Book Tag: New Year's Resolution Tag

Hey, hi, hello there reader.

We're well into the month of January. It is, in fact, almost over, and yet I come to you today with a New Year's Resolution book tag. Why you might ask? Isn't it a little late in the day for resolutions. I honestly couldn't say, reader. Resolutions are what you make of them, and I don't have much else to talk about. I planned on getting back to my Discworld Tour, but tragically I don't remember anything about Equal Rites so I will have to go back and skim it before that goes up. 

In other reading news, I picked up a digital copy of Outlaw by Anna North. I'm about halfway through it and this book was certainly not what I expected. I'm not complaining at all, reader. I'll save my thoughts for the wrap-up, however.

Moving on, let's get this tag rolling, shall we?

New Year's Resolution Tag- Courtesy of The Book Nut

1. An author you'd like to read that you've never read before.

   

  I have a few different authors I could put here, reader. Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy is one I want to get to and likely will get to soon. I found a nice box set of paperbacks, you see. Sarah J Maas is another one. I have a very long list of books I want to pick up but haven't yet for various reasons. The author who has the dubious honor of being in this category the longest is Terry Brooks. I want to read Sword of Shannara, I really do, but every time I pick it up I magically don't finish it. 

2. A book you'd like to read

  Another question with many different answers, reader. I've been meaning to pick up To all the Boys I've Loved Before since I found the two sequels in the Goodwill a month or so ago. The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane has been in my tbr pile since October, so that's on the list. There are several Mercedes Lackey books in the Valdemar series that I need to read still. Chasing a Legacy is still on my list as well. So very many books, reader, and this isn't even all of them. The Once and Future Witch by Alix E. Harrow, which is sitting underneath Jenny Han's books.

 3. A classic you'd like to read

  There are fewer books on this list since I'm so very picky about my classics. I'd say Jane Austen, but I have already read all her books. I got a nice box set from Costco for cheap because I was reading along with Sienna Sasha over on Twitch. I might have fallen a little in love with them, reader. I'd re-read them again in a heartbeat. I have to keep stopping myself from picking them up. I have been meaning to look into Charles Dickens' work and have just never gotten around to it. So he's on the list. I'm thinking about picking up The Count of Monte Christo since I haven't read any of Alexandre Dumas' work yet either. I was never a big classics reader when I was younger so I have a lot of gaps there. 

4. A book you'd like to re-read

  There are so many on this list as well, reader. Jane Austen, Nightwatch, Monstrous Regiment, The Lord of the Rings, the list continues. I re-read quite often because I can and do consume the same piece of media over and over just because it's comfortable for my brain. I've also been thinking about re-reading David Eddings' Belgariad series again. That's a series I first read in high school and I still really like it. 

5. A book you've had for ages and want to read

  I recently weeded all of my Terry Brooks since I'm going to switch over to digital copies, but Terry Brooks' Shannara novels. There are a lot of them and I had several that I'd never even cracked the spine on. I want to get to them, but I don't think it will be soon enough to justify the shelf space. I've been trying since 2013. I'll get there someday, reader. I just wouldn't hold my breath...

6. A big book you'd like to read

  Oh dear, it's confession time, reader. I have never read The Lord of the Rings by myself. My dad read them all aloud to me when I was a kid but I have yet to read them all myself. A heinous lapse for someone who has watched the extended Lord of the Rings behind the scenes content more times than they've actually watched the movies. I'm stalled out on the Return of the King, but I'll get there! I'm counting the trilogy as one entity since I have a bind-up of them, and because Tolkien did intend for them to be one book. Paper shortages scuppered that plan back when it was originally published, though. 

7. An author you've previously read and want to read more of

  Elizabeth Acevedo, for sure, reader. I read The Poet X and loved it and I've been meaning to check out her other books from the library. The waiting list is very long, reader. I shall have to wait.

8. A book you got for Christmas and would like to read

  I've already mentioned this somewhere, but Naomi Novik's Temeraire series. I got a box set from my dad many Christmases ago and I need to get through them. From what I read of the first book it seemed enjoyable. Who doesn't love historical fiction with dragons?

9. A series you want to read from start to finish

  For this, I shall put down the Animorphs series by KA Applegate. I have not managed to read them all, despite starting the series back in elementary school. 

10. A series you want to finish that you've already started

  The Chronicles of Narnia, for certain. I'm almost halfway through, much further than I've gotten before, and I do want to finish it. 

11. Do you set reading goals? If so, how many books do you want to read in 2021

  I'm not big on setting hard goals in terms of numbers. I like having a stack of books I intend on reading in a month and then deviating from that list when the fancy strikes me. I haven't really thought about setting a number of books I want to read for this year and I don't think I will. However many I do read is the number that I wanted to get to. 

12. Any other reading goals

  I'd like to continue my reading streak. Now that I'm done with school I finally have free time that I can devote just to reading. It's time I wanted because when I first started college I wasn't able to read nearly as much as I was in high school. It's jarring going from reading multiple books per month to reading basically none. I really missed it and I want to keep carving out that time because it's important to me.

I hope you have enjoyed this book tag, reader. Should you want to do it for fun or profit, consider yourself tagged.

Until next time 🎃