2023
- Read 134 books.
- Read 40,0005 pages.
- Escaped from a school-imposed reading drought. In 2023 I:
- Want to read at least 52 books.
- Want to read at least 20,000 pages.
- Want to do a better job tackling some of the books I keep meaning to read and not getting to.
- Finish all the books I’ve started and left somewhere around the house. As I discussed in my post on what I read in 2022, last year was a great reading year for me. Given the amount I read last year, I know that 52 books and 20,000 pages might seem conservative. I get that. It’s important to me, though, that reading not feel like something I’m forcing myself to do. If I make my reading goal, great! If not, that’s just fine, too. The most important thing is to enjoy the books and the time I spend with them. It’s probably also important to finish some of the books I have scattered around the house? That, too! Anyway, I’m looking forward to this year’s reading. I finished Naomi Novik’s The Golden Enclaves yesterday (more on that soon) and started Ann Leckie’s The Raven Tower this morning. Next up? I’m not sure! I’ll figure it out.
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The Golden Enclaves, by Naomi Novik
I read Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education because I wanted Harry Potter without the baggage. Magical school? Check. Wizarding community living in parallel to our own? Check. The death of children on a massive scale? …check? So, yes, superficially A Deadly Education and its sequels (The Last Graduate and The Golden Enclaves) bear some similarities to the Harry Potter books. Really, though, the similarities stop at the magical school and the wizarding community. Novik’s books are really more about murder at a societal scale.
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My Reading Goals for 2023
In 2022 I:
If you’d like to follow along with my reading this year, I’m on The Storygraph. You can also say hi anytime. I’d love to hear from you!