 Hey fellow reading warriors and welcome back to another video and welcome to a new year So I have decided that to start off this year. I'm gonna talk a little bit about some of my 2021 reading goals More sit down and let's talk about this upcoming year and just reading in general and not really very many Specific books I may mention a few but not enough to give summaries or pull them off of my shelf or anything like that So this is also coming off of having an entire year where every month I planned out pretty much every book I was gonna read I had a little bit of flexibility like I knew this month I was gonna read this genre and I had these books that were of the genre if I had time I was going to read more or if I wasn't feeling it I could switch them out But for the most part it was incredibly scheduled and while I am a very scheduled person and I love having schedule and being organized That's not something I want to continue in the future with my reading. It was great I'm really proud of myself for reading a different genre every month for the past year But this year is gonna be a little more what I normally do in terms of reading So for example, that's going to include setting a very loose TBR maybe at the beginning of the month or kind of at the beginning of a season even depending on how school is in School ends up being super busy for me in the fall. It might just be a fall TBR rather than specifically August September October But also because I am switching to an English major Surprise surprise shocker who would have thought that another booktuber was gonna be an English major Initially, I was an Arabic major and while I still love the language. I still love Arabic I have made a different career choice and thus rendering me to change my major So I will also be talking a little bit more about books that I will read per my curriculum But I'm still hoping that this channel will mostly remain in my free enjoyment reading rather than school-required Reading because I'll get plenty of talking about that in class And that's also not what you guys are necessarily here to see if you do want to see videos like that I'd be more than willing to do them. All you have to do is comment down below Let me know or send me an email or contact me over Some sort of social media that I have in the description every video. So just keep that in mind But yeah, so it is gonna be a lot looser of a TBR. I am very much a mood reader I read whatever I feel like or whatever I recently got or whatever You know, I'm very much a mood reader. So I will not be near a schedule I'll still try to be a little bit Just to make sure that I actually do read all the books on myself But I'm not making as many promises as I did last year. In terms of Goodreads goals I do enjoy setting them this past year. I set it at 50 and I Definitely I overcame that by quite a bit. However, not enough to quite put it at 100 although my Goal goal is to have my Goodreads goal be a hundred books and to complete it. However, like I said just with school COVID working multiple jobs I I don't want to pressure myself so that it's more about reading a number of books rather than the actual books that I am reading in the Content. So again, my Goodreads goal will be 50 books. However, I very much expect to surpass that Hopefully more than I did this past year Because I went through quite a few reading slumps last year due to my Overscheduled over organized year So hopefully I won't go into as many slumps that I can like Way read way more than 50 books, but I'm also just trying to keep the pressure on myself very light So I'm not setting too many things in stone The whole point of last year was to branch out and read new genres and try new things and I Found out slash I kind of knew it, but I never acted on it that I love historical fiction I do I I like realistic historical fiction But I also like fantasy historical fiction, you know anything that is fiction and is not taken modern times I actually quite enjoy so one goal I am gonna set for the entire year It's just flat out read more historical fiction and I recently started buying some more historical fiction So that I can do that for example I have the prisoner's wife or I have my climate in Jane And I have a couple other historical fiction that I want to read that are on my shelf that I maybe started So I'm gonna be reading more historical fiction, hopefully as well as continuing to read fantasy as I love fantasy I've always known that I've always been a huge fantasy reader. That's not gonna change But I am hoping to add on some historical fiction I want I have a hard time with contemporary because There are certain contemporary books that I like and certain ones that I don't like at all So I am still open to reading contemporary if you guys have any good suggestions for me But I cannot promise that that would be a prominent genre in this channel or in my reading life Considering this channel is my reading life So so this channel is gonna continue to be more of a historical fiction slash fantasy channel But I am always open to whatever books that you guys find interesting and want me to read So even if you have a book that you love and want to talk about if it's not one of those genres I still feel free to put it down and I may read it anyway And then of course, you know, there's Halloween when I'm gonna be reading all kinds of horror and thriller because I I will be buying them so far ahead of time that no matter what happens with sending it will come If you don't know what I'm talking about just look at one of the videos Here's this iron look at one of the videos that I released during that time Specifically my Halloween vlog and you'll understand why I'm so frustrated with ordering books online Yeah, so I want to read more historical fiction But I really also want to read a lot of fantasy that I have missed out on this past year so many wonderful fantasy books and series have been released in the past year and I Just did not let myself read them because of my stupid schedule And so I will also be playing quite a bit of catch-up of some of those books I was like, oh, I really want to read them, but I can't because you know this month is mysteries or this month is You know, whatever and so I will also be catching up on a lot of those So if you see me reading older books in future videos Sorry, but that's what it's gonna be. I am also hoping to participate in read-a-thons again. So I love Read-a-thons. I think they are so creative. They are so fun They're so interesting to participate in and talk with other people about and I love vlogging for a lot of them And so I'm kind of doing a loose like I know that this read-a-thon is coming up this year And I want to make sure I do it But I also want to plan a little further ahead than what I had this past year So I know that there's probably going to be if the newts happen if G Does the newts again? I want to participate in those if she doesn't I might want to find some Materials from newts last year and do it because I understand if she doesn't due to JK Rowling is a horrible human being But I still want to go through the challenge and the fun of that. I will also be doing the reading rush I'm gonna do that every year that was like again like the third or fourth video. I ever post I think like The second or third video I ever posted was a reading rush Announcement video like that. I was going to do it now that I'm part of reading rush But yeah, so I want to do that read-a-thon if the Olympic Games read-a-thon happens again this year I want to do that and the hashtag make your myth taker was one that I watched the announcement video for thought Oh, I'm gonna do this and then didn't do it at all And so those are some read-a-thons. I definitely throughout the year as more read-a-thons pop up I want to do them So I want to be a little more prepared and open to just kind of doing a read-a-thon on a whim Rather than like last year being like, oh, no, I can't do this read-a-thon because it's hard to find books in the genre I'm supposed to be reading for it So I definitely want to participate in more read-a-thons, which also leads me into more video related Contents I want to be doing more vlogs because vlogs are fun and vlogs kind of allow me to Read a book or two and talk about them more in-depth. I feel like with my recent read videos or wrap-up videos I have a bit of a time limit just with the old technology that I'm using aka. I use my phone for videos Which also is how I take like Personal pictures and videos of other things like going to the zoo or something And so I don't always have the most amount of storage on my phone And then I also use my one and only laptop for editing and uploading Which is the same laptop that I use for school And so I also don't have a lot of storage on that device either So I feel like my wrap-ups and my recent reads always have to be super rushed And I have to get through it get to the point of things so that I can make sure that I can actually upload the video But if I do more vlogs I think I'll be more open to talking about the book for longer or do a more in-depth review Especially if I like stop after being like a third of the way through or halfway through or almost done And obviously all of my reviews will not have spoilers in them I and if they do have a spoiler, I will most likely put it either in the title or as you watch the video I like to put up a screen and say spoiler coming or something like that so that You don't get spoiled because that is one of the worst things in the world So most of my reviews will be spoiler-free But if they are not I will make it very obvious that it's not Because I would love to talk about the books and I feel like a better way to do that would be through vlogs Plus vlogs are fun. Vlogs are very interesting. I think yeah, and then also in terms of video content I want to make more creative videos I had some ideas for some creative videos I was gonna do that aren't like That are kind of creative aren't super popular about the same time not like 100% original, you know But again with storage on my phone storage on my computer and also figuring out an uploading schedule I had to very much tailor to what my school schedule was each semester And what my work schedule was over the summer in order for me to figure out when it's even possible to record and upload a video But now it's a little more set in stone I will be uploading every Thursdays and I have been for quite a while and that is going to continue But I want to be doing some more creative more interesting content And so I'm going to kind of challenge myself But then also use some of the ideas that I have last year in terms of making more creative content So I don't feel that I'm getting stuck in a repetitive pattern of TBR vlog Recent reads wrap up move on. I want to make sure I'm uploading like more interesting and creative videos than that so If you have any ideas again, like if you have ideas on anything Just comment them down below and I will love to read through them and work with them. Sorry I'm like losing my voice a little bit But yeah, so though those are kind of what I'm thinking of for this upcoming year I'm gonna be a little more loser a little more happier with what I am reading and I want to be a little more Have a little more fun with these videos not that making these videos isn't fun No, I'm having so much fun sitting here and talking about books But I do want to do some more creative content So I think those are kind of all my reading goals for this upcoming year Thanks for sitting and down and having a little chat with me Let me know what kind of goals you have whether it's certain books you want to read certain genres you want to read certain things you want to do Certain books you want to buy, you know, it's just kind of whatever I would love to hear from you down below Like I said earlier, I upload on Thursday So hit the subscribe and then hit the bell so that you can get notified when on Thursdays I upload and feel free to give this video a thumbs up if you liked it If you enjoyed it or if you want to have more just casual sit-down talks like this rather than super prepared like this book of this and then this book of that so Yeah, and I hope you guys are having a wonderful year so far Hopefully it's a lot better than how last year started out and so with that I'm gonna wish you guys all the way until my next video next week a happy reading