Earlier this week, I finished reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Early today, I finished The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James. So what’s up next?

I’ve already started Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff, and I will probably start The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker this week as well. I’ve been interested in reading The Golem and the Jinni for quite some time; it’s been on my Goodreads list for almost 9 years! I’m excited to finally get to it. Often, I get distracted from the list, and start reading things that aren’t always on the list. 🧐

Between Goodreads, Trello, and StoryGraph, I’m sure there are over 1,000 books on my tbr (to be read) list. I will never get to them all! Even looking at the series I’ve started, to finish all of them is 60 books. That’s almost a whole year’s worth of reading right there.

For 2022, rather than set a reading goal for the number of books, I’m going for a page goal instead. I’m hoping this will prevent me from avoiding longer books (like Empire of the Vampire), and that I won’t feel the need to read a bunch of short things at the end of the year.

Looking back, even after reading a bunch of Outlander-related short stories and novellas, I still missed my goal of 75 books last year, finishing the year with 66 books and 17,364 pages read, according to Goodreads.

Goodreads doesn’t allow a page goal, only books, so I made a guess and put 65. Hopefully, if I meet the page goal, the book count will come naturally. On StoryGraph, I have a page goal of 24000! Maybe I’ll finally get around to reading Wheel of Time this year! Of course, that adds around 14 books to finish all in-progress series, so maybe I should wait. 😆 I would also really like to do better about writing reviews this year. I guess that has to wait until this #Bloganuary challenge is over!

Today’s #Bloganuary prompt is to write about the next book on my reading list.

I’m a fairly messy person. Everything just lands somewhere: on a table, my desk, the back of a chair, and then it stays there until there’s a good reason to move it.

I listened to The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo last year. My biggest takeaway was that you can’t be neat and tidy if you have too much stuff. Since then, I have slowly been attempting to organize and purge. Her advice is that you pull out everything for a given category and go through ALL of it, in one sitting. Or as close to one as you can manage.

Maybe I should do that? Maybe I should invest in more closet space and organization?

There are neat and tidy people who exist in the universe. I have always thought I wasn’t destined to be one of them. However, after reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, I am curious to find out if this is a superpower that can be learned.

Oh, and it would also be nice to be able to transport myself instantly to other locations. Or to just travel at the speed of light. 😎

Today’s #Bloganuary prompt is about superpowers.

What do people incorrectly assume about me?

When I was in college and lived in Maryland, for some reason, people thought I was from the south. I guess they felt I had a southern accent, rather than a Californian accent? People also assumed everywhere in California was close to LA (but that’s not really an assumption about me).

It’s not as true as it used to be, but people often assume I’m a lot younger than I actually am.

January 9th’s #Bloganuary prompt is about incorrect assumptions.