{"id":12631,"date":"2023-01-17T02:07:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T07:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=12631"},"modified":"2023-01-17T02:08:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T07:08:06","slug":"top-ten-reading-goals-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=12631","title":{"rendered":"top ten reading goals for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a> invites us to share our reading goals for the new year. I don’t know that I have ten, but here are some of what I’d like to do:<\/p>\n

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  1. Read 52 books. This has been my Goodreads goal number for years, but I haven’t hit it since 2019.<\/li>\n

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  2. Read more of my own collection. We did some rearranging this fall and there’s now a bookshelf that’s entirely comprised of books I own, but haven’t read right in the middle of our living room.<\/li>\n

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  3. Listen to more audiobooks. I start a lot. And then I get distracted or I don’t finish them before they expire or … whatever. Anyway. I finished ten last year, and I think upping that number to a round dozen doesn’t seem unreasonable.<\/li>\n

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  4. Read more diversely. Last year, about a quarter of the books I read were by authors of color, and I’d like to think I could get that number up to at least a third without even trying very hard.<\/li>\n

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  5. Read more nonfiction. Last year, I finished three books, so let’s aim for five minimum.<\/li>\n

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  6. Read more internationally. Sure, British and Canadian count, but let’s try for a book in translation.<\/li>\n

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  7. Read more poetry. I love poems. And if you hurry me into a bookstore and give me only five minutes to buy one book, I’m walking out of there with a poetry collection, because I can definitely find at least one book with one poem in it that resonates in that time and if I can find one, I’ll find more than one. And that just means I own a bunch of poetry books that I haven’t read.<\/li>\n

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  8. Read at least two classics. Last year it was one. One of my 50 by 50 goals is to read a Russian author and The Master and Margarita<\/em> was recommended to me, so I have to at least give that a shot.<\/li>\n

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  9. Put a book in every bag I own and read them instead of playing on my phone while I’m out. Also, consider finding a couple more pairs of the headphones that are floating around and throw them in, too.<\/li>\n

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  10. Actually review everything I finish. I peter out every year.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Okay, that actually wasn’t very hard at all, and nothing I’ve written here, other than the writing bit seems especially hard, so I’m declaring that a good set of reading goals for 2023. How about you? Do you have any reading goals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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