I do not have a certain target in terms of how many books I would like to read this year. I have found that this puts more pressure on me, hence I could not concentrate on the book in my hands and feel like I should be onto the next book already. Reading is supposed to be fun and enjoyable and by having a certain target to reach by the end of the year, I was taking that away from myself.

By taking that pressure off myself there was no guilt over how long I was taking to read a book and found that I was enjoying the fact that I had slowed things down.

I enjoyed doing this last year so I will be keeping this for 2024.

I mostly read romance and fantasy romance so I would love to branch out into different genres especially delving back into British History, more historical fiction and autobiographies or memoirs.

I went on a book buying ban in December (see previous blog) I finished the year with 50 books that I had not read yet and so I would love to read all 50 of the books that I currently own. I also want to spend months where I don’t buy a book and just concentrate on my unread books.

And lastly I want to limit how many books I buy. I want to only buy 3 books a month. If I buy a book in 2024 then I want to read it within 3 months of the book being bought.