I know there is a typo in de banner.. I’m currently not at a place where I can change this and it is annoying me a lot..
Since were a bit more than half way into the year, I thought it would be a good idea to do a challenge check in! I made some goals/challenges at the beginning of the year, so let’s see how I’m doing!
Let’s start with my 2020 TBR (original post here!)
- The eye of the world by Robert Jordan – Currently reading this one!
- Elantris by Brandon Sanderson – Not read yet, but I recently bought the book, so I’m hopeful that I will read it soon!
- The three-body problem by Liu Cixin – Not read, but I’m still really looking forward to be reading this!
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky – Not read, still excited though!
- Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames – Read! New favourite, absolutely loved it!
- The secret history by Donna Tart – Not read yet, not sure how excited I still am about this one.
- The lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch – Not read, I still really want to, but I’m also a bit doubtful considering the sexual assault information that was going around on twitter about him.
- An ember in the ashes by Sabaa Tahir – Read! Another new favourite!
- Circe by Madeline Miller – Not read, also no desire to read this anymore..
- The city of brass by SA Chakraborty – Read! And again a new favourite!
- The bell jar by Sylvia Plath – Read, gave it 4 stars!
4/10.. Hoped I would have done better haha, but I’m in the middle of one, one I don’t want to read anymore, and two I’m doubting about haha. So that makes it look a bit better!
I also had some other goals (original post here!):
- Read 200 books – 164/200, so this one is going great!
- Read 12 classics – 5/12, my goal was one a month, but I keep skipping months and reading double the next haha, I need to up my game a bit!
- Read 5 non-fiction books – 3/5, so right on track! Would like to read more than 5 though, there are so many interesting looking ones!
- Finish 10 series – 7/10, I think haha, it was quite difficult to count! These are series I started before 2020 started, there are some series that I started and finished in 2020!
- Read 30 2020 releases – 47/30, so definitely hit this goal! I’ve been reading so many ARCs this year, so that really helps haha!
- Read 30 ‘backlist’ books (books released before 2017!) – 29/30, if I counted correctly.. But that means I’m almost there!
I’m actually pretty surprised with this! So much better then I had expected haha! I only need to remember to read classics and non-fiction!
I also signed up for the 2020 audiobook challenge (original post here!). There were different levels to aim for. In my sign-up post I said that my ‘official’ goal was Marathoner (50+ audiobooks), but I was secretly aiming for The 100 club (100+). Currently I’ve listened to 52 audiobook! I know I’m surprised by this number as well! So in theory 100 audiobooks should be doable, but in the first half of the year I did a lot of work during my thesis were I could listen to a book. I’m not sure how that will be during the second half! But I will definitely try and listen to 75 book!
And since I really love stats, lets include some stats from the year so far!






I’m doing well with my overall reading number… but that’s about it!!
Haha, I hope uit Goes beter in the service half of the year!
Evelyn you’re doing great with almost all your goals, that’s terrific! Some of them you’ve already smashed and it’s only halfway through the year. Great job!
Yes it is going really well 🙂
I hope your goals are going great as well!
Wow, you’re really staying on top of those goals! I hope the second half of your reading year turns out just as amazing!!
Tbh, it happened without me putting in effort haha!
I hope you have a great second half of the year as well!
It seems like you are doing really well on all your goals!! Congrats and keep it up 😀 I hope you have a good 2nd half!!
I am 🙂 Thanks, I hope you do too!
You are doing really well! I’ve done well with some goals. I need to do an update post this week.
Thanks! Looking forward to read your update!
I can’t believe you’ve already read 164 books! You are awesome!! ❤ I’m about to hit 100 and thought that was absolutely wild Good luck with your challenges the rest of the year, it looks like you’ve done super well so far! ❤❤
Tbh, I can’t believe it either haha!
100 books is also really good!!
I hope you have a great second half of the year!