Bookish Goals 2023

 It's almost my favorite time of the bookish year, when everyone is posting their goals for next year, and their stats from last year, and I can make up ridiculous goals for myself that I'll probably never meet but I like keeping myself accountable/ challenging myself.  

Did I meet any of my 2022 goals?  See previous post.  

I present my 2023 reading goals.  They're written in pen so I guess they're here to stay.

I would like to stop avoiding longer books, at least three times!

More bookish things that are not plain old novels.  Bring on the graphic novels, plays, poems, short stories, novellas etc.  I'm including audiobooks because I've been neglecting them.  No set number of any of these, just more than 2022 which in some cases would be uno...  

Finish three series.  I have three in mind, but any three will do.  

Read more books set in the six states that compromise New England on the map I found online (Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachussetts.)  I rolled my plan to read more Stephen King in here. 

Participate, ten times.  That means, book clubs, buddy reads, book club chats, reading sprints (if I can catch them live), and other events where other people are involved. 

The Buzzword and Beat the Backlist challenges. 

And then there are the unlisted informal, goals only in my head, that didn't make the planner page.  Such as reading 30,000 pages, trying really hard to only read what I already own, and filling out my planner.

On the bottom (in pencil) where it says owned tbr.  Whatever that number is on January 1st, should be  lower on December 31st. This year started at 304, and is currently at 312ish... In my defense, my older two children get 12 books for advent (each) and some of them I went on my tbr to borrow later, so that didn't help...

I have 10 books in a special pile right now, that if I don't have any urge to pick up in the coming months, at the end of the year they're gone.  One I've owned since before we moved to this house which is going on 10 years, yikes.

Less book buying, and more shopping my shelves and put things on hold at the library unless I need something for a bookclub and the wait list is a hundred miles long. 

More classics.  But I probably won't, so I probably shouldn't even put that out there...

Is is January yet?

Photo credit to The Bookworm Life Planner (peanutbuttertaco on Etsy) for the awesome goal page.  

Bookish Goals 2022

 These were my goals for 2022.  Did I accomplish any of them, can I sneak in a win in the final stretch of the year?

22 authors:  I had a list of 22 authors I wanted to try, or read more from. If you count the two I dnf'd , I checkmarked off 11, and one is on my December tbr.  12/22  Meh.

More audiobooks.  2021 was the year of audiobooks, so I thought why not see if I could beat the number.  I did not.  Right now I'm at 6, with one in progress.  I keep checking them out, but not listening to them.  I also have been walking outside and not on the treadmill which doesn't help.

More non-fiction than 2021.  This one I could still accomplish.  I'm at 14/15.

Read 10 BOTM books.  7/10.  Participating in Ketchup-a-thon helped here.  

Watch 10 adaptations.  The plan was to read a book and then watch the associated adaptation (if one existed.)  Giant fail.  3/10.  Which annoys me, because I was excited about this goal... Part of the problem is even though we have Prime, Hulu, Netflix, Disney + and now Showtime the things I want to watch aren't available [eye roll emoji goes here].  

Read/reread the Hitchhiker's Guide series.  1/5  I have no explanation here.  I read the first book.  I checked out the second book on audio multiple times (and kept having to go back on the waitlist) and made it about 30%.   I left my 2023 goals very non-specific because I don't want to put something on there and then not be in the mood to read it as was the case here :(  

And those were the easy peasy lemon squeezy goals I thought I'd easily knock out in 2022.  Ha ha ha. Ha.   

I also unofficially wanted to read Jane Eyre, and have yet to do it.  What is wrong with me?

Goals are just for fun, to guide my reading  a little.  I'm not going to jump off a cliff or anything for not accomplishing them. Maybe my goal setting needs a tune up, though...