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2023 Goals and Challenges
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I like the Toni Morrison challenge! Have you done any other author challenges? In 2023 I need to continue cleaning out my kindle and Audible selections, nothing fun yet! Fingers crossed and looking for suggestions!
I like the Toni Morrison challenge! Usually I don’t do specific challenges aside from setting a specific number. I tend to start reading several books (about 5) at the same time and go from there. No rhyme or reason, just whatever interests me-I focus on Black women writers primarily.
Toni Morrison challenge sounds interesting. I’ve about three of her books on my shelf, that I haven’t read yet. I’m a slower reader, so I only goal is to try to 26 books a year. I prefer nonfiction, however a good fiction story is a great escape for me.
So here is the Toni Morrison Reading List from the DC Library. I was also thinking of maybe choosing a theme for a few months this year as well. I did the 20 Book by Black Women this past year...that's an easy one for me, so I will do that again...but I am still trying to spice things up a bit. Toni Morrison Fiction
January -The Bluest Eye
February Sula
March- Song of Solomon
April -Tar Baby
May -Beloved
June -Jazz
July -Paradise
August -Love
September -A Mercy
October-Home
November-God Help the Child
December –*Special Reading
I want to read more black authors especially the classics. Toni Morrison, Alice Walker etc. But romance is my favorite genre so I also want to read more of black love.
Stephanie wrote: "So here is the Toni Morrison Reading List from the DC Library. I was also thinking of maybe choosing a theme for a few months this year as well. I did the 20 Book by Black Women this past year...th..."Let me know if you wanna join me on my Morrison challenge this year.
Last year for Kwanzaa I gifted myself a set of Hurston's novels so I may consider doing all of her work as a challenge for myself this year as well. I am not a big romance fan....BUT I LOVE BLACK LOVE....so if there's a really rich storyline I can get behind it.
I usually start signing up for challenges in December so by January I have a plan for the entire year. The ones I'm participating in this year are 'Book riot's read harder challenge' 'ultimate popsugar reading challenge' 'Black girls read Too challenge 2023' 'The planets spell out'
I'm doing the 1,000,000 minutes challenge in one of the groups in a part of on here. That's cool! And personally hoping to try more new authors this year.
Leslie wrote: "I want to read more black authors especially the classics. Toni Morrison, Alice Walker etc. But romance is my favorite genre so I also want to read more of black love."my fav is Eric Jerome Dickey
Chasing Destiny
Thieves Paradise
Blackbirds my more recent read
I wanted to start off small with 18 books as my challenge but once I reach 18, I’ll increase it by 3. It’s a weird process, but it helps me read more 🤓😅
I want to finish off all the series I started last year and spend more time reading longer books. FYI I’m a Sci-fi, Fantasy,Thriller reader 💕
I always say I’m doing a challenge and besides the one here (yearly reading goal) I don’t finish the others. So, I’m going to do just the Goodreads one (300 is my goal this year) and live my best reading life 😉. Best of reading journeys to you all 🥰
I would love to get through at least 30 books in 2023 and I would love to challenge myself to read outside of my genre.
My goal for 2023 is 30 books. I joined a couple of interesting challenges on StoryGraph!
I am doing blackathon this year. This will be my first reading challenge. It’s a February reading challenge I found on YouTube. Bow ties and books has hosted this challenge for the past 5 years. My goal this year is to read more books across all genres. I am more of a contemporary reader.
Tbh I was starting off with various challenges from sites and such but it made me feel overwhelmed and like I wasn’t accomplishing anything with it. So I’ve decided to my 2023 challenge is gonna be “ Step Outside The Genres “ or “ Genres with multitude “, can’t decided what to Call it. I just want to have more friends in this literary journey 🤞🏽👋🏽🫵🏾🤷🏽♀️
I gave myself a small goal - 24 books this year, but we’re in month 3 and I’m already on book number 7. Lol I’m in a book club at work where we do one book a month and once I finish that I try to squeeze in another book. I love Toni Morrison and wanna read more of her books so that DC challenge sounds like something I wanna get in on. Plus I read the first two books in the challenge already so I feel it’s meant to be!
I wanted to start off small for this year because I didn’t complete my 2022 reading goal. So this year I set a goal to read at least 12 books, including at least 1 nonfiction. To add to my challenge I decided that I was going to read at least 3 series. So far I have started “Pretty Little Liars” and “The It Girl” series. FYI my genre of choice is usually urban fiction or youth adult fiction.
For those seeking romance or an Indie author, please consider my book, Dancing on the Edge of Moonlight.Thank you- Leandra Simone 💕
Your goals are very impressive. I think if I can get 6 books in this year, I am going to feel very accomplished. I am excited to get back into reading more again.
I love these challenge ideas. Pretty cool. I actually started the year off reading Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Great read! My yearly goals are pretty modest in comparison to ya'll in the 100's! Trying to get like ya'll :). LOL. My annual reading goal is my age that year. This year is 41 books. I'm typically all over the place when reading and book choices at times will depend on my current mood.
Leandra wrote: "For those seeking romance or an Indie author, please consider my book, Dancing on the Edge of Moonlight.Thank you- Leandra Simone 💕"
I have added this to my list. Your book sounds interesting. Thank yoy for the recommendation!
My realistic reading goals for 2023 are to read at least 12 audiobooks (one per month, in the car, on the way to work and while walking), and to read hard copies of at least 1 cookbook/food memoir and/or poetry book each month. Also, I subscribe to alot of blogs and magazines and I am trying to make myself actually take more time to sit and read them.
I like the goal about the blogs. I also need to get back into reading the blogs I enjoy.
If anyone enjoys reading blogs, I have one of my own. Feel free to check it out or give feedback. Here's the link: http://kkryptonite.com/ My reading challenge consists of 30 books, 3 of them being ebooks. My favorite genre right now is romance but I'm trying to keep it fresh by throwing other genres in the mix every once in a while.
The DC library is doing a Toni Morrison Fiction book club where they read one selection per month, so I plan to incorporate that into my 100+ books for the year. I also want to try to read a few more YA fantasy books since it seems there have been quite a few really good series to have come out in the past couple of years.
Anyone have something dope they are doing? I want to have a little more fun with my reading in 2023.