First of all I want to wish everybody a very Happy New Year and all the best for 2019!! May this year be filled with happiness for all of you. ❤
Now that it’s January 1st, it’s time to think about my reading goals for 2019. I still can’t believe I was able to read 245 books last year, and I don’t pretend I will be able to reach that amount again… So I have decided to not stress myself and keep my challenges reasonable to avoid that pesky slump. I’ve decided 2019 will be all about having fun reading and reading more of my own books. As much as I love my ARCs, I have a HUGE pile of backlist titles and things are spinning out of control. In 2018, I was able to maintain a somewhat healthy balance of 51% ARCs and 49% my own books, but I’m hoping to get that to 40/60 at least.
So these will be my goals for 2019:
READING:
- I have set my Goodreads Reading Challenge to 150 books.
- Read at least 3 (modern) classics (rereads don’t count)
- Complete at least 10 series (rereads don’t count)
- Reread at least 2 books
- Bring my physical TBR pile below 450 books and keep it that way.
- Read at least one book over 800 pages
- Keep ARC/backlist title ratio below 40%
- Read at least 2 books in Spanish
- Read at least 1 book in Dutch
- Read at least 15 international authors and/or translations
- Read at least 10 TBR jar picks
- Join at least 5 challenges during the year
- Keep my Netgalley ratio above the 80%
BLOGGING/LIFE:
Stress less about having to post every day and don’t feel bad whenever I need a short break. This is going to be hard, but I also know that without little breaks a slump might be just around the corner, so hopefully I’ll learn to prioritize better this year.
- Be active in the community. I always try to comment and bloghop frequently, but somehow it is hard to find enough time to read, blog AND comment on the blogs I follow… And lately I’ve been needing more frequent breaks from social media to keep me from slumping. So this one will be a tricky balance to find.
- Use Babelio more and become more active in the Spanish reading community. I know I read mainly in English, but I really want to start reading more in Spanish again. The Babelio website is a good incentive to do so!
- Keep making more healthy choices, reach my goal weight and finally being able to run those 5K. I know, I know, it sounds like a very cliche goal, but I’m determined to do so. It helps that I’ve been working on this during the last month already so hopefully things will stick this time around. #fingerscrossed
You can also find me at Goodreads. Twitter. Instagram. Facebook. Bloglovin’.
Good luck with all your challenges/goals! Definitely way more ambitious than mine 😆
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Thanks! Some of these are definitely going to be tricky. 😉
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Happy New Year hope you manage to achieve those goals and avoid book and blogging slumps xx
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Thank you and likewise! xx
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Happy New Year and good luck on your goals! One of my goals for this year is to also be more active in the community. I follow several blogs, but don’t always have time to actually read posts and almost never post comments. So if you see me commenting a lot more on your stuff, you’ll know why! 🙂
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Likewise! And I know the feeling; I’ve been terrible bloghopping and commenting during the last few months… It’s hard to find time for everything. 🙂
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Truer words never spoken. But I’m working on it. 🙂
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Happy New Year and good luck with your goals and challenges! Knowing when to step back from time to time is so important. I am with you – finding the time to blog hop, comment, share, and read can be a challenge! Most of the time I take the weekend off, this really helps to keep me sane 🙂
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Likewise! Taking time off regularly is definitely a great idea; I tend to take at least one or two days a week to unwind as well. 🙂
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Happy new year! Good luck with all your goals for the year ahead, I hope you manage to achieve them all. I struggle to keep up with reading and commenting on blogs too so also want to try and make regular time to do this in 2019.
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Thanks and good luck with yours! Managing to balance everything is always a struggle… Fingers crossed we’ll be able to find more time this year. 🙂
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Happy new year! Good luck with all your 2019 goals!
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Thank you and likewise!
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Sounds like a great plan! Never feel stress about breaks is something I should do too! Happy 2019 ❤
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Happy 2019! To a stress-free reading year. 🙂
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A Happy New (reading) Year to you!
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Happy New Year! 🙂 Good luck with all of your goals! I’ve started to just post on my blog whenever I want to and not feel like I have to and it’s helped so much. Before I always felt guilty if I didn’t post and then blogging lost all the fun and I stopped being around so much. But once I started to post whenever I felt like it, it’s made it less stressful.
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Happy New Year! That sounds great! I only manage to get posts up daily because I schedule them in advance… There’s no way I could do so otherwise. 😉
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Wow, 245 books, that’s impressive! And that’s the perfect balance between own books and arcs. Ooo you’ve set some fantastic reading goals, I wish I knew another language! All the best for 2019, Happy New Year!
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All the best for 2019 to you as well! I like reading in a different language every once in a while, although I still prefer English… Having to use Spanish all day every day makes me want to take a break at times and reading and blogging in English helps. 😉
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Congrats Yvo. You did really well with reading your own books in 2018. I hope 2019 will be better for you. All the best with your goals. Happy new year x
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I wish you all the best for 2019! xx
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Good luck with all of your goals this year! 😊
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Thanks!
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