Bring It On, 2017 | Goals and More

2016 was the year of sadness and disasters, honestly. There were celebrity deaths, I lowered my initial reading goal from 100 to 80, I fought with my thyroid and lost, resulting in weird weight gain, and my cholesterol's up. I'm so ready to start fresh. I'm very bad at keeping goals, but I'm a freaking adult and it's time to start acting like it! *game face*

Reading/book goals:

1. Read at least 80 books, if not more. I won't be as overzealous like I was at the beginning of the year where I look at last years 150 and say, "Well, 100 seems good," then fall 12 behind and give up. No changing the goal this time.
2. Post more original content on Tumblr. I'm a victim of constant reblogging, which is great to keep Tumblr moving, but I rarely take my own pictures. 
3. Review weekly, like I intended to do when I opened my blogger as well as extending my review format. I kind of fell out of it in October because I was trying to read as many spooky books as possible and forgot about reviewing them.
4. READ MORE #OWNVOICES. I'm spending more time figuring out if the books I'm reading or want to read are considered #ownvoices. 
5. Read more at home. I do most of my reading at work and do random things when I get home. I rarely ever read at home. I don't know if the atmosphere is wrong or what, but I always find myself drifting off and playing with my phone. 

Books to read:

1. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
2. The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo | Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising
3. The Dark World by S.C. Parris  (love you, bae)
4. Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor
5. The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
6. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
7. Girl Out of Water by Laura Silverman
8. Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
9. The Seafarer's Kiss by Julia Ember
10. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
11. Star-crossed by Barbara Dee
12. Passenger & Wayfarer by Alexandra Bracken
13. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
14. This Savage Song by V.E. Schwab
15. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
16. Tipping the Velvet & Affinity by Sarah Waters
17. The Chemist by Melissa Meyer
18. Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson
19. Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray
20. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
21. The Devourers by Indra Das
22. The Mermaid Girl: A Story by Erika Swyler
23. Where Am I Now by Mara Wilson
24. The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Careers of Ed and Lorraine Warren by Gerald Brittle
25. Beware the Night (or Deliver Us From Evil) by Ralph Sarchie
26. A History of Glitter and Blood by Hannah Moskowitz
27. The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings
28. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
29. Conversion by Katherine Howe
30. Tattoo Atlas by Tim Forleen
31. The Testing by Koelle Charbonneau
32. The Accident Season by Moira Fowley-Doyle
33. The Prestige by Christopher Priest
34. Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
35. Scythe by Neal Shusterman
36. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
37. The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid
38. Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic
39. The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
40. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
41. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
42. The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
43. The Other Alice by Michelle Harrison
44. Alice by Christina Henry
45. Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
46. The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
47. Security by Gina Wohlsdorf
48. The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy
49. I Crashed into a Unicorn by Kasie Jeon
50. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
51. Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger
52. The Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs
53. ...okay, I'm done with this list, it's getting out of hand...

Books to reread:

1. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
2. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
3. Ice Massacre & Ice Crypt by Tiana Warner
4. Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
5. Secret Society by Tom Dolby
6. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
7. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
8. Thirst by Christopher Pike
9. Beowulf
10. Chocolat by Joanne Harris
11. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Personal/mental goals:

1. Move out. Yes, I'm 26 and still live at home. Whatever. But at this point, I'm waiting for the boyfriend to get his money situation together. I gave him a "at the latest" date for September. 
2. Be more comfortable with my body, or do something about it. I'm gonna try to stop my compulsive snacking and eating out for lunch so much and get back into drinking an excess of water. I'm quite lazy, so working out probably won't happen, but I can easily control what I eat and how much.
3. Set a wedding date/year. I've been engaged for a year, and that's all fine and good, but we've been waiting to move out to decide on a date. So hopefully, after September, we'll make a date for sure.
4. Decide when I'm going back to school for my Masters or, at the very least, take my GRE and get my recommendation letters done. I've been graduated for a year and I really do enjoy being out of school, but if I wanna move up, I gotta start school again. *heavy sigh*
5. Start a bullet journal, including a one-sentence-a-day journal.

I hope I can keep myself  on track this year and actually feel accomplished this time next year. I feel like if I make this public, then I have the internet to hold me accountable if I fall behind. 

If anyone notices any books on my list that are bad rep or problematic, please don't hesitate to tell me! I'm also always down for more recs :D

Happy New Year, my dears!

-Allie

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