2017 Bookish Resolutions and To Be Read

So, I thought that I would post my goals and resolutions before New Year's day this time. I never got around to it for 2016....I mean I did post them, but not until January (or possibly February, I don't remember). Anyway....let's move on and actually talk about the important things.

* RESOLUTIONS *

Okay, so for my actual bookish resolutions, I picked a handful of things that I thought would be easy enough for me to meet. 

1. Meet and/or exceed my reading goal on Goodreads. 

This one is fairly obvious I think. I want to read 60 books next year. This year I did try. I made it to 86 books (so far. I am a little under half-way through If I Stay by Gayle Forman). I want to actually hit the 60 goal. To do so I'm considering not participating in Camp NaNo in either April or July to keep up.

2. Review every book I read.

Also a slightly easier thing to do. I had this as a goal in 2016, and I failed it terribly. Oops. I started strong and then just trailed off. I'm not going to hold myself to making long, detailed reviews. At least three sentences for each book. I'm giving myself a limit of at least 85-90% of books reviewed to consider this accomplished.

3. Stick to my book buying limit. 
I've decided to keep to my limit of book buying. I set myself a limit of 10 new books per month, be they eBooks or physical. If I buy more than 10 in a month, that many will be taken off of the next month. So, if I buy say 12 books in August, in September I can buy only 8 books, but if I buy 8 books in August, I can still only buy 10 books in September. It doesn't work the other way around.

4. Finish The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
I have been reading this book for nearly 3 years now. I want to finish it in early 2017! Of course as soon as I finish it I will be picking up Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. A mass market paperback that's nearly 200 pages LONGER than The Count of Monte Cristo. I think I may like torturing myself with gigantic books.

* TO BE READ *

The following is the list of books I want to read come 2017. I have a system worked out so there are 24 books on this list. 

 Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics

 Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey

 How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather

 Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

 With Malice by Eileen Cook

 Critical Failure by Robert Bevan

 The Clouded Sky by Megan Crewe

 The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

 Butterfly's Child by Angela Davis-Gardner

 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery

 Villette by Charlotte Brontë

 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

 The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

 Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

 Horns by Joe Hill

 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

 Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

 Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

 Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

 Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys