Happy New Years!!! 2024 Version

Time for another Happy New Year's post! 2023 was a hard year, but I did read a lot.

My personal year? Well, it was kinda crappy. Well, not most of it, but the big thing of 2023 for me was that we had to put down Dobby, and seeing last years paragraph about him, it's hurting a bit, that we've now left the last year that he lived. So that hard. That today is the 5 year anniversary of losing Winky, that this is the first year without the both of them, is hurting, as well. 

So I do have about the same goals that I always do, because I'm not original and I just want to keep going at the things I do have! 

1. Like the past 11 years now, just read. Reading is my love and passion, so any book that I want to read, I will try to, even if it takes years to get around to it! Reading more then 500 books is the norm for me, with an official Goodreads goal of however many days there are in that year, and an unofficial goal of 400+.

2. Blog regularly. Reviews will be a subset. I mean posts, having them up on time, in finished form, not the form of the meme, without the actual content of the day. Finished on a pretty good note with this, I was pretty consistent this year regarding meme posts! And I even had the form of the meme posts for 2021 done before December, so that was a bit early again!

2. A. Reviews. My goal is still for them to just stay current, trying to write the review of the book, the day that I finish the book. That way, my thoughts are nice and new, and I don't have to struggle to remember some character, or some important part of the plot, or funny little details! I did catch up for a month in March or April, and then promptly fell behind and haven't caught up since, so I really hope to catch up, and stay catch up! 

2. B. ARC's. I get ARC's from Edelweiss and NetGalley, and I have for a while. And NetGalley recommends a review written to ARC's requested percentage of 80%. So I'm going to make it a goal of mine to hit that, and once I do, to keep it consistent. I got there, and lost it, a few times, and I'm currently in the lost it, but hopefully I can catch up once I write all these already posted reviews! 

2. C. Catch Up on Authors. What this means is that I read all the books by an author (that I'm interested in) that have been published. I don't know how many authors I'll have this for (since I'm fairly current on my favourite authors, though there's a few exceptions.) I'm not going to have a specific author focus again this year, since a) I couldn't think of one, and b) I've failed these two years I've tried, so just making it a general goal to catch on various authors! 

2. D. Yearly challenges. I have LLFL, A-Z Reading Challenge, and # Books to read in Year, which I didn't finish again this year, but I'll do my best to finish them this year! 

2. E. Series. I'm continuing this one, since from the stats, it did a pretty good job of things, so I'm happy with that!  Each month, I'll I'll chose a series that I was current on in a previous year, but has since been continued. A series that I started or continued, but didn't catch up with what was currently published. A series that I haven't touched since 2020. A series that I read from this year, but still need to continue. A series that I haven't started yet, but have been meaning to. Then each month, I'll do one more series from one of these types, so I have 2, it'll just depend on what I'm planning on reading that month. The goal is to finish out as many series as I can, and keep current on the series that are still ongoing. 

3. Take care of my health. This has a few prongs, from losing weight, which I know is a pretty staple new years resolution, but I've kept it going these 5 years. I started my journey September 2018 and have been working steadily on it since then. This year was rough, I'm having trouble with my thyroid, so I haven't quite got the balance of that yet. 

These are about the same goals, because I copy and pasted this text again from last year, but added the updates this year brought! 

What are your guys' goals for 2024? Hope you make them, and made last years! Here's to a great (and hopefully better!) new year! Happy reading!