Muslim Woman in Amman

 The year is finally at an end and I think we are all happy to see 2020 in our rearview mirror. I especially need a new start in my reading life. After my success in 2019, I was ready to go even further in 2020. My goals for 2020 were:  Read 366 books one book a day and because I read a lot of picture books for work I thought I could totally nail this challenge. Finish Around the year in 52 books. Finish the Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge. Did I complete these challenges? Nope! I completed none of them. 366 books? Nope! I got up to 235 books which percentage-wise is 64% Around the year in 52 books? Nope! I read 46 out of 52 which puts me at 88% Ultimate POP Sugar Challenge? Nope! I read 26 out of 50 books which is around 52% Is this going to discourage me from trying again in 2021 Nope!Nope! Double nope because I'm going to get it done this year not only that I'm going to up my game and read 40 books before my 40th. I turn 40 in 2022 so I want to mark the occasion by read...

Last year I found out about Popsugar Challenge and the Around the Year in 52 Books(ATY) on GoodReads. I started my Challenge on December 2018 with plans to end by December 2019. I actually finished both challenges before that so I'm all good. But one thing that annoyed me about starting the challenges early is the my dedicated shelves say that I didn't complete the challenge. It really is bothering me so for 2020 I am not starting till January 1st despite winter break starting on December 20th. Also Half way through last year I learnt about tracking the challenges on spreadsheets which was awesome because you can see how many books you have completed and what percentage you've completed. For the ATY one of the mods ( Emily Bourque ) created a community spreadsheet so that everyone could fill it in with the books they've read and they can also see what others have read for the same prompt. I really liked how she had set it up so I made a very basic one ...

This year I have been working on reading more books. I feel that as a Librarian I need to be more of a reader. When I was a teenager I used to be a big reader then I went to college and was forced to read books that I didn't enjoy so it kind of turned me off of reading. Also fan fiction kinda became my go to reading therefore my book reading has been severely neglected. Now, that I'm a librarian I feel that I need to be better acquainted with a lot of books so that I can help recommend books to my students. When I walked into the school library I saw all these popular books that I didn't know a thing about and all the books I loved as a kid were no longer popular. So, I felt like I was kinda drifting. Which brings me to this years goal of being a more prolific reader. To motivate me I joined the Popsugar Reading Challenge and the Good Reads Around the Year in 52 books challenge. My original goal was to limit myself to only books found in my library but I ended up dev...