It’s Top Ten Tuesday time once again friends and this week’s prompt is your bookish goals for 2023 so here are 5 of mine:
I’ve made a bit of a habit of just buying and reading books because they are super hyped and popular even though the actual book doesn’t interest me. I could be a genre that I don’t usually read from or the premise doesn’t intrigue me but because everyone is talking/raving about it I still pick it up and read it anyway and I usually don’t enjoy it. I just think it’s a waste of time and I could be reading a book that I actually want to read.
I’ve been finding as of late that when I’m trying to find what book I want to read next I will look at the page count and see how long the book is which will influence whether or not I choose that book. Like if I have two books I’m choosing between and one is 500 pages and the other is on 300 I will pick that one because it is shorter not because I’m interested in that one more. I want to try and dismiss this train of thought and pick books because I’m excited to read them not because I could finish it in one day.
It’s kind of hard to explain but I kind of forget that there is a world in these books that I enjoy diving into and I let the page count or the number of books in the series deter me from continuing on. Which hopefully this year I can overcome and actually finish some series that I have been in the middle of for literally years now!
I’ve set my Goodreads goals for 80 this year instead of the 100 I usually would do. I don’t want to focus too much on the number of books I read and instead try and focus on the quality so this is more of a tentative goal. I would still love to read anywhere from 80-100 books again in 2023 but I don’t want my need to complete this deter me from picking up longer books and taking my time getting through them.
The last goal I wish to set for myself this year is to just be happy. I think if I accomplish the rest of my goals it will make for a great year and that will definitely make me happy!
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I would say you should be happy no matter how good you do on these goals if you try to do them. That’s all that matters!
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Continuing series and completing my Goodreads challenge are also goals of mine this year. I definitely feel you on reading books because you’re interested in them and not because everyone else is talking about them: I’m generally pretty good at just reading stuff because I really want to but I definitely have been pulled in by FOMO before and ended up reading hyped books that I know I won’t necessarily like just because I want to understand what everyone else is talking about!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2023/01/17/top-ten-tuesday-403/
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I love your goals because they’re about the experience, rather than the hard metrics. That’s the way it should be!
I set my 2023 goodreads goal at 56 (my favourite number) but I’ve already read 16 books in January without pushing myself.
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Good luck with your goals!
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Thank you ☺️
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My Goodreads number is 52, but I’m sure I’ll surpass that number quickly. But I won’t change it because I know the year is young and things change. And I agree with you about reading books that are hyped that I am not interested in because it feels like I need to read it (and like it).
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/ten-more-anticipated-releases-january-june-2023/
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Oh things can definitely change in a heartbeat lol I’m just trying not to get soo swept up in the buzz and hype and get influenced to read things I would otherwise never read 😆
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These are some great goals, and just being happy is one I think a lot of people forget 💜
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It’s an easy thing to overlook for sure but I want to prioritise happiness over anything ☺️
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Fantastic goals! I have cut out some of the Popsugar prompts this year because I just couldn’t face reading a bunch of books I wasn’t really that interested in.
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Thank you! Exactly, I had to ask myself why am I reading things that I’m not interested in? 😅
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