Happy New Year!

Well, here we are at the start of another new year! Can you believe it’s 2025? I can’t decide if the last few years have gone too fast or too slow. Either way, I hope you’re able to enjoy today celebrating or relaxing (which ever you need the most!) and enjoying yourself. I hope it’s a good day for you and you’re able to start the year as you mean to go on.

I’m not one for making resolutions, but I do have some bookish goals for this year. Once again, I’ll be aiming to read at least 70 books in 2025. I used to adjust this depending on how many I’d read the previous year, but the past few years have been so different, for now I’m sticking to 70.

I have 5 reading challenges I want to try and complete, though they’re all relatively small ones: three challenges have 12 prompts, one has 16, and my Musicals Reading Challenge has 24 (plus a bonus prompt). I’d also like to finish the Netflix Movies & TV Challenge, which currently has 10 prompts left.

I’m quite excited for these new challenges! They’re all fairly different from ones I’ve done before, and I’m excited by doing a couple of more genre focused ones. Especially the non-fiction challenge I’ve signed up for, as I’d really like to read more non-fiction in 2025.

What are your goals for this year? Do you set specific goals, or aim for more general ones?