i was looking back at my goodreads reading challenge. i targetted to read 30 books in 2015 and currently at 20. i do not think i can catch up with 10 more books now that we are left with about 6 days to the next year. although at the moment i am concurrently reading 3 books.

i have had some disappointments with some of the books which i read this year. however, looking back at my track record, i have to say i am quite proud of myself. it had been a good reading year. some of my favourite books were found and read lovingly this year. add up to the hangovers and reading slumps i had, it must have been quite a number of times.

i had Danielle Trussoni’s Angelology and Angelopolis. i read two of Jodi Picoult’s but loved one than the other, which is Where There’s Smoke. i was surprised at Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and Virginia Hislop’s The Island.  these two books wasnt what i expected, well i expected them to be drama and dread, similarly with Still Alice. but i was glad i read them and truly enjoyed them.

My favourite book of the year has to be Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for The Time Being. Coming second is Haruki Murakami’s Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (only because i thought 1Q84 was the bestest i have read of Murakami’s)

it’s been a pretty good year then.

I wonder how 2016 would be, reading-wise. I felt like a much needed academic, non fiction and intellectual reading.  Like i’m currently reading 7 Habits and The Purification of the Heart. (i’m quite amused that i am reading the two books at the same time). i definitely will only complete reading them in early 2016. a good start to the year i hope.