So this has been a crappy reading year for me in terms of meeting my yearly goal of 100 (which I have still never met in the four or five years I’ve been setting it, by the way). I usually get somewhat close, but yeah… not even close this year. I’ll blame it on being a newlywed, buying a house, settling into said house, and getting pregnant (therefore feeling sick and tired). By the time I get home from work, I am usually just beat. Gone are the nights of late night reading, my friends (except for the rare occasion, like right now, while I’m reading Gone Girl)! And I used to have a lot more time to read when I wasn’t married and didn’t own a home. Oh well – that’s life!
With that said, I do have a few smaller goals I’d like to set now for the rest of the year, so maybe I won’t feel like a complete reading failure come December 31st! Here are some of the specific goals I have from now until the end of the year:
- Read at least 1 more YA standalone novel
- Read at least 1 more of a continuation of a series I’ve already started
- Read at least 1 more cozy mystery
- Read at least 1 true crime
- Read at least 1 more parenting book
- Read at least 1 chick-lit or women’s fiction
- Read at least 1 more nonfiction
- Read at least 1 horror novel
- Read at least 1 eBook (not a huge eReader, but I do own an overstocked Kindle)
- Read at least 3 more library books (can also be any of the above)
- Read at least 2 more books from my own shelves (can also be any of the above)
- Finish the few books that I have started at the moment and still need to finish!
I’ve set my goals this way so that I can try and read a variety of books since I am into A LOT of different genres. I also don’t really want to count any book towards two goals… each genre goal should be fulfilled by a different book (except for the library, owned, and Kindle books since those are just formats of books… those can be repeat books from the genre goals).
I will recap this post come the end of December to see how I did!
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