Hello 2018! Reading + Blogging Goals for 2018.

Hello 2018!

Be a year of kindness, love, gentleness and good sense and sanity.

I am so excited for this year.

I am coming into this year with so much optimism and good vibes and I hope this year is good for all of us.

Like every year I want to kickstart this New Year with some my my Goals and Resolutions.

If you know me at all you know I am a goal setter.

The start of the year is a happy time since I get to set-up my planners and think long and hard about my yearly goals.

So let's get started...

2018 READING RESOLUTIONS///

1. Read 100 books- My Good Reads Reading Challenge will be it's usual 100. It is the bare minimum number of books I want to read in 2018. If I read more then that's great. But if it's only 100 I am OK with that too.

2. Read more Classics- I make the same resolution every year and I do rather poorly on it. This year I hope to do better.

3. Re-Read more.

4. Read more intently and savour the books I am reading.

5. Read old books on my shelves.

6. Read more graphic novels.

7. Go to new bookshops and explore new bookish places.

8. Buy books I really want and not be overly fussed over the prices. Lately, I don't buy the books I want because I think they are pricey. I need to stop looking at price tags and not buying the books I want. I want to buy the books I want, even if it means I buy a few books and not buy 10 at one go.

9. Read some new-to-me authors.

I have so many writers I've been meaning to read for a long time and in 2018 I want to discover some writers and their works.

The top of the list are

P.G. Wodehouse

Zadie Smith

Barbara Kingsolver

10. Read more non-fiction reads.

2018 BLOGGING RESOLUTIONS///

1. Blog as much as I can. More regularly and on as many days as I can.

2. Do more reviews.

3. Do monthly wrap-ups and talk about every book I've read.

4. Do more mini-reviews of books.

5. Do more film and TV show reviews.

6. Share more style snippets.

7. Keep sharing my stationery bits.

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I hope that I keep most of my resolutions.

All I can do is try my best and make sure that 2018 is a year I can be proud of.

Do you have any reading resolutions?

Do tell.

Happy Reading!

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