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I read 680 in 2020, as of this date only 415 this year.Considering I was in bed at home June 25-July 5 and in Hospital July 6-12, diagnosed with Covid-19, Pneumonia, Dehydration, I'm not surprised at all. That was a good 16 days with no reading. Since the "Jackpot Prize," I haven't been in poor health (except for the 10 days sore throat a few weeks back), but I haven't been up to scratch and am feeling and acting debilitated.
I'm only going to set for 2022 a goal of 250 total, 75 for Virtual Mount TBR and 75 for Mount TBR. I also plan to increase my reading/reviewing of NetGalley ARCs (which will surely increase my Mount TBR reads), and to increase the volume of SF reads.
I think I am going to try to read at least 250 books for my Bookish New Years Resolution. Of those, I want to read at least 12 of my own and also at least 12 non-fiction. I know, the last two items are not too aggressive...Ended up reading more books than I plan. I chalk that up to careful planning.
Am pretty satisfied with my reading habits.
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Andrea wrote: "I love reading all the different goals that people are thinking about for the upcoming year. It makes me feel like I wanted to challenge myself more, but I'm going to resist in favor of a year of self care goals :)"Self care goals are VERY important.
I plan on reading at least 12 books in 2022. But anything more is a bonus as we're planning on decorating and sorting stuff out. This year (2021) I met my eldest son's new family which put pad to most of my reading time lol.
My only real bookish resolution is to read all the books that I buy in 2022 in 2022!
January:1. Read a new acquisition: The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware, 1/10/2022
2. Read a book from my bookshelves not listed here. Kindling the Moon by Jenn Bennett, 1/5/2022; The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill by Jim Fergus, 1/17/2022; Herself Surprised by Joyce Cary, 1/23/2022; Penny for Your Secrets by Anna Lee Huber, 1/24/2022
3. Read a book from the library. A Pretty Deceit by Anna Lee Huber, 1/2/2022
4. Read an award winning book: National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2020), Women's Prize for Fiction, 1/15/2022
(2020):Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, 1/25/2022
February:
1. Read a new acquisition: The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho, 2/23/2022, and Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris, 2/3/2022
2. Read a book from my bookshelves not listed here: The Broken Girls by Simone St. James, 3/2/2022, An Unsuitable Job For A Woman by P.D. James, 2/16/2022
3. Read a book from the library: The Hollywood Spy, 2/5/2022, and The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey, 2/11/2022, from the month's Science Fiction and Fantasy group, Throne of Jade, by Naomi Novak, 2/19/2022, Black Powder War by Naomi Novik, 2/23/2022
4. Read an award winning book: Crabwalk by Günter Grass, 1999 Nobel Prize winner, 2/7/2022
MARCH
1. Read a new acquisition: The Sea Peoples by S.M. Stirling, 3/13/2022
2. Read a book from my bookshelves not listed here: Days of the Dead by Barbara Hambly, 3/23/2022; Rajan by Tim Lukeman, 3/14/2022
3. Read a book from the library: Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik, 3/22/2022; The Endless Forest by Sara Donati, 3/26/2022; The First Lady and the Rebel: A Novel by Susan Higginbotham, 3/31/2022
4. Read an award winning book: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott, 3/29.2022, (National Book Award for Fiction (1998)); Kafka on the Shoreby Haruki Murakami. 3/5/2022 (World Fantasy Award 2006)
APRIL
1. Read a new acquisition: Who Speaks for the Damned by C.S. Harris, 4/2/2022; The Royal Ranger by John Flanagan, 4/11/2022; The Tenth City by Patrick Carma, 4/11/2022; Our Lady Of Darknessby Peter Tremayne, 3/25/2022; Smoke in the Wind by Peter Tremayne, 4/28/2022
2. Read a book from my bookshelves not listed here: The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman, 4/5/2022; Wet Grave by Barbara Hambly, 4/9/2022; Stargazer by Patrick Carman, 4/12/2022
3. Read a book from the library: Who Slays the Wicked by C.S. Harris, 4/16/2022
4. Read an award winning book: Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser (Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2020)), 5/5/2022
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MAY
1. Read a new acquisition: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner, 5/3/2022
2. Read a book from my bookshelves not listed here: Burnt Mountain by Anne Rivers Siddons, 5/2/2022; Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson, 5/17/2022; The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson,5/30/2022; Long Live the King by Fay Weldon, 5/29/2022
3. Read a book from the library: Sunshine by Robin McKinley, 5/20/2022
4. Read an award winning book: Radio Silence by Alice Oseman, The Inky Awards for Silver Inky (2017), 5/27/2022
JUNE
1. Read a new acquisition: A Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry, 6/11/2022; Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, 6/24/2022; The Woman in the Water by Charles Finch, 6/29/2022
2. Read a book from my bookshelves not listed here: The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco, 6/4/2022; The Heart Forgerby Rin Chupeco, 6/6/2022; The Storm King by Brendan Duffy, 6/19/2022; Star's End by Cassandra Rose Clarke, 6/22/2022; Prophecy by S.J. Parris, 6/27/2022
3. Read a book from the library: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn, 7/14/2022
4. Read an award winning book Judas by Amos Oz, added 6/13/2022, Internationaler (Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt for Mirjam Pressler (2015), International Booker Prize Nominee (2017): ), 6/16/3033
JULY
1. Read a new acquisition: Come with Me by Helen Schulman, 7/2/2022; Evenings at Five by Gail Godwin, 7/10/2022
2. Read a book from my bookshelves not listed here: The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott, 7/3/2022; Akin by Emma Donoghue, 7/5/2022; Calling Me Home, 7/20/2022; The Best American Essays 1998 by Cynthia Ozick, 7/9/2022
3. Read a book from the library: Three Debts Paid, 7/29/2022
4. Read an award winning book: The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Award Nominee for Long Form (Honorable Mention) (2012), 7/4/2022,
AUGUST
1. Read a new acquisition: Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch, posted 729/2022, finished 8/3/2022, How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior, 8/15/2022
2. Read a book from my bookshelves not listed here: The Guineveres by Sarah Domet, 8/2/2022; This House is Haunted by John Boyne, 8/11/2022; The Bishop's Heir by Katherine Kurtz, 8/12/2022; ]'Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma, 8/22/2022; Artemis by Andy Weir, , 3/2022, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl posted 8/22/2022, finished 8/24/2022,The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, posted 8/24, 2022, finished 8/25/2022,
3. Read a book from the library: The Nix by Nathan Hill, 8/10/2022
4. Read an award winning book: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, 8/19/2022, Hugo Award for Best Novel (2016)
September
1. Read a new acquisition: The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville, 9/7/2022
2. Read a book from my bookshelves not listed here: The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life by Jasmin Darznik, 9/9/2022; The Pact by Jodi Picoult, 9/24/2022, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, by Mark T. Sullivan, 9/25/2022; Bellman & Black, 9/30/2022
3. Read a book from the library: Lab Girl by by Hope Jahren, 9/14/2022
4. Read an award winning book: West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction of 2021), 9/19/2022
5. Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt, 9/12/2022
OCTOBER
1. Read a new acquisition: The Book of Dreams by Nina George, 10/13/2022
2. Read a book from my bookshelves not listed here: Courting Darknessby Yasmine Galenorn;
3. Read a book from the library: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, 10/12/2022
4. Read an award winning book: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré, (Edgar Award 1965), 10/2/2022
NOVEMBER
1. Read a new acquisition: The Queen's Secret by Karen Harper, 11/11/2022
2. Read a book from my bookshelves not listed here: Lost and Gone Forever by Alex Grecian, 11/15/2022
3. Read a book from the library: Everlife by Gena Showalter, 11/18/2022
4. Read an award winning book: The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik, nominated for GR best fantasy
DECEMBER
1. Read a new acquisition: The Glass Hotel Emily St. John Mandel, 12/6/2022
2. Read a book from my bookshelves not listed here: Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones, 12/2/2022
3. Read a book from the library: House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas, 12/2/2022
4. Read an award winning book: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1987), 12/12/2022
I read more in 2021 than in 2020. I think I read more in 2021 than I have any year since my first was born, if you take out all the comics I was reading those early years... and if you don't, the page count would probably be close, even if the book counts were higher.I've already listed my "book count" goals on my challenge thread, but for the sake of consolidation, here they are again:
📚 85 books read total
📚 24 books owned prior to 2022
📚 60 books borrowed
📚 15% or fewer books not on my radar prior to 2022
I've also got some additional goals regarding other stats I've only just started tracking this year. Whether I hit these numbers or not, my main resolution is to be more intentional about some of my book choices.
📚 20% nonfiction books (up from 17.7% this year)
📚 45% books by non-white authors (up from 35.6%)
📚 6% books by non-cis authors (up from 3.8%)
These goals are based on number of books, but I'd like the option of basing my stats on length of content as well, pages read or minutes listened. Which leads me to my last set of goals.
📚 30,000 total pages read (up from 29,510)
📚 14 days total audiobook minutes (up from 9.8)
(I know that audiobook goal is quite an ambitious leap, but I got new earbuds for Christmas, so in theory I should have more opportunities for listening. I'm also counting minutes according to the recording; actual time spent listening will vary, but I usually start at x1.5 speed and then adjust up or down as needed for any given book.)
Phew! I already knew I was a numbers nerd, but this year I may be taking it too far. If keeping track of all this ends up driving me bad-crazy more than it feeds my good-crazy, I may just drop the whole thing.
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Did you end up reading more, less, or the same in 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic?
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