what a ride 2022 has been it's time to prepare for 2023 and in the bookish world that means
looking at my goals for all things reading and for me a little bit of content creating
hey folks it's Abi from Abi of Pellinor and this hat is itching my head we're going to
be looking at what I plan to do in 2023 for my reading I know that a lot of people
think very hard about their 2023 and extra goals and they go ham and they have all of
these difficult and really interesting tasks to see how they fare I will not be doing that
because these past few months I've really not been reading so I wanted to be kind on myself for 2023
let's let's say spin you around but we're going over there uh and see what these goals actually
are my bookish goals the first main goal I have is the amount of books that I want to read this
year and I am keeping this very low as of filming I haven't read a book in about a month but I've
read 116 books this year and I'm sure that will go up by the time I finish 2022 because I am reading
at least one book however massive reading slump these past couple months so I am only aiming for
50 books for some people that would still be a lot for me obviously it's not it's less than half of
what I read this year but I want to try and stick to that if I can I don't want to read more books
for the sake of it I want to take my time with my books I don't want to feel as rushed I have
been getting caught up again in the booktube hype of reading everything reading everything reading
everything and I need to slow down and enjoy reading again and once I do maybe my reading speed
will pick back up and I'll start reading loads again but at the minute it's just too much so
50 books if I shoot over it okay if I get under it okay but that is my aim I'm gonna aim for 50 books
now for some of those books so I'm actually going to be taking part in a few different book clubs in
2023 and one of them is the spiritual successor to the Dead Famous readalong where we read the
Skulduggery Pleasant books and we are going to be reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
so this box set here is all five books written by Douglas Adams and then this is the sixth book
written by Eoin Colfer and we are going to be reading these one a month so we're starting in
February starting in January and the first live show is in February it is most of the Dead Famous
crew so I'll have them all tagged down below so you can go and follow their different accounts
so you can keep up to date with this but I'm really looking forward to it these are a lot
shorter than the Skulduggery books so even though Skulduggery was a reread for me this will probably be
a lot faster for me to get through and will also mean you know it's nice and short I can just get
into it so it means I get the book read each month nice so yes I'll be getting through these and this
one is actually not technically on my TBR it's on my itbr it's all my TBR shelves uh because I
am stealing this edition from my boyfriend this is his this is the only Hitchhiker book he owns
worked out surprisingly well on a tangential link for books that I'm going to be reading but
also subscription boxes book subscription boxes I have unsubscribed from Illumicrate I couldn't be
arsed with them anymore their customer service has been interesting as of late there's been a
few TikToks and things that I've seen um of how they've dealt with people who weren't happy
about the printing issue so that and then the quality control on the books has went down and the
most important thing for me personally was that whilst I have really enjoyed some of their books
I am not reading YA anymore and even the adult books that they're picking feel quite YA the one
major standout has been Babel that has been the book but that was always going to be the book
um so yes they're gone however Goldsboro are still here of course Goldsboro are still here so I will
still be trying to read my one Goldsboro book every single month I have dropped off on that
recently I'm looking at the fact that there are two Goldsboro books stacked in my pile right there
and I've not read either of them I don't know what's gunna happen with them I might just kind of
give myself a pass on them and just add them to my general TBR just so I don't stress myself out but
with my monthly Goldsboro books I want to continue doing what I did last year of reading them the
month after they come in that way I keep on top of them I'm reading new releases which is always fun
because I'm usually reading a lot of backlog and and it means that they don't pile up unnecessarily
and then something that I'd like to read but I'm not adding to my official list so this is just
like putting it into the universe but I'm not putting it on the official list I've read The
Hobbit and the first book in The Lord of the Rings trilogy I would like to finish this but we'll see
we'll see I currently have somewhere around 150 to 160 books on my physical TBR I'll see I'll end up
getting some for Christmas I've already got some parcels thank you very much to everyone in advance
I am setting the goal that by 2359 on the 31st of the 12th 2023 my TBR needs to be below 100 books
now given the targets that I'm setting I'm probably gunna have to unhaul some books
and I really just need to sit down and do that I have so many books that I'm looking at that I've
had on my TBR for years now and clearly there's something that's stopping me from picking them
up I either need to just get on with it and pick them up and read them or I need to establish the
fact that they are living my life and that's fine 100 books or less on my TBR at the end of
2023 this is the biggest challenge for me that will be the most difficult one that is the one
that I am most likely to fail again if I fail nothing bad happens it's fine but that's what
I'd like I'd like to have it under a hundred books that feels more manageable to me and then
we have the content goals a lof of yous might dip right now which is completely fair so if you
do thank you so much for watching and I can't wait to see you for more videos in 2023 but if
you stick around it's not too long I promise so I have three main content things that I do
YouTube Instagram and I now recently in October started posting videos on TikTok because I got
a phone that could handle TikTok I was using an iPhone 6 before I needed an upgrade
as of filming I've got around 860 subscribers thank you all all of you I'd love to try by the end of 2023
to hit a thousand now if my growth keeps going in the trajectory that it's already on then I'll hit
that with no issue but I can't guarantee that and this is kind of you know the motivation to
keep making content that I enjoy um and hopefully you guys do too for TikTok I don't know how to
do this for TikTok because like I said I only started it in October I had an account before them
because it used to work on my phone in 2018 but I only started making videos in October and I'm
already at like 960 follows on TickTok so I'm gonna aim for like 2000 I don't know if I'm aiming
far too high or far too low I have no clue I'm going to aim for 2000 and we'll see what happens
and then for bookstagram I am on 1500 followers and I'd like to try and get that up to 2000
followers on bookstagram to do this Tik Tok I'm still working out obviously and I mainly do stupid
skits on there so if you want to see my stupid skits and lip syncing Tik Tok it's fun I enjoy
it I really enjoy it Instagram I'm gonna kind of evolve how I'm taking the photos I have been
taking this same style of photo for years now and I still do like that style but I want to kind of
explore more ways that I can have different photo types and still be within that style I need to
explore more and see more what I can do so I want to play around with that and obviously engaging
with everyone's content is always so so much fun and then YouTube I'm just gonna keep making these
stupid videos I want to do some more review videos definitely those have been fun recently and then
also I've done some really fun ones in the past that I like based around specific things so like
my Måneskin video and my Animal Crossing video so I'd like to do some more of them it's just that
they require planning and I haven't had to do that in a while so I I need to sit down and actually
plan and then I do have a certain video that if I do it right I will be quite interesting bit
nervous about that one also requires more research and my laptop doesn't work right now I'm editing
everything on my partner's PC bless him I also need to buy a PC maybe that could be on the list
too 2023 build my own PC that's what I want to happen in 2023 I want to kind of hit the different
thousand marks for all of my socials and then I want to read 50 books have 100 books on my TBR
enjoy joining in with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy readathon I'm so excited for that it
is hosted by Hannah from Ladette M so links down below go follow it's gonna be so so much fun it
is peak British humor okay this is what I know about this series peak British humor so I just
promise just follow at least the first one you need to come along so yeah please do come along
and join us for that because I am so so excited for it if you'd like to see some more from me in
2023 then please do hit the Subscribe button and I can try and get a little bit closer to
that 1000 subscriber count and all of my socials are linked down below in the description if you
do want to follow me anywhere else and I hope that you folks whether you celebrate Christmas Hanukkah
Kwanzaa or any other celebration that I'm missing I hope you have a wonderful end of your 2022 and
I hope that you're able to have some joy in what is in the northern hemisphere a freezing cold time
thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next one bye
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