Reading Reflection: 2022

 

With the end of the year only a few days away, I wanted to make sure to set aside some time to reflect on how my reading went in 2022. This ended up being a bit of a strange year for me. I started off extremely strong, reading at least 100 pages a day for most of the year. Once September hit, however, I started graduate school and my reading time cratered. Luckily, my reading throughout the first part of the year was enough to carry my through all of my reading goals.  I finished everything I wanted to do and read the most books I've ever read in a year. However, I'm definitely exiting the year on a whimper instead of a bang.  

This is okay though! I still had a great year. Here's the breakdown of what I accomplished.

My goal was to read 100 books and I ended up reading 101. This is the most books I have ever read in a year, so this was definitely a success for me. I can't help but wonder what number I would have ended up with had I been able to continue reading regularly throughout the end of the year, but hey, I can always try this again once grad school is done with. You can view my year in reading here.

Another challenge I set for myself in 2022 was to read 22 books that I had been meaning to get to for awhile. I did end up reading them all and finishing this challenge. You can view my results here.

Another goal I set for myself was to finish reading some of the series I had sitting on my shelves. I set myself a goal of finishing seven different series, and I ended up finishing nine. This was a total of 34 books. Not too shabby! You can view my results here.

My last challenge was to make myself more knowledgeable about middle grades fiction by reading at least 24 middle grades books this year. I ended up reading 33, and several of them ended up being favorites for the year for me. I was definitely sleeping on this genre and I plan to continue reading from it in the future. You can view my results here.

So that's about it for 2022! It was a successful year, but a bit sad too as this will certainly be the most I'll be able to read in a year for a good long while. I'm going to be in graduate school throughout all of 2023, so my posts here on the blog, and my reading goals, will be greatly reduced. I'll post as much as I can though, and I will certainly be back once it's all over.