Hello, beasties! Happy New Year!!
Are you excited for the new year?
If I'm being honest, 2024 was a rough year for me in more ways than one.
When I started this blog, I never meant to get deeply personal about things, I wanted to keep the focus on my love for reading and books. But with how bad I was in posting last year, I felt I owed some sort of explanation. So without getting too deep, I found myself falling into a bit of depression this last year, I was becoming unhappy and losing myself. And because of it, I fell off of posting on my blog besides an occasional book tour. Though if I’m honest, without those tours, I might have stopped reading entirely. So I am thankful for having those, to help me keep my love for reading alive.
Towards the end of the year, I was finally realizing how unhappy I was and had to make some tough decisions to try and get myself back. Making those decisions, while hard, has helped me recapture my happiness again. It was like a weight was lifted off my shoulders.
Going into the new year, I plan to work harder on posting more regularly here, I miss it. Truly, I do. I miss the community and just reading more. Even my boyfriend has made it one of his New Year's resolutions to read more because he knows it’s one of my passions and wants to support me in my love for reading.
That leads me to my reading goals for 2024! And this year, I’m feeling hopeful!
First ~ Just read!
Last year, I aimed lower than in years prior, and I passed what I wanted to read, ending the year with 65/50 books read. But I want to ease myself back into reading and blogging, and just enjoy it all! So this year, I aim to forget the numbers and just read!
Second ~ Get through more of my backlist
I feel like I say this every year in a different way, but especially with how little I was reading the past two years, my book collection has grown significantly. I want to try and go through the books I already have and read more of them, and maybe try to let go of the ones I don’t love. As much as I love beautiful books, I’m going to try and make myself let them go if I don’t love the book. Wish me luck!
Third ~ Remember my love for reading
For the past two years, I’ve had this as my third goal. So it seemed fitting to keep this there especially as I’m trying to recapture my happiness and get myself back. This goal is simple, just to remember that I love reading and why I love it.
Fourth ~ Reconnect with the reading community
I decided to add a fourth goal this year, one to help remind me what I missed these past two years while I fell off posting on here. The bookish community! I want to try not only to get back into posting and engage more with others on bookstagram and threads. I also plan to revive my book exchanges, starting with my Will You Be My Valentine? Exchange!
And I want to start meeting with other readers again! I tried looking for some local book clubs, but I had little luck in my search. So I decided to try my luck in just starting one myself! I used to have several before the pandemic, but it fizzled out trying to do virtual. I’m already in the process of getting this new one started for the PNW! I have a FB group and we just voted for our first book pick! I’m so excited!
However, I still haven't folded the laundry that I washed before the new year... Haha!
Did you set any reading goals for 2025?
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