Bookish goals I'm sure I'll fail at

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is Bookish Goals for 2023 which I don't do so I going with Bookish goals I'm sure I'll fail at. (If I am to make a bookish goal, it would be to find a book and read it, that's it.) For more Top Ten Tuesday, visit That Artsy Reader Girl here.

01 - Read other people's recommendations — I ought to stop taking other people book recommendations since I seem to fail that a lot. But then again, reviews are like recommendations also because that's usually what got me interested in a book.

02 - Read a certain amount of books — I no longer count the books I finished reading so I can never tell you how many books I read each year nor will I set a goal to read a certain amount of books. What is the point of counting anyway? I find it's just easier not to count.

03 - Finish every book I read — I now DNF (did not finish) like it's nothing unusual. Before, I loath to not finish a book but now I just don't care. Some books are just not worth finishing.

04 - Join a reading challenge — I guess reading challenges aren't made for me because I find them kind of oddly ineffective. If the goal is to read a single book, I can maybe do it but if it's a long or even a short list of books, I can't do it. I don't have the patience to find books to fit the challenge which at times are oddly very specific. And the time limit is something I can't really do either even if it takes a whole year.

04B - Read a book continuously — When I'm reading, sometimes I have these sudden boredom reading attacks. I guess my patience is not always there even when reading a book I really wanted to read and I don't always know why. Often, I owe that to being moody. Even if I'm reading a book that I'm interested in, if I see one that's more interesting, I would read that one instead.

05 - Read more non-fiction — A non-fiction book had to be really interesting to me before I even thought to read it so I'm unlikely to read one. For some odd reason, I always seems to end up reading depressing non-fiction books, don't know why that is.

06 - Buy less books — I take hours and sometimes weeks deciding on a book before I even thought to read it so buying them should be the same but it's not. For some odd reason, now that I read ebooks, I am more likely to buy books (ebooks that is) than before. Of course, the fact that ebooks are cheaper (and they deliver faster) is one good reason but I rarely buy printed books now. I only buy printed books that I know I'll re-read which is rare so I haven't brought a printed book in a couple of years.

07 - Read more books from the library — Now that I borrow ebooks from the library, I kind of read what's available to me so I'm actually reading less library books. The more popular a book is, the more likely the waiting list is long although even unpopular titles have a wait list. I just added myself to a waiting list with over 400 people on it so I might get to read that book in a year or a year and a half which can be frustrating but I try to be patient.

08 - Finish book series — I doubt there are people who actually finish reading series any faster than me which is to say, not fast, sort of crawling in baby steps toward the end. Mostly because I keep starting new series because every book is now a series, even books that had no sequels now have them so...

09 - Read translated books — I am prone to reading translated Japanese books but I just find the translation is never done well. For some odd reasons, they kept translating them to be more American with cliches/phrases and specific saying that one is certain is never mistaken for anything but American. Maybe I just haven't read any good translated books but I certainly didn't try hard to find them.

10 - Read out of my comfort zone — Occasionally, I do try but the result usually deters me even more from reading anything particularly new to me. It's not terrible but at the same time, not having a wider range in reading sort of maybe kept me from new experiences. Maybe, maybe not.

Do you make bookish goals?