Hello everyone,
I hope you had an excellent weekend. We are now a third of the way through 2019, so it is time for an update on my Goodreads challenge progress!
I set myself a target of 50 books this year. Maybe I could have aimed slightly higher, but I did not want to put too much pressure on myself. And so far I have read 20 books, which according to Goodreads is four ahead of schedule.
The most pleasing thing about my reading challenge this year is that so far I have read from a much wider range of genres. In 2018 thrillers or mysteries accounted for a lot of my books, but this time I have balanced it out with more fantasy, classics, and a couple of non-fiction reads.
Here are the books I have read in 2019:
I am quite happy with 20 books so far, although I feel like I would have read more if it hadn’t been for a combination of a lack of time, and the fact I was ill throughout March.
However, the books on my upcoming TBR all look amazing and I can’t wait to get started on them. There are lots of new releases that I am so excited to read, so the next few months look very promising!
For this reason, I am expecting to make more progress with my Goodreads challenge by the time I post my next update!
Are you taking part in the 2019 Goodreads Challenge? How are getting on? Let me know in the comments!
Happy reading 🙂
Stephen Writes 
I’ve read 34 out of 80. I managed 91 last year which felt like a bit of a fluke but I’m 8 ahead of schedule so who knows? Having a great year so far!
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You are doing really well! I think you could definitely get close to your total from last year.
I have sent you a friend request on Goodreads 🙂
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Great – thank you x
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Also, where are you on Goodreads? I’d like to be friends…
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20 books is really great!
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Thank you!
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Well done Stephen!
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Thank you, Kelly!
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Congrats – you’re going so well!! I also can’t read when I am ill, and it’s the worst. To know you have ‘all this time’, but to not fill it with books seems like a waste.
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Thank you, Meeghan! Absolutely, it feels like you maybe should be spending that time reading, but you just can’t!
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Being sick is the worst!!! Unless you just want to catch up with TV!!! 😂
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Oh my God, you just need 30 to finish, congrats. That’s job well done. 🙂 🙂 Most of the books you’ve read are on my TBR as well and hopefully, I get to read them this year.*fingers crossed* I’m not really good at following my TBR.
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Thank you, Lili. I decided that 2019 would be the year I got through a lot of my TBR, but the number of new releases from my favourite authors etc have led me astray! Good luck with your reading. 🙂
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Hehe, I can understand. Last Dec. 2018, I made a list of series, old series I would read this year but my God, I haven’t read any of them. 🙂
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Great job, Stephen and nice selection. I have a couple of those on my TBR! Have a lovely week. You’ve got that 50 no problem. 😊
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Thank you, Zoe! I am confident of reaching that target, planning loads of reading in May!
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You’re doing so great, Stephen, congrats!! And I told myself I would read The Girl in the Tower and the Wind Witch before winter ended, but now it looks like they’re going to be spring/summer reads. 🙂
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Oops!! I mean Winter of the Witch, not the Wind Witch. 😀
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Thank you so much, Kathy! I hope you get to read those books soon, they are both fantastic!
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Congrats, Stephen! You are doing amazingly well so far, and great job branching out to other genres!
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Thank you, Jennifer!
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I went for 12 books. I got that in Feb/March. I should have reached higher also.
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Well done on reaching your target. Do you think you might set yourself a higher one for the rest of the year? 🙂
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Congratulations! I’m really impressed that your managing to keep up a range of genres, I always get hooked on one for weeks at a time.
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Thank you, Louise! I read a lot of similar genres last year, so I made it one of my goals for 2019 to read more of a range, and so far it is going well. 🙂
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Wow, 50 books! I’ve never gone past 30. I didn’t make my reading goal (24) last year, so I put a conservative number (20) this year. …Only I’m halfway through already and I could definitely have made a more aggressive goal.
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Good luck with your target, Kamilla! I can understand why you went a bit lower this year, but you are doing really well so far. 🙂
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I have only just joined Goodreads so ago new to me and I haven’t yet updated my reads so far. I’m using the bookriot read harder challenge to encourage myself to read something different but am obviously 4 months behind! Task 1 is epistolary novel so I have ordered Obama’s book of letters to his daughter “Of Thee I Sing”. I’ll try catch up with you!
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Good luck, and thanks for the comment!
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