Reading & Blog Goals | 2019 Third Quarter Check In

Hello everyone, I am here will a bit of a late Third Quarter check in, but I wanted to check back on my goals so I didn’t lose track of them. If you wanted to look at my initial goals post and my previous check ins, I will link them here for your connivence.

• Reading & Blog Goals | 2019 Mid-Year Check In
• Reading & Blog Goals | 2019 First Quarter Check In
• Reading Goals | 2019 Edition

I have to say, that I am really happy with my progress over all, there are just a few goals I have been putting off because I am such a mood reader and I have not been in the mood to read particular books on my shelf. I am hoping that over the next few weeks this turns around and I can get all of these taken care of.

-My Goals-

1. Read all of the short listed books for the 2018 Man Booker Prize
   • Reading Goals |Reading a Shortlist
2. Read a book set in each of the 7 continents
3. Read 50 books
4. Read 30,000 pages
5. Read at least one book per month from the library
6. Read 12 non-fiction books
7. Read a book recommended by someone I look up to
   • Lists | Megan Mullally Book Recommendations
8. Read my classic of 2019, War and Peace
   • Lets Talk | Classic of the Year 2019
9. Take part in 2019 Beat the Backlist
   • My backlisted books are here.

-My Updates-

1. Reading a backlist is both my favorite and least favorite challenge. I am having a series love hate relationship with it. I have previously did a catch up post with this goal, Revisiting | Reading a Shortlist 2019, since this post, I have read more of these books, in fact I only have 1 left! So, I am very much on track to hitting this goal. I am planning on reading it in November. Fingers crossed!
2. I am still in need of reading 3 more continents. This one is another challenge that has been very much affected by my mood reading. I have picked for each of these continents, but I just have not been in the mood.
3. I have surpassed this goal! I have read a total of 87 books at the time of writing this.
4. At this point in time I have read 31,931 pages, which means I have also met this goal! It is so nice to be able to check some of these off.
5. At this point in time I have read a library book every month and I am so happy to be able to support my local library as well as getting to know some of my librarians. It is a wonderful feeling.
6. At this point in the year I have read at least 16 non-fiction books, so I met this goal as well!
7. So, this goal was one I was iffy about. I decided since I set the goal of reading one book recommended by someone I look up to, I did do that, but did not enjoy it in the slightest and it stinks.
8. I have finished War and Peace and I have to admit, I liked Anna Karenina a lot more. It was not bad, but I was not blow away by it.
9. So, beat the backlist was a huge success for me. As of October I read every book I bought before the start of 2019. I really was not sure if I was going to meet this one, but I am so excited that I did.

-Completion Status-

1. ❌
2. ❌
3. ✔️
4. ✔️
5. ❌
6. ✔️
7. ✔️
8. ✔️
9. ✔️

I can’t believe I only have 3 more goals to work on this year, I am proud of myself for sticking with a lot of these throughout the year instead of putting a lot of them off, which would have been very easy to do. At this time I need to read a total of 4-6 more books to reach each of my goals. I am hoping I can get them all done before December so I have some breathing room and time to do some goal planning for 2020. It is mind blowing to already be writing the year 2020.

How are your 2019 goals going?

Do you have any ideas for your reading goals for 2020?

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