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2019 Bookish Resolutions!

Hi everyone! Welcome to Nox Reads, I'm "Nox", and I solemnly swear that I won't fail with these bookish resolutions the way I usually do!

This is just a short little post, but I wanted to let everyone know what specifically bookish goals I had in mind for 2019! Since it's so short I'm posting it on the same day as my 2018 Wrap Up.

Without further ado, here are my bookish resolutions!
  1. Read 36 books this year! This is my Goodreads challenge, and while I read 35 in 2018, it was pretty tough to get to it.
  2. Read the To All the Boys I've Loved Before trilogy. I've seen the movie but never read the books!
  3. Read more new releases! I received so many new releases but never got to them!
  4. Read the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy. Once again, saw the movie without reading the books!
  5. Grow my blog! This isn't really a specific one, but I want to work on fixing it and making the blog a place where more people want to come and interact!
  6. Post at least once a week on my blog. This is a challenge for me usually...at least I've succeeded this week!
  7. Post at least three times a week on my Bookstagram! Posting once a week is a challenge for me, but I'd like to post more on Bookstagram! It's different from my blog because I can carry it around with me.
  8. Make more bookish friends! This isn't so much of a resolution as it is a hope, but the bookish community seems so awesome and I'd love to get to know more people from it and be more active in it!
  9. Participate in more readathons! Readathons and readalongs are such interesting concepts that I have to dedicate more time to! 
  10. Start a Maggie Stiefvater buddy read with my friend Tyler! Tyler was one of the first bookish friends I made online, and we met over Booktube-a-thon when she was reading The Dream Thieves and I was finishing The Raven King. We both thought it would be cool to read all of Maggie Stiefvater's books (because after the Raven Cycle we are now lifelong stans), and I hope we can do that this year! I already have Shiver!
  11. Read more #ownvoices books! I want to read more books with diverse main characters and mental health awareness. Eliza and Her Monsters was one of the novels with the greatest impact on me in 2018, and I want to open myself up to more of those stories. I want to see myself more in characters, as a plus-sized multiracial female that struggles with her mental illness. Obviously, I don't expect to see a character who checks all of those boxes, but I'd like to explore books with characters that have some of those aspects.
Those are the main bookish resolutions I have this year! Some of them are generic, while others are super-specific. We'll see at the end of the year how I did!

What are some of your bookish resolutions for 2019?

Have a great day!

~ Nox
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