Reading Challenge.

Early this year, like around February, I noticed that because I had signed up for two email alerts for reduced priced or even free e-books, I had accumulated a collection of books that were often the beginning of a series. Which isn't a problem, one could say that it was the opposite of a problem. But when you have a GoodReads to-read list that reaches almost 100 books, many of which are parts of a series, and those aren't counting the ones I was getting as freebies. So I decided that I would challenge myself to read as many books as I could this year so that I could reduce the number of books on my to-read list. I set a reasonable goal of 25 with the intention to read as many as possible.
I mentioned in the last post about the Corean Chronicles, how I couldn't even get 100 pages into the fourth book, so I let it go for the moment. I deleted the fourth and the four following books from my list. In the time it took me to read the 80 some pages of that book, I have read Dead Ever After (which is book 13 of 13 of the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris), The Last Hunt (Book 4 of 4 in Bruce Coville's Unicorn Chronicles), and Dime Store Magic and Industrial Magic (Book 3 and 4 of 13 in Women of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong) and have started a fifth book: Day Shift which is book 2 in the Midnight, Texas series (also by Charlaine Harris). I'm a little under halfway done with Day Shift, but about 4.5 books in the time it takes to read 80 pages? Yeah, the book was the issue.
Now, I have read 22 of the 25 books for the goal I set, but even with deleting 5 books from the list, I still have 91 books on my two read list. And I still haven't added the freebie books I've accumulated. It also didn't help that I started a books series that wasn't on the to-read list, with another book in the series that got released recently that I haven't read yet.
I have two e-books on loan right now from my library, the already mentioned Day Shift and Haunted which is book 5 in Women of the Otherworld. I have Sarah J. Maas's Kingdom of Ash of the Throne of Glass series on pre-order which gets released tomorrow (writing this on October 22nd). I have Night Shift which is book 3 of the Midnight, Texas series on a waiting list to borrow since it was recently bought by the library for e-book lending (I'm #18 of 36 with a total of four copies) and I figured I should read book 2 before I'm next in line for 3. So I have the two loans till November 9th, Kingdom of Ash gets released tomorrow, and I'll get Night Shift sometimes soon.  So that will concludes the 25 book goal. Book 6 in Women of the Otherworld, and the remainder of the series will help lower the to-read list.