Ramble: The Obligatory End of Year Survey and Assessment

My Goals for 2015 were, as Follows:

Total Read Goal: 130

Mini-Challenges:

Evolution: 5+ books, including Origin of the Species by Darwin

Economics and Finance: 2+ books

Memoir and Essay: 2+ books

Mystery and Horror: 3+ books

Science Fiction: 10+ books including at least 2 trilogies or series.

How Did I Do?

Total Read: 153

Mini-Challenges:

Evolution:  1/5

On the Origin of the Species byMeans of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin

Economics and Finance:  2/2

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The RichTeach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki 

Get a Financial Life: PersonalFinance in Your Twenties and Thirties by Beth Kobliner

Memoir and Essay:  2/2

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle

Mystery and Horror:  2/2

Sanibel Flats by Randy Wayne White (Doc Ford Series, Book 1)

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

The Sweetness at the Bottom ofthe Pie by Alan Bradley (Flavia de Luce, Book 1)
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley (Flavia de Luce Mystery, Book 2)

A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan C. Bradley (A Flavia de Luce Novel, Book 3)

Science Fiction: 10/10

Gamer Fantastic ed. by Martin Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes

Imperial Stars by E.E. Smith with Stephen Goldin (The Family d'Alembert Series, Book 1)

Masks of the Martyrs by Jack L. Chalker (The Rings of the Master, Book 4) 

Warriors of the Storm by Jack L. Chalker (The Rings of the Master, Book 3) 

Pirates of the Thunder by Jack L. Chalker (The Rings of the Master, Book 2) 

Lords of the Middle Dark by Jack L. Chalker (The Rings of the Master, Book 1) 

The Empress of Earth by Melissa Scott (The Roads of Heaven Trilogy, Book 3)

Silence in Solitude by Melissa Scott (The Roads of Heaven Trilogy, Book 2)

Five-Twelfths of Heaven by Melissa Scott (The Roads of Heaven Trilogy, Book 1)

Jade Darcy and the Zen Pirates by Stephin Goldin and Mary Mason (The Rehumanization of Jade Dacry, Book Two)

Jade Darcy and the Affair ofHonor by Stephen Goldin and Mary Mason (The Rehumanization of Jade Darcy, Book One)

Cybernetic Samurai by Victor Milan

The Martian by Andy Weir

Fatal Alliance by Sean Williams (Star Wars: The Old Republic) 

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Despite missing the Evolution Mini-Challenge, I am enormously pleased with my overall reading. I read 23 more books that I planned, and reached a life time High Score for number of books read in one year. I also over read in several categories, and explored books I’ve been meaning to pick up for years.

Eventually, I'll need to breakdown the books read into different stats: Purchased vs. From my Shelves, or male authors to female authors, or international to domestic, or fiction to non-fiction, but that requires more time that I have.

Now, on to 2016 and the bookish adventures that await!