Showing posts with label reading goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading goals. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 January 2017

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2017 Reading & Blogging Goals

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It is the New Year, which means people have been sharing their bookish and bloggy goals and resolutions for 2017, like Paper Fury, Bookends and Endings, and Jess Hearts Books. I thought I would join in and share my goals for this year with you all.

Swap ARCs for eProofs


I mentioned this in my Looking Back on 2016, Looking Forward to 2017 post. I am simply running out of space for books. I have five bookcases, books are stacked in most of them, and I still have piles of books on the floor. It's just too much. Not only does it not look good - everyone knows that a bookcase with books spine out is a thing of beauty, but you wouldn't have a clue looking at my bookcases what most of the books are - I'm actually feeling weighed down by all these books. We always talk about how you can never have too many books, but I think maybe you can. So I'm going to have a cull, and this year, I'm going to request eProofs of books instead of physical copies where possible. This isn't going to be possible in every instance, but I think it will for most. This will drastically cut down on the number of books I receive through the post, and I'll feel a lot happier with having pretty bookcases and no books to trip over in the middle of the night. My only problem is that I may forget what books I have on my Kindle, but I'll just have to keep an eye on NetGalley and the Home page on my Kindle.
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Friday, 1 January 2016

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Diverse Reading in 2016

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As you may have read in my Looking Over 2015, Looking Forward to 2016, I have plans to change up what diverse books I read in 2016. I already read a lot of LGBTQ YA and YA with characters with mental illness, but I want to read more.

Kayla Whaley auditted of her diverse reading in 2015, and made goals for her reading in 2016 based on the results. She created the #DiverseReadingGoals hashtag on Twitter, and has inspired me to be more intenional in the diverse books I read in 2016, but to also keep proper track of what I'm reading.

My diverse reading goals for 2016 are:
  • To read more YA(/NA/MG) with disabled characters.
  • To read more YA(/NA/MG) with characters who have chronic illnesses.
  • To read more YA(/NA/MG) with POC characters.
  • To read more YA(/NA/MG) with characters who identify as the lesser represented LGBTQ identities, I.E. asexual, bisexual, pansexual, genderfluid characters.
  • To read more YA(/NA/MG) with intersectional characters.
  • To read more #ownvoices YA(/NA/MG).
To keep track of the various diverse books I'll be reading in 2016, you will find a #DiverseReadingGoals page where I will list my goals, but also the books I read throughout the year.

I hope I do well with my goals, and I hope you enjoy my reviews as I attempt to meet them!
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