Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme that was originally created and hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books starting in August 2019, and was then cohosted by Dani @ Literary Lion from May 2020 to March 2022. Since April 2022, the meme moved to another host, Aria @ Book Nook Bits. Let’s Talk Bookish is a meme where participants discuss certain topics, share their opinions, and share their love by visiting each other’s posts.
This week’s topic is suggested by our host Aria and is as follows:
Are reading goals worth it?
Prompts: We’re two months into 2023 – how are you feeling about your reading this year? Do you have a yearly reading goal? Do you think that those kinds of goals help you to feel motivated to read more books, or just causes stress? If you set yearly reading goals, when and why did you start setting them? Would you consider reading without aiming for a number? If you don’t set reading goals, why not?
We’re 2 months into the year indeed and I’ve read significantly less than the past years. This is due to live and circumstances. Furthermore, the books I’m reading take more time, which also relates to the fact why i’ve read less. There’s just so many hours in a day and I want to do a lot in those hours. Spare time wise I mean, because I work as well. I have set my goal at 150 and I know I’m already several books behind. However, it’s not stressing me out. It used to do so though.
I’ve started the early yearly goal when I started blogging back in 2017. As I stressed out before when I was nowhere close to my goal, I couldn’t care less now. I just set a yearly reading goal for the statistics and numbers, is this even making any sense? I love the “my year in books” overviews Goodreads provides us with each year. However, I don’t know how The Storygraph does this, we will see.
When looking into motivation, goals don’t do anything for me. I’m a massive mood reader so I read whenever and whatever I want. I’m the worst in sticking to a TBR and therefore do not create one. As I’ve stated above, I don’t really care about reading challenge prompts, I just set goals for the stats. So, if you keep this in mind, I do not really read for a number and this works fine for me.
How about you? Prompts: We’re two months into 2023 – how are you feeling about your reading this year? Do you have a yearly reading goal? Do you think that those kinds of goals help you to feel motivated to read more books, or just causes stress? If you set yearly reading goals, when and why did you start setting them? Would you consider reading without aiming for a number? If you don’t set reading goals, why not?
Laurie Is Reading 
Totally relate to what you’ve said here too, Laurie! Life always takes you to weird places, and I think it makes sense to be flexible and maintain composure. There will be uptimes and downtimes where you can catch up on your book goals! Great post!
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