It's a new year! Well - it's ten days into a new year!

I love this time of year - the promise of a clean slate, of new goals, or resolutions that haven't totally failed yet - how can anyone not be optimistic?!

I am perhaps too optimistic. I have set my #ReadingChallenge Goal for this year at..

..wait for it..

Fifty books. Yes. FIFTY. I have never read fifty books in one year in my entire life.

What gave me the confidence to try for fifty books this year I hear literally nobody ask?

Was it my success in last year's reading challenge - or lack thereof- given I only read eighteen out of my thirty book goal?

Is it the fact that I just reallly really want to?

Or the fact that OH DANG THERE'S SO MANY BOOKS I WANT TO READ IN THIS LIFETIME?

I'd say a combination of all three.

My hopes are high - it's just one book a week, after all. What could possibly go wrong?

Anyway, besides the FIFTY WHOLE BOOKS I want to read, I have some other goals for this year of reading.

GOALS.

1. Read a BALANCE of genres; including literary, historical fiction, fantasy and chick-lit. Variety is the spice of life!
2. Read at least 3 non-fiction books.
3. Read a classic work on feminism
4. Read the classics you've been meaning to get to
5. Read something in a foreign language (wish me luck!)

And there you have it!

Basically, I want to read as widely as possible, and cram my brain with as many new and different voices as I can.

I'd like to read more contemporary literary fiction too, as well as more ideological works - as I'm not an university any more it's been a while since I picked up anything really thought-provoking.

So there you have it! Thank you for reading this post, and thanks for joing me on this year's reading journey!