Speaking of goals, I have them; lots of them. Too many goals! My (previously unconscious) philosophy with reading goals has always been "go big or go home". Most times, of course, I "go big"
and "go home" but that never stops me
I have super-crazy goals for 2014:
1. Read
12 books from my paid TBR that have been sitting on my shelves for more than a year. The books I've chosen for this challenge are all non-fiction.
2. There's a
Russian literature challenge going around; I haven't signed up (yet?) but I want to try it. I think the book must either be set in Russia or written by a Russian author. I want to do Level 1 (1-3 books) and go with Dostoyevsky's
Crime and Punishment, Nabokov's
Lolita and
The Complete Short Novels (there are four) of Anton Chekhov.
3. I've identified
21 series I want to complete (or bring up to current status) and that worked out to be
48 books.
4. Every year I try to read the whole Bible, which I did this year but I'm going in a different direction next year. Throughout the year I want to read John MacArthur's
One Perfect Life, which is a harmony of all the whole Bible (both OT and NT) has to say about Jesus. And I also want to do this
Bible Memory Plan, where you memorize one verse a week. I'm sure there'll be some modifications with this, because I might be familiar with some of the verses already, plus some years we do our own once-a-week memory verses at church. As long as I get 52 verses in.
5. I want to continue with my
Georgette Heyer challenge.
6. And my
Classics Club challenge! Read 75 classics by August 2018. Whew! But I love it so far
In terms of numbers, I have no set figure for how many books I want to read but I notice I have been regressing in that regard. In 2011, the first year I actually started tracking my reading, I read 283 books. In 2012 I read 238, and right now I'm at 207. Dramatic declines. I don't know the cause but I'm putting it down to much Internet time
In terms of spending, I want to continue to cut down on that (unless there's some uber-crazy code floating around
), and buy only what's either on my wishlist, a book to continue a series I'm currently reading, or any recommended book I think I'll read right away. I won't go with a dollar limit (that so did not work this year) or a number of books. I simply want to buy less books and spend less money.
Most of all, I just want to have another great reading year!
