Analyze a personal reading log for genre and format variety, and set one specific, concrete reading goal based on real gaps found in the data.
A reading-life audit turns your own reading history into evidence, the same way you would examine any other text this year. Instead of just feeling generally good or bad about how much you read, you actually tally what you have read -- by genre, by format, by length -- and let real patterns, not a vague impression, point you toward a specific goal.
Consider a sample log from one student's fall term: three realistic fiction novels, two fantasy novels, one graphic novel, and zero nonfiction books or poetry collections. The pattern is not about reading "enough" -- six books in a term is solid volume -- it is about variety: every single title falls into fiction, and two full categories are completely empty.
Mastery looks like: They can tally their own reading by genre or format, identify a real gap in variety, and set one specific, checkable goal to address it.
Common stumbles: Setting a vague goal ("read more" or "read better") that cannot actually be checked against real evidence from the reading log.