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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In order to finish my 30 must-read books<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am currently reading 20th Century Ghosts<\/em> by Joe Hill and The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms<\/em> edited by Ron Padgett. Also on my nightstand are two library books (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry<\/em> by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Poems New and Collected<\/em> by Wislawa Szymborska), A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader<\/em> edited by Maria Popova & Claudia Bedrick, and Jerry Spinelli’s Smiles to Go<\/em> (which is one of the 30 must-read books). 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. … Continue reading
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