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Reading Goals

December 3, 2025

I updated my book log last night so this seems like a good time to review where I’m at with my reading goals for this year and decide which I’m going to try to achieve and which are not going to happen.

I’m looking good for both of my overall goals: 63 books and 20 thousand pages. I’m at 61 books now, which StoryGraph tells me means I’m ahead of schedule by 3 books, and 18,384 pages (behind by 24 pages, which isn’t big at all considering at some points it’s been in the hundreds).

As for the more specific challenges I joined that are ending when the year ends, those aren’t looking so great. I’m at 50% in both the TBR challenge (wanted to get to some of the books that have been languishing on my Kindle) and the StoryGraph genre challenge (intended to get out of my comfort zone, which I did some so that’s something). Those aren’t going to get done. For the paper books challenge, I’m at 75%; I’d need to read three books for that before the end of the year and that seems unlikely. I should finish the remaining time-based challenge I joined, for non fiction; only need one book to wrap that up, and I’ve started reading it.

While I’m a bit bummed about the challenges I won’t complete, I still think joining them meant I read some things I might otherwise have not gotten to, and that’s a good thing. And who knows, maybe I’ll surprise myself and spend a lot of time reading for those challenges while we’re on Christmas vacation at the end of the month. It could happen.

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On this date in 2024: Too Many Tabs
2023: Goodbye Tabs
2022: Winter Was Coming and Now It’s Here
2021: Enchantment
2020: Three Little Kittens
2019: Fall Road Trip Loop, Part 1: It’s Not a Canyon, Really
2018: Mundanity on the Mountain
2017: The Mountain is Calling
2016: Driving, Driving, Driving
2015: Achievement Unlocked
2014: To Everything There Is a Season
2013: Creepier Than Elf on a Shelf
2012: Getting Better
2007 through 20111: No journal entries
2006: Eye Candy is Better Than No Candy at All
2005: No entry
2004: Catching Up, Again
2003: Bad Logo on the Rise
2002: Winter

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