 Hello everyone, my name is Laura and this is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video. I'm going to go over some of the goals I have for 2022 and some of these are going to be not necessarily repeats of goals that I had last year, but maybe continuations or variations of. So that being said, the first one that I'm going to talk about is, and yes I do still have my Christmas decorations up. So the first one that I'm going to talk about is reading more of the books off of my shelf physically. So I believe last year I talked about wanting to get more of the books that I have on my shelf read so that I had less books on my shelf that I hadn't read before. And I'm definitely going to be continuing that goal I think toward the end of this past year. I just kind of started to do that, but I still have a long ways to go. I initially had decided that this shelf was going to be partially TBR and partially books, like books that I have they don't necessarily want to be in my background all the time. But as you can see I've changed my filming angle so that's not always the case. So I might have to rearrange my bookshelves a little bit. But I did also purchase another bookshelf that is living in our bedroom right now. I'm devoting about like a shelf, maybe a shelf and a half of space to be my TBR book, so books that I want to read soon so that they're in the bedroom so that they're right by the bed where I can read before I go to sleep. My, more specifically my goal when I'm talking about this for this year is to get it so that all the books on both of these shelves are books that I have read and only books on this shelf in my bedroom are my TBR books. That's getting a lot of books down to like one shelf, but I believe that I can do it if I just sit there and like focus because I want to read all the books that are on this shelf. I do, and if I didn't want to read it then I got rid of it in an unhaul video so it shouldn't be here. But yeah, so my goal is to get my TBR physical books onto that one shelf and to have it be much more manageable. And then this way whenever I buy a book it just goes straight into my room to be read and then it can be sorted onto these shelves as I start them by genre and then similarity within genre and also favorites. And a little bit of cover aesthetic too like these ones are together not because I love them and their fantasy, but also because they have light colored spines but anyway. So that is one goal that I have and a good way that I am going to complete this is that I've started listening to, so I listen to audiobooks a lot and so I'm going to try and focus my audiobooks on books that I don't own that I want to read and then or books that I have on my shelf so I can read them faster. But otherwise any buying of new books is going to be very monitored. So audiobooks are going to be a great help, but as I've mentioned in previous videos before my husband has given me a $20 per month limit for book buying. I love that he's booing himself because I agree. BOOM! So as most of you would know here in the states $20 is either like one new book or if I go into thrift books I could buy two books possibly if they're not new and if they're not hard cover that might be enough to get two books and then also cover shipping. So I'm going to play this delicate balance of one new book, two old books because there are some series that I have that aren't completed that I want to complete and some old books that I've read that I want to have on my shelf. So I'm going to try and get those from thrift books but like 12 books a year, really 12 books a year. So I think that with my large decrease in how many books I'll be buying I can get the TBR down if I just actually read. Now also because of that I will probably be going to the library more. Because we moved to a new area this year I still have to explore the libraries that are close to me. I know that there's one not too far away and it looks really pretty and it looks kind of big so hopefully they'll have a bigger YA section than the last library I was close to because that section was tiny and I'd read most of the books or they had a lot of books in series but they didn't have a first in series and that was kind of a pain. So I'm hoping to use utilize libraries more focus on buying books that I know I'm going to enjoy and bringing my TBR down. I feel like that was like a whole bunch of goals wrapped into one long scenario but oh well. One thing that one goal that I have that's going to be difficult is I think I would like to participate in less readathons. I know so hear me out on this though okay. So a lot of the readathons that I've enjoyed participating in on the past have been like these month long readathons and that's great but when I do like five readathons and that's like five months I just I there's always this pressure in a readathon to like finish the TBR get points for your team complete the badge you know do whatever. And I'm such a mood reader that a lot of times I find myself halfway through the month slowing down or getting into a slump or just being less interested because now I'm reading the book not because I want to but because I need to and I have to get it done in a certain amount of time. It just kind of takes a little bit of the enjoyment out of it for me. I have nothing against readathons okay like I'm saying participate in less of them not stop completely like there are still readathons next year that or this coming year 2022 that I want to do there are still readathons that I want to do but I want to not do as many or you know I just I want to not put that pressure on myself I think all the like week long ones I still very much want to do but in terms of month long ones I don't really want to do more than like two or three just yeah I want to see how that affects my reading life so please don't kill me. Still want to know what readathons are out there and I still want to participate but just not in as many month long ones. Oh going back to the TBR thing my goodreads TBR is ginormous and I think those peoples are like I feel like if you're a reader you have a big TBR but if I pull up goodreads here a minute go to my books under want to read I have 347 I mean for some people that might not be a lot and for some people that might be a lot and for others that might be average I don't know every person is different but I would love to bring that number down which is going to be very very tricky because every time I watch booktube and I watch a lot of booktube I'm always adding more books to my TBR I would love to so in addition to finishing all the books on my shelf which most of them should be on there anyway I want to focus more on books that I want that I have on my TBR that I want to read and I have books on my TBR that are like coming out this year for example see my video on books that are coming out in the first half of 2022 because all those are on my TBR so it's not that I want to read a whole bunch of old books it's I I just want to bring that number down just a little bit to something a little more manageable a little more like less intimidating so I think a lot of the books I pick up I want to make sure that they're already on my TBR again I still love recommendations and I'll still look for more books but I am a mood reader so I have plenty there to choose from speaking of Goodreads I always do set a Goodreads reading goal every year as I'm sure a lot of you do this past year in 2021 it was 75 books and I very much surpassed it and the year before that was 50 books for 2022 I would like my reading goal to be a hundred books I think that I can do it and I think it would be really fun I think that well my my goal over the past like ever since I've been reading was to always read a hundred books but I knew that I can just start off with a hundred as my goal so I started off with 50 and then I went to 75 and now I think I'm finally pushing through to a hundred books as my yearly reading goal and I think that even next year for 2023 whether or not I complete my goal of a hundred books a hundred is always gonna be my stable because if I read more than that great fantastic if I read less than that it's now at the end of the world I think a hundred is just a good average for me to have I would just enjoy that so I think I think it's a fun goal it's something to work towards every year but not like too big and not like constantly growing that it becomes out of hand so this year and every year hence forth shall be a hundred book reading goal the next one is I would love to join a book club I I'm not really a part of the book club when I was in university I was part of the university book club but since then I haven't really joined a book club and there are a few here on YouTube that are are nice and like I'm even part of the discord for but I haven't like felt like I've been a part of the community for the book club I haven't I hadn't ever read the book of the month or attended the live show for some reason live shows are always at bad times for me like I don't understand but I want to join a book club whether it is one on YouTube that I'm joining and sticking with or if I if COVID allowing there is a physical book club either through like my library or a bookstore or even through another online social media app I at one point there was another app that I downloaded because I was invited to join a book club but then they fell apart after two books yeah so every book club I've joined I've either had to leave because I graduated or it kind of fell apart so I would I would really love to join a book club and to be a part of like a more intimate bookish community and that kind of leads me on to my second goal of the year or yeah my last goal that I'm gonna talk about I want to do something extra or something special on my channel I want to find something that is unique to me whether it's starting readathon or starting a book club or creating a new series of videos that are as content that's completely unique to me and something that I came up with or you know something else to do with the community if I or maybe do a read-along you know I want to do some special extra event I maybe I will do a live show for the first time maybe I'll do reading sprints for the first time I don't know I'm open to suggestions if any of you have an idea of like oh can you do this or I think it'd be fun if you did that or I think this would be a good idea like comment down below because I want to do something interesting and special on my channel rather than just make videos twice a week and call it good so yeah that that's another goal for this year is to either do or start something unique for the channel I'm also always looking to make friends with other book tovers I I don't really have any close connections to any other book tovers but I also know that I could do a better job of reaching out and talking to people so if you want to be my friend let me know I would love to be your friend and talk about books and do buddy reads so those are all of my goals for the year of 2022 I've got bookish goals I've got book to goals and that feels right all right thank you all so much for watching like I said if you have any suggestions or if you have any goals that you're trying to reach this year comment down below let me know like how many books are you guys trying to read like I said I'm gonna try and read a hundred which is a new goal for me but how many books are you guys reading in a year because I want to know if you like this video give it a thumbs up feel free to click the subscribe button I make new videos on Sundays and Wednesdays hit the bell to be notified so you know when exactly I post all of my social medias are down below and they're all booked so you can keep up with what I am reading and what I'm doing in the bookish world yeah and then I can I follow you back I will follow you back yeah until I see you all in the next 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