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#TopTenTuesday Bookish Goals for 2024 #TuesdayBookBlog

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Top Ten TuesdayTop 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 2024. I love setting reading goals. Achieving them? Well, that’s a different matter…

  1. Goodreads Challenge 2024Achieve my Goodreads target of reading 104 books (I didn’t hit my target of 120 books last year so I’ve set a target I think is more realistic).
  2. Read at least 25 books that have been in my TBR pile for longer than two years, i.e. they were acquired prior to 1st January 2022. 
  3. HenleyLiteraryFestivalAttend Henley Literary Festival and, if possible, at least one other literary festival in person.
  4. Complete the When Are You Reading? Challenge 2024.
  5. What's In A Name 2024Complete the What’s in a Name Challenge 2024
  6. Complete the 20 Books of Summer 2024 reading challenge.
  7. Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2024Complete the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2024
  8. Read all the books on The Walter Scott Prize 2024 shortlist before the winner is announced.
  9. Complete my Backlist Burrow challenge (that I started in 2023) by reading the remaining books I chose from the backlists of six authors.
  10. Maintain a 95%+ feedback ratio on NetGalley.

Do you have any book-related goals for 2024? 

#WWWWednesday – 10th January 2024

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WWWWednesdays

Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws:

  • What are you currently reading?
  • What did you recently finish reading?
  • What do you think you’ll read next?

Why not join in too?  Leave a comment with your link at Taking on a World of Words and then go blog hopping!

Currently reading

One of the ninety-five unread books on my Kindle and a book for my personal Backlist Burrow reading challenge (that I hoped to complete by the end of 2023 but didn’t).

The Most Difficult ThingThe Most Difficult Thing/Part of the Family by Charlotte Philby (The Borough Press via NetGalley)

How do you know who’s on your side, if you don’t know whose side you’re on?

David is the heir to global company TradeSmart, run by his philanthropic father Clive Witherall. Meg is an ambitious intern at a national newspaper, determined to break into the media world. Anna is hiding a dark secret, desperately clinging onto her new identity.

When the three friends meet Harry, everything changes…

As Anna finds herself drawn into the dark and highly controlled world of espionage, she is forced to question everything she thought she knew about the people who have recruited her – and about herself.

All Day at the MoviesAll Day at the Movies by Fiona Kidman (Gallic Books)

When war widow Irene Sandle goes to work in New Zealand’s tobacco fields in 1952, she hopes to start a new, independent life for herself and her daughter – but the tragic repercussions of her decision will resonate long after Irene has gone.

Each of Irene’s children carries the events of their childhood throughout their lives, played out against a backdrop of great change – new opportunities emerge for women, but social problems continue to hold many back. Headstrong Belinda becomes a successful filmmaker, but struggles to deal with her own family drama as her younger siblings are haunted by the past.

Recently finished

History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

The Distant Dead (The Detective’s Daughter #8) by Lesley Thomson (Head of Zeus)

What Cathy (will) Read Next

His Bloody ProjectHis Bloody Project by Gordon Macrae Burnet (Contraband)

The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae.

A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but it falls to the country’s finest legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence.

Was he mad? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae and the gallows.