A Quick Update of Where I Stand on My 2016 Reading Challenges
So far this month I have finished three books. They are; Life with Pi, The Winter Fortress and most recently Dark Run. This brings my total number of books read in 2016 to 35 books. My lofty goal is 60 books. So right now I am way behind the pace I need (five books per month) to read to reach that goal. However, I am not that far off the pace needed to match last years total of 51 books.
Where I Stand on My 2016 Reading Challenges
Yesterday I sat down and reviewed where I stood on my various Reading Challenges. Here’s a tabulation of where I stand right now!
| Ed K’s 2016 Reading Challenges | TBR | Library | Total | Goal | % of Goal |
| 2016 Literature Reading Challenge | |||||
| General Fiction | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 50.00% |
| Classics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.00% |
| NY Times Bestseller List | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.00% |
| Award-Winners | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 50.00% |
| 2015 Mystery/Thriller Reading Challenge | |||||
| Rgrandad’s Mysteries | 3 | 18 | 21 | 10 | 210.00% |
| Women Mystery Book Authors | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 20.00% |
| 2016 Science Fiction /Fantasy Challenge | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 16.67% |
| 2016 Nonfiction Reading Challenge | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 50.00% |
| Total | 35 | 60 | 58.33% | ||
| 2016 TBR Pile Challenge | 8 | 25 | 32.00% |
Hmm, it looks like I am kicking butt with those mysteries, but everything else is lagging behiind! Well, I guess I’m not doing too badly in the General Fiction, award-winners and nonfiction challenges, But it looks like I have my work cut out for me in several of the other categories!!
Books I am Currently Reading and Plan on Reading
Here’s a table of the next group of books I have started along with the books I am planning to read.
| Currently Reading | Challenge |
| Books to Finish | |
| Connectography – Parag Khanna | Nonfiction |
| The One Plan | Nonfiction |
| Finding Family | Nonfiction |
| New Books | |
| The Lightning Stones – Jack DuBrul | Ed K’s Mysteries |
| Spies in the Congo – Susan Williams | Nonfiction |
| Redemption Road – John Hart | General Fiction |
| The Last Dead Girl – Harry Dolan | Ed K’s Mysteries |
Maybe I should replace these two mysteries with a classic or woman/s mystery book. I could possibly even replace one with another science fiction book. I am kinda in Sci-fi mode. So maybe it won’t be hard to venture into another world. Maybe .even a sci-fi classic – something from H.G. Wells??
Does anybody have a suggestions? Read any good books lately???