#reading goal

[reedreadsbooks]

leave a more specific number in the tags if you want!

Update! i’ve made a version of this poll with smaller categories. you can vote on that here.

[academic-vampire]

I made my reading goal on Goodreads (50 books), so obviously the logical thing to do is change my goal to 70 books. 😎

[kay-elle-cee]

Nine books I’m excited to read in 2024!

Thank you for the tag, @letthebookbegin! I read 7 books last year, and I’m hoping to make it to 10 this year! Fingers crossed 🤞🏼

I own five of these I need to hit at least 5.

Tagging @cascader, @alittlebitofeverything23, @isahorcrux, @florenceafternoon, @unknowableroom if you feel like sharing!

[tolive1000lives]

My reading wrap up through June!

[princessofmanyfaces]

if he had been with me

A 3 Star read for me | I say

He says

She says

Someone should count every mention of "say" in this book, I bet it's a huge amount.

I had to check the publishing date because that book feels really early 2010s to me. It was published 2013 so I guess it's fine, but the 2010s vibes are there. Strongly. It kind of feels like something you would find on wattpad

I do like that it's an easy read, or listen if you're on audiobook, and the chapters are really short which I LOVE. 

I didn't really feel the tragic ending tho. It told me that it was sad but I didn't feel it. 

⭐⭐⭐

[gargoylesinthegarden]

Almost to my 2024 reading goal! 52 done, one for every week of the year (my 2023 goal) and 4 months to read my last 8 books 📚

Honorable mentions so far:

The Haunting by Natasha Peterson 2/5 rating - I loved the entire book and storyline. I was hooked. Only for it to end on a cliffhanger that is never addressed (is that still considered a cliffhanger, or is it just a bad ending?) There's no closure and more questions than answers and once I was done, I feel like I wasted the two days I spent reading this.

Cold Sweat by Vera Valentine 5/5 rating - hilarious. A perfect palette cleanser in between long-winded thrillers. I read it in an afternoon and laughed the entire time. Books don't always have to be serious, and Vera is one of my favorite authors for a good laugh.

I Can Be a Better You by Tarryn Fisher 5/5 rating - one of my favorite authors by far. The main character is so tragically relatable, and by the end, I didn't know who's side I was on. My toxic trait is that I always think that I could stalk someone and get away with it for a while, and this book gave me some great ideas.

[the---hermit]

27|12|2022

My months of rest and relaxation // day 49

Today I originally planned to take most of the day off to have a small trip with my mom, but in the end we did not manage to. We still managed to take a couple of hours in the afternoon to grab a tea together. I have not been super energetic these past couple of days so it was fine. I have done quite a lot in the morning, as I created almost all the spreads I needed in my reading journal both for the end of 2022 and for the beginning of 2023, so I am really happy about that. I plan on finishing the day off by continuing reading Baptism Of Fire. I want to finish it before the end of the year, and I am pretty sure I can manage to do that, but I have to be consistent. As for the rest I want to dedicate my week to resting and finishing setting up my bullet journal and my reading journal. These are my only goals for the week.

Productivity:

Updated my reading journal

Did the 2023 set up of my reading journal

Posted the second chapter of my journaling 101 series

Practiced Irish on duolingo

Worked on a couple of future posts

Self care:

Read first thing in the morning

Listened to music for most of the morning as I was working on my reading journal

Spent part of my afternoon with my mom

lunlun's reading challenge // day 28

Is there a book you are waiting and excited for?

At the moment on my tbr I have a couple of books I am really excited about. Mainly the seventh and eighth volumes of The Sandman, which I got for christmas. I am also really excited for The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell, since Hamnet was my favourite read of the year.

📖: Baptism Of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski

🎵: Burn The Witch by Shawn James

[average-star-enjoyer]

i'm trying to surpass my goodreads annual reading goal.

you may be thinking, 'thats ambitious'. well my annual goal is 10, so not that much. and i am trying to get really into reading. so here is my hypothesis.

it takes me around two-three weeks to finish a standard length book, when im really invested into it, (which is what i am trying to do for every book). there are about fifteen weeks left in 2023. so if you do the math, i could read five more books this year if i am on top reading form. at the minute i have read seven books this year so hopefully i will be able to do it. i will update you all if i am able to achieve this. love goodreads.

[helion-ism]

feel free to say how many books you managed to read this year too :)

[nuitthegoddess]

I’ve reached my goal reading 50 books and realizing I am much more into thriller/horror novels 🫶✨

[reedreadsbooks]

a more specific version of my reading goals poll

i like the broader categories of the first but seeing answers start coming in has made me more curious, especially about how many people have a goal of 100. if you want to vote on the other poll too it should be running until the 7th. and as always feel free to leave your specific number in the tags!

[heartattackkidd]

Hehehehehehe

[corbiebooks]

I'm 2000 pages behind on my reading goal but at least that's a 3000 page improvement from a month or so ago

[uncle-oscar-and-lord-bosie]

Three months after Oscar went to prison, Bosie wrote a poem called Rondeau:

If he were here, this glorious sky,

This sweet blue sea, these ships that lie

On the bay’s bosom, like white sheep

On English fields, these hours that creep

Golden in summer’s panoply,

This wind that seems a lover’s sigh,

Would make a heaven of peace as high

As God’s great love, a bliss as deep,

If he were here.

This great peace does but magnify

My great unrest that will not die,

My deep despair that may not reap

One poppy, one poor hour of sleep,

Nor aught but pain to wake and cry,

‘If he were here!’

Bosie poem.

[midnights-wish]

Just barely made it! 😌

Have a happy new years' eve, everyone! 🥂🎉

[princessofmanyfaces]

The Ex Hex

A 5 Star read for me | This book was PERFECTION

Erin, girly, come here and let me give you a kiss. 

FINALLY, after what feels like forever I found a good wotch book. I love witches, I want to read all about witches but no book hit like this. NO. BOOK. It's such a cute and funny and cozy read for spooky season! 

The little breakup at the end was unnecessary but I can look over that. I devoured that book! The writing was great, the plot made sense, the romance was amazing, the characters have my heart

Love love LOVED IT

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐