I am slightly behind on my readings goals. To keep up with my goal of 52 books for the year, I ought to have read at least 14 by now, but I’ve only read 11. That’s not too bad, though. A couple of breezy novels would have me caught up in no time.
In order to finish my 30 must-read books by the end of 2019, I ought to have read roughly 9 of them by now. I’ve only read 3. There was a fourth book that I decided to give up on. Should it count toward my goal anyway? Probably. The reason I wanted to read each of those 30 books was to decide if they deserved a place in my library. Though I didn’t finish reading that one, my decision on it has been made (it’s out!), which means that I accomplished my goal, just differently. So I will count it, but that still leaves me lagging by 5. I will have to make up for it over the next couple of months.
I am currently reading 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill and The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms edited by Ron Padgett. Also on my nightstand are two library books (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Poems New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska), A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader edited by Maria Popova & Claudia Bedrick, and Jerry Spinelli’s Smiles to Go (which is one of the 30 must-read books).