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Weekly Reading Goals: January 23rd

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Books I Hope To Finish:

  1. The Billionaire’s Arrangement by Amelie S. Duncan
  2. Katrina by Annee Jones
  3. No Proof by Ashley McConnell

Books I Hope To Make Progress On:

  1. Wicked Ever After Anthology- Releases February 10th
  2. Love and Other Kerfuffles Anthology: Releases February 7th
  3. Wildblood by Laura Blackwood: Releases February 7th
  4. Test of the Four by A.E. Bennett: Blog Tour February 3rd
  5. Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara: Releases January 31st
  6. The Long Run by James Acker: Releases February 7th
  7. Intrinsic Motivation by Stefan Falk: Releases February 7th
  8. Hex You by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast: Releases January 31st
  9. The Second You’re Single by Cara Tanamachi: Releases January 31st

Reading Goals Overall:

  1. Read two hours a day
  2. Read daily chapters
  3. Keep on top of reviews

Ideally, I’d also like to finish Cobalt Red, Hex You, and The Second You’re Single by the end of the week. If I don’t, it will be okay. I have a TBR Jar readathon this weekend that I’m hosting at The Introverted Readathoner. I’m really excited about that. My schedule has been so packed that I haven’t been able to do that readathon the way I’ve wanted to lately. That changes this week. I’d also love to make progress in the Orphan X series by Gregg Hurwitz. I’d love to see your reading plans for the week!

Weekly Reading Goals: January 16th

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Want to Finish:

  1. And Finally
  2. Dragonborn (Blog Tour: January 19th)
  3. Reborn Prince (Blog Tour: March 12th)
  4. Mysterious Aisles (Blog Tour: January 23rd)

Want to Make Progress On:

  1. The Great Money Reset
  2. Begin Again
  3. Hex You
  4. Cobalt Red
  5. The Second You’re Single
  6. Intrinsic Motivation

Reading Goals Overall:

  1. Read two hours a day
  2. Read daily chapters
  3. Keep on top of reviews

I’m hoping to have time to make some progress on the Orphan X series this week as well. We will see. The next book in the series comes out on Valentine’s Day. I want to have the rest read before it does. What are your reading plans for this week?

Bookly App

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My friend and one of my admins for The Introverted Readathoner on Facebook has been using this app called Bookly. I’d heard of it but really never looked into it until I started seeing her screenshots. It looked amazing to me. So I decided to give it a try. They have a free version, but I chose to pay for it. I knew I’d use it every day and the paid version just works for me. I have been using it for the past two days and I really can say this is going to work well for me. When I go to read, I just need to click the book I”m reading and hit start reading. I can choose if I want to track it by audio, percentage, or pages! You can set goals on it and everything. I’ll probably revisit talking about this app every few months. For now, I’d just love to meet other people who use it. I’d love to learn more about it so that I can use it even more efficiently!

Weekly Reading Plans: November 28th

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There’s a lot on the list. I don’t plan to finish all of the books. I do plan to make progress in them. I also can’t even start some of the books until I finish others. So there’s that. I’ve already started most of these and I’m really enjoying them.

Ark of the Apocalypse

Floating Underwater

Spells Trouble

The Whispering Women

Ghost Agents

Never Ever Getting Back Together

Blood Union Part One

Malibu Burns

The Urban Boys: Discovery of the Five Senses

Mine This Winter

Deep into the Dark

The Game Cafe

Ghost Agents: Revelations

The Third Instinct

Desolation Canyon

Tudors in Love

I’d love to know what you’re reading this week!

My Reading Stats: June 5th

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Lately, I haven’t read as much as I’d like. I’m reading every day still, but just barely on some days. I have still been keeping track. I am hoping that sharing my progress on here will be helpful. We shall see. I will make it from Sunday to Saturday.

Note: Some ebooks I have don’t have page numbers so I measure it by % instead. It gets a little tricky with daily page counting, but it works in the end.

Sunday:

Rise of Riverstone: 401-404
War Storm: 322-391

Monday:

War Storm: 392-430
Rise of Riverstone: 405-590

Tuesday:

Royal Spy: 1%-9%

Wednesday:

Royal Spy: 10%-18%

Thursday:

War Storm: 431-538

Friday:

War Storm: 539-662
Royal Spy: 19%-31%

Saturday:

Royal Spy: 32%-35%

What I hope to read this week:

  1. Royal Spy by Heather Frost
  2. Into the Violet Gardens by Isaac Nasri
  3. Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
  4. Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler
  5. Nightcrawling by Lelie Mottley
  6. The Gate Keeper by James Byrne
  7. Scorpion’s Dance by Jefferson Morley
  8. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

I’d like to try to read at least a hundred pages a day, but I know that there will be days I won’t do that. I am going to at least make it a point to read at least a chapter a day. I love my job, but sometimes the back-to-back calls for the entire shift is mentally draining. It makes wanting to read really hard. I’ve found myself watching more television than I have reading when I’m not working. I’m just thankful that I’m not having major anxiety over that anymore!

Tell me about your reading these days!

June Goals

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June Goals:

Work Goals:

  1. Perfect Attendance
  2. Maintain top performance status
  3. Connect with new team
  4. Do the best I can possibly do
  5. Work overtime when possible

Reading Goals:

  1. Maintain blog schedule (including reading books on time for the tours)
  2. Read at least one LGBTQIA book a week
  3. Get caught up on reading challenges
  4. Make at least two TikToks a week
  5. Connect with more readers and chat with them often

Personal Goals:

  1. Express myself better
  2. Keep on top of to-do lists
  3. Get prepared for LLS
  4. Zoom with people more
  5. Organize room and office better.

I’m seriously so overwhelmed that May is almost over. I feel like it just started a day or two ago! I can’t be the only one to experience this!!!!! Hope everybody has a great week!

Readathon Updates!

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So this weekend was great! I participated in a Shadow Lounge Readathon! I read a total of 1,039 pages in the span of 32 hours! I call it a major sucess. I also finished four books!

This week I will be participating in the AYearathon readathon. I love week-long ones. Gives you more time to get your goals in. This month’s theam is “Go Green”. It’s basically meant to read ebooks and audiobooks. I’m very excited to do this! I’ve even made plans that will help me with the process.

I’ll have recaps for both readathons when I have more time (for the one already passed) and when the event is over! Anybody else done or doing these???

2022 Reading Goals Recharged

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So, earlier this year, I announced some of my goals for this year. Including my reading goals. I’ve been in a weird reading phase. I don’t want to say funk. I’ve had bouts where I devour books and then bouts where I barely read at all. Today, I want to add one that I added recently and revamp my goal so to speak for the year.

My reading goals are:

  1. One BOTM book every month
  2. One nonfiction book every month
  3. One LGBTQIA book every month
  4. One graphic novel every month
  5. One classic novel every month

With the way the first three months went, I’m going to alter this slightly. I’m still going to aim for one a month for each of the above. However, if I have 12 for each category by the end of the year, that’s good enough for me. I re-added graphic novels to my goal and added classic novels.

What are some of your goals for the year?

April Book Projections

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  • Spells Trouble by P.C. and Kristin Cast (April 5th)
  • Omens Bite by P.C. and Kristin Cast (April 5th)
  • The Younger Wife by Sally Hepsworth (April 5th)
  • Learn to Love Yourself by Leah Gail (April 10th)
  • Car With a Soul by Ruchira Khanna (April 10th)
  • Last Dance on the Starlight Pier by Sarah Bird (April 12th)
  • This May End Badly by Samantha Markum (April 12th)
  • Myracles in the Void by Wes Dyson (April 12th)
  • Wolfe Trap by Matt Cost (April 13th)
  • Mind Trap by Matt Cost (April 13th)
  • Mouse Trap by Matt Cost (April 13th)
  • Damn Lucky by Kevin Maurer (April 19th)
  • Move Connect Play by Jason Nemer (April 19th)
  • Hooker Avenue by Jode Milman (April 19th)
  • Black Ghost of an Empire Kris Manjapra (April 19th)
  • Hush by Dylan Farrow (April 26th)
  • Veil by Dylan Farrow (April 26th)
  • Rise of Riverstone by Mandy Schimelpfenig (April 30th)

The reason for the dates is when the book is being released or when I’m doing a blog for that book. I may not get to all of these by the end of the month, but I’m going to try hard! Anybody up for a buddy read of any of these?

Weekly Reading Plans: March 28th

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One of the biggest goals I have this year is to finally tackle the huge list of books I’ve accumulated over the past year. Especially the books were given to me in exchange for review. I haven’t intended to go so long without reading them. I am just really bad with time management. Hopefully, this year will help me get better with that.

Note: I realize I plan to read a lot of books every week. I’m a mood reader and I account for that by adding extras so if I’m stuck I can move on to another book. I do not think that I will get all of these during the week. There are some that will be prioritized over others for obvious reasons.

Readathons I’m participating in this week:

Seasons of Reading Readathon- April 1st-30th (Spring into Horror)

Books I plan to read this week:

  1. A Royal Christmas Fairy Tale by Karen Schaler
  2. Gathering of the Four by A.E. Bennett
  3. Ascenders by C.L. Gaber
  4. Pretty Killer by Truant & King
  5. Royal Decoy by Heather Frost
  6. The Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
  7. The Frequency by Terry Kitto
  8. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
  9. The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker
  10. Hunt by Sadie Moss
  11. Clash by Sadie Moss

What are some of the books you plan to read this week?