Alexa D., showing up 9 months late with Starbucks

OK, so this would have seemed impossible to me at the beginning of the year. The typical reasons (my job!), the atypical reasons (my ADHD!), the secret-shameful reasons (my Twitter addiction!), blah blah blah I used to read so much as a kid but I don't anymore, y'all know the words.

But then the Good Omens miniseries debuted, and I was like, "Oh yeah, BOOKS! Those things that occupy most of my apartment and used to make me so happy!" So after re-reading Good Omens, I just...kept going.

But to be fair, I did manage to read a few things before Good Omens (mostly audiobooks and comics, but those count), so here they are:
* Inferior by Angela Saini
* Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
* Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
* Jenna vol. 1 by Philip Osbourne, et al.
* The Burning Time by Carol Matas
* oh no by Alex Norris
* She-Hulk by Charles Soule: The Complete Collection
* A-Force vol. 0 and A-Force vol. 1 by G. Willow Wilson, et al.

And here's what I've read since re-reading Good Omens (mostly using audiobooks from the library, but all books that I've owned in print for too long without reading):
* By Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere, The Graveyard Book, and Interworld (with Michael Reaves)
* By Terry Pratchett: The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Mort, Sourcery, Eric, Guards! Guards!, Moving Pictures, and Reaper Man
* By Christopher Moore: Fluke, Sacré Bleu, and The Stupidest Angel
* Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
* The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
* The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
* A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
* The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
* Abarat by Clive Barker (technically I DNF'd this, but I gave it over 100 pages, so I'm counting it)
* Smith of Wootten Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
* Art is a Lie by Susan Butcher & Carol Wood
* Common Sense by Thomas Paine
* Watership Down by Richard Adams
* The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
* Less by Andrew Sean Greer
* A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
* Our Endangered Values by President Jimmy Carter
* A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson
* The Book of Memory Gaps by Cecilia Ruiz
* The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
* The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

So that puts me at 43 for the year, 34 for the summer (though I actually read the She-Hulk and A-Force books over Memorial Day weekend, I'm counting summer from Good Omens onward). With Labor Day weekend coming up, I've decided I've got 7 days to finish 6 books and round me up to a solid 40 books over 3 months. Then I figure I'll give myself until the end of next week to finish one more, which will bring me up to an even 50 for the year. After that, I will be able to strategize the remaining 25.

Here's what I'm working on now:
* A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (have the book in print but will probably mostly just listen to the audiobook from the library; 2 chapters in)
* Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut (no audiobook for this one, but I just started this morning and am already 5 chapters in)
* 1,001 Facts that Will Scare the S#*t Out of You by Cary McNeal (yeah it's a trivia book that I keep in my bathroom, but I'm counting it! 11 chapters in)

ETA: Oh yeah, I'm on Litsy, if you want a feel for where my brain goes while I'm actually reading.

Welcome Alexa! There are plenty of people here who don't actually read 75 books a year so don't be too hard on yourself.

Welcome! Like Nora says, plenty of folks here don't make 75, and that's ok. We're really more interested in the books than the numbers. 😀

>2 norabelle414: >3 drneutron: Oh sure, but I have over 1200 unread books and very little space to keep them in, and I'm also constitutionally incapable of letting them go without at least trying to read them. This is as much a KonMari exercise as a book challenge for me. How will I know if a book sparks joy without reading it?! 😉

I did finish A Visit from the Goon Squad yesterday, and I enjoyed it enough not to put it straight on the used bookstore pile. And I woke up this morning to the Mythos audiobook, written and read by Stephen Fry, that I pre-ordered ages ago and have been having a wonderful time listening to this morning.