Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Thursday Thirteen #463

 The "I blame J. Edgar Hoover" Edition. According to Goodreads, I am not quite on track to complete 38 books this year. This is in large part due to G-Man, the 900 page biography of J. Edgar Hoover. It took me nearly two months to plow through that 896 page book.

I realize I'm making myself feel bad for not meeting a completely voluntary and ultimately meaningless metric I set for myself, but hey, that's how I roll.

So it's taken me to mid-May, but here are the first 13 books I've read this year. 

1. The Family Holiday by Elizabeth Noble. Fiction

2. Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica. Thriller
 
3. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage. Biography
 
4. Nobody Heard a Thing by Angela Henry. Thriller
 
5. Silver Spire by Robert Goldsborough. Mystery
 
6. The Last Coincidence by Robert Goldsborough. Mystery
 
7. Kids, Wait Til You Hear This by Liza Minnelli. Autobiography
 
8. Twilight of Camelot: The Short Life and Long Legacy of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy by Steven Levingston. Non-fiction
 
9. The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz. Mystery
 
10. Suitable for Framing by Edna Buchanan. Mystery
 
11. Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell by MC Beaton. Mystery
 
12. A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures by Ben Bradlee. Autobiography
 
13. Conversations with Kennedy by Ben Bradlee. Memoir

How about you? Have you set any reading goals for 2026? If yes, are you on your way to meeting them?

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4 comments:

  1. Kwizgiver11:10 AM

    My goal is 100. I'll finish 59 today. I think I'll meet and probably surpass my goal although I have a few big books lined up (Lonesome Dove clocks in at 35+ hours and the latest Robert Galbraith is also over 30 hours)

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  2. Liz A.11:39 AM

    Short books and/or novellas. That's how you catch up. Maybe a YA or two. No, I don't set reading goals. I read for pleasure, so I don't feel the need to create goals I might fail to achieve. Not my thing, but I know some people like it, so no shade to you.

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  3. CountryDew2:48 PM

    I don't set reading goals but I generally feel like I've failed if I don't read 50 books a year. I used to read 100 but as I've aged and my eyesight has grown worse, I have given myself a pass. I've read 18 books so far this year, so I am behind, too. But my father passed away so maybe this year I will be lenient on myself.

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  4. Stacy8:26 PM

    I did set a goal on Goodreads, but with all that has been going on this year so far...I am way behind.

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