Happy 1st February,
one and all! I hope 2019 is treating you well so far. For those of you who were
waiting for the January slog to be over (and I think I speak for all of us
there), you can now rejoice in leaving those January blues behind for another
year. The nights are getting shorter, little green buds are starting to show,
and even though it’s still bitterly cold, I’m hopeful that February will be a good
month.
Despite January being the month
of New Years Resolutions, I found it really difficult to motivate myself in the
first few weeks of 2019. I blame it on the cold, dreary weather, or the fact
that I was looking forward to a few weeks of relaxation after a busy Christmas. Either way, this
post was something I wanted to write at the very beginning of the year but as
my energy for creativity was at a serious low, it’s come a little later than
planned. My Reading Goals For 2019.
I’m not really one for
having strict TBR’s or set ideas of where I want to go with my reading – I’m
very much a mood reader. This year however I have a few goals I’d like to
dedicate some more time too.
READ 40 BOOKS
I’ve taken part in the
GoodReads reading challenge every year since 2011 and 40 books is my go-to reading
goal. Last year I didn’t make my target due to the slump of a slumps I was in
for the first four months of 2018, but this year I’m back to reading at my usual
pace and I’m confident I can hit it this year.
READ ALL OF SARAH WATERS
NOVELS
Since reading The Little
Stranger back in October I’ve been desperate to read some more Sarah Waters, and
I thought why not read all of her
work? I have a terrible habit of finding a book I adored and then not reading
anything else from the author for months, even years, and it’s something I want
to seriously amend. I’d love to find some new favourite authors and I have a
feeling Sarah Waters might be a contender, so 2019 is the year I’m going to
pick up all of her books. I’ve got five to go – including a re-read of Affinity
– so I’m going to aim for one every two months or so.
READ SOME AGATHA CHRISTIE
I enjoy crime fiction and in
recent years I’ve realised how much I actually love it. I love novels that keep
me on my toes and crime novels do just that, yet I don’t read very many. To try
and amend that I’ve decided this year I want to try some books written by the
Queen of Crime herself: Agatha Christie. Shamefully, I’ve never read any Christie
and I think it’s because I’m a bit at a loss of where to start. This post from
The Book Riot has given me a few ideas so I might start with one of her more
well-known novels first. If you have any recommendations of which book would be
a good one to pick up first let me know! I’m open to suggestions.
PRIORITISE BOOKS THAT ARE ON
MY TBR
A bit of a toughy since –
like all bookworms – I love buying books. However, there are some books on my shelves
that have been there for far too long. A little rule I have (which I’ve
currently bent due to a post-Christmas book haul. Oops) is that I have a single
shelf of book to-be-read and I tell myself I can’t purchase any more books
until there’s room for more on that shelf. This is something I’m going to try
and stick to this year because I do find it works for me most of the time.
I also want to prioritise
some books on my digital TBR, that have been lying on my GoodReads to-read
shelf for years. With the plethora of new fiction that’s constantly being released
some older books get forgotten, so I’m going to go through my digital shelf and
pick out a few to read this year. I may potentially dedicate another post
towards the books I pick.
What are some of your
reading goals for 2019? Any new authors you want to check out? Is there a
particular series you’d like to finish? Let me know in the comments!
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