Reading goals for 2022: Not to have them

[owlmoose]

I took a look at my past goals and how I felt about them, and I've decided that, unlike writing goals, reading goals are a source of stress rather than motivation. Better, I think, to set habits of reading and reviewing, while still keeping an eye on things like creator and character diversity. But I will commit to these things:

1. Update StoryGraph within 24 hours of finishing a book. I don't need to write a full review, but I do need to make a note of when I finished and a star rating.

2. Set 30 books as my annual StoryGraph goal for 2022. Last year's goal was 36; StoryGraph says I read 24, which seems about right, but I don't discount the possibility that I might have forgotten a couple.

3. Continue to prioritize books by authors of color. Last year's numbers on this are pretty bad -- 7 books by 4 authors. In part that's because I did more re-reading than usual. I reread all of Murderbot and a good chunk of October Daye, and while I enjoyed both of those projects very much, it skews my total very white. As I revisit my TBR (which I did manage to cull quite substantially) I plan to keep an eye on this aspect of which books I choose.