I’m going to aim to do what I did last year, set my Goodread’s Challenge to be 100, but as I want this to be new-to-me books, I’m going to increase the challenge by one book every time I reread a book (and this makes it very easy to count my rerads).
- Read 100+ new-to-me books.
- Use my book journal (I need to keep this and pen near by current read).
- Continue to buy my best self-improvement/inspiring books (such as Atomic Habits, Steal Like an Artist) and reread them while using them like workbooks.
- Follow my rereads list and guides (more on this in another post).
- Find more favorite authors (I’ve got a whole list to try I culled mostly from everyone’s year end favorites).
- Ireland, Celts, Celtic Mythology because I want to.
- 40 nonfiction at least 10 self-improvement (GTD and other ones I keep returning plus from my list) and 20 more intense/scholarly (and of these 5-10 U.S. History).
- Papau’s books, Dad’s books. I’ve had one book of each on my shelf for like a year, and I know there are several more I want to read.
- Actually finish WAR AND PEACE !!!!!! I think I need to print a character guide or find an app or something, my notes I think were part of the hold up last year, I made it a chore.
- Maybe push for Lewis more since Hamlette is reading them this year?
- 12 Classics Clubs reads and reviews, since I’d apparently forgotten about this. Surely one Classic’s club read a month isn’t too hard? And Lewis is part of my list.
Good luck with these, but don’t forget to enjoy yourself along the way. As for all the characters in War and Peace, just use the one on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_characters_order_by_appearance
I usually only read for pure escapism and rebel against “musts” so I’m hoping for a bit more balance.
Thanks for the tip, I’ll print that off and have it handy.