[Dazrin]

I am going to keep the same page goal as last year and will continue my ongoing sub-goals.
1) Page Goal: Read 24,000 pages in 2015. - Completed 11/3/15
Multi-year Ongoing Goals:
2) Diversity: No more than 1 out of 5 books will be in a single genre.
3) Re-Read: No more than 1 out of 5 books will be re-reads.
4) Indies: At least 1 out of 5 books will be independently published.

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Status as of December 31:
Page Goal Status: 28,315 pages read, 79 books/short stories completed.
Diversity Goal: 17% Fantasy books
Re-Read Goal: 14%
Indie Goal: 28%

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Overall Summary Stats: 1, 2, 3, 4

• Read 37 Books from 32 new authors
• Read 48 library books (61%)
• Read 24 books that either won or were shortlisted for a literary award
• Read books published in 45 different years (highest from 2015 with 7)
• Most read author: Terry Pratchett with 9

Completed books, ordered by finish date:

1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (HP 5) - J.K. Rowling - Library book, started in 2014
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (HP 6) - J.K. Rowling - Library book
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (HP 7) - J.K. Rowling - Library book
4. Odd Interlude (Odd Thomas 4.5) - Dean Koontz - Library book(s), 3 part novel
5. Point of Impact (Bob Lee Swagger 1) - Stephen Hunter - Library book
6. The Camel Club (Camel Club 1) - David Baldacci - Library book
7. In the Beginning was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson
8. Split Second (King and Maxwell 1) - David Baldacci - Library book
9. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson - Library book
10. The Little Black Bag - C.M. Kornbluth
11. The Marching Morons - C.M. Kornbluth
12. Firefight (Reckoners 2) - Brandon Sanderson - Library book, epub only unfortunately
13. Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson - From his website
14. Sherlock Holmes ??: Discovering the Border Burghs and, by deduction, the Brig Bazaar - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - New Sherlock Holmes!
15. Master and Commander (Aubrey-Maturin 1) - Patrick O'Brian
16. Timeline - Michael Crichton - Library book, nominated for March MR Book Club
17. The Innocent (Will Robie 1) - David Baldacci - Library book
18. West with the Night - Beryl Markham - MR Book Club March 2015 selection, paper book from Library
19. His Last Bow (SH 8)- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - From HarryT's omnibus
20. Death's Hand (Descent 1) - SM Reine
21. The Alloy of Law (Mistborn 4 / Wax and Wayne 1) - Brandon Sanderson
22. Fool's Errand (Tawny Man 1) - Robin Hobb - Library book
23. Dragonflight (Pern 1) - Anne McCaffrey - Library book
24. War of Honor (HH10) - David Weber
25. Patriot Games (Jack Ryan 2) - Tom Clancy - 1st book chronologically, but second published.
26. The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth - Library book on my phone
27. Bill Bryson's African Diary - Bill Bryson - Library book
28. The Road Not Taken - Harry Turtledove - Short story
29. Troll Bridge - Terry Pratchett
30. Raising Steam (Discworld 40) - Terry Pratchett - Library book
31. Phantoms - Dean Koontz - Library book
32. Kraken - China Miéville - Library book
33. Vanishing Act (Jane Whitefield 1) - Thomas Perry - Library book
34. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
35. The Magicians (Magicians 1) - Lev Grossman - Library book
36. Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence 1) - Max Gladstone
37. The Egg - Andy Weir
38. To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel 3) - Connie Willis - Library book
39. At All Costs (HH11) - David Weber
40. What If - Randall Munroe - Library Book
41. Seveneves - Neal Stephenson - Library book
42. Pines (Wayward Pines 1) - Blake Crouch - KOLL for July 2015
43. The Einstein Prophecy - Robert Masello - Kindle First selection for July 2015
44. The Atlantis Gene - A.G. Riddle - KOLL August 2015
45. Wyrd Sisters (Discworld 6) - Terry Pratchett - Library book
46. Armada - Ernest Cline - Library book
47. Golden Buddha (Oregon Files 1) - Clive Cussler - Library book
48. Theatre of Cruelty - Terry Pratchett - Available at L-Space
49. Death and What Comes Next - Terry Pratchett - Available at L-Space
50. A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices - Terry Pratchett - Available online
51. The Quiller Memorandum (The Berlin Memorandum) - Adam Hall - Library audio book
52. Lost Horizons - James Hilton - Library book
53. Pyramids (Discworld 7) - Terry Pratchett - Library book
54. The Sea and Little Fishes - Terry Pratchett
55. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (SH 9) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
56. Aye, and Gomorrah - Samuel R. Delany - Nebula Award winning short story for 1967
57. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith - Library book
58. The Star Creature - Steven A. Lyons - MR Author (Cromag) flash fiction
59. Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga 1) - Peter F. Hamilton - Library book
60. James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl - Library book
61. The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon 1) - Daniel Silva - Library book
62. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things - Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess) - Library book
63. Shadows of Self (Mistborn 5 / Wax and Wayne 2) - Brandon Sanderson - Library book
64. Kidnapped - Robert Lewis Stephenson - MR Book Club October selection
65. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami - Library book - Finished page goal for the year.
66. The Eiger Sanction - Trevanian - Library audio book
67. Guards! Guards! (Discworld 8) - Terry Pratchett - Library book
68. The Aeronaut's Windlass (Cinder Spires 1) - Jim Butcher - Library book
69. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman - 1975/6 Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award winner
70. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson - Library book
71. The Lightning Tree - Patrick Rothfuss - Library book, short story from Rogues Anthology by G.R.R. Martin
72. Roaring Twenties - Carrie Vaughn - Library book, short story from Rogues collection by G.R.R. Martin
73. A Year and a Day in Old Theradane - Scott Lynch - Library book, short story from Rogues collection by G.R.R. Martin
74. Legion - Brandon Sanderson - Audio book
75. The Legend of Drizzt: Collected Stories - R.A. Salvatore - Audio book
76. The Mediterranean Caper (Dirk Pitt 1 (2?)) - Clive Cussler - Library book
77. Gone Fishin' - Walter Mosley
78. The Manual of Detection - Jedediah Berry - Library audio book
79. Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg - Library book

Book in progress:

• Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga 2) - Peter F. Hamilton - Library book

Goal Change Log:

Spoiler:

1/16/15: I decided to change my sub-goals to book-based goals rather than page-based. My reasoning is that I read books, not individual pages, and this will allow me to choose whatever book I want regardless of page length since the page count won't affect my goals. This is the same reason that my main goal is a page-based goal - it allows me to read whatever I want without considering how long the book is. Page based sub-goals were forcing me to choose some genres that typically have shorter page counts than others in order to meet the goals. As part of this, I have adjusted the goals to be more in-line with what I have actually been doing and want to move forward with.
In practice this will mean that ~60% of the books I read will be Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Thrillers, the remaining 40% will be other genres (or specific sub-genres of the above that I track separate.) I can live with that.
Old multi-year Ongoing Goals:
2) Diversity: No more than 1/3 of pages read will be in a single genre.
3) Re-Read: No more than 1/4 of pages read will be re-reads.
4) Indies: At least 1/5 of pages read will be independently published.

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