I don't usually make new year goals in my life, especially not in reading. Mostly because I'm such a mood reader, and my books change so much throughout the year. But I think a few reading goals for the year will be beneficial and something to help structure my reading a little bit.
One of the biggest things I want to do is finish some of my current series that I have going on right now such as Me Before You trilogy by Jojo Moyes and To All of the Boys I Loved Before Trilogy by Jenny Han, both of which I only have the last books. A more adventurous one is the In Death series, I would've loved to have been caught up in time for the 50th book in February but that is clearly not going to happen since I'm only book 25 out of 50 and the 50th one comes out in just a couple of months. Also on that note, I would love to get a book signed by Nora Roberts at one of her book signings, she usually has a signing at her husband's bookstore for all of her new releases and that is only about 3-4 hours away.
I would love to try Seanan McGuire's books, the Wayward Children series I think that's what it is called. They sound cute and their short reads. I think I've been staying away from them because their expensive and since their so expensive I've wanted to get the physical books but I can never find them in my bookstore either. So maybe 2020 will be the year for that.
Most of the books I read are older books or books that aren't very public. Lately, I've been reading some newer books thanks to Book of the Month and I would love to continue that trend a little more. I like being able to have an opinion in books that everyone is talking about instead of hearing about these books and think they would be fun to read but never actually pick them up for years. So it would be nice to continue on reading books as they come out.
That being said I would love to get caught up with my Book of the Month books and continue to read them during the months that I've ordered them. I have a pretty decent pile of backlogged books and I need to get caught up on them. Eventually, I would love to have my crate bookshelf filled with Book of the Month books, which is more of a long term goal.
It would be nice to get some more arcs, I don't know why I just think it is cool to have. I got my first one this year and I'm just now picking it up. There is definitely more pressure reading a book when it is an arc, but I usually only try to get ones I'm genuinely curious about.
As for my blogging experience, I would like to upload more regularly which I definitely go through spurts where I'm uploaded like crazy and then dead silence for a few weeks than back at it hardcore. As for the content I still love my reviews I think I finally got a layout I like the most and in my head makes the most sense. I think it would be fun to sprinkle in some book tags here and there. I thought about doing one every week but I think it gets too repetitious. Another thing I think would be fun and a little more spice to it is uploading pictures within my reading experience, which definitely ties into my Bookstagram I have started. I haven't really gotten the picture side down yet but I really want to try and keep up with that. Another idea I've been playing around with is reviews that are more comparisons. I want to read books that have movies, maybe even TV shows, coming out and read the book first, make the book review, and then go back and make a comparison between the book and movie where. I've been really captivated by movie comparisons and I definitely get my inner geek showing because I love taking notes and comparing the movie to the book is one my favorite past times. Another thing within my reviews is that I definitely want to go back to have pros and cons. I think at least three in each is perfect and I feel like I get better at explaining why I loved this part but hated that part. I try to stay spoiler-free and through that, I feel like I lose some of the details I should have in a review.
So those are my bookish new year goals for 2020 and we'll see how it goes keeping up with these this year.
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