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Goals 2015
So I have closed down my booktracking for 2014. Once I added in my Yuletide canon at the last minute (which I will definitely post about sooner or later), I had 181 books read for the year, and total of 200 books in my Goodreads account. (I probably missed one or two ebooks or picture books in there, especially before I started with Goodreads, but it's pretty close.) You can see the whole horrifying list on my librarything account.
181 sounds like a lot, but bear in mind that 67 of them were comics, and another 30 were picture books or easy readers, not to mention all the glossy artbooks, piano books, pamphlety things, and field guides. In fact if you add up just proper books with more words than pictures, it's more like 70.
(Although even with the picture books and comics I'm averaging about 170 pages per book which isn't too shabby.)
To nobody's surprise once I'd put it in a spreadsheet to get that info I did a bunch more stats. :P Perhaps the saddest of the stats is that out of 181 books, only 24 of them were books I already owned at the beginning of the year. This is not going to do much to help with my unread books backlog! 25 more of them were books I did not own at the beginning of the year, but do now, which is still pretty sad. (The rest were library books; books I picked up, read, and then got rid of; or loans from friends.)
Topic-wise, for nonfiction the winner was zoology & botany with 14, followed by arts & crafts with 13, and then paleontology, anomalies & curiosities, and religion. There were also a lot of sky-related books on topics ranging from kite-making to stargazing to planes. Honorable mention to neurology & psychology and WWII, with four each, all due entirely to Cap II fandom.
In comics I read 7 volumes of manga, 16 independent/creator owned trades, 36 Marvel trades and 2 DC trades, and 7 tie-in comics, mostly for AtLA. Yeah, that's about what I expected. (Also I read Lumberjanes in floppies. It was really good.)
I read 13 adult fiction books, 1 YA novel, and 14 kids' novels, which is honestly better than I expected in fiction.
I wrote 65 reviews of varying quality before I mostly have up, and I managed to rate everything I read, for an average rating of 3.76, which is a pretty good spread of ratings, given that if it's total crap I usually don't finish reading it.
Speaking of, the 19 books in Goodreads that didn't count as "read" were 6 books I started and gave up on, and 13 books I'm still 'currently reading'. The 6 include a manga I was reading online in scanlation that has apparently been licensed again so the scans came down, 2 "literary" novels I got bored of and returned to the library, one library book that was essentially a coloring book which doesn't work if you can't color it, one book I got from the library then acquired my own copy of but didn't get 'round to, and one I will totally check back out and finish someday when I am REALLY bored.
Of the thirteen "currently reading" books, 5 of them are "teach yourself music" books, which got put on hold for first church music and then Christmas music, so there's really only 8 that count.
...8 is still a lot, isn't it.
Anyway yesterday (as those of you who follow me on GR might have noticed) I went and added 13 more currently-reading books. These are all ones that have been untouched on my currently-reading shelf since 2013. (What, doesn't everyone have an entire currently-reading shelf?)
My first reading goal for 2014 is to finish all 26 of the books currently in my current-reading. ^_^ And then keep the current-reading below 20 for the rest of the year.
Other reading goals:
1. Hit my 200-total-books-read challenge on Goodreads
2. Of which at least 100 are books I owned before 2015
3. And at least 24 are novels (or book-length story collections)
4. Not included in 200 total: read one current short story magazine every month, and read through my longbox of floppies
5. Review at least half of them
6. Own fewer unread books at end of year than beginning (current tally: 1997. 245 of them added in the past twelve months. *sigh*)
That should be totally doable, right? *gnaws fingernail*
As for the rest of my goals for the year...
Last year I had only three goals:
1. Survive job: Done! Hurrah.
2. Bike to work at least once: Sort of? I biked the route twice, although never on an actual workday. But it's really not a nice route, and then I wrecked the car which made me even more nervous about traffic, and then I learned that they're putting in REAL BIKE LANES!!!! along about 3/4s of the shortest of the routes, which will be BRILLIANT when they are done, but in the meantime mean it's even less fun than before. So that's on hold until the bike lanes are done (hopefully this summer sometime?)
3. Figure out how to keep being creative and taking part in the communities I love despite having grown-up job: Eh. It's a process? Being officially allowed to screw around on the internet whenever we're not busy has been v. v. helpful. Tag wrangling has been a mess, but at least there was no point at which I decided I had no time for fandom.
So that's not bad really! Here are ten more goals for this year:
1. Arrange trip to Iceland and go on it
2. Make all the doctory appointments allowed by my insurance, go to them
3. Keep job
4. Stay caught up with tag wrangling stuff! Contribute more!
5. Do some kind of deliberate outdoor exercise for at least half an hour at least three days a week, weather permitting
6. Go on one Adventure a month, at least one of which is an overnight backpacking trip
7. Get my Maryland Master Naturalist certification
8. Submit at least one original story for pro publication
9. Give away at least 10% of my income every month
10. pay my credit card bill on time every month
Several of those require sustained amounts of adulting, which is gonna be hard, so I guess we'll see what happens!
181 sounds like a lot, but bear in mind that 67 of them were comics, and another 30 were picture books or easy readers, not to mention all the glossy artbooks, piano books, pamphlety things, and field guides. In fact if you add up just proper books with more words than pictures, it's more like 70.
(Although even with the picture books and comics I'm averaging about 170 pages per book which isn't too shabby.)
To nobody's surprise once I'd put it in a spreadsheet to get that info I did a bunch more stats. :P Perhaps the saddest of the stats is that out of 181 books, only 24 of them were books I already owned at the beginning of the year. This is not going to do much to help with my unread books backlog! 25 more of them were books I did not own at the beginning of the year, but do now, which is still pretty sad. (The rest were library books; books I picked up, read, and then got rid of; or loans from friends.)
Topic-wise, for nonfiction the winner was zoology & botany with 14, followed by arts & crafts with 13, and then paleontology, anomalies & curiosities, and religion. There were also a lot of sky-related books on topics ranging from kite-making to stargazing to planes. Honorable mention to neurology & psychology and WWII, with four each, all due entirely to Cap II fandom.
In comics I read 7 volumes of manga, 16 independent/creator owned trades, 36 Marvel trades and 2 DC trades, and 7 tie-in comics, mostly for AtLA. Yeah, that's about what I expected. (Also I read Lumberjanes in floppies. It was really good.)
I read 13 adult fiction books, 1 YA novel, and 14 kids' novels, which is honestly better than I expected in fiction.
I wrote 65 reviews of varying quality before I mostly have up, and I managed to rate everything I read, for an average rating of 3.76, which is a pretty good spread of ratings, given that if it's total crap I usually don't finish reading it.
Speaking of, the 19 books in Goodreads that didn't count as "read" were 6 books I started and gave up on, and 13 books I'm still 'currently reading'. The 6 include a manga I was reading online in scanlation that has apparently been licensed again so the scans came down, 2 "literary" novels I got bored of and returned to the library, one library book that was essentially a coloring book which doesn't work if you can't color it, one book I got from the library then acquired my own copy of but didn't get 'round to, and one I will totally check back out and finish someday when I am REALLY bored.
Of the thirteen "currently reading" books, 5 of them are "teach yourself music" books, which got put on hold for first church music and then Christmas music, so there's really only 8 that count.
...8 is still a lot, isn't it.
Anyway yesterday (as those of you who follow me on GR might have noticed) I went and added 13 more currently-reading books. These are all ones that have been untouched on my currently-reading shelf since 2013. (What, doesn't everyone have an entire currently-reading shelf?)
My first reading goal for 2014 is to finish all 26 of the books currently in my current-reading. ^_^ And then keep the current-reading below 20 for the rest of the year.
Other reading goals:
1. Hit my 200-total-books-read challenge on Goodreads
2. Of which at least 100 are books I owned before 2015
3. And at least 24 are novels (or book-length story collections)
4. Not included in 200 total: read one current short story magazine every month, and read through my longbox of floppies
5. Review at least half of them
6. Own fewer unread books at end of year than beginning (current tally: 1997. 245 of them added in the past twelve months. *sigh*)
That should be totally doable, right? *gnaws fingernail*
As for the rest of my goals for the year...
Last year I had only three goals:
1. Survive job: Done! Hurrah.
2. Bike to work at least once: Sort of? I biked the route twice, although never on an actual workday. But it's really not a nice route, and then I wrecked the car which made me even more nervous about traffic, and then I learned that they're putting in REAL BIKE LANES!!!! along about 3/4s of the shortest of the routes, which will be BRILLIANT when they are done, but in the meantime mean it's even less fun than before. So that's on hold until the bike lanes are done (hopefully this summer sometime?)
3. Figure out how to keep being creative and taking part in the communities I love despite having grown-up job: Eh. It's a process? Being officially allowed to screw around on the internet whenever we're not busy has been v. v. helpful. Tag wrangling has been a mess, but at least there was no point at which I decided I had no time for fandom.
So that's not bad really! Here are ten more goals for this year:
1. Arrange trip to Iceland and go on it
2. Make all the doctory appointments allowed by my insurance, go to them
3. Keep job
4. Stay caught up with tag wrangling stuff! Contribute more!
5. Do some kind of deliberate outdoor exercise for at least half an hour at least three days a week, weather permitting
6. Go on one Adventure a month, at least one of which is an overnight backpacking trip
7. Get my Maryland Master Naturalist certification
8. Submit at least one original story for pro publication
9. Give away at least 10% of my income every month
10. pay my credit card bill on time every month
Several of those require sustained amounts of adulting, which is gonna be hard, so I guess we'll see what happens!
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Also, yay backpacking. One of my favorite things to do!
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And yay, backpacking! I didn't manage any overnight backpacking this year but I did go tent camping a couple of times, spend a week in a primitive cabin hiking four miles of beach twice a day, and summit a mountain. So I guess that's not bad.
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