How did I do on my 2022 reading goals? Let's find out! What am I changing for 2023?

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Hi Everyone,

January - No selection
February - A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
March - Les Miserables by Viktor Hugo
April - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
May - Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
June - Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
July - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
August - No Selection
September - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
October - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
November - North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
December - Nana by Emile Zola

||Flannery O'January||
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||EM Forester Readalong with Jen the Librarian||
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The book schedule is:
Jan - Where Angels Fear to Tread
Feb - Short stories
March - The Longest Journey
Apr - Forster's non-fiction
May - A Room With a View
Jun - Movie adaptations part 1
July - Howard's End
Aug - Retellings and inspired by
September - A Passage to India
Oct - Biography of Forster
November - Maurice
Dec - Movie adaptations part 2

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Thank you for watching!

Sandy aka Ms Reads A Lot

[AnnNovella]

we read The Dubliners! The highlight of the year!!🎉🎉🎉😂

[RememberedReads]

Your 2022 was so productive and successful! Good luck for a similarly great 2023! 😎

[GinaStanyerBooks]

You killed it in 2022 Sandy!
My goal for 2023 is lots more book shopping with you :)

[beautifulminutiae]

That’s a great idea to surprise yourself with how many books you read for the year! Sounds like you had an amazing reading year!

So excited you’re joining in on Flannery O’January! I read Everything That Rises Must Converge this year and it’s one that has really stuck with me. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts!

[dqan]

When it comes to my GR goals I just set it and forget it. Even GR seems to know I'm not serious. My focus this year will be on carving out reading time by cutting out timewaster activities. (I 'waste' a lot of time, so it's doable.) I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!

[Thecatladybooknook_PennyD]

I totally love the idea of having the surprise at the end of the year! I was going to set my goal for 1 for 2023 lol but now I think I won't set one! Thanks for that idea!

[reddotreads]

Great to hear about your goals, both old and new! Good luck with all your reading plans for 2023! I’m definitely going to try to not put too much pressure on myself! Famous last words! 😂📚🎄

[BookwormAdventureGirl]

This is great, Sandy. So glad you had such a good reading year. Looks like you have lots going on for 2023. 😊💙

[anotherbibliophilereads]

Empire of Pain was my favorite nonfiction of 2022 . I hope there are some buddy reads for 2023.

[RachelB.BookReferences]

My reading was a little iffy this year. The first half, I was in a major slump and read practically nothing. The second half, I started knocking out some shorter books alongside my normal stuff, and averaged 10 books a month, which was great, because they were all books I wanted to get to. Sadly, I only had 3 or 4 five-star reads in the whole year. Hopefully, 2023 will be better!

[myreadinglife]

Great to hear that nonfiction was so successful for you in 2022! Well done on your goals!

[jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Interesting video. Reading is not a competitive sport, reading with the number that is comfortable for you is better than over reading and not enjoying it. I've read 75 books this year (I did set a Goodreads goal... 72... I expect I'll set a GR goal next year, too but not sweat if I fall behind or read a lot of short books...). Good luck with your 2023 reading.

[AnneEWilliamson]

I set a Goodreads goal, but I always set it super low (usually I end up reading almost double the books as the goal), so I don't find pressure to read more books then I naturally would. But I know the first year I was on Goodreads I didn't set a goal so I could naturally see how much I read.

[CestKevvie]

Wow I'm glad you were able to do so well with your goals!!

[julieaulava]

Young Mungo is a very good read. I'll have to check out Empire of Pain. What a great book year Sandy.

[SpringboardThought]

Seems pretty successful and some great stuff coming down the pipe!

[myrarucker]

Merry Christmas!! I found a new author, Jessie Burton!!

[AJ_Dunn]

You read a lot of books! An average of two books a week is way too much for me. I've definitely been cutting down on the amount of books I'm reading. I'm also on a book buying ban. It's all about my shelves next year.

[spreadbookjoy]

Empire of Pain sounds brilliant. The Book Club is an awesome way to read specific books. I am rubbish at Discord as well. I find it tricky to navigate. I also want to be more consistent with posting next year. Life can make consistency on booktube tricky but we have lives and people understand! My aim is to not overload myself because of FOMO but I’ve already broken that! Lovely plans for a great reading year ahead! 🤍