 30th, a good bit behind the pace for my goal of 50 for the year, but not so far behind that it feels insurmountable.
• Of those, 11 are by authors of color, which is ahead of pace for my 50% goal! Not only that, 6 of those authors were new to me, which means I've hit my goal there with half a year to go. I'm very pleased with myself and hope I can keep it up.
• Books that I already owned: a whopping grand total of four, which considering that I meant to hit 50% is not so great. I'm almost done with Hugo reading for 2019, at least, which means I can hopefully start pulling from the TBR a bit more often. So even if I don't catch up all the way, I can make some progress.

Some favorites so far:( Read more... )

So how is everyone else doing on goals for the year so far? Any surprising discoveries? Let me know!