Reading Goals 2023 (and some OT musings ;))

Since this thread was resurrected, I might as well do a check-in on how my year is going.
In short: I am not doing great but also not doing badly. I have logged 56 things as finished, about a quarter of that are manga. That is pretty much about the same as I read the whole of last year, and there are still some months left for this year. (I had a stretch goal in my head of reading 52 books - with 10 vol of manga counting as 1 book - and I might just about be able to reach that. :flushed:)

I won’t meet the 本好き goal, simply because the volumes seem to be getting harder for me to follow purely on audio (less slice of life, more political intrigue), so I have switched to reading the ebooks and I haven’t really been doing that, because there is so much other stuff I also want to read. :face_holding_back_tears:

I have read a few of my 児童書 but by far not as many as I had planned and generally, I need to focus a bit more on physical books. I don’t think I am anywhere near the 25 books I wanted to read from that. (edit: after checking, I am at 9 :see_no_evil:) I do, however, see a couple of gaps in my TBR shelf, so there is at least a bit of progress. :slight_smile: [let’s ignore that my 積読 pile actually increased after my visit to Japan this year. :sweat_smile:]

English audiobooks also by far outweigh Japanese audiobooks and I won’t be able to change that. A better goal would probably have been for every 10 English audiobooks, I listen to 1 Japanese. I was a bit over-ambitious with that one. :see_no_evil:

How is everyone else’s year going? Any adjustments to your goals? Any goals you flew past? Any goals that you abandoned or postponed to next year? Any goals you completely forgot about? :see_no_evil:

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