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2021 Year Wrapup
There's only two weeks left of the year, so I decided now is the best time to reflect on my 2021 reading. My past few years (2017-2020) of reading were absolutely pathetic, but this year I did fantastic. My best reading year ever. As I write this, I'm at 160 books read and I still have much faith that I might make it to 175 books by New Year's Eve. And I've read some amazing books this year.

Update: I have like 200 pages left of a book to finish, but I have hit 178 book so round of applause for me

2021 Favorite Books
These Violent Delights duology by Chloe Gong (I will never get over Our Violent Ends)
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Gilded Wolves trilogy by Roshani Chokshi
House of Hollow by Katherine Sutherland
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Promise Land by Barack Obama
Becoming by Michelle Obama

I'd also like to address the books I hated the most. Fuck you G*ld by Raven Kennedy and Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by JLA :)

Anyways, at the beginning of the year, I made a bunch of goals of things I wanted to read/do this year. (you can read them all below if you care) I thought I would address my reading goals and if I actually achieved them or not:

What were my 2021 reading goals
1. Only read the Foxhole Court maybe once a month instead of ten times in a row...

I only read the Foxhole Court three times this year so honestly I smashed this out of the park.

2. In 2020, about 75% of the books I read were rereads, I want to drop that percentage down to about 50%. Even though I am crazy and absolutely prefer rereading a book to reading a book for the first time, but I'm running out of books to reread.

If I counted right, only 68 out of the 160 books I've read (so far) have been rereads. Which translates to 43%. I also smashed this goal

3. Prioritize reading more. I usually tend to priotize Harry Styles over everything in my life and it cuts into my reading time...

I did not priorize Harry Styles over reading. That was the biggest fail of all time and Idk why i would even think it's possible. I traveled to two different states to see him in person and did zero reading in either state. But honestly Harry will never stop being my #1 priority.

But other than that, i did pretty good with this goal.

4. Read more diverse books

I wish I did better, but I did try to read as many div

5. Read the books that have been sitting on my bookshelf for years, unread

Hahahahahahahahahaha nope

I've read a few books that have been on my shelves for years (like Burn for Burnby Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian and The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee) but like this was an epic fail

6. Write more reviews

Yeah nah this didn't happen

7. Read at least one book a week

Technically, I've read over 3 books per week so go me




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2021 Year Goals
I'm just gonna jump on the bangwagon and list all my reading goals for 2021 and maybe I can actually get around to them for once. We'll see but probably not

2021 Reading Goals
1. Only read the Foxhole Court maybe once a month instead of ten times in a row...
2. In 2020, about 75% of the books I read were rereads, I want to drop that percentage down to about 50%. Even though I am crazy and absolutely prefer rereading a book to reading a book for the first time, but I'm running out of books to reread.
3. Prioritize reading more. I usually tend to priotize Harry Styles over everything in my life and it cuts into my reading time...
4. Read more diverse books
5. Read the books that have been sitting on my bookshelf for years, unread
6. Write more reviews
7. Read at least one book a week

Books I Want to Read
1. Moment of Truth by Kasie West
2. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
3. If I'm Being Honest by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
4. Child of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
5. Sadie by Courtney Summers
6. The Cousins by Karen M. McManus
7. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
8. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
9. King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
10. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

Series I Actually Want to Finish Reading but Haven't
1. The Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maaz
2. The Ember in the Ashes series by Sabaa Tahir
3. The Renegades series by Marissa Meyer
4. The Strange the Dreamer duology by Laini Taylor
5. The Nevernight trioligy by Jay Kristoff
6. The Red Rising series by Piece Brown
7. The Aurora Cycleseries by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
8. The Winner's Trilogy by Marie Rutkoski
9. The Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi
10. The Remnant Chronicles by Mary E. Pearson

Books/Series I Want To Reread
1. The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic
2. Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
3. Venegful by Victoria Schwab
4. The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith
5. The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan
6. The Eragon series by Christopher Paolini
7. We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
8. Phantom Limbs by Paula Garner
9. The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler
10. The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
11. Looking For Alaska by John Green
12. Winger by Andrew Smith

Happy 2021!

My goals this year are to read more consistently, so i don't have to read so frantically and worry so much about ‘catching up'
enjoy the journey, think deeply and seek out meaning to what i'm reading
log in a journal again but in ways that are more useful
read the books i own: i am a cat, the hobbit, lotr 1-3, magician, a nest for celeste
... more to come!
i did start using notion to log my reading, which meant i didn't use this 2021 page so much. i wish it had more options for graphs and stats but i love it for what it can do.i didn't read ANY books i owned, and i purchased another 32 (all second-hand!) another one to push to next year haha. i did enjoy my reading more this year, i tried to force it less. i am struggling with reading only things i know i will like and trying to branch out a bit, meaning i'm getting a lot of 2.5 star books as they're just okay. i do enjoy venturing outside of my comfort zone with reading and have really enjoyed reading more memoirs.when i was overwhelmed and drained with the state of the world i really wanted to escape with books but struggled with concentration and enjoyment. re-reading twilight really helped me when i was in those dips. i think i'll need to find more low-key books that i can just listen to casually. while plotting all the events, characters and theories i had for the locked tomb was a wonderful experience and really enhanced my reading, i definitely couldn't do that for every book and it was quite mentally challenging.

Series completed: 4 {The Raven Cycle, Twilight, The Hunger Games, Brooklyn Brujas}
Series to finish: 1 {The Gilded Wolves}
Series ongoing: 3 {The Dreamer Trilogy, Thursday Murder Club, The Locked Tomb}

January
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Total books read: 114
Total pages read: 35,791

Top 10 Fiction:
1. Anne of Green Gables series, by L.M. Montgomery (favorite: Anne of Green Gables)
2. Wingfeather Tales, by Andrew Peterson and others
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
4. The Story King, by Matt Mikalatos
5. The Curator's Daughter, by Melanie Dobson
6. Other Words for Home, Jasmine Warga
7. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling
9. A Night Divided, by Jennifer A. Nielsen
10. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

Top 10 Nonfiction:
1. Breaking Free from Body Shame, by Jess Connolly
2. This Too Shall Last, by K.J. Ramsey
3. I Am Restored, by Lecrae
4. Talking Back to Purity Culture, by Rachel Joy Welcher
5. Jesus and John Wayne, by Kristin Kobes du Mez
6. What to the Slave is the Fourth of July, by Frederick Douglass
7. Forgiving What You Can't Forget, by Lysa TerKeurst
8. The Listening Life, by Adam S. McHugh
9. The Color of Compromise, by Jemar Tisby
10. Don't Overthink It, by Anne Bogel