(Original ; First Quarter ; Half ; Third-Quarter ; Final)

For the third quarter, I should have progressed about 75%. So, let’s see where I am.

• Read 52 books. Third quarter goal: 39 books. I have actually finished 43.
  • Hit 20,000 pages. Third quarter goal: 15,000 pages. I have actually finished 12,515. So waaaay behind.
  • Read politically. Total 10. Third quarter goal: 7.5 books. A half book ahead.
    • A Nation of Immigrants DONE1
    • Pedagogy of the Oppressed DONE2
    • The Origins of Totalitarianism DONE3
    • Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age DONE4
    • Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works DONE5
    • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion DONE6
    • Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government DONE7
    • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century DONE8
    • The FairTax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS TODO9
    • Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans Are Being Arrested, Abused, and Terrorized By the Feds TODO10
  • Read on decision making and influence. Total 10. Third quarter goal: 7.5 books. About 1.25 behind.
    • Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart DONE1
    • Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age DONE2
    • Flow DONE3
    • Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win DONE4
    • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets DONE5
    • The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius DONE6
    • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload IN PROGRESS7
    • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable TODO8
    • Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently TODO9
    • The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology TODO10
  • African American and mixed study. Total 10. Third quarter goal: 7.5 books. Over a half a book ahead.
    • Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race DONE1
    • Between the World and Me DONE2
    • The Devil in America DONE3
    • Kindred DONE4
    • The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother DONE5
    • Africa: A History DONE6
    • Notes of a Native Son DONE7
    • Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America DONE8
    • Manchild in the Promised Land IN PROGRESS9
    • One Drop TODO10
  • Read the book and (re-)watch the movie or TV series. Total: 5. Third quarter goal: 3.75 books. DONE!
    • Out Of Sight DONE1
    • American Gods (American Gods #1) DONE2
    • Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1) DONE3
    • In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex DONE4
    • The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) DONE5
    • Neverwhere DONE6
  • Finish the book series. Total: 10. Third quarter goal: 7.5 books.
    • Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #2-3.
      • Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #2) TODO
      • Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #3) TODO
    • The Expanse #6.5 & #7
      • Strange Dogs (The Expanse, #6.5) DONE1
      • Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)  (released in Dec)
    • Tarzan #4-9.
      • The Son of Tarzan (Tarzan, #4) DONE1
      • Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (Tarzan, #5) DONE2
      • Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan, #6) DONE3
      • Tarzan the Untamed (Tarzan, #7) IN PROGRESS4
      • Tarzan the Terrible (Tarzan, #8) TODO
      • Tarzan and the Golden Lion (Tarzan, #9) TODO
  • Summing the goals, I have read 32 of 46 when I should have 34.5 read.
• Exercise. My trainer was made the general manager of the gym and as a result had to give up his clients. The new trainer was working on breaking me of the bad habits in favor of how he wants me to lift. As a result, the goals were irrecoverably not achievable. Will re-assess for 2018.