2016 Bookish Goals

This year I wanted to change my style of goals. Instead of focusing on number-related goals I want to be more involved in the bookish community.

A huge part of this is because I'm not very good at creating and maintaining relationships. This is something I'm working on so I thought it would be good to work on here, too.

These goals are hard to quantify, but one thing that's a priority is YouTube comments. I would like to respond to comments on my videos at least twice a week. I also want to comment on other people's videos more often.

Then, there's Goodreads. I've been better about posting updates and at least liking others posts. So, I want to keep up with that. But I also want to be more involved in the groups I'm in. I would like to interact in Top 5 Wednesday and Tuesday Talks more, but I also want to be a part of some read-alongs.

But I couldn't ignore all the traditional goals. I am doing my Goodreads challenge of 100 books.

I also did a video about this on my YouTube channel.

Thanks for reading!
Holly

2015 Bookish Goals

These are my book-related goals for 2015. Last year I had some reading goals, but I wanted to expanded my goals a little bit this year.

Reading Goals

~Total: 100

~Completed Series: 15

~Re-reads: 10

~New-to-me Authors: 15

~Classics/Non-Fiction: 5

~Big Books (over 500 pages): 5

~Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind

After looking over my reading for 2014 I feel like these are realistic goals. I combined Classics and non-fiction because those are two genres I tend to avoid and figure 5 total is more approachable. And just like last year these will be listed in their own tab and I will mark them off as they are completed.

Reviews/Videos

I want to do written reviews of at least 80% of the books I read. For about the last half of 2014 I reviewed basically everything I read and I would like to stay on that trend.

I would also like to do video reviews of at least 50% of the books I read. To me this means they are reviewed in a video separate from my wrap-ups.

I don’t have any particular “goals” connected to videos other than the one mentioned above when it comes to reviews. But I am going to switch from monthly wrap-ups to weekly wrap-ups.  They will probably be posted on Mondays.

Book Buying

I don’t think I have a book buying problem because I can afford every book I buy. I also don’t have a problem with having a lot of TBR books. But I have prioritized paying off my student loans and I hope this will help me with that goal. Additionally, I would like my TBR books to always fit on the bookshelf I currently store them on, so hopefully this will keep that under control. Below is how I plan on handling my book buying in 2015.

1)      For every 3 books I read I can buy 1 book.

2)      Re-reads do not count toward the 3 books.

3)      I am able to do a post-Christmas haul with the money I get for Christmas/Birthday

4)      I will begin the year by buying 5 books in January.

5)      If I unhaul 10 books I can buy 2.

I also did a video talking about these goals: