At the beginning of the year I set ten goals for myself and thought it was time to have a look back at them to see how I’m getting on.
- Achieve my Goodreads goal of reading 104 books – I’ve read 47 books so far this year meaning I’m 4 books behind schedule
- Read more of the books I already own, including:
- at least 20 books that have been in my TBR pile for longer than two years, i.e. January 2023 or prior – I’ve only read 4 so far
- the 5 remaining books on my Backlist Burrow list, a challenge I started in 2023 but have made little progress with – still no progress
- Attend Henley Literary Festival and at least one other literary event – I attended the Borders Book Festival in Melrose for the first time this year. Henley Literary Festival takes place in October
- Complete the When Are You Reading? Challenge – see my sign-up post here – and Historical Fiction Reading Challenge – see my sign-up post here – I’ve matched 9 of the 12 time periods for the When Are You Reading? Challenge and read 29 books for the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge (target 50)
- Complete the What’s in a Name Challenge – see my sign-up post here – I’ve only been able to match 2 of the 6 categories so far
- Read all the books on The Walter Scott Prize 2025 longlist before the shortlist is announced – I didn’t manage to do this but I did read all the shortlisted book before the winner was announced. And I was there at the Borders Book Festival when it was!
- Reach the point where I’m read and reviewing every book on my NetGalley shelf in advance of publication – Not yet managing to do this consistently although my feedback ratio is 97%
- Take part in a reading challenge I haven’t done before. I signed up for Nonfiction Reader Challenge hosted by Shellyrae at Book’d Out and I’ve read 2 books (target 3)
- Finally bite the bullet and update my blog’s theme Pretty obvious I haven’t got around to this yet
- Embrace audiobooks and aim to listen to one per month – I haven’t quite managed one per month but I’ve listened to 5 so far this year with one more in progress
If you set yourself any bookish goals this year, how are you getting on?
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