{"id":1627,"date":"2018-12-27T07:15:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T12:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2018-12-26T22:17:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T03:17:55","slug":"2019-goals-and-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/2019-goals-and-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Goals and Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2018 is finally over!!!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Okay, fine, it&#8217;s still 2018 for a few more days. But it&#8217;ll be over before you know it, and then everything can start new. Except this blog. I&#8217;ve spent the past four months writing reviews, creating color palettes, coming up with (and sticking to!) a schedule, and I&#8217;m not letting all that hard work go to waste! I&#8217;m going to build on what I did in 2018 to make 2019 an even better year for Kait Plus Books! These are some of the ways I&#8217;m going to accomplish that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Goodreads Challenge:<\/strong> My 2018 goal was 60 books, but I beat that and ended up reading 68 books! For 2019 my goal is 104 books, which means I&#8217;ll be reading (at least) two books a week!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beat the Backlist Challenge:<\/strong> Hosted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novelknight.com\/btb2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NovelKnight<\/a>, this challenge is to get people to read books published in 2018 and earlier. And I definitely need to do that! I have so many books to catch up on that I thought I would be able to read and just never did, plus a lot of the books where I was waiting for the entire series to be published before I started are complete now. Honestly, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to have time between January and July for this challenge, but I hope to complete it in the second half of the year! My goal for this will be 20 books, but I&#8217;m not sure exactly what I&#8217;m going to read yet. Let me know if you have a favorite book (published 2018 or earlier) that you think I should read!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Book Reviews:<\/strong> I&#8217;m going to try and post AT LEAST one review every week! Some weeks there will be two, and (hopefully very) rarely there will be three or more reviews. I&#8217;m thinking about putting a linky on my Saturday Link Up posts because I want to be accountable for that somewhere.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Discussion Posts:<\/strong> The goal for this one is to post at least one discussion post per month, but I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll be able to keep up with that. I don&#8217;t really know what to talk about in these, so if you have any ideas, please let me know!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Weekly Bookish Memes:<\/strong> <strong>Top Ten Tuesday<\/strong> and <strong>Can&#8217;t Wait Wednesday<\/strong> are some of my favorite posts to create, so I&#8217;m going to try and post those every week!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monthly Bookish Memes:<\/strong> This is where I&#8217;m putting my <strong>Monthly #TBR<\/strong> posts, my <strong>Wrap Ups<\/strong>, and <strong>Television Talk<\/strong>. Each month there should be one of each of these.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now. Are there any challenges you&#8217;re participating in for 2019? Any you think I should take a look at? 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