2023 Reading Goals

Happy New Year everyone! I can’t believe it’s 2023 already!!! Can you?

I thought I’d share some of my reading golas for the year! I don’t tend to make a lot of goals, or difficult goals. I just like to keep them simple. So here are a few of my goals for the year.

Goodreads Challenge

I always participate in the goodreads goal every year, and every year I always make it the same number. And that number is 1. I always put my goal as 1 book because I don’t like the pressure that I found the goodreads challenge put on me. I always felt like I needed to complete the challenge, which is just not the case. So I started to set my goodreads challenge as 1 book many years ago now and it will continue to stay like that.

Finish Series

I definitely have some series that I really want to finish this year. Mainly, I have three top series that I really want to complete. They are

1. The Aurora Cylce by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman
2. The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordian
3. The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

Those are the three series that I REALLY want to complete this year. As far as the Grisha trilogy goes, I would love to read all the books in the Grisha Universe this year so I can FINALLY join in on all the hype and watch the show!

Read my Kindle Books

Okay this is one I would absolutely love to complete. I have about 100 ebooks on my kindle at the moment, and about 95 percent of them are unread. See my problem is, I come across free ebooks, or ebooks that are 99 cents and I’m like okay they sound good and I could see myself liking this. So I get them, and then they just sit there. Now I do read a lot of ebooks, but the majority of them are from my library, so the ones that I do buy just stay unread. I would really love to start reading the ebooks that I have sitting on my kindle and reduce the amount of unread ebooks I have on it.

Participate in more Readathons.

I always see so many readathons happening that seem like a fun time, and are just so creative. You can tell how much time and dedication the hosts put into them. But I just never particpate in many. So I would love to join in on some more readthons this year. And it the process possible make some new reading friends!

And that’s it.

What are some of your reading goals for the year? Happy Reading!

Currently Reading

Come on, Bayview, you know you’ve missed this.

A ton of copycat gossip apps have popped up since Simon died, but in the year since the Bayview four were cleared of his shocking death, no one’s been able to fill the gossip void quite like he could. The problem is no one has the facts.

Until now. This time it’s not an app, though—it’s a game. Truth or Dare.

Phoebe’s the first target. If you choose not to play, it’s a truth. And hers is dark.Then comes Maeve and she should know better—always choose the dare. But by the time Knox is about to be tagged, things have gotten dangerous. The dares have become deadly, and if Maeve learned anything from Bronwyn last year, it’s that they can’t count on the police for help. Or protection.

Simon’s gone, but someone’s determined to keep his legacy at Bayview High alive. And this time, there’s a whole new set of rules.

GoodReads

Why is my GoodReads Challenge 1?

So the question is: Why is my Goodreads Challenge only 1 book?

Before I set my challenge to 1 book, I always found myself with this need to complete my Goodreads challenge, and if I didn’t I would feel kind of bad about it. Which shouldn’t be the case right? I shouldn’t feel bad about not reading a certain number of books. Reading anything at all is great! Of course at this time, I believe it was 2012, I was new to Goodreads. I felt as though I HAD to complete it, and seeing everyone else with there goals just added to that feeling. I also noticed that I wasn’t picking up books that I wanted to read, but more so books that I thought would be quick, and help me reach my goal! By doing that, I was missing out on other amazing books.

Eventually, I saw a friend of mine on Goodreads set her goal as 1, with her reasoning and all I could think about was how PERFECT that would be for me. So in 2014 I set my goal for 1 book and ended up reading 29 books that year. It may not seem like a lot, but I felt amazing at the end of the year. I had no stress, no pressure, and I read books that I WANTED to read. When 2015 came along, my goal again was 1 book and I managed to read 74. It felt great!

So every year since then my goal has been to read 1 book. It’s perfect for me because I pick up books that sound fun, books that I want to read. Now, I love to do challenges because I simply have fun with them. If I complete them great. If not, then oh well. It’s all about the fun!

And now I would love to hear from you guys! Are you participating in the Goodreads Challenge? What is your goal? Do you feel pressure to complete it?