Reading Challenge: Status Update!

Since four months have passed after starting my Reading Challenge, and is it now officially 2018, I thought I would give a little status update on where I'm at.

First off, I'm a little disappointed with myself that I've only crossed 7 books off my list. On the plus side though, I'm SUPER happy I got back into reading more again. Its so nice to get lost in a book sometimes. Out of the books I have read so far, Me Before You by Jojo Moyes has been my favourite one to read. I wonder which book will take over that with the ones that are left on my list. I've also received mixed feedback from people when I said I didn't know how I felt about Animal Farm, so that has been interesting to reflect on.

I hope to get more than seven books read between January and April from this list. I really want to do better than seven. And even though I have bought more books in the past few months, many of which can be added to this list, I am still only going to work from the original list. That way I am not getting ahead of myself.

You can see the full list below. Those I've read are crossed out and each is linked to the review post.

1. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2. Vanity Fair by William Thackery
3. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
4. Transcendental by James Gunn
5. Quintessence by David Walton
6. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
7. Moth and Spark by Anne Leonard
8. The Waking Engine by David Edison
9. The Green Rider Series by Kristin Britain **Note: 6 books in total**
10. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
11. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
13. My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
14. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
16. Animal Farm by George Orwell
17. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
18. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
19. 1984 by George Orwell
20. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
21. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
22. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
23. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
24. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
25. One Day by David Nicholls
26. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
27. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
28. The Last Ship by William Brinkley
29. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
30. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
31. What's Eating Gilbert Grape? by Peter Hedges
32. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
33. T2 (Trainspotting 2) by Irvine Welsh
34. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
35. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
36. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
37. Hemlock Grove by Brian McGreevy
38. The Secret Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin
39. The Once and Future King by T.H. White 

A lot of the remaining books on the list are fairly long; so who knows if I'll meet my goal of doing better than seven by April. However, I am also not working on any cross-stitches until March, so that might help me along a bit more. Guess now that I have a bit more time I should get started on Green Rider. The holidays and family-time have delayed my start on this one.