Hello Everyone! How was your New Year? I hope it was relaxing!

I thought I would share my bookish goals with you for this year! But first, Last year’s goals!

Buy Fewer Books: Well, I know I made the spreadsheets, and I started off the year strong. I used Thriftbooks and Book Outlet less, which meant my buying books en mass stopped. I also let my B&N membership expire so I went there less. And yet, I don’t think I bought less books. 

Read My TBR Shelf: Ha! Well, sorta. I did a lot of listening to the audiobook versions of books I already own instead of reading the physical copies that are on my shelves. It wasn’t like I was buying the books, no. I used services like the Libby app and Everand (formerly Scribd).

Work on My Re-Read of the In-Death Series: Um…nope. I don’t think I picked up a single one of them. Not even a new title. I got so burnt out on them after reading over thirty books in the series. That’s a lot of books to pack into a year. I might pick them up again in the future, but I’m not going to pressure myself like I did before.

As for this year’s goals, well, as always, the first two are more of the same.

Buy fewer books: I fully intend to make use of my library’s Libby app. It also helps that I could join the digital library in another city to get even more e-books and audiobooks. The Everand app is also a great place for audiobooks.

Read 30 Books On My TBR Shelf: I have almost 400 books on my TBR shelf. That’s a lot of books. I may have just built a shiny new bookcase (seriously, it’s really pretty) to house the TBR pile, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to whittle it down. My goal is at least 30 books read off my shelf, but I am hoping for more!!

Post More Often: So I posted 15 times last year. 15!!! I had a lot of things get in my way, but I am going to make more of an effort to be here. Blogging has always brought me joy, and I love this community! 

Use Goodreads Less: I haven’t been happy with Goodreads this year. I like keeping track of the books I DNF and Goodreads doesn’t really allow for that. I also have some other issues with it. I much prefer the Storygraph. I also built a spreadsheet earlier this year to help me keep track of all the books I own. I’m still working on that, but it makes me happy. 

Read More Diverse Books: I’m not going to make excuses, but my reading was not very diverse this year. That makes me sad. I need to work on that and make it intentional. I bought a lot of diverse books, I just didn’t read them! 

Read 75 Books: That was my reading goal for 2023 and I barely made it (I hit several reading slumps). I did manage to squeak by with 81 books last year. I’m hoping to read more this year, but one never knows what will happen. 

Read the Lord of the Rings Series: It’s been years since I read this series, and I want to pick it up again. I also want to re-read The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, so I’m going to include those too.

Read Both Mistborn Series: I have read the first Mistborn book, and then never picked up the other books. We own them, I just didn’t finish it! So this year, I will! 

What are your bookish goals? Do you have any?