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Bookish Goals 2024

Lauren2 Comments

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?

New Year, New Goals!

Lauren4 Comments

Happy New Year!

Did everyone have a nice, relaxing New Year? We acquired this monster of a board game called Gloomhaven and played that a couple of times on New Year’s Day while watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended edition of course).

The New Year brings with it new goals and looking back on the old goals.

So let’s start with last year’s goals!

Read More Non-Fiction: Um, I failed at this. I only read one non-fiction book last year, and that was for D&D! I don’t count that.

Buy Fewer Books: I also failed at this. In fact, I bought more books in 2022 than I did in 2021. Sigh.

Read my TBR Shelf: Yeah, I added so many books to my TBR shelf that it turned into a TBR bookcase.

Write More Reviews: I actually did this, until my life got so crazy (new job, reading slump, stress, blah blah blah) that I wasn’t able to keep up with it.

So what are my goals for this year! Unsurprisingly, there is more of the same, sort of.

Buy Fewer Books: I’ve actually started two spreadsheets to help with this. One is for new releases that I definitely want to buy this year. The other one is for impulse buys that I would normally pick up while at the store, on other errands, or out with friends. If I still want them after a few months, I will consider adding them to my Amazon cart. And if I still want them a few months after that, then I will buy them. That’s a lot of work, but hopefully, I’ll keep it up and will be able to buy fewer books this year.

Read my TBR Shelf: I’m making a spreadsheet for this one too. It’s going to contain all the books that are on the TBR bookcase, the Book of the Month shelf, and my YA cart prior to any purchases made this year. Once I read a book, I’ll take it off the spreadsheet. I can also use this method to randomize my reading experience by using a random number generator whenever I can’t decide what to read.

Work on My Re-Read of the In Death Series: I got 36 books into the In Death series before I got burnt out because of the frantic pace I was reading them at. I have 20-something books left to go, so I’m hoping to finish by the end of the year this year. I am not going to force myself though. I don’t want to hit a mid-year burnout again. That slump was no fun.

I have high hopes for this year and am positive the extravagant steps I have taken to ensure those goals will pay off.