I failed.
By half a book! I missed my goal of twelve books in 2019 by a few hundred pages1.
In my defence, “Guns, Germs and Steel2” is very long but the real culprit (like the previous year) is my lack of a commute. Not that I’m sick of working from home yet but that was my reading time and now I just don’t have a time that I consistently set aside.
Still, eleven books isn’t bad when you consider all the other material I was reading too. (Might be better for my mental health if I dial it down on Brexit news!) In 2019 there was a better mix of fiction and non-fiction, too, so, while I didn’t reach my target, it worked out pretty well anyway.
I’ve set the same target of twelve books for 2020. Let’s see how that goes.
Depending on how you count them. I read a few technical books (“Scala Cookbook2,” “Deploying to OpenShift“2) among others but somewhat arbitrarily I’ve not included those in the tally. ↩︎