Top Ten Tuesday – Bookish Goals for 2024

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It’s the beginning of a new year, and Bookish Goals for 2024 is this week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl. Generally speaking I’m no longer into the New Year’s resolutions, but it was fun to pause and really think about my book-related resolutions for the year.

1. Do a cull

It might be a good time to go through my entire collection and decide if there are any books for the donation bin. Apart from a small handful of sentimental favourites, I usually go by the principle, is this a book I can imagine re-visiting at some point in the future. It might take years, but unless my gut reaction says no I’ll keep it.

2. Finish Agatha Christie re-readathon

This goal is easy since I’ve only got a couple of Christie novels left to re-visit and review!

3. Try an audiobook

I generally absorb information much better when I’m reading, but I always thought that audiobooks could come in handy during travel, when my motion sickness means that I can’t read or watch anything while on the road, at sea or in the air.

4. Read the scary door stoppers

I seem to have accumulated a few of these mammoth reads that intimidate me with their sheer page count, including The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (800 pages) and The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel (almost 900 pages). I should remind myself that these are mere babes next to War and Peace.

5. Join a library

Not that I’m lacking books to read at home, but having a restricted timeframe for finishing a book is a good motivator.

6. Get off the phone

I have a bad habit of jumping straight on the phone when I have some free time in bed in the morning. In the past I used to spend this time reading and I’d like to get back to that.

7. Get a bookmark

Sounds like a no-brainer, but for some reason I just never got into a habit of bookmarks. Not only has this resulted in minutes of frustration trying to remember the last page I’ve read, but leaving opened books face down can’t be great for the book spine.

8. Read a new book in Russian

It’s been years since I read anything new in my native language, at most I went back to the few Russian language books I’ve got, mostly classics. I’d like to try a more contemporary book.

9. Look up Nebula Awards winners

I’ve always loved science fiction and fantasy, and it could be fun to step away from the time-honoured classics and investigate the more recent prize-winning novels.

10. Try reading Jane Austen (again)

I’ve never managed to finish a single Jane Austen novel, which is strange since I’ve loved a whole bunch of movies based on her books. I’d be curious to see if her writing style finally clicks with me this time.

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