My Return To Blogging Plans & Reading Goals:

Firstly just let me say that I’m so, so sorry for disappearing for so long. It wasn’t planned in the slightest. I’ve missed blogging a lot and don’t really know what happened. And now, truthfully, it’s hard to know exactly where to start with everything. My desire to share my most anticipated books of 2022 has pushed me to make a return though…and the fact that we’re nearing the end of January has made me realize that I should hurry up and schedule it…

Blogging Plans:

So let’s get down to business; my first proper return post, excluding this one, will be ‘My Most Anticipated Releases of 2022’ which I seriously cannot wait to share with you all (and have split into two parts as it was ridiculously long). These are always so much fun to write and I just adore reading other people’s and discovering even more exciting new books as well. That will be followed up with another anticipated releases post, this time purely for sequels. Then, I admit, I may not post too much for a while as I really want to make a bit of a dent in my TBR before returning to blogging fully. I do have a list of my 2020 & 2021 reads to share though. And I will try and get a couple of my catch up posts shared over this time too, do a bit of blog hopping and stay up to date with comments…no more answering them five months late!

So catch up wise? Well there’s a lot…seriously.

My Monthly Release Posts from May 2020 up until now.
19 Tags
My reviews for 2020 & 2021

Once I’ve caught up with all of that (mostly, anyway) I’ll start my Literacy Lists and TBR Thursday posts back up. Then next year I’d love to finally start the Fairytale Retelling series that I’ve had planned for ages now and also sort out exactly what else I have saved within my draft posts _{(without looking I know that I have a now out of date books to TV/movies adaptation post, a new series called ‘Meet The TBR’ that I began but never shared and a Library Haul. Oops).}

Of course I also have to catch up with all of your wonderful content too. I can’t wait to read some more of your fantastic posts! And hopefully get my scarily overcrowded inbox sorted over time. (I have over 1800 emails related to blogging at the time of posting this. And that’s after an initial clear out and several catch up sessions.)

Tags:
The Coffee Book Tag (My World Of Books)
The Sunshine Blogger Award (A Book A Thought)
I Should Have Read That (Sophie’s Corner)
The Liebster Award One (Elated Books) & (Amber Reads)
The Liebster Award Two (A Few Chapters ’til Love) & (Tall Blonde Tales)
The Mystery Blogger Award (A Few Chapters ’til Love)
The Awesome Blogger Award (A Few Chapters ’til Love) & (Sophie’s Corner)
My Favourite Characters In Quarantine (Sophie’s Corner)
The Flowers Book Tag (My Reading Escape)
Books As First Dates (A Few Chapters ’til Love)
The Stuck At Home Book Tag (Kozy Words)
The Ideal Inspiration Blogger Award (Tall Blonde Tales) & (Illustrated By Hannah)
The Outstanding Blogger Award (Tall Blonde Tales)
The Folklore Book Tag (Tall Blonde Tales)
The Mid Year Freak Out (A Few Chapters ’til Love)

Yep catch up is scary, scary, scary! I honestly have over 150 blog posts in my drafts at the moment and…well I’ll get there. Hopefully… Let’s go onto my goals instead. The first set were the ones that I never got around to sharing during 2021 so I’ll check in with those and add a couple of others on afterwards.

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Book Goals From 2021:

• To fall back in love with reading again; to kick this slump aside for good. Yeah I didn’t really manage this. I did at times then stopped reading again inevitably. But this year I will manage this!
• To start reading my most anticipated books instead of putting them aside out of some irritating fear of not enjoying them. So I actually started off the year by accomplishing this goal but then I stopped. Although it wasn’t really out of fear then; instead I kept putting off my most anticipated releases in favor of my second priority reads which I ordered into the library.

More specifically I’d also like to:

• Catch up with Cassandra Clare’s books _{(at the very least I hope to re-read The Infernal Devices so that I can finally read Chain Of Gold. And also finish The Dark Artifices as I adored the first two books. Truthfully though I hope to read/re-read everything by her.)} Kind of? I did re-read The Infernal Devices and get both Chain Of Gold & Chain Of Iron read. But I still need to finish The Dark Artifices and read several other books by her.
• To finish The Folk Of The Air series because how on earth have I not done this yet? Yay I did one! Do I get bonus points for reading the novella collection too?
• To catch up on Sarah J. Maas’s many books. Um yeah no this didn’t happen. At all. How did I not read any of her books in 2021?
• To re-read The Wicked Lovely series and finally sink my teeth into Cold Iron Heart. Again no. And, to save myself the repetition I failed in the next two goals too.
• To read Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels before the adaptation comes out.
• To read the latest additions to some of my previously loved series.
• To finally read something by V.E. Schwab & Marie Lu. Well I read The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue so that’s half the goal done.
• To read The Beautiful series so far (which I was literally counting down the days to and yet have still failed to read)^. I only have The Righteous left to read and since that came out right at the end of the year I’m counting this.
• AND to read Empire Of The Vampire when it comes out. If I fail in these last two can I even consider myself a vampire fiction fanatic anymore? Oops… BUT it is a book that I majorly hope to get to within the next two months.

Book Goals For 2022:

Well let’s be honest – most of my 2021 goals are still active. This year though I will achieve them! Or at least the majority of them I hope I will. I’ll still set a couple more though as I do really want to start getting my TBR under control.

• To make any books that I preorder a priority. That means not putting them aside for dozens of library books…
• To catch up – somewhat – on my TBR. More specifically to get caught up on any high priority reads that I own and – later in the year – to start trying to get some of the older unread books off of it too.
• To read some of the major series that I don’t own but want to read. The Diviners, All Souls, The Raven Cycle, To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, Book Of The Ancestor & Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children to name a few.
• To finish some of the series I started & adored but never completed.
• To read some of my ebooks. I honestly think I read one last year… and that was a re-read.
• To check out some of the retellings on my TBR. How can I possibly do the retelling series I have planned otherwise? Plus they sound incredible.

Bonus Goals (AKA fingers crossed I’ll reach them but it’s doubtful):

• To read the Dune books.
• To read the books any major adaptations are based on before seeing them. _{What are the major movies coming out this year anyway? I’ll have to look into this.}
• To try and read more from a couple of different genres. Specifically sci-fi as I realized I tend to veer away from it yet enjoy it on screen. And contemporary as I never get around to picking it up.

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If you want to see what I thought of any of my 2021 reads then reviews for them are all over on my Goodreads page. 2020 reads I’m happy to share with you and have reviews saved for but haven’t yet posted anywhere. And 2022 reviews should go up on Goodreads as and when I read them…fingers crossed.

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How have you all been? Read anything interesting lately? How’s 2022 treating you so far? Let me know as I’d love to hear from you all. I’ll be back Friday with part one of My Most Anticipated 2022 Releases.

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