The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Julia wrote: "My aim is to find my reading mojo again. I realised about mid way through last year that since my 8 & 3 year old sons were born I've barely read a book at all & I have nearly 200 on my kobo account..."

I can completely understand and relate to this. I went through several years when my girls were young where I hardly read at all. I'm sure there were a couple of years in there where I didn't finish a single book. I was always too busy or tired to engage with it. Eventually that passed though and I've been reading more than ever. You will do it, Julia!

My goal for 2021 is to finish reading (or listening to) at least 50 books this year. So far I’m already behind but I still feel pretty optimistic that I will make my goal!

So how did we do?

1. Give an audiobook a chance. DONE and I like it more that I thought I would.
2. Always have a library hold. DONE It was a little frustrating when I had 3 or 4 available at once but I mostly had a list on hold.
3. Read at least 6 classics. At least one of them should be something like Dante, Plato, or Homer. DONE The Quiet American, Three Men in a Boat, Oedipus Rex, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Animal Farm
4. Read a 'themed' book at least 6 times this year. DONE I did at least 10.
5. Convince someone in my life to read a book I'm reading/just read. DONE Sleeping Giants and Surviving Savannah,
6. Don't leave the house without a book. DONE
7. Learn those words I don't know. DONE but I could do more...I lose track of some from library lends.
8. I have 2 Ken Follett series to finish. The Evening and the Morning #4 (final) in Kingsbridge series, Edge of Eternity #3 (final) in Century Trilogy HALF done, I only finished Edge of Eternity.
9. Read 12 non-fiction books. DONE 59.
10. Read 25 books. DONE 100 and likely to do 107 by end of year

My goal fof this year is to read 45 books before i read 55 books

I set my goal pretty high this year and some things slowed me down, but I caught up so I'm not fully sure where my reading goal will go. I may do the same or alittle lower because I wanna read more novels over manga/volumes of comics. I have a bookself of books I own that I haven't touched and I need to get through them. I'm going to do some fun challenges as I go through them like the start of the year I'm going to do an ABC challenge and then I'll run through other stuff I want to read. I have a ton of random stuff in my "want to read" list so it shouldn't be hard to pick and with groups i'm in, social media and my girlfriend showing me books, it just keeps getting bigger. I'll be on a pretty big reading journey. I also really want to get a lot more Stephen King finished. I love movies based on his stuff and the books I have read by him, so I need to get to reading since he has so much stuff out.