What are your reading goals for the upcoming year?

I'm aiming to finish 50 books next year, which is 5 books more than this year (I'm 2 books away from reaching it!). I'm planning to do this every year, incrementing 5 books but only if I finished the last one.

As for quests, these are the ones I really wanna get badges in:

• Games & Trials badge, I already have bronze but I want to get silver or gold
• Rick Riordanverse badge, same for this one
• Asian-inspired Fantasy badge, I really want to diversify my reading! I'm aiming for a bronze badge.
• Fantasy and Sci-Fi with a Side of Romance badge, I'm aiming for bronze
• Cozy Fantasy badge, I really wanna try this type of fantasy! Also bronze

Of course, I know I probably won't get ALL of those badges, but a girl can dream 😀 As for readalongs, I REALLY want to to participate in all of the seasonal readalongs! And hopefully all the special ones too!

As for external challenges, I haven't found any that I'm interested in, but I'm still looking. Any suggestions would be good! I'm also thinking of doing the Wheel of Books challenge, but that's for when I sort my TBR and figure out what I want since I'm a HUGE mood reader.

Hi all!

I just joined a quest that has a lot of books that I read in childhood. Is it cheating if I mark them as "finished" even though I finished them long ago?

I feel conflicted over it. One one hand, I did finish them. On the other hand, I hardly remember the plot and characters

I love the idea of all the new categorization and am trying to plan out how I want to use them and organize moving forward!

I "own" a lot of books 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ pretty much any book I want and would have to wait for from my library immediately gets downloaded if there's a wait-list.

Are we using the "owned" category for physical books? Books we have in any format? Do you think of ebooks and physical differently in regards to owning them?

TIA for your thoughts lovelies ✨✨✨

Yesterday, my water bottle leaked into my bag and damaged the book I’m reading… It wasn’t that bad, you can still read all of it, but it’s definitely been left with some scars.

I’m just gonna keep reading my damaged copy, but I know some people take this sort of thing really seriously. Things like cracking spines or dog-earing pages don’t bother me either, but I understand the feeling of needing it to look perfect.

Has something like that ever happened to you? Would you replace it if you could still read the words?

if you guys had to choose - and i mean HAD to.

Would you prefer the first book in a series? or the last?

i tend to love the first installment in movies, because i’m a sucker for origin stories. Things like spiderman, maze runner, etc, i love love love origin stories. I do love the first installments in book series too for the same reason. including learning about the world and the characters.

the last book in the series is where everything comes together. the characters have grown in ways you’re proud of, and (mostly with the genre i love) the final battle draws near - and now it’s all or nothing. it’s everyone coming together to fight alongside each other, it’s strategies working in blissful ways and it’s the feeling of fear and excitement blending together as you find out what every single moment your characters have gone through has led to.

this is just how i feel about first and last books, and i - for the life of me - don’t know what i prefer.

if you had to pick, which one do you tend to love from a series?