Reading Envy 210: 2021 Reading Goals

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Not to make this all about me but....Jenny reports back on how she did on her 2020 reading goals in the midst of challenging circumstances, then sets goals for 2021. Then a handful of podcast and reading friends share their reading goals for 2021. (You might be one of them!)

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This is the second bonus episode; "regular" episodes resume next week. I'd love to hear about your reading goals.

[Elizabeth☮]

I love reading goals. I love people that have reading goals. Sadly, they stress me out! (the goals, not the people).

My plan this year is to get to some James Baldwin and I am trying to read more of what is on my shelf.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Elizabeth☮ wrote: "I love reading goals. I love people that have reading goals. Sadly, they stress me out! (the goals, not the people).

My plan this year is to get to some James Baldwin and I am trying to read more..."

Yeah they are only good if they work for you. :)

[Matthew]

I love reading goals too, although I usually I have to adjust them down as the year goes along. :)

My goals for 2021 include the following:

- Two backlist titles from Whitehead
- Two titles from Toni Morrison,
- I'd like to read either Demons or The Brothers Karamazov
- I want to finally read The Sympathizer, which has been on my shelf at home since it came out.
- I want to read all of the new books I buy this year.

[Jeff]

My reading goal has been the same for the last ten years: to read the unread books that I own. Based on what I already have it will probably take all the years I have left to get through them, and I know that as soon as I get myself back in to a used bookstore I’ll probably walk out the door with a dozen or so more titles to the stacks.

[Carol Ann]

What Jeff said! Plus, when my library holds become available, they take priority over the books on my own shelves. I need a support group for my book fomo. : )

[Mina]

Reading my TBR shelf is a goal I set every year then all the new shiny books come out and I get crazy. So this year I'll try to to read a book from my shelves every month. If I can get through 12 that's progress right?

[Nadine in California]

I don't even make goals because I'm powerless against reading whimsy and I'm so impulsive about adding to my library hold list - it's so easy when the book is 'on order' and I can pretend like it will arrive in a far future where I don't have lots of library books sitting on my shelves already. So I'm not weak, dammit, I'm celebrating whimsy ;)

But, were I to set a goal, it would be (of course) reading books I already own. Thanks to a Newest Literary Fiction buddy read, I will be reading one owned book starting tomorrow - Love and Other Thought Experiments. I just bought it a couple of months ago, so it doesn't earn me the brownie points that, say, Barkskins or the Sea of Poppies trilogy would, but it's a start....

[Gail]

My goal is more of the same. Because of 2020, I spent so much time by myself..no kids, no grandkids, no visitors. I am retired and we live in a tiny cottage with no room for books. I listened to audiobooks during my morning walk at the beach, while making quilts, while tending my too huge garden. Thank you, Overdrive. I loved every minute of 88 books!

[Elizabeth☮]

Gail,

I want your idyllic life. You paint a lovely picture.