Hi readers, and welcome to my first quarterly goals review of 2022! I will go through each of my goals and update my progress and any amendments.
I am making significant progress with this goal. I will need to amend it later in the year, but I haven’t worked out my new goal, so I am leaving that for a minute. I have just started my 61st book of the year as I write. I have never read so many books in such a short space of time before, so this feels like a significant achievement. However, my left eye is beginning to play up a little, and I am concerned I won’t be able to continue at the same rate for the rest of the year.
This has been a bit of a tricky balancing act so far this year as I selected a heavy load of ARCs to read and keep seeing others I want as well. I get a bit too click-happy and load up my shelf with new books!
However, on average, I am about 60/40 in favour of ARCs, so not as far off as I had feared. I have a lot of other books I really want to read and a couple of series, so I think this should balance out a little more over the year.
Changing habits is tough sometimes, and I can fully admit that I completely forgot that I was going to try and read at least one physical book a month in January. Not a great start! However, in February, I did remember and read 5 physical books with just one in March, but that still fulfils the goal.
I think this will increase during the year, as I have quite a collection of physical books to read now!
I am still working on this goal. I am adding my books retrospectively to several reading challenges. I plan to select at least one challenge to complete when I review in September, as that will give me three months to complete the chosen challenge/s.
I have been working on this goal the most this quarter. I started off with around 20 followers and no idea what I was doing or trying to achieve. I have since grown to almost 400 followers and have made a couple of new friends.
I have spent some time testing things, gaining new skills and working out what I want my page to look like. This has also included playing around with my photography (mainly behind the scenes). As a result, I feel much happier with what I am producing now.
I plan to continue this and add in some giveaways going forward. If you would like to join in come over and give me a follow here!
I have found some poetry that I have enjoyed over the past few months. While continuing with my poems every day. I also have some books by Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson and a new one I just got by Rapi Kaur.
Rapi Kaur’s book, Home Body, has some lovely short poems. I like this one:
Why escape yourself
When you are so beautiful
get closer to your shine
I have been managing to keep up with the blog much better recently. I feel much more organised with my planning and posting schedule, and I have enjoyed it immensely. I have sorted out the email sign up so you can get each blog post to your email though this will be changing slightly shortly as I want to change providers.
I plan to start bringing you some additional posts and not just book reviews so watch this space (or subscribe!), so you don’t miss them!
What are your reading goals or challenges for this year? Share them with me in the comments.