My Goodreads challenge feels like it’s going slowly. I’ve read 8 books so far in 2019, and one of them that made it onto Goodreads was the Original Sin graphic novel. I’m a little hesitant to add the graphic novels in my count. I’ve read several so far this calendar year, including (I am kind of embarrassed to say) a couple of Batman stories.
Even stranger for my habits is four of them were non-fiction:
- The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
- How to Create Cultures by Amy Laurens
- Building Your Resiliency by Brett McKay
- If I had Lunch with C.S. Lewis by Alister McGrath
I have been working on getting my shit together, and the Bullet Journal seems to be helping me get organized. The most important thing about the BuJo method is regular reflections on how the day/week/month went and examining where I am in various things, including tracking my reading habits but even some of that I don’t want to do by hand.
For example, my goal to read more short fiction. I would like to actually be able to participate in the reader polls and Hugos but I don’t because I don’t feel like I have a good enough sense of what’s out there. The short fiction reading also feels like it’s digging into the book reading time and energy. I read 1 novella, 11 short stories, and 1 flash piece that I can actually track. That’s not a lot compared to the massive amount of short stories that got released in the genre magazines in January.
And February is already a week gone. I’ve read 1 story so far.
The fiction highlight was Myke Cole’s The Armored Saint which I finally got around to reading. It seems like I’ve seen advertisements all over the web for it for so long I lost track of it. It became a thing I wouldn’t read because it was so damn popular (that didn’t stop me from reading Martha Well’s Murderbot books) or it became a thing I wouldn’t read because I could never get caught up, even though it’s the first book of a series, wasn’t published that long ago (50 weeks or so), and there are only three books in the series so far.
This is why I need a one-stop source of information, as much as possible, anyway. I’m too disorganized.