Hooked on Books discussion

I have a few goals for 2015.


1. finish my goodreads challenge of 100 books
2. read a Stephen King book every month
3. continue participating in the read-a-thons

I'm having a hard time setting my goal for 2015. I may just end up picking a random number come January 1st, but am definitely open to suggestions.

2015 will be the year of the epic novel for me. Each month I am going to pick a 500 page plus novel to read. I end up with them sitting on my shelves while I read 7 other books. I have recently fell in love with fantasy (Brent Weeks, Terry Goodkind, Anthony Ryan, Stephen Lawhead, and the like) and I really want to delve into those worlds. I am not abandoning my love of other novels but I am making them a focus. Therefore, I will be doing something I have yet to do and will be lowering my goal for the year. It's not going to be about how many I can read but the quality of the read.

Trinity wrote: "2015 will be the year of the epic novel for me. Each month I am going to pick a 500 page plus novel to read. I end up with them sitting on my shelves while I read 7 other books. I have recently fel..."

I love fantasy, but I agree with you, that the epics take more time & focus than many other genres

Trinity wrote: "2015 will be the year of the epic novel for me. Each month I am going to pick a 500 page plus novel to read. I end up with them sitting on my shelves while I read 7 other books. I have recently fel..."

I've been thinking of doing the same thing. I usually set my goal to 50 but it is difficult for me to complete 50 books with all those long books on my TBR. Good idea to focus on one for each month though! Maybe I will try that. :)

I'm going to try the PopSugar 2015 challenge but I'll probably use one book for multiple challenges.

I've joined a couple book ban challenges for next year as well. Hopefully that will force me to read books I already own (and have been sitting around for a while) rather than buying a bunch of new releases. I think I will allow myself to buy new books in series though since there are a few I'm looking forward to that I don't think I would be able to pass up. :P

I'm definitely going to try to read more in series I've started and enjoyed. My pick-it-for me list is full of 'next in series' books for this reason.

Jonel wrote: "I'm definitely going to try to read more in series I've started and enjoyed. My pick-it-for me list is full of 'next in series' books for this reason."


Yes! That is my second goal. I have started so many and a few of them have been of the epic novel variety.

Keara wrote: "Trinity wrote: "2015 will be the year of the epic novel for me. Each month I am going to pick a 500 page plus novel to read. I end up with them sitting on my shelves while I read 7 other books. I h..."

I figured by doing just one I won't get completely overwhelmed. I do a few other challenges and I always like the "pick it for me" challenge. It helps me clear my tbr shelf and pushes me to pick up something that's been on my shelf for way too long.

I also have a book buying habit. There is a wonderful buy,sell and trade bookstore where I live and I live there :). It's sad when the staff knows you by name. Lol

Trinity wrote: "I also have a book buying habit. There is a wonderful buy,sell and trade bookstore where I live and I live there :). It's sad when the staff knows you by name. Lol"

The staff at mine start pulling books from shelves and handing them to me when I walk into the door. I hear 'you were looking for this last time, we just got it in' way to often.....

That is awesome!

Trinity wrote: "2015 will be the year of the epic novel for me. Each month I am going to pick a 500 page plus novel to read. I end up with them sitting on my shelves while I read 7 other books. I have recently fel..."

A few years ago, I stopped setting a goal for number of books to read for this reason. I usually put in some random number on Goodreads, but then set my own goal for number of pages read. That way I feel like I can read whatever I want to instead of worrying about getting through as many books as possible. I mean, there was one month earlier this year I only read 5 books (very low for me) but they were all books in the Wheel of Time series, so it was nearly 5k pages lol. I read a ton of fantasy series so it makes a lot more sense for me to set it up that way!

Denise wrote: "Trinity wrote: "2015 will be the year of the epic novel for me. Each month I am going to pick a 500 page plus novel to read. I end up with them sitting on my shelves while I read 7 other books. I h..."

Any recommendations since I am fairly new to the genre?

Trinity wrote: "Denise wrote: "Trinity wrote: "2015 will be the year of the epic novel for me. Each month I am going to pick a 500 page plus novel to read. I end up with them sitting on my shelves while I read 7 o..."

I enjoyed the Wheel of Time series as well as The Corean Chronicles by L.E. Modesitt Jr.. The 2nd is actually the series that got me into the fantasy genre in the first place.

Trinity wrote: "Denise wrote: "Trinity wrote: "2015 will be the year of the epic novel for me. Each month I am going to pick a 500 page plus novel to read. I end up with them sitting on my shelves while I read 7 o..."

Well, it looks like you already have the Wheel of Time, the Lightbringer series, and the First Law series on your 2015 epic reads list, those were some of the first books I thought of, lol.

Aside from those, I'd also recommend the Gentleman Bastards series by Scott Lynch, as well as literally anything written by Brandon Sanderson.

Oh, and Jim Butcher is quite good as well. I enjoyed his Codex Alera series and also love the Dresden Files. Finally, I would say to check out the Kushiel's Legacy books by Jacqueline Carey. I haven't read the last trilogy in that series yet but enjoyed the books I've read.

I could go on and on lol, but I'm going to make myself stop there! :)

My goals for 2015 are:
Finish The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare
Be more active on Goodreads
And read a total of 40 books

Thanks! I will look into those!

My goal is to read 100 books this year and to read ones that have been on my shelves for a while now

My goal is to read around 30 books this year. I really don't have the time to read a lot anymore (1 part school and the other being my laziness) but I want to read at least one book a month. There are some months in the year that are an annual reading slump, which include the Summer vacation break (IDK why, but my summers are dedicated to YouTube and the internet and I never want to read during the summer) so I really want to push through at least one book in the month, or t\start one that I will finish the next month. Which leads me to my next goal: Finish all the books on my shelf that I started in the previous years.

And that's it (I think)

Good luck to everyone with their goals!

Good luck Kara.

One of my goals this year is to check out MORE books from the library. We have a great library here, and I really need to stop buying books I"ll only read once.

I tend to forget that the library exists....

Jonel wrote: "I tend to forget that the library exists...."

Me too! But I really want to have a library myself one day... that's my justification lol

My goals are to read atleast 100 books this year and of course to use goodreads. lol.

Good luck Denise

My goals for this year is to read at least 75 books and to branch into reading genres, I've never read before

1. I will finally read Les Miserables all the way through. This is the year!
2. Be willing to stop reading a book if I'm truly not enjoying it. I feel obligated to finish a book if I start reading it, but it tends to turn that book into a chore, and I want to break that habit.
3. Read things I actually own. I have a four shelf bookshelf, and I've only read the book on the top shelf. I want to get through at least one whole shelf's worth of books, instead of constantly bringing home giant stacks from the library.
4. Less YA, more heavy reading. I enjoy YA to keep up my pace, and keep me in the habit of reading, but sometimes I find I get stuck in a funk where I'm opting out of reading larger more difficult books I'm interested in because I pick up yet another YA book because it's the easier choice. Not saying I don't want to read any YA, but I don't want it to hold me back from reading something different.
5. Finish reading uncompleted series. The Chronicles of Narnia, A Series of Unfortunate Events, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Chronicles of Faerie, The Vampire Chronicles, The Lord of the Rings - I have my work cut out for me.

My book goal so far is 52 - one book a week.

Jennifer wrote: "1. I will finally read Les Miserables all the way through. This is the year!
2. Be willing to stop reading a book if I'm truly not enjoying it. I feel obligated to finish a book if I start reading..."

Good luck!

in 2015 I want to:
- read 50 books
- read at least 12 books from the library
- read 5 "hyped" books I normally would not touch
- reduce my print book TBR by maybe 5-10 (or more)

in 2015 I want to
read 50 or more books off my nook ,kindle, paperback and hardcover ( don't have that many on that list}TBR list
get caught up in some of my series that I read
finish a series that I just need like four more books for
read some new authors
start some new series of books
and add some new books to my James Rollins and Clive Cussler books.

How's everyone going on their challenges this year so far? Goodreads says I'm ahead, but I feel like I'm way behind. I have a huge stack of 'to read next' books that I'm dying to get into, but just can't seem to find the time. It's making me a little sad.

My goals this year:
1. read at least 52 books
2. stay on my book buying ban - only buy 1 book after reading 4 already owned books
3. read 10 books that have been on my shelf for over 3 years

Since I own over 400 unread books, it's quite daunting, so I've made a small bookshelf of only 60 that I'm focusing on reading this year, and not to stray except for the new "rewards" I get myself after each 4.

Good luck!

Reading Goals:
To complete Goodreads goal of 200
To finish all of my reading challenges

Reading goals
- Try to complete book challenge goal of 20 books, although hopefully increase
- Simple read more books to keep up, instead of only fanfiction ^o^
- Reduce my tbr list
- Complete book series that already part way through
- Be more active in groups on goodreads

Best of luck Shan and those sound like some fantastic goals Laura

So back on March 6,2015 I had listened some goals for this year that I wanted to do,so I thought I would update and let you know how I'm doing so far.So let's get started:
1st: read 50 books off my nook,kindle, paper and hard back book TBR List: So I kinda passed with that one as well as filed with it. So how did I pass ,well Goodreads says thinks to my Goodreads 2015 Reading Challenge that so far I've read a total (and this is the complete total of all my reads of nook,kindle ,paper and hard back books put together) of 169 books out of 170 that I put down.So that's a 169 books taking off my TBR list. The filed part is I kind of went off my book buying bend and added some more books to my kindle ( added 9 new kindle books to my Kindle TBR list),nook ( added 9 new nook books to my nook TBR) and paper back books ( add 1 book to that TBR list) as well as just recently add to my Bookshout TBR ( had just 3 then I went a little crazy with the free books so because of that it brought my total of books up on my Bookshout TBR to 42 books ( 39 of those are the new ones but 11 of them are rereads, to because of that the new total is 28 books new books that I haven't ever read it) and then I of course had to add Apple iBooks a total of 6 to my TBR list.
2nd goal get caught up in some series I read( which meant that I read the first book of those series so far and I had some many more to read) series that I've got caught up and read the ones that had been on the TBR list. Night Huntress (books 1-6 :off my TBR list as is book one to Night Huntess world, Done with all the ones that I've got of the Temperance Brennan series,Chicagland Vampires (books 1- 3 is off my TBR list,still have to read books 4-5).And I'm almost caught up with my Isaac Bell adventures (books 1-7).
3rd goal:Read some new authors ,So that ones is a pass because there's been a lot of new authors that I've read to just name a few :Colleen Coble,Todd Borg,Suzan Tisdale,and A.J. Tata
4th goal: start a new series: pass a well,some new series I just started to name a few is : In Death series by J.D.Robb,Owen McKenna Mystery thrillers by Todd Borg,Rock Harbor Series by Colleen Coble,The MacDougall series by Suzan Tisdale
5th goal was add some new books to my James Rolling's and Clive Cussler books : haven't added any new ones to my James Rolling's books but I did add 1 book to my Clive Cussler books and that's book 7 to the Isaac Bell Adventure series.So in total most of keeping to my goals is at lest I think is a pass what do you think is it a pass or fail.and how are you doing on your goals

Wow Elizabeth! You've got a lot done so far.

Thinks and most of its because of this group,becouse of the read of thons ,the challenges,and making new friends who love books just as mays I do ,I actually started to remember why and how much I love reading and how much fun I had doing it.i actually read more this year then I did in the last 2 years.

How's everyone doing with their 2015 challenges? It looks like I may blow mine out of the water.

Should we have a group challenge for 2015? We could do a 'featured book challenge' & set a goal to see how many books we read as a group.

My initial goal was to read 50 books & I completed it early:'D. Now my goal is 65 :B

I'm totally in for a group challenge. (:

so i've read 264 books out of 265 this year, only thing is I added more books to my kindle TBR which is now 274 books on it, so now I'm just trying to cut there's down, plus I'm doing the #read5beforeibuy and that seems to be working, for this month.

Haha, well it looks like I really only achieved #2 on my list, but that's probably the most important one to me. I've been reading a lot more of what I feel like reading in the moment rather than what I feel obligated to read. Only two books away from completing my goal of 60 books this year (so I've already passes my original 52 goal). I have both embraced reading YA for fun, as well as branched out into reading more nonfiction. They can coexist, and I accept this now! Haha. Also learning to part with the books I feel I "should" read even though I don't really see myself reading them anytime soon.

I acheived each of mine partially, i did read 20 books and increased but failed at new goal... I have decreased my tbr a little and completed some series at last x i was active on goodreads fo a bit then not again o_O so a little bit acheived... Im try do better next year x

I read 75 books out of my goal of 50 books! I'm really proud of myself especially because 2015 was my first year participating in the goodreads reading challenge.