I have an account on Goodreads. If you love books then Goodreads.com is a great place to be. Each year they set up a challenge for us to challenge ourselves to read more, to set goals to read however many books we think we can or that we want to read. I enjoy challenges like that since I’m just a little competitive. And I love books. ♥
In 2013 my goal was 25 books. I made it to 44%, having read only 11 books. Actually, if you look at my list here on my blog for what books I read that year, my total was 34. The difference is because I apparently didn’t report them all on Goodreads. Oops!
I don’t remember what my goal for 2014 was, but I reported 38 books. In actuality, I read 46.
In 2015 I met my goal of 50 books. Yay! (Plus one I didn’t report.)
This year I set a goal of 25, then decided to up it to 50 again. Once I joined the ReFoReMo challenge in March, I said – what the hey! – and reset my goal to 150 books this year. Yipes! Not to panic, yet. I am already 64 ahead of schedule at 71%, having read 107 as of this writing. I still have a few more titles on hold at the library for the lingering on of ReFoReMo in my life, and we have about eight months left in 2016. I can do it! (yes I can) Gosh, I love books! ♥
It may not seem like such a big accomplishment where most of my reading so far this year is picture books. I could never manage to read that many novels in twelve months. BUT … reading is reading. I’m learning about writing while I’m enjoying all those expertly told stories, too, as they serve as mentor texts. ♥
Someday I’ll try to count how many books I have here in my growing TBR stashes. ♥ Novels, that is. Novels beckoning to me, novels tempting me, calling me. *sigh* I want to read them, get lost in them, devour them all! ♥
I ♥ BOOKS.
Another feature on Goodreads is that other members I’ve connected with as “friends” can recommend books they’ve read. Oh me. Some have. 🙂 ♥
Oh, and while I’m on the topic — thank you to author Darlene Foster who follows my blog and recommended Pompeii by Robert Harris. I bought it through Audible.com and very much enjoyed it. Of course, I could have borrowed it from the library but I didn’t even think of doing that at the time. I really like Audible, anyway. 🙂 I can multi-task that way — listen to the book being performed for me (not just read), which is so great, and work around doing something else at the same time. But not writing. Not while “reading.” 😉
Have you set a goal this year for how many books you want to read? Or is there some other goal-setting you’ve established?
Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂
Polilla Writes 