Reading goals of 2022

 
Hi, so I guess my reading wrap up turned out the smallest ever this year? That's okay though! I honestly had planned to do more of those posts but I wasn't feeling it and that is okay! What I am feeling though, is to write and post my 2022 reading goals. Which is also what I'm going to do.

This year, my goals are both limited and kind of less defined at the same time. I shall explain what I mean by that as I dive deeper into my goals.



Goal 1: read 50 books.

This is my normal goal. I've hit it every year without a fail since 2011 so I figured I should probabyl go with this number again.


Goal 2: read books that I own.

I own too many books. Way too many books. While I haven't counted them, between the books I have on my kindle and the physical books I own, they easily amount to over 100. I've had rather long discussions about this with a friend, and we both agreed that when you have a backstock this large full of books you bought ages ago, chances are these are no longer books you're super interested in reading. Unfortuately that seems to be the case for me. Aforementioned friend has a rule set up for herself where she's not allowed to buy any books before the number of unread books she owns is below 20. This is something I feel like I really should be trying too; however, I need to actually read the books I own before I end up anywhere even close to that.

With the exception of ARCs and the library books I have leftover from this year (and any series I want to continue where I don't want to buy the books), I shall be reading the books that I own. 

This means of course that I can choose any book of my liking that I already own, but if I can't choose (and to make things a bit exciting for myself) a book or am slumping, I have also written down the names of all books I own on pieces of paper and put them in a mug. Right now I'm making a goal for myself to pull at least two pieces of paper from the mug each month, but obviously I am allowed to do that more. 


Goal 3: one shelf a month.

In order to spice my reading up a bit, I've put numbers on each shelf in my bookshelf where I keep all books I have not read (reminder to myself to actually show you guys my book setup at some point...!) (also yes, I have an entire bookshelf of books I haven't read). I've seperated the books on that shelf by genre and in total my bookshelf has six shelves, plus I'm counting all kindle books as one shelf so for seven months this year, I'll have to pick a random number from a jar which will dictate my reading for that month..I will obviously combine this reading with my aforementioned "pulling two random books from my mug" challenge, meaning I'll do both challenges the months where I do the shelf challenge.


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Puh, I think we're done. With that said, I want to wish you guys a happy 2022 with loads of happy reading!

Year in books, 2021 [2/3]: Stats, part II

 
Here's part II of my stats breakdown. Click on through if you want to find out more, you know the drill.

Year in books, 2021 [1/3]: Stats, part I

 
Hi, so if anyone's still reading my blog that was around for last year, I'm pretty sure you remember me being a bit of a stats junkie. Or, scratch the "a bit" part. I full-on love stats, and I'm not afraid to admit it. If you want to see me going through this year's stats, click on through below.

Let's start over, shall we?

 Hi everyone. My name is Ida, and I'm officially the worst book blogger of life. If you can even call me a book blogger anymore, I mean as I very rarely even blog.

See, that's what I want to talk to you guys about. I haven't posted much this year at all - I think last year I made around 40 posts, whereas this year I've only posted 11 times (this one being the 12th time). When writing this, I've read 55 books this year which means I've surpassed my goal of 50 books. The problem seems to be not that I haven't been reading, because I clearly have, but rather it seems that my will to actually put some work into this blog has disappeared. At first, I couldn't bring myself to actually write anything and I got anxiety just thinking about doing blog work. As the months went by, however, I actually stopped even thinking about this blog and it just disappeared from my mind? I didn't really miss it, nor did its existence really cross my mind until my mind just went "oh, shouldn't I be working on my yearly wrapup now?" earlier today (and yes, I totally should!).

So I guess this is me saying I'm back now, hopefully? I'm not promising anything but I sure will try. I miss having an outlet for my bookish rants, kind of. So here I am. For how long, no one knows, but I am back. 

The Greatest Thing [ARC]

TITLE: The Greatest Thing
AUTHOR: Sarah Winifred Searle
RELEASE DATE: January 25 2022     
RATING: 3/5 ★

REP:  bi (not explicitly stated) MC, bi love interest, MC with an eating disorder

TWs: disordered eating

Genre: young adult graphic novel

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What this is is a slice-of-life tale of a 10th grader in the early 2000s just trying to fit in at her school. It basically deals with things that are very central to life if you're 15-16 years old. I did like the art style and the story was very likable as well. It was a good little story in my opinion!

 

Read in July

 Hi guys,

firstly I have to apologize for being away from the blog for such a long time. I have no other excuses than that my mind simply hasn't been in this in a long time. This whole year has been a struggle for me, reading and blogging-wise (okay maybe not reading wise but definitely blog-wise!). Here I am, with my first monthly summary since God knows how long. Thing is, I have not read that much this month. Nowhere near as much as I'd hoped for (also, can we talk about the that tomorrow is August?! How on earth did that happen?). But, I am going to soldier through this anyway.

Hopefully this will be the start of me actually using this blog more. In roughly a week, I'll go back to work meaning updates very frequently will be hard for me. However, I'm going to try to blog at least once a week, hopefully more. I'm not promising anything; rather, I am hoping. 

Anyways, here's the books I've read in July:

- Familjen by Johanna Lerneby Bäckström (5 July - 15 July, 3 stars)
- The Love Song of Ivy K. Hawlovwe by Hannah Moskowitz (June 29 - July 16, 5 stars)
- Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas (July 16 - July 22, 4 stars)

This month was a solid 4/5 when it comes to the books I chose. I also started another book that I unfortunately haven't had time to finish. Quality-wise, this month was good but not really quantity-wise. Onto August!

Review: The Love Song of Ivy K. Harlowe [ARC]

TITLE: The Love Song of Ivy K. Harlowe
AUTHOR: Hannah Moskowitz
RELEASE DATE: June 1 2021     
RATING: 5/5 ★

REP: Lesbian main character, sapphic side character, Vietnamese side character, side character with chronic illness, side characters in an open relationship.

TWs: drug use, drug over dose, alcohol use, graphic mentions of sex

Genre: new adult contemporary with a sapphic cast

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E-ARC kindly provided by the publisher.

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