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My Ten Bookish Goals for 2018

Welcome to another round of Top Ten Tuesday: a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl  This week's theme is ten bookish resolutions/goals for 2018. Let's list some goals then!  This year, I want to:  1.  Devote more time to reading This is as good a time as any to announce that I cancelled my subscription to Netflix (oh my!) so this should leave me with enough hours each week to sit down and read. I still have Viaplay to get my X-Files and Buffy fix. 2. Read at my own pace 3. Read one book at a time 4. Be more consistent with my reading journal 5. Loan more books at the library 6. Finish the series I'm already in the middle of before starting new series  In 2018 I also want to read more: 7. Classic sci fi 8. Non-fiction  9. Classics  Which all boils down to my ultimate 2018 reading goal: 10.  To only read books that I'm interested in.  So, what are your readin...

1000 views + Books I bought in 2015

It's the end of the year, and my blog has just reached one thousand views . It doesn't sound like much, but for a blog that has only been open for a few months, and is run by someone who has virtually no experience in blogging, 1k views is a pretty big deal. It means that someone in this infinitely large Universe we call the Internet has found something in my blog they like, and that makes them  want to come back for more. So, a big and loud thank you for all of you who keep on clicking on my links. You guys are the best. Now to some more annual recaps and summaries. In my post, 2015 in Books and Movies I made a very short list of the best and worst books and movies I had the pleasure (or a misfortune) to discover. Today, I want to list the books that I bought in 2015. I usually don't buy a lot of books, since I can find most of what I want in the library. So when I go out and make a purchase, it has to be something special. The Yiddish Policemen's U...