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Length Goals:

• Total Books: 50 (stretch goal of 75) 22/50 - On Target
• Total Pages: 15,000 (stretch of 20,000) - 6,917/15,000 - On Target
• E-TBR Reduction: 25 - 8/25 - On Target
• Read from Print-TBR: 10 - 8/10 - On Target

Substantive Goals:

• Read at least 51% non-American authors - 42%/58% - Off Target
• Read more female/nonbinary authors than male - 58%/42% - On Target
• Read at least 52 short stories - 15/52 - On Target
• Read at least 10 books across all our collections that are selected by my wife. - 3/10 - On Target

JANUARY 2023 WRAP UP:

Spoiler:

Books:

• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Judge's House by George Simenon
• The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
• Bellwhether by Connie Willis
• The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz
• Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John Dower

Short Stories:

• "The Student" by Anton Chekhov
• "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
• "Tobermory" by Saki
• "The Path to the Cemetery" by Thomas Mann
• "An Ocurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
• "The Truth About Owls" by Amal El-Mohtar
• "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" by Flannery O'Connor
• "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver

Books Selected by my Wife:

• None this month, but I have already got two going for February!

FEBRUARY 2023 WRAP UP

Spoiler:

Books:

• Princess Knight: New Omnibus Edition by Osamu Tezuka
• The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
• Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith
• A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead
• My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
• Into the Riverlands by Ngi Vo
• Lab Girl by Dr. Hope Jahren
• Rome West by Jonathan Hickman

Shorts:

• "A Painfull Case" by James Joyce
• "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield (always also makes me think of The Hours)
• "Why I Live at the P.O." by Eudora Welty

MARCH 2023 WRAP UP

Books:

• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
• The Ghosts of Eden Park by Karen Abbott
• Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Hugette Clark by Bill Deadman and Paul Clark Newell
• Fire Watch by Connie Willis
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark
• To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini (dropped)

Shorts:

• "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
• "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang
• "Wooden Feathers" by Ursula Vernon
• "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov
• "The Fly" by Katherine Mansfield
• "The Doves' Nest" by Katherine Mansfield