Reading Challenges & Resolutions #Top10 #NewYearBooks #HealthBooks
My favorite time of the reading year — choosing the challenges for the coming year. This time, I’m doing it in conjunction with A Month of Faves and Top Ten Tuesday. Today’s topic: Top Ten Goals/Resolutions For 2015 — bookish, blogging or otherwise! That seems like a good Top Ten topic for signing up for my reading challenges of 2015 along with talking about my resolutions.
I set three resolutions in my sign-up post for The New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge.
1. Live Healthier.
2. Improve my Mood.
3. Write the Darn Book!
Check out my sign-up post for the books that I plan to read to support those goals.
4. The “Live Healthier” resolution is going to need more than a month’s worth of reading, so I’m signing up for The Healthy Lifestyle Books Reading Challenge 2015 at the Marathon level of 15 books or more. That’s a lot, but some will be quick-reading cookbooks.
5. The cookbooks will also work for the Foodies Read 2015 Challenge hosted by Vicki of I’d Rather Be Reading at the Beach. I’ll sign up at the Sous-Chef level of 9 to 13 books.
6. Nearly all of the books I read for The New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge, The Healthy Lifestyle Books Reading Challenge 2015, and Foodies Read 2015 Challenge will be nonfiction. I also enjoy nonfiction on other topics like travel and history, so I’ll sign up for The Nonfiction Reading Challenge at the Master level of 16-20 books. That one is hosted by The Introverted Reader.
7. I get a kick out of the What’s in a Name Challenge every year. I rarely seek out books to meet the requirements, but it’s fun to discover that a book I’ve just read counts. Check out the cool categories for the 2015 challenge on The Worm Hole blog.
8. I got over my fear of chunksters in 2014, meeting my goal to read 4 of them, so I’ll sign up for the 2015 Chunkster Challenge hosted by Vasilly of 1330V. I’ll aim for 4 books again in 2015.
9. I predict that 2015 will be a year when diversity is on our minds, so I’m signing up for the Diversity on the Shelf 2015 challenge hosted by My Little Pocketbooks. I’ll sign up for the 2nd Shelf level of 7 to 12 books.
10. For my last resolution / challenge, I’ll set my annual goal on Goodreads of 50 books. I sometimes go a lot over that. For 2014, the number currently sits at 72 and I might get it to 73 by the end of New Year’s Eve. But, I like to set this at a number that I’m pretty sure I’ll achieve no matter what happens in 2015.
What resolutions, goals, and challenges are you committing to for 2015?
Thanks for the list. I hadn’t heard of most of these. I’ll be linking up some posts with the Foodies and my 2015 goals are all about diversity.
#1 is on my list as well. I’m like you with my Goodreads goal. I want to set it for more than my goal this year, but don’t want it to be unrealistic.
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What a beautiful site you have! Well done on defeating your chunkster fear! I am still really intimidated by big books so maybe I should give it a go too.. Your healthy living goals look great too. Good luck with them all 🙂
Rachel
Love hearing about all of these challenges! Good luck with them, Joy!
You’re going to be a busy lady in 2015. Good luck!
Looking at your list of challenges makes me want to join a few more! The sign-up post is up for the Chunkster Challenge. Good luck and happy reading!
Lots of great and unique challenges and I like how they support your life goals as well as being bookish goals. Good luck with them all and have a very happy New Year!
I definitely subscribe to your first three goals, especially the third. I’ve been procrastinating on writing for far too long and it’s about time I change that.
Good luck with your book and challenges! 😀
Good luck on your challenges! I’m excited for the Diversity on the Shelf Challenge 🙂
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Welcome Joy! So glad you are going to join the D.O.T.S reading challenge. Check back soon because there will be a giveaway to kick off the reading challenge.
Those sound like fun challenges, I might have to join one of them. Best of luck accomplishing everything in 2015!
Great resolutions! and good luck for the book you’re about to write 😀
Nice goals for 2015!! Here’s my link to my TTT for the week: http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2014/12/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten.html
Love your list of reading challenges. I’m so tempted, but I know joining a reading challenge just doesn’t work for me. My stats show me if I sign up for a challenge, that basically means I won’t read a single book that meets that challenge. So I will just join in vicariously from afar.
Good luck with your goals. There are a lot of challenges there that I haven’t heard about before. I’ll look into some of them.
I’m fascinated by the Chunkster Challenge. I could easily have met it with my reading for 2014, having read several that were 800 pages or more. I’m just now easing back into doing challenges, so I hesitate to commit to more than I already have (knowing I will try to do RIP in the fall). Still….I’m tempted!
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So glad to have found your space. So many fun challenges and new blogs to peruse. Can’t wait to get started!
Lots of great goals, here. Writing is on my list too. Reading challenges are fun. I’m participating in two next year. We’ll see how it goes.
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Wonderful list! I really should link up with a few challenges this year, especially some to pare down my ridiculous TBR. And good luck writing the book! Hoping you have a wonderful 2015 🙂
New Year is the best time for kick starting a healthy lifestyle. The hardest thing is making it last past Jan or maybe that’s just me. I like your idea of using books to inspire and motivate you. Sounds like a good plan 🙂 Best of luck with all your goals especially your writing one!
Awesome goals!! I am with you on being healthier and reading more books! I just set my Goodreads goal to 100 again, and I hope I can meet it!
I’m hoping to get some diverse reading in too. Best of luck, and happy new year!
Ah, Foodies Read! I participated in this challenge way back in 2011, I believe. I think I will give it another go this year. Thanks for reminding me 🙂
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Looks like a great year you have planned! I am doing the Foodie and the What’s in a Name challenges as well. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Awesome that you have a book in mind to write, Joy! I wish you all the best for that, get it written 😀 Hope the reading challenges go well and glad to have you joining What’s In A Name again this year. I love that you comment on the posts, too, because I do worry that not everyone will get comments. I’m going to have to start referring to you as a co-host 😉