meeplemaiden

As I need to hold myself accountable. So how am I doing on my challege?

Weeeell...

I've read 15 books of my 60 and I'm well ahead there

Mini reading goals:

0/12 books in German

1/12 Classics

0/12 non-fiction

and 14/24 fiction for fun (something tells me I will reach 24 fff quite soon)

not so great. Still, early days yet.

Other mini goals

Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist for 2018

Sea of Rust

Dreams Before the Start of Time

American War

Spaceman of Bohemia

Gather the Daughters

Borne

3/6 doing well!

Nebula Awards Shortlist 2018

Amberlough

Autonomous

Jade City

The Stone Sky

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

Six Wakes

Spoonbenders

1/6 and if the rest are all like Amberlough I won't get far with that.

And finally

Hugo Awards Shortlist 2018

Raven Stratagem

The Collapsing Empire

The Stone Sky

New York 2140

Provenance

Six Wakes

Just the 1 there too. In all fairness Raven Stratagem and Stone Sky won't be read for a long time as they are parts of series that I haven't started.Better get my skates on as the new shortlists will be announced soon.

In addition I may still pick over the following shortlists:

Sir Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018

Manhattan Beach

Sugar Money

Grace

The Wardrobe Mistress

Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves

The Gallow Pole

The Wellcome Book Prize 2018

The Vaccine Race

The Butchering Art

With the End in Mind

To Be a Machine

Mayhem

Stay With me

Yay, I actually read one of those.

Maybe I will just read the winner from each category first: That would give me the following list:

Dreams Before the Start of Time

The Stone Sky (Nebula and Hugo but book 3 of trilogy so unlikely I'll get to that any time soon)

The Gallows Pole

To Be a Machine

Hand on heart though, knowing me I won't get any first with the shortlists. As soon as I set myself targets I lose interest.