REACTING to my 2023 reading goals and SETTING goals for 2024! 

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I don’t even want to think about how many unread books are on my physical TBR… getting it down to 200 would be so hard 😂

oh thank GOD i was starting to get withdrawal symptoms!!! nice to see you back meg!😁

Amazing goals! My goals for 2024 are: 1. Read 1 classic per quarter 2. Read 2 Non-Fiction (includes memoirs) per quarter 3. Focus on books that are genuinely interesting to me over picking up books because of hype 4. Book buying ban through June 2024 5. Complete monthly TBR games

I stopped scrolling at the end of 2020 and it’s the best thing I’ve done. Got rid of my socials and I’ll check in for about 5 minutes every few months. I see people just scrolling endlessly and I hate it. I think of how much time you’re waiting peeps

i kid you not i checked every day to see if you’d uploaded…. i’m sorry you were so sick 😭 so happy to have you back!!!!

So glad your back 🫶 me just sitting here waiting 😂

uhm we definitely noticed, babes! excited for all your 2024 content!!!! I got my physical tbr down to 30 in 2023... that's right! 30. so now that it feels like I have nothing to read, I'm struggling with making 2024 reading goals lolol

Just starting the video and I will say I did notice and I missed you 🥲

if you feel comfortable, can you post house hunting videos? i love those as I always imagine what would I chose and so on. If you don't feel comfortable I totally understand

So glad your back been checking to see if you posted a video. Hope you’re okay! Xxx

I laughed at your 'I want to cultivate...' because these days it brings to my mind the xianxia genre of chinese novels that involve a protagonist 'cultivating' to immortality through meditation 😂 Also, if you want your avg rating to be 4.0 then you have to at the very least aggressively DNF everything that's below 3 stars!

I'm a huge library book reader but my personal book collection has massively grown in the past year or so. It's not 200 unread, but it's definitely a lot more than I'm comfortable with and so I'm also needing to focus on my backlog this year lol Good luck with all your goals!

Yay! happy to have you back Megan! One of my reading goals is to read more indigenous authors! I'm hoping 2024 is the year of the 4 star average rating for you.

WELCOME BACK MEGGGGG

We noticed and we missed you Meg❤❤❤❤

UMMM bestie we noticed and missed you!!! SOOO happy you’re back😭🤩

7:55 that caught me so off guard lmaoo me "justifying" my book buying to my family

anytime a booktuber says ‘owned tbr’ you can hear the youtube gods laugh

My goals, hmmm. I belong to three book clubs (one club picks a book each month, the other two pick a prompt and we choose a book that fits the prompt). I want to participate as fully as possible but allow myself to opt out when I'm too busy or uninterested. I mean, I'm reading for my own pleasure. It's not a job. Right? Ditto for the 3-5 readathons I enjoy each year, I give myself permission to be creative in how I participate, so it's all fun and no stress. My bookshelves are overflowing. I want to finish reorganizing them - I'm almost there! I want to read primarily from books that I own, whether that be physical books or Kindle books, instead of buying new books. I'm not going on a book buying ban, but I can minimize how many books come in to the house. Maybe unhaul a book for every book I haul? Buy only one new book a month? I haven't figured it out yet. I usually read a handful of classics every year but last year I only read ONE! So, read more classics this year. And last but not least, I want to stop putting off reading the books I'm most looking forward to reading - I have no idea why I do this!

girl I have 572 unread books.... trust me, ur good lololol BREAK ALL THE LEGS THIS YEAR ON YOUR GOALS (i swear thats a theatre thing I'm not wishing you to break your legs) 🖤 ✨

It's amazing how similar some of our goals are! I'm also really focusing on "cultivating" this year. I feel that it will help me have the mental space to do things I want to do. And my biggest reading goal this year is also to increase my average rating!

we've missed you!!! excited for 2024 content 💗

Missed you so much!! ❤

I love cultivate! My word for this year is intention for similar reasons.

Meg, I want to recommend a couple classics for you that you might enjoy. First, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. It's also a mystery so it may be up your alley. Another good (endearing) one that's also relatively short for a classic is Silas Marner by George Eliot. I know you've read at least a couple Jane Austen but I would recommend Sense and Sensibility to you if you haven't read that one.

I'm going to make some non-fiction recommendations as well. Calling Bullshit by Carl T. Bergstrom. Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson. Drive by Daniel H. Pink. The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth. And, finally, anything by Brené Brown. Hope these recs help you meet your goals this year and if you end up liking these let me know and I'll make additional ones. Good luck!

Happy to see you're feeling better! ^-^

Goodluck! I think these sound manageable. I want to be more mindful with my reading this year. I also tracking my spending for the first time ever this year. You can do it!

glad to see you back and feeling better 😊 I would be happy to watch your check-ins about reading classics, fwiw! I also love your ideas around 'cultivating' a life you want to lead 🌱

Great to see you back in a new video!

Welcome back Meg ❤

Tracking spending on books is a great idea - I dont' necessarily need to change my habits but I'd like to have an idea. Glad you're feeling better!

I have been constantly checking my subs to see your face, and was so excited to see you there today! I’m officially joining you on the one classic per quarter journey, and I’d also like to finally read some of the books that lay deep in the sea floor of my TBR 🥲 Good luck hunting for a place!

We noticed Meg and we missed you ❤

I'm tracking my book spending this year as well! I'm keeping my receipts throughout each month and at the end of the month in going to add it all up and put it in my spreadsheet.

Youuuuuu’re baaaaaaaaack. I actually checked your channel yesterday to see how long it’d been. 😂

Omg i so glad you posted again! Ofc you should take a break if you need one but I've missed your videos 💖

Also, it's very nice to know more about your full life. :) Cultivate is a perfect word! I'm sorry you've been sick. I have been sick off and on for the last few weeks too, ugh. Time to start being extra attentive to my health and mindset.

I wish you the best of luck for you and your house hunting. My partner and I bought and moved into a place last year and 2023 has been my lowest reading year in a long time but oh it’s so worth it! And I wish you luck moving all your books!!!!

I don't do drugs - me whenever someone says I'm addicted to books 😂 So happy to have you back! 🤗

My main goal for this year is DNF more and end up with less 2 or 3 star reads that I just finished for the sake of finishing them

I’m glad u took a good rest 💖 don’t let YT take your health energies 🏆

I love seeing everyone's goals! I find it inspiring but also im just noisy i just like to know😂

I have 221 books on my TBR so I’m right there with you

Welcome back! I’ve set myself 5 challenges this year. 1 classic per month, 5 complete series from my tbr, 10 authors I’ve given a five star to previously - I’ll read another book by them to see if it was a fluke or not, 23 best books of 2023 to catch up from last years releases and then finally my least read genres I want to read 10 books from each (non-fiction, poetry, historical, horror, and sci-fi)

Meg! I was genuinely starting to worry about you because of how ill you were in your last video. I’m so glad you’re back 😂🎉

Happy new year! Glad you are feeling better. I thought I would recommend 'How to break up with your phone' by Catherine Price. It may help with your goal of less screen time and it's a non-fiction book too ;) xx

I ended 2023 and started 2024 with covid. Everyone at work is sick with various things too My goal is just more, I think I finished like 3 or 4 books in the whole year, I have two full bookshelves of things to read and I just don't read enough. My list for this year is like 30 books, so fingers crossed I can read at least most of them

i noticed you were gone :( i missed you 🫶

Megan I can make you feel so much better about your physical TBR. I currently have 2,198 books in my home library. Do I know my current unread count? No. Do I plan on figuring that out? Maybe. Just think, it could always be worse. 😂

What I’ve decided to do to control my home library is reading primarily on my kindle using libraries and then buying physical copies of books I really enjoy. This way I don’t end up wasting money on a book I’ll never read or recommend AND I hopefully won’t run out of room in my tiny house for books this way 😅

me: i'm going to start tracking my book buying so i know how much i'm spending and maybe i'll stop 12 days into the year: 22 books bought i'd say it's helping! 🙃

I only have 17 books on my physical TBR and I’m still trying to bring it down 😅 more so because I hate letting books languish unread on my shelves, and I’ve owned 2 among those 17 for almost four years ugh

🤞🏻First book of the year is Veronica speedwell first book of the year is Veronica speedwell 🤞🏻

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hey! I have the exact same number of nonfiction books goal! Only downside is a handful of them aren't out yet, but thankfully I got an ARC of one of those! I'm genuinely so excited for each of the 12 non-fic books I chose, and kinda hoping to read more than 12 if I find more that I find interesting! Most of the titles are books about writing or reading, some are about being neurodivergent (a couple ADHD books, one that just came out actually, and one is an autistic woman's memoir, which I got an e-arc of on netgalley!) and then there's a collection of essays coming out in May that I really hope to get my hands on early, about friendships! I can't wait to see what books you end up reading!

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Nonfiction rec: 60% into The Boys in the Boat right now and it’s REALLY interesting. Highly recommend the audio (if you like audio 🤷🏻‍♀️ new subscriber here so, idk).

Aren't TBRs meant to be infinite? 😂

you always dress soooo cuteeeeee

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If you want a higher rating, you HAVE TO DNF, a lot. ♥️♥️♥️

I have 275 on mine :))) as of 30/1/24 🤦🏻‍♀️😂❤️

Something thats satisfying to do is track how much money you saved by borrowing books from the library!

My average rating is 2.9-3.0 every year 🥺

I apparently read more non-fiction than fiction in 2023… I’m surprised actually lol.

Meg... all the girls want is a parasocial relationship!! haha jks jks but sharing your life is never a bad thing!