Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.
The rules are simple:
- Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
- Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
- Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
- Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.
This week’s topic is Bookish Goals for 2023. As always, I started out with a long list – there are so many tempting reading challenges out there – but in an effort to maintain a degree of reality, I’ve narrowed it down to ten.
- Achieve my Goodreads target/forecast of reading 120 books (I exceeded that last year)
- Read at least 50 books that have been in my TBR pile for longer than two years, i.e. they were acquired prior to 1st January 2021. (There are plenty to choose from as I have over 60 physical books and over 100 books on my Kindle that fall into that category.)
- Attend Henley Literary Festival and, if possible, at least one other literary festival in person
- Take part in – and complete – the following reading challenges: When Are You Reading? Challenge 2023, What’s in a Name Challenge 2023, 20 Books of Summer, Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2023
- Read all the books on the Walter Scott Prize 2023 shortlist – if possible, on the longlist – before the winner is announced
- Complete my own Backlist Burrow challenge by reading two books from the backlists of each of the six authors I’ve chosen
- Read and review all new NetGalley approvals (from January 2023 onwards) by their publication date. (Yes, I know, haha!)
- Be a better blogger pal – leave comments on posts, share posts on social media, etc
- Refresh my blog – new theme, archive old posts, etc
- Be more active/creative on Instagram
What goals or resolutions do you have for this year?
This week’s topic is Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2023. There are lots I’m looking forward to, some of which I’m lucky enough to have as eARCs via NetGalley. Others are books I’m planning to treat myself to when they’re published. Links from the titles will take you to the full book description on Goodreads/Amazon.
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