Q1 2023 Reading Goals Update

[@selbyvillepubliclibrary]

Great job on your goals!

[@vanlepthien6768]

If you are looking for more books is Spanish, you might like Isabel Allende's Zorro. I've read the English version and thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@Kalanadi]

My library has a bunch of her works in Spanish, but not that one, alas. I have plenty to check out now that I've figured out how to view the Spanish ebook collections, haha.

[@jeroenadmiraal8714]

I finished my goal of removing the Christmas tree.

[@Kalanadi]

Hurray!! It took me a long time too, haha!

[@wburris2007]

GEB has been on my shelf for about 40 years, maybe I should read it someday.

[@Kalanadi]

It's never too late to give it a try!

[@1book1review]

Good job on your goals and still being excited about them. I think I am doing okay on mine, I had quite a setback by choosing a 1000+ page German classic for February as my German read of the month (just finished this week :D ), so quite a few other goals had to take a backseat this month. But like you said, it's just the beginning of the year. Unlike you I stopped my Duolingo streak as I was barely keeping it alive and not enjoying it. It's so true that spending more time on it made it more fun, but couldn't find the time and energy, ah well. Go you for reading in Spanish!

[@Kim_Traveling_in_Books]

I'm not doing very well with my own physical TBR goals, but part of that is due to having picked up a bunch of medieval history books at my local used bookstore. The owner of the shop knows me too well, so she knew exactly what she was doing when she "offhandedly" mentioned buying part of a history professor's collection. But oh well. Now I have a bunch of books about my favorite subject, so I'm not upset that my TBR isn't shrinking.

[@Kalanadi]

That's some good TBR additions! I wouldn't be upset about it either, hehe. At a certain I also wonder if turnover in my TBR is better than shrinkage. (If that makes any sense...it's the books that sit around for many years that stress me out)

[@bethd4739]

I have my number goals doing all right per month, and I'm a little ahead for the hear because I'm re-reading some series before the next book comes out! Missed reading a non-fiction book last month, and one of my coals is 1 NF book per month. I need to pick up things that will hold my interest through the work week.

[@Kalanadi]

Sounds like you're doing great! I'm impressed you're re-reading series... I would like to do that later this year.

[@bethd4739]

@@Kalanadi I mean--January was re-reading Wayward Children and now re-reading InCryptid, so they are going pretty fast!

[@miluxian90]

No suelo comentar en KZbin muy a menudo, pero quería decirte que llevo siguiéndote muchos años y me encanta tu canal, gracias a ti me leí la saga Vorkosigan y enseguida se convirtió en una de mis favoritas, me gusta mucho el hecho de que pongas un enfoque en las voces femeninas del género fantástico y de ciencia ficción, he de admitir que el porcentaje de escritoras en mi librería es vergonzosamente pequeño, pero estoy haciendo un esfuerzo por arreglarlo y tú eres uno de los principales motivos de este cambio, de nuevo gracias. Posdata: Me ase mucha ilusión el hecho de que estés dándole al español una oportunidad, pocos angloparlantes nativos deciden estudiar otro idioma, deberías estar orgullosa. 💌

[@Kalanadi]

¡Gracias por comentar! Me diste la idea de leer las ediciones en español de la saga Vorkosigan...(he querido leer esos libros de nuevo por mucho tiempo pero nunca he tenido el tiempo... o no he hecho el tiempo? haha). Yo debería intentar hacer eso! Pronto leeré más libros escritos en español y no solo traducidos del inglés. Escribo y hablo muy, muy terriblemente, lo siento...

[@miluxian90]

@@Kalanadi En España la editorial Nova ha hecho una nueva edición que está muy bien, te la recomiendo, todas las portadas encajan y la traducción es buena.

[@ThatsSoPoe]

Yay that your goals are going so well so far! Mine are actually doing great too, even though last year I struggled to meet them. Here's hoping this is a successful year in general!😊

[@readingwithrebeccanicole]

Glad to hear your goals are going so well! I'm also doing well on my goals so far this year. And I totally get what you mean about getting more out of duolingo if you do more lessons at once

[@FinalBlowJoe]

You always do well with your goals Rachel. I'm just starting to push a little more with duolngo as well as I've been doing only that 1 lesson minimum for longer than I'd like to admit (since Chicago I believe). I'm happy to be part of your buddy reads goal.

[@Kalanadi]

You still think you'll stick with French for now? (nudge nudge... from the Spanish side... :-D)

[@FinalBlowJoe]

@@Kalanadi I think I'll switch over to Spanish rather soon as while I'm still liking and getting on with learning French ok I am losing a little interest.