Last Minute Things to Finish Before 2018 Ends

Anyone else have any goals that they want to finish? I know I definitely do. Mostly bookish, so I thought I would share a couple of them with you.

I have a couple of physical books checked out from the library that I want to get read and returned by the end of the year. I've had one since the beginning of the month and have only made a small fraction of the way through. That book is The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, which I'm liking but I've had such a hard time picking up physical books lately. But I'm planning on sitting down with it tomorrow and finishing it, maybe with a mug of tea at hand. The other book I have checked out is A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos. I had initially heard about it from Regan at PeruseProject on YouTube. I thought it sounded interesting and saw it at the library, so I borrowed it.

Another thing I've been working on is finishing the Christmas books that I wanted to get read this year. I listed to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and narrated by Tim Curry yesterday. This one I liked, partly because of it being Tim Curry as the narrator. Stayed up way too late last night reading He Sees You When You're Sleeping by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark. I didn't like it much and found it way to predictable. I still have to finish The Christmas Hirelings by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. This one is roughly 100 years old and you can tell it's a dated story somewhat. I don't mind it so far. I'm loving Moppet, she's such a quick wit.

About a week ago, I was hopeful that I would be able to get to 150 read books by the end of the year. However, now that we're a week away from the new year, I will be most likely finishing the year out at 141. I can't complain about that since it will be just over 100 books over my initial goal of 40 books read. If I pick up anything else, it will be all the better. I probably won't until the new year since there's been a few shows and movies I want to watch on Netflix and Hulu.

I will have a goals post up soon as well as how well I did with my reading year this year. I just need to get these things done first. As well as get the goals figured out.