It’s time for a mid-year review! Rather than go through all of my statistics, I decided to just look at the goals I made on January 1st and see how I’m doing.

Translated Works
Goal: >13
Read so far: 19
I’ve already matched this one!

Classics
Goal: 25
Read so far: 8
I’m definitely behind on this one; I should have read 12 or 13 by now. But I just got several classics from the library, so I hope to catch up soon.

Short Story Anthologies
Goal: read anthologies instead of collections
Read so far: 2 (halfway through 3)
You know what, I think this resolution backfired. I’ve simply been reading less short stories this year. I guess I prefer collections to anthologies.

International Reading
Goal: more geographic balance
Read so far: I decided to do this one visually! I made no less than four maps: one for countries visited via fiction, one for countries visited via nonfiction, one for author nationalities I’ve read this year, and one that combines everything. I think I’m definitely balanced! However, I am quite embarassed that I haven’t read any fiction or nonfiction set in/about Canada. At least I’ve read some Canadian authors though!

First, I thought I’d post the ‘everything’ map: it includes 62 countries visited via fiction or nonfiction.

Getting into specifics, here’s fiction, which has brought me to 33 countries.

And here’s nonfiction, which has brought me to 48 countries (this is higher because of travelogues and all of the World Citizen books).

And finally, here’s the 33 different nationalities representing the authors I’ve read this year.

All maps were made at InteractiveMaps.org.

(For you Library Looters, Marg is hosting the Mr. Linky this week! My loot should be up later today; my vlog is delayed because of car trouble.)