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What are your reading resolutions for 2015? Did you complete your goals from last year?

I resolve to win the powerball so that I can quit working and then read all day long! ;)

Darcy wrote: "I resolve to win the powerball so that I can quit working and then read all day long! ;)"

LOL that would be awesome right!!

My reading goals this year are really reduced which rather sucks but if I can crank out two books a week it is a good thing.

Not really sure if I met my reading goal last year because I reduced them in the spring - but I did meet what I reduced it to.

I think my main goal is to read books I already own. I decided for every nine books I read (that I currently own) I can buy one. I also decided this year I am not sticking with a book or going back to see if I change my mind. I have to read so much stuff that is not interesting or that is VERY DRY that when I read for pleasure I need to be entertained from page one.

Dawn those sound like very reasonable goals.

My goal this year is to go for quality in my reading as opposed to sheer quantity just to say that I read "this many" books. So I'm going to be much more selective about the books I choose.

Dawn, I love that idea about not buying a new book until you've read nine you already own. I might snag that idea myself because I have a tendency to buy books much faster than I read them. My husband says it's an addiction. Come to think of it, I do feel a bit of a rush when I purchase a new book even if I don't read it right away.

I find my reading time has been greatly diminished as well with the addition of a second job. I think I've pared things down to where I will hit it, but may need to adjust later in the year.

Thanks Darcy!

Feel free Veronica - I do the same thing the number of books I have amassed and not read is awful - ugg unfortunately addiction sounds so accurate lol.

@Darcy do you still listen to audio books at work? I think that is amazing. I tried that once and had like zero billable hours for the day but I totally enjoyed the book lol.

Dawn wrote: "@Darcy do you still listen to audio books at work? I think that is amazing. I tried that once and had like zero billable hours for the day but I totally enjoyed the book lol."

With my new job I can't listen as much as I did with the old job, about half the time. Better than nothing, but it feels like I'm reading less. You add that along with taking out 3 nights a week to read and it really seems like I don't read that much compared to what I did. lol

I totally understand. Funny how upsetting it is, I am sure some people think we are crazy.

I'm sure there is a study out there that says buying books releases pleasure endorphins :0)

I always set my goal a little low so that I can meet it and even go over. I read 194 books in 2014 and my original goal was 180 so I'm pleased with myself.

My goals this year are to read the 2nd book in the multitudes of series that I've started and to finish at least one series per month. Lofty goals!

I exceeded my goal of 200 by 36 books last year . I decided to go with 230 this year. I might lower it because it already shows that I am behind. I also would like to finish series I have started.

Darcy, I love your resolution. My tickets mock me.

I hit my 100 books challenge last year, but it was a lot of comics and manga. This year I want to read book-books and get it.

Main focus is tackling my TBR pile. I've picked out some series that I plan to catch up on. I'm reading every other book adult and YA. Also, I want to read more steampunk, sci-fi, and dystopians. I've actually got a post about .

My main six:
1. Read more! Read 100 books and more!
2. Catch up on series and finish some!
3. Mix up my genres!
4. Post reviews for every book read!
5. Read more Young Adult titles!
6. Utilizing my DNF (did not finish) powers.

I need to use my DNF powers too. For whatever reason though I just have a hard time not finishing a book, even if when I'm clearly not enjoying it. I think I've only DNF'd two books in the three years I've been a GR member and I've read well over 300 books in that time. I think I feel like its somehow a failure on MY part if I don't finish a book, which is crazy. So, yes, I do need to get rid of that mindset and value my time more in terms of not squandering it on books where it feels like pulling teeth to read them.

ETA: Okay, I checked my shelves and I've DNF'd eight books in the last three years...so not quite as bad, lol.

I DNF a book whenever it doesn't capture my attention, doesn't matter how far I'm in. I have been over halfway through and pages in. I did one on Sunday that was only 30 pages, but I tried to read it 3 different times and if all I made it was 30 pages in 3 days, that isn't a good sign.

There are just too many other great books out there waiting for me to spend time with a dud.

I also find it rare that I finish a book and wished I dnf'ed it using this logic.

Darcy, you were my inspiration for this.

I used my DNF powers about 6 books last year. It was so liberating. Especially since there were so many I should have done it on, which probably did not help me out with my reading funk.

Ha-ha, that is better. Veronica, do it more. It will set you free. ^_-

I probably dnf too quickly sometimes, but I look forward to the next book. I just looked and since I've been on GR I've dnf'ed 633 books.

I am in ah!

Shera (Book Whispers) wrote: "Ha-ha, that is better. Veronica, do it more. It will set you free."

I know, I know. I think I might need an intervention of sorts, lol.

Wow, 633 books, Darcy. A no nonsense reader, I like that. I want to be you when I grow up. ;) I definitely need to be more cutthroat. But then I always think of the first Mercy Thompson book. The first time I started reading it it just wasn't doing anything for me so I set it aside for several months. When I went to try it again it totally clicked and voila!, now it's one of my favorite UF series. Now granted that has only happened once, where I end up liking a book that initially didn't grab me.

Darcy, how often do you give books a second chance? You mentioned the one you tried three times to read, so how do you diffentiate the books you will try again at a later time (because sometimes it's all about the right timing to match your mood - which is what I think happened with me and Mercy) versus the ones that are permanent DNFers, no second chances given?

Veronica wrote: "Darcy, how often do you give books a second chance? You mentioned the one you tried three times to read, so how do you diffentiate the books you will try again at a later time (because sometimes it's all about the right timing to match your mood - which is what I think happened with me and Mercy) versus the ones that are permanent DNFers, no second chances given?"

If I give up a book I rarely go back to give it up. The book I was talking about picking it up three times that was grabbed it Sunday, read 5 pages, put it down. Picked it up Monday, read 10 pages more, put it down. Picked it up Tuesday, read 10 more pages, then decided I didn't care, it wasn't for me. In my head I'm done with it and won't go back to it.

I tend to read books in one sitting, so before I start to read I look at the books that I have available then pick the one that I'm most excited about. They system works for me, but I have had books by my favorite author have duds. I hate to say it, but Kelley Armstrong is morphing into that for me. I loved her older series, but her newer ones aren't working for me, yet I will still pick up the first book in a new series from her.

I hope that makes sense.

Ha! Coincidentally enough, the first Cainesville book is one of the eight books I've DNF'd. I just wasn't feeling it.

Veronica wrote: "Ha! Coincidentally enough, the first Cainesville book is one of the eight books I've DNF'd. I just wasn't feeling it."

I read the first one and it was so so for me, I ended up dnf'ing the second one.

Ironically my biggest challenge in the DNF pile is that I start them and decide I don't like it but I am a moody reader and so sometimes I won't like something at one time and then try again a few weeks or months later and then I love it.

Anyway the challenge is I don't mark it down so later I forget ...so I started a new shelf books I will finish one day ...not sure how well it will work.

Mine is to cut my tbr list down a lot and to write reviews on everything I read.

See that's how I am sometimes, I know the writing is good and I should like it . . . but my mood isn't allowing it. There are certain ones I've dnf and I knew right away that know mood I was in would ever be good enough for reading it. The ones that I'm not in the mood for are simply laid down for a while.

I think after reading so many book you kind of start picking up on key points that signal unhappy reading.

Shera (Book Whispers) wrote: "I think after reading so many book you kind of start picking up on key points that signal unhappy reading."

That is true!

Darcy wrote: "Shera (Book Whispers) wrote: "I think after reading so many book you kind of start picking up on key points that signal unhappy reading."

That is true!"

Ditto I totally agree.

There are somethings that I cannot stand!

Alisa wrote: "Mine is to cut my tbr list down a lot and to write reviews on everything I read."

Good for you Alisa I feel like my TBR pile is just hopeless I really should go through it an see what still interests me.

Dawn wrote: "Ironically my biggest challenge in the DNF pile is that I start them and decide I don't like it but I am a moody reader and so sometimes I won't like something at one time and then try again a few ..."

And that's exactly what happened to me with the first Mercy Thompson book. Since then I've started a "try again later" shelf where I stick the books that aren't working for me at the time but that I think might work better later. Of course, that won't really help me to pare down my TBR list. I really should just go through and remove all the romance books. I've tried romance books in all forms - PNR, contemporary, historical, with all sorts of authors - and at best they've been okay reads for me. I have yet to stumble on one that really draws me in and holds me in rapt attention. So, while I enjoy a good slow burn romance in a book/series, the faster romances in books where that is the primary point don't really do anything for me. I just need to admit it and quit hanging on to the thought that maybe I just haven't stumbled on the right romance book/author. If I remove those books from my TBR list it would trim it down a lot.

Yeah I'm probably never going to read any of the contemporary romance books on my shelf either. I have SO many books I just put on tbr shelf. Now I put them on other shelves too like tbr-vampires, tbr-uf. As I'm going through deleting stuff I'm also trying to re-shelf so I can find things when I'm in a certain mood. I've fine tuned my shelves over the last year but never had the time to update my older stuff.

Alisa wrote: "Yeah I'm probably never going to read any of the contemporary romance books on my shelf either. I have SO many books I just put on tbr shelf. Now I put them on other shelves too like tbr-vampires..."

I did that a couple of years ago, took the time to get rid of stuff I knew I wasn't going to read. Once that was done I then decided to read the oldest book on my tbr list once a month so that I wasn't just reading the new releases.

I find now I'm more picky with what I put on my tbr, which keeps it short. I do have shelves labeled maybe and not yet released, this helps me know what I really want to read and is available.

Darcy wrote: "Alisa wrote: "Yeah I'm probably never going to read any of the contemporary romance books on my shelf either. I have SO many books I just put on tbr shelf. Now I put them on other shelves too lik..."

I like the idea of reading picks from my oldest pages. I also really need to go through and label what I own already and pick from those instead of always buying the new and shiny (it's a sickness..lol)

Alisa wrote: "I like the idea of reading picks from my oldest pages. I also really need to go through and label what I own already and pick from those instead of always buying the new and shiny (it's a sickness..lol)"

That was my problem. I kept at it so that now I've got mostly new stuff on my tbr unless I run across an older series and start it.

Well, my tbr is reading 3811 books, 539 are wishlist, so I own the rest. Though probably about 700 are kindle freebies. So obviously I need to par down and stop buying books. As if! But I have certainly stopped the kindle freebie binge I was on late last year.

Books are definitely my addiction.

And my Book Depository wishlist is half what it was and I'm seriously cutting down on new pb as their prices are starting to climb well over $10. So there is hope that I'll get to more books I already own.

I think one of my problems is I like to re-read books and I do that frequently, so that cuts down on new book reading time.

Darcy, I do love your idea on getting to the stuff that hides at the back of the shelf. LOL.

Sandra wrote: "I think one of my problems is I like to re-read books and I do that frequently, so that cuts down on new book reading time."

I used to re-read more than I do now. I find that now I do it by audio and pick 1 or 2 series a year.

Sandra wrote: "As if! But I have certainly stopped the kindle freebie binge I was on late last year.."

Those freebies are so tempting but after the initial binge (immediately after getting my Kindle), I now only get freebies from authors I know I will read.

I haven't re-read a book in ages. I just have so many new and shiny books that my old favorites are being neglected.

Oh the battle of the kindle freebie - This past year I spent some time think what is this and I started reading them. Some are good but most of just meh. I am glad I actually started taking a look at them because now I do not feel so tempted.

As for the re-reading them I used to try and reread a series before the new one came out. Pfft no time for that anymore but I have a few that I tend to re-read each year...and they are the same ones.