I spy with my little eye a new year with new reading goals!
…or more like the same goals, but I want to be better about accomplishing them. 😅
I want to read more of my big books over 500 pages and not be scared to take a little longer to read a book. 🙄
I want to read more books I already own—at least half the books I read this year should be books I own right now. I think StoryGraph tags will make this easy to track.
I want to continue diversifying what I read and opening my mind to new perspectives in both fiction and nonfiction. I think this will include diversifying what types of books I read as well.
I want to continue reading more graphic novels and nonfiction. In recent years, I kinda stopped reading these categories, and I missed it. Last year, I felt good about getting back to it.
Who else has goals that don’t have to do with reading a specific number?
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I'm going a little wild this year and setting my goal to 150 books. for the last two months, I’ve read 3 per week on average. if I keep that up, then I’ll come in over 150 easy, so it’s not that wild but it’s still a huge shift from 2022′s goal of 24 books
2022 was a slump year for me. I read 5 books between jan + oct, with the fifth book read in july so oof. and most of my reads were meh to forgettable. though I did discover an appreciation for audiobooks, especially star wars books because the sound effects are so stupidly fun. my favorite books in 2022 were legendborn and bloodmarked!
other goals:
• finish 2 more books in the expanse series
• re-read saga and catch up with the new stuff
• review at least a quarter of what I read (I’d aim higher but I’m being realistic)
• sort through unread bookshelves, read them or give away
• do a buddy read
• complete a few storygraph challenges
• read more nonfiction outside of just memoirs
• every year I say I want to join a new book club. maybe this will be the one!
Here's my only reading resolution for 2021: these books have been on my TBR for at least 5 years, and I'd like to finally read them so I can stop staring at them guiltily. That's it. The only goal!
I have some book resolutions for 2022 and these are a few things I want to get up to next year, when it comes to my reading. In 2021, I read 365 books according to Goodreads (this covers an incredible array of books including Novels, Novellas, Manga, Graphic Novels and Poetry collections, so it looks impressive, but like some of them are thirty pages so *shrugs*).
Anyway, here's my plans for 2022.
Continue my adventures into Discworld - I'm currently on Book 10, which is Moving Pictures and I have high hopes, I've heard good things about this one and I'm really looking forward to carrying on next year with these books! So far Mort has been my favourite and I love the Witches books, so I hope there's more of that in the books to come, I have many books to go!
I want to read all the Agatha Christie's - This is such a big big thing to do, there's at least 70+ books however they were my grandmother's favourite books and she also read every book she knew had been released at that point, so I feel like this would be a cool thing to do - she made me love reading so it feels like a nice thing to do to remember her with.
Read my owned TBR - I have so many books, books on my TBR that have been there forever and it's just wrong for them to keep being on my shelf! I did remove a few this year, Muse Of Nightmares is a good example of that and guess what 5 star, I know my taste, so go read the books! Turtles All The Way Down was also on that list and I also adored that smh.
Have some self control - I am very bad at noy buying books, I must slow down the collecting, so I can read my collection and restrict myself to birthdays and books are sequels, or something, I don't know, I need new rules for myself.
What are your resolutions for 2022? I'd love to hear your plans!
Since it’s less than a week until the new year, I’ve made a little list about my reading resolutions I’ll hold myself to.Â
1. Finish Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2. Read Terry Pratchett Books
3. Don’t Be Afraid of the Number of Pages
4. Stop Buying Books Unless They’re Rare or You Plan On Reading Them RIGHT NOW!
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continue series I started this year, like the expanse, the witcher, the shannara chronicles, also shit bro.. maybe things that haven’t been adapted for tv lmao ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
join an active book club. maybe scifi focused?? maybe queer scifi???
try at least a chapter of the million books I take out instead of sending half of them back totally unreadÂ
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2020 was shaping up to be such a good year for me with books! A third of my total reads were in by early March. But the only reason I’ve read anything since then is because we get to read at work when we’re handling curbside.
Which like... the alternative is staring at the wall so thank u for the forced motivation @work 😘
Most of what I read was forgettable though rip. I think I need to branch out, try a little harder to figure out what I like nowadays and go from there.
The highlights. Us Against You, The Space Between Worlds, Leviathan Wakes, Evvie Drake Starts Over. The week I spent inhaling Shadow & Bone for the first time, rereading SoC, and then topping it all off with King of Scars and The Language of Thorns. The one book a day breeze of finishing The Folk of the Air trilogy. Reading more romance than I have in my life. My temporary fixation on baseball in both fiction and nonfiction that was really just spillover from running out of Pitch fic lmaoÂ
So yeah. Mixed bag, mostly duds. In 2021, I’m hoping for more impactful, memorable reading overall.
I’m going to make this list nice and short! Please feel free to add your own, or let me know if we have similar resolutions.
1. Set a reasonable reading goal. I’m thinking of making my goal 100 this year because I know I can do it, but I’m not setting it higher than that because then I’ll just end up feeling stressed. I tried to do a very low goal last year but it felt off to me. I like the challenge, just not the stress of setting a nearly impossible goal.
2. DNF books I’m not enjoying. This is something I started to practice in the last year or so and I’ve found it really refreshing to know that it’s okay to put books down.Â
3. Keep writing reviews. I’ve gotten back into writing reviews more frequently and except for the madness of late December, I’m hoping to post multiple reviews per week--depending on how much I’m reading, of course.Â
4. Don’t buy every book that catches my eye/Don’t accept every ARC that comes my way. This is another resolution I worked on in 2019, but would love to keep practicing in 2020. I have so many books on my shelves and I need to be more mindful of what I pick up/accept.
5. Unhaul books I won’t read/didn’t enjoy. It’s okay to donate, or sell old books. I’ve gotten better with just randomly spotting books I don’t want anymore on my shelves. The first big unhaul is the hardest!
6. Let Instagram help me with my TBR. I still don’t know if this will be a monthly thing, but I love the idea of having you all help me when it’s time to pick my TBR!
7. Vlog about my reading. I’m slowly getting more comfortable on camera, so I’ve been vlogging more on Instagram. I don’t know if this will eventually translate to YouTube. For now, Instagram is my vlogging space.
And that’s it for now! I’m sure I’ll think of more in the coming new year, but for now, this is my list.Â
Happy reading and I wish you all a Happy New Year!
