Goodreads.com is a website that allows users to search an extensive user-populated database of books, annotations, and reviews. I sometimes use it to search for that perfect book, but I use it mostly to keep track of the books that I have already read or those that are on my wish list. How many times have you opened a book and started to read only to realize that you've already read it? I have on numerous occasions, but not any more! I write a little review along with my likes and dislikes about each book, rate them, record my finish date, and then file it all away on Goodreads.com. Very handy indeed! Goodreads.com keeps me straight, in a literary way, and is something that fulfills that little thing in me that needs to be book-organized.
At the end of last year, Goodreads.com challenged members to set a goal as to how many books they wanted to read in 2015. I took that challenge and set my goal at 12 books, one per month, hardly unreasonable. Just last week I increased my goal to 15 books and am happy to report that I have already read 10 books simply by making reading a priority. I've cancelled many magazine subscriptions so that I can focus on book reading. This challenge also gets me to the library more often - a place that I love to visit. I'm pretty sure I was a librarian in a former life because I love to walk among the tomes, searching the titles, reading the excerpts, re-shelving books that are out of order. I always leave there - reluctantly - with a bag full of books that I can barely lift because I have a hard time settling on just 4 or 5. How about you?
Do you take the time to read? What is your personal reading goal? What is your favorite genre? How many books can you read in a year? Join the challenge - you will not regret it.
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