Happy New Year all!!
I am happy to read that everyone sounds on the mend in our thread here - that is definitely wonderful to read and a reason to celebrate. Good and positive thoughts and prayers are still coming your way.
I wanted to chime in on goals for the year as well. I've been an avid reader for years but never really with any purpose in mind and definitely no goals! I pretty much read whatever looked good in the bookstore and moved on, though I did try to collect series when I could.
Of course, after discovering calibre, this site and kobo coupons in late 2012, my TBR exploded and I'm suddenly thinking I do need to set up some goals - or at least guidelines! I agree with what many of us have said in that I want to actually start reading my TBR rather than adding to it and along with that comes being a bit more choosy on the freebies and deals - which I have, actually, already been doing. Lately, my buying has been series completion which is an issue in itself, so I'm with Blu2u that I need to quit buying the entire thing until I have read enough to know I will like the author/series.
I know I've mentioned this before, but the challenge group I'm in at GR has actually helped me dig into my TBR and start reading from it. Many of the challenges have you choose books with certain things, themes, character types, etc. so I have to actually study some of my TBR to find books that fit. Over the last 2 months I've read about 10-15 from my TBR that were fairly deep in the list. So, I've made that my goal this year - to compile my challenge lists from my TBR and allowing myself to only purchase 3 books a month to fulfill the challenges. That's around 15+/- books a month in the challenges I join, so that should make a pretty good dent in my TBR....
That's not to say I will only BUY 4 books a month!
That's just silly and would be setting up for failure for sure! I just mean that if I can't fulfill a challenge with the books I already own, then I don't need to join it, or think carefully before I do.
So no number of books goal for the year, just a concentrated effort to read my TBR and to be very careful about buying a complete series before knowing how I like it. I'm also considering reading one classic a month. I haven't quite committed to that yet, but it's something I've been thinking about for awhile...Considering it's about 4 hours until ball drop here, I'd better make up my mind!
Again, Happy New Year all!! I hope 2014 brings reading joy and success to you all - as well as joy and health in your everyday life!
