Adria Bailton

Category: Reading Reflection

  • 2025 Reading Reflection & Reading Goals for 2026

    Check out my previous goals and reading reflections I have finally returned to my normal average reading! 24% over my goal isn’t too shabby. I’m very pleased. As always, Goodreads sends their year-end graphics a few days before the end of the year based on data from almost 2 weeks prior. Last year I was…

  • Reading Reflection for Third Quarter

    I already met my reading goal for the year! It’s so nice to reach it early. It means I can bump up next year. I might make my pre-reading slump rate of a book a week this year! What did I read? In the third quarter of 2025, I read fourteen books. I read primarily…

  • Reading Reflection for Second Quarter 2025

    This graph lies just a tiny bit because I read a book already in July and it’s captured by this bar. In 2025, I’ve read 33 books of the 42 goal so far. At the required 50% date, I was 78% towards my annual goal. If I stay 10 books ahead of goal for the…

  • Reading Reflection for First Quarter 2025

    It’s time for my first update on my Reading Reflection for the first quarter of 2025. My goal for the year is a slow climb out of a pretty bad reading slump that I’m now 2.5 years out of. I’m doing well, if I say so myself. I’m hoping to crush this goal this year.…

  • 2024 Reading Reflection & Reading Goals for 2025

    Check out my previous goals and reading reflections At the top of this graphic, you’ll see I exceeded my reading goal for 2024 of 36 books by 31-33% depending on whether you’re talking to Goodreads or Storygraph. Goodreads thinks I read 47 books and Storygraph 48. Not sure where the descrepancy is, but either way,…

  • Reading Reflection for Third Quarter 2024

    We are now 3/4 of the way through the year, and I’m back with an update to my novel-length reading goals. And I have made excellent reading progress! I’ve completed 34 books total this year, with eleven (11) books in the last 3 months. I’m ahead of my reading goal by seven (7) books! I…

  • Reading Reflection for 2nd Quarter 2024

    We are half-way through the year and it’s time to update my novel-length reading goals. After coming out of a long reading slump, I kept my goal something I could increase as a goal from last year, but reachable if I fell off my numbers from last year. So far, I’ve read 23 books this…

  • Reading Reflection for Quarter 1 of 2024

    I probably need to work on my blog title game as that is quite dull but a descriptive one. It’s also ten days overdue. But better late than never. My goal for this year is to read 36 books, and I’ve already read 14. Two were finished within April, but I’m going to count them…

  • Reading Reflection for 2023 and Reading Goals for 2024

    Check out my previous goals and reading reflections. I reached my reading goal by half-way through this year! In the end, I read forty-six (46) books according to my various tracking methods. Storygraph conveniently made a beautiful graphic of the covers of all the books I read in 2023. Let’s go through the Storygraph sections…

  • Reading Reflection

    Good news first! I’ve already met my 2023 reading goal! I did meet my reading goal of 15 books in 2022 because my reading slump that started in 2020 finally ended last September. It feels so good to meet my goal half-way into the year. (This was completed as of June 23!) Year-to-date Stats I…