Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
This week’s topic is 2024 bookish goals. I’ve already talked about these in this post, but why not again? I have to held myself accountable anyway. So, without further ado, let’s take a look in what I would like to accomplish this year!
- Read 50 books – The past years, I’ve set my reading goal to 100 books and I was able to reach this goal with ease. However, I felt a lot of pressure in 2023 to reach it, so I decided to lower mine to 50 in 2024. Reading shouldn’t become a chore after all.
- Chosing quality over quantity – When looking back on 2023, I have to conclude that this was such a mediocre reading year. I’m not sure why, but it just has been that way. unfortunately I’ve seen many people stating the same. Several books I didn’t enjoy but kept reading in order to try and meet my reading goal. This resulted in a huge slump in the fall of last year. I would love to avoid it and try to choose quality over quantity.
- DNF more – In order to accomplish my previous goal, I would like to DNF more. Funny however that last year’s goal was to DNF less.
- Cross posting my reviews – I’m really bad at this, I only use star ratings on platforms such as Goodreads and The Storygraph. I always find my reviews too long for such platforms as I don’t like to read epistols on there myself, but I could cross post them anyway. Or in any case, partially. Truth is, I’m a lazy ass and mainly use these apps on my phone and I hate reviewing on my phone. Furthermore, why writing a second review when I have my blog? I’m still not that sure about this goal anyway.
- Trying to write my reviews as soon as I can – I’m getting better at this, but sometimes I leave too much time in between reading and reviewing a book, to the point I don’t know what to write about it anymore.
- Having back-up content – I should try and work more in advance so I actually have back-up content for when I have no review ready. I hope I have the energy for this, but probably not.
- Cleaning out the TBR – Sometimes you find a goal on the go and this is one of such. I have books on the TBR since literally 2017 or 2018 and I either have to read or remove them. Since I only read digitally, I can’t unhaul or donate them. So I have to accept my money has gone to waste then.
- Buying less books – I am a random buyer. Although ebooks are cheaper than physical purchases, I still buy too many and also end up not liking too many. So I really should curate it. I think this goes hand-in-hand with number 2 and 3.
- Finally except that hypes are mostly not for me – I have to admit that I am highly influential when it comes to books. I try my best to keep up with the newest releases, and that means the latest hypes. However, most hypes come from Booktok, and they end up being literally terrible. So I have to accept That they’re not for me. I have to choose my own path more I guess.
So, these are some bookish goals for the year. What are yours?
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