Showing posts with label Goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goals. Show all posts

1/15/13

Top Ten Tuesday




The Broke and the Bookish hosts the meme Top Ten Tuesday.  This week's topic is all about those 2013 debut books we are dying to read!
Make a list of the ten books you are just dying to read and link them on the meme!

1. Bianca (Silk Merchant's Daughters, book 1) by Bertrice Small
2. Francesca(Silk Merchant's Daughters, book 2)by Bertrice Small
I just love Bertrice Small's writing - she gives me that romance that my husband of 38 years just can't get.  
3. Red Velvet Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
Have to keep up with Hannah and see if she'll finally make a decision on her love life.
4.Sweet Tea Revenge by Laura Childs
Love, love, love this series - got to read it as soon as it comes out!
5.Thread and Buried by Janet Bolin
Just found this series and definitely want to keep up!
6. The Passion of the Purple Plumeria by Lauren Willig
How will the Pink Carnation continue?
7. How The Light Gets In by Louise Penny
Louise Penny - what more has to be said?
8. Cloche and Dagger by Jenn McKinlay
new series - yeah!
9.Peach Pies and Alibis by Ellery Adams
Finally Pies and Prejudice has a sequel!
10. Buried in the Bog by Sheila Connolly
New Series with an Irish flair!

These are my ten, what are yours?

1/9/13

2013 READING GOALS


I was reading the Broke and the Bookish and saw her meme Top Ten Tuesday.  I'm a day late but I'm still going to play.  This week it's Reading goals for 2013.

So here are my Top Ten 2013 reading goals:

  1. Read 105 books from my shelf  (35 ea audio, e-book, ARD)
  2. Read at least 45,000 pages
  3. Read at least 6 books in 13 categories selected for 2013
  4. Read books to bring at least 10 series up-to-date
  5. Read the first 2 Fire and Ice series books
  6. Read at least 4 CLASSICS
  7. Read a book over 500 pages long
  8. Read the Sharon Kay Penman series
  9. Read my first graphic novel
10. Read at least 5 books borrowed from Tina (I've borrowed them, now I need to read them and get them back to her)

My other big goal for 2013 is to try to reduce the number of new books coming to my possession this year.  In 2012 I acquired over 150 books.
This year I'd like to keep it under 100.