As 2024 draws to a close, I'm looking back at the reading goals I set at the beginning of the year. What were they? Read 30,000 pages Read 15 translated works Read 30 books I already own. Read 25 books that have been on my TBR since before 2023. And how did I do? I… Continue reading What I Read – 2024
Tag: Bookish Goals
What I Read – July 2021
Read: The Devil and the Dark Water - Stuart Turton (HarperCollins Publishers, 2020) Made in China - Anna Qu (Catapult, 2021) Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi (Bond Street Books, 2020) Notes on Grief - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) Did Not Finish: Floating City - Kerri Sakamoto I picked this up because it… Continue reading What I Read – July 2021
What I Read – January 2021
Read: What Kind of Woman - Kate Baer (Harper Perennial, 2020) The Arsonists' City - Hala Alyan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021) A History of My Brief Body - Billy-Ray Belcourt (Hamish Hamilton, 2020) A Treasury of Short Stories edited by Bernardine Kielty (Simon & Schuster, 1947) Currently Reading: On Reading Well - Karen Swallow Prior… Continue reading What I Read – January 2021
2020: Bookish Goals
At the beginning of 2019 I set myself the goal of reading 100 books. It felt like an ambitious and perhaps foolhardy goal but I was able to accomplish and even surpass it. (104 was my final number.) I'm pretty proud of that. More than that though I appreciate that this goal made me think… Continue reading 2020: Bookish Goals
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