Reading goals update: first quarter

I posted my tentative reading goals for the year back in January, and I realized I've been keeping track of them on my bookstagram but not on here. So here's how I kept to my reading goals in January, February, and March. 

 

January

• a physical unread book that is sitting on my shelves - I joined a 'read your oldest TBR books' reading challenge on StoryGraph, and started reading the oldest unread book as listed in my LibraryThing library: a C.S. Lewis omnibus containing three of his books, The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, and God in the Dock. I skipped TPR as I had just read it in December (if that's cheating, I don't care) and started reading Christian Reflections, which is mostly letters to the editor of Christian theology journals. They are very long, dry, and boring, and I stalled reading this almost immediately. I also read a few recently-purchased physical books, but as they were recently purchased and not sitting on my bookshelves, I'm not counting them for this bullet point. ✅
• reread an old favorite book or series - nope, everything I read this month was new to me.
• read something by a BIPOC author - I read A Piñata in a Pine Tree by Pat Mora and Magaly Morales. ✅
• read an ebook from Apple - I did not do this.
• read something thematic (seasonal, themed day/week/month etc.) - I read two Christmas-themed picture books before the Christmas season officially ended on January 6, three kings day. ✅
• read a library book - I read the first two books of Rachel Reid's Game Changer series on Libby thanks to my public library. ✅
• something that is not prose or a usual genre I read (poetry, comics/graphic novels, essays, short stories, etc.) - I'm counting the CSL omnibus as an essay collection, as that is mostly what CR seems to be (although TPR is a novel). I also read the two picture books but I feel like I read them often enough for them to maybe not count as a format I don't usually read. Counting it. ✅

 

February

• a physical unread book that is sitting on my shelves - nope, everything I read this month was an ebook.
• reread an old favorite book or series - I started rereading The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. ✅
• read something by a BIPOC author - I read two books by Black authors this month: Mules and Men and A Chance at Love ✅
• read an ebook from Apple - I did not do this.
• read something thematic (seasonal, themed day/week/month etc.) - I read two books by Black authors this month, as it was Black History Month. Mules and Men, A Chance at Love ✅
• read a library book - I did not read any library books this month.
• something that is not prose or a usual genre I read (poetry, comics/graphic novels, essays, short stories, etc.) - I'm counting Mules and Men as it's a nonfiction travelogue, definitely not something I often read. ✅

March

• a physical unread book that is sitting on my shelves - I read Melissa by Alex Gino, which according to my LibraryThing, I've had sitting on my shelves since last year. ✅
• reread an old favorite book or series - I am still rereading The Lord of the Rings. ✅
• read something by a BIPOC author - I am not sure whether any of the authors I've read this month are BIPOC; their author bios do not state if they are.
• read an ebook from Apple - I did not do this.
• read something thematic (seasonal, themed day/week/month etc.) - I read three books for the Trans Rights Readathon for Trans Visibility Day. ✅
• read a library book - I read five library books, 4 ebooks via Libby (the Game Changers series #3 & #4 and The Thursday Murder Club series #2 & 3) and one physical library book (Julián Is a Mermaid). ✅
• something that is not prose or a usual genre I read (poetry, comics/graphic novels, essays, short stories, etc.) - I'm counting the middle grade books I read this month, as I don't usually read those. ✅

 

Overall, pretty good!