Holla people, I’m back.
Well, it’s definitely has been a ride. I created my own site using my own domain and it worked well for a while until work took over my life.
At the end of 2023, I was sitting there looking back at this blog and I was like whoa I used to do this?! I used to have time for this?! Back then I was also working but somehow I MADE time to do other things besides working, like taking online course, learning python, reading 50 books a year, and manage a book blog. And honestly those things kept me sane, even with the crazy hours. So here I am trying to give this another go. We are starting with baby steps, easy posts to create while I trying to get my blogging muscles back. Hence, the 2024 reading goals.
NUMBER OF BOOKS TO READ
As we entering 2024, I reflected back on my reading pattern over the years (shoutout to The StoryGraph) and man the number of books I read have really plummeted like a Kaplan-Meier curve with 3 months PFS (don’t ask). So far I have only read 9 (NINE) books in the entire year. I am not sure the number is correct because sometimes I read in Everand and the app does not connect with goodreads, but anyhow let’s just assume it is. NINE BOOKS!
For 2024 I am going to try to double it and put 20 books. We will evaluate this in Q2 2024 (my gosh what has scrum training done to me), but for now 20!
ONE AUDIOBOOK EVERY QUARTER
2023 is the year I finally come to appreciate the versatility of audiobooks. Not only that they can be listened to during workout, I will also sometimes listen to them before bed with the sleep timers. And somehow, Everand has more newer audiobooks than they has ebooks, or perhaps those are just for YA-fantasy (aka my go-to genre). The only cons are that audiobooks are very hard to skim and as a non-auditory learner, I found myself struggling to grasp the infodump from audiobooks compared to reading an ebook. Anyway I will try to read FOUR AUDIOBOOKS in a year, that is one every 3 months.
And that’s it for now. No reading challenge or anything of the likes so far. I will update this post if I decide to join any of 2024 reading challenges.
Now, let me know is there any reading challenge you’re doing for 2024? Leave me a comment and recommend me some!
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