~New Years Resoultions~
Personal
- Have balance in my life. I want to do some cleaning (which I loathe), do something fun with my kids, some reading and some blogging everyday. I want to do a little of each every day even if my house is cleaner but not all the way clean and I only read a few pages. But most of all I want to make sure I make memories with my kids. They are getting big so fast!
Reading
- Read 50 books. I will increase this number when all of my kids are in school. But for now, the one book a week pace is the most I can handle!
- Read a 1000+ page book. I read War and Peace in 2011 which was 1273 pages. The longest book I read this year was Grave Mercy at only 549 pages. Waaahh. I love long books!
- Read 1 library book per month. I want to reduce my book buying and my ARC requesting so I want to read a lot of books I own and more books from my library. Having the deadline always helps me get to it and get it done!
Physical
- Work out twice a week. It can be walking on the treadmill or investing in some work out videos.
- Have some sort of chart or app that helps me keep track easily of when I worked out and how much.
Spiritual
- Finish reading the Doctrine and Covenants by March.
- Start reading the Old Testament and read it cover to cover even if it takes me 3 years (which honestly, it might).
Blogging
- Get a genesis blog design. I want to update my blog header and navigation. I want to make it easier to browse by genre, star rating, author, book title etc. and have more pages with drop down menus. I can’t do any of that cool stuff on my current blog!
- Install auto updating social media and archives. Ashley at the Book Nook has some really cool PERL scripts to do this and when I get my new design, I want to try it out!
- Add content rating and genre tags to my book reviews.
~A Year of Reading~
2012 Reading Stats
Books read: 53 (+3 from 2011)
Pages read: 16,632 (-1571 from 2011)
Average pages per book: 313 (-51 from 2011)
Books Re-Read in 2012: 7
(Paranormalcy, Supernaturally, Wings, Spells, Illusions, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) *Note: I didn’t include these books in my books read or pages read for the year.
Reviews written: 53
~Reading Challenges~
Debut Author Challenge: 12/12 books (100%)
The Dusty Bookshelf Challenge: 4/20 books (20%)
eBook Challenge: 30/50 books (60%)
Harry Potter Reading Challenge: 2/7 books (29%)
Classic Double Challenge: 2/2 books (100%)
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 53/50 (106%)
Read-a-thons
Total Pages read: 189
Total Time spent actually reading and not dinking around: 4.5 hours
Umm.. apparently I didn’t keep track of my stats for my own read-a-thon. O.o
I hope you all have a Happy New Year! If you made any New Years Resolutions, leave me a link. I’d love to see them!
My name is Jessica. I love to read Young Adult and classic literature. I’ve been a book blogger for six years and I haven’t gotten tired of it yet. I’m a very curious reader. Writing about all the questions and thoughts I had while reading a book is the best hobby ever.
You had a great reading year in 2012! And your resolutions for this year have inspired me, as I’m still mulling over my bookish ones. I have a very similar goal about the library. I need to buy less, read more of the books I have, and borrow borrow borrow!
I also love your thoughts on doing a little each day. I loathe cleaning too, and I need to get over that at least a little bit this year. :)
Thanks Jessica! How people read over 100 books I don’t know but I was very happy with my 50 :). I downloaded this checklist from Pinterest that has small chores to do everyday. It makes me feel like I’m actually done cleaning! Can’t wait to see your resolutions. :) happy new year!
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These all sound like great goals. I hope you can keep them and find that balance. I need that too.
You have some great goals there and I hope you can achieve them all. Happy New Year and especially, Happy reading! :)
Mel@thedailyprophecy.