2022 Bookish/blog goals

Hello 2022! We hope that you will be good to us. I have a lot of bookish goals and wishes and anticipate a great year of reading!! However, before I get into all that, I would like to THANK YOU for welcoming me into this blogging community. I am thankful for the connections and interactions that I have had. 

Looking back:

I started this blog on May 1, 2021-Happy 8 months to me!! I had 0 followers 😂 and no clue of exactly what this would look like. I had been blogging for almost 10 years on my other blog but had no clue what to do with a book blog. I just knew I loved reading and reviewing and wanted a blog for that purpose. As 2021 closed out I had 40 followers (thank you!!!!), more page views than the blog that I have had for 10 years, and 328 posts! I am thrilled with how I've grown and learned and look forward to more growth and learning in 2022! My favorite part of having the blog is the reader community and the comments and interactions!! Again, thank you!

My goals for 2022:

Read 200 books for the Goodreads Challenge

Read 50 books for The Nerdy Bookworm Challenge

Read 48 books for the Mount TBR Challenge

Read 12 books for the Read Your Bookshelf Challenge

Read 36 books for the Virtual TBR Challenge

Read 26 books for the Author Alphabet Soup Challenge

Read 50 books for the 2022 Literary Escapes Challenge 

Would like to get 60 followers by the end of the year

Plan to read more books I own (hence the above challenges) and less new releases. I LOVE new releases but let them take control over the last few months and could not read anything else because of over committing myself. 

I plan to read a *few* classics. I refuse to set a specific goal (other than 1 for sure) because I don't know how much I will enjoy them and don't want to commit until I figure it out. I have always thought I hated classics and I am sure that is because I hated having to read them in high school and college. I want to revisit and see how I truly feel 😂

In order to complete my goals I am going to have to plan well (good thing I love to plan!) and be intentional with my book picks so they will fulfill more than one goal. My saving grace is that you can use the same book for multiple challenges. Wish me luck! 

Do you make book goals? If so, what are your bookish goals? What is a book you hope to read this year? I am planning my first classic to be Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin. I am sure I have read it before (many, many years ago), but have only vague impressions of what it is about.