Top 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme from Goodreads, created by Lainey from Gingerreadslainey and now moderated by Sam from ThoughtsOnTomes.
Hope y’all enjoyed the holidays and are starting the new year off the way you want to! New Years is a time to start fresh. Here are a few of my resolutions as they pertain to books and graphic novels!
5. Read more!!!
No brainer, right? I devour plenty of graphic novels for this blog, and because of my work schedule, they’ve come to make up the bulk of my reading. Hopefully I’ll have room for some more novels this year!
4. Spend less on books
Really I’m trying to spend less on everything, because I’m saving for my wedding. Believe it or not, books are the easiest things to cut from the budget because I work in libraries =P
3. Try some nonfiction
Let me tell you guys something about myself. I am a very, shall we say, safe person. I like routine. I do most things the same way every time. I stick with things I know I like. Example: I’ll order the same thing every time at a restaurant we frequent, whereas my fiancé will try something different every time.
I’m the same with my reading. I am a fantasy and comic book reader, and that’s about it. I don’t often go outside those boundaries. But this year I want to try to push myself to try a nonfiction novel in a subject I like outside my usual realms!
2. Expand fiction horizons
Please see above =P I have tried other genres before (romance, Christian, historical fiction) to mixed results. The one genre I think I absolutely cannot stand is mystery! Hopefully I find one this year that sticks.
1. Read more Marvel comics
Last, but not least, I should expand my horizons where it counts… read more Marvel comics! I’m a DC fan at my core but there are Marvel heroes I like. I’ll thank Nancy in advance for keeping me honest with this one 😉
Do any of you have bookish resolutions?
– Kathleen
Graphic Novelty² 
January 3, 2018 at 7:14 pm
Hi Kathleen, I can’t afford to get graphic novels regularly but I did mention to Nancy on her Forever Evil (New 52) post that I needed to do a lot more research to catch up on the history of all these comic book characters. Maybe that could count as a resolution?
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January 8, 2018 at 12:38 pm
That’s a good one!
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January 4, 2018 at 3:57 am
I want to read more tomes this year. Last year I read more books than the previous year but over 13,000 fewer pages. Too many smallish books 🙂
I’d also like to read at least one book in Spanish. I’m trying to learn Portuguese and Russian so I can read books without losing anything in translation, yet I won’t make time to read in my first tongue. *smh* I think subconsciously I don’t make the time because I know that the first book that I should read is Don Quixote. Over 90% of Spanish-speaking readers that recommend that I read it, go on to warn me that it’s “not your father’s Spanish”.
Happy New Year!
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January 8, 2018 at 12:39 pm
That’s a great resolution! Happy New Year to you too =D
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January 4, 2018 at 5:02 pm
Wonderful goals for 2018! Good luck spending less money on books…. that one never works out for me 🙂
Do you like psychological thrillers by any chance? I know you said you didn’t like mysteries… The reason I ask is because I don’t tend to read much nonfiction either, but this past year I read Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness and it read like a psychological/medical thriller. It was absolutely fascinating…
Good luck in achieving your goals!
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January 8, 2018 at 12:44 pm
Last year I didn’t spend a whole lot on books… I actually maybe bought 5 total? And most of that was from gift cards =P Since I work in libraries I try a book out first and if I love it enough to read it again, I’ll buy it. Though now that you mention, I do want to invest in The Dark Tower series… MUST RESIST!
That’s one genre I don’t think I’ve tried! I’ll look for Brain on Fire and kill two birds with one stone =P Thanks and good luck to you, too!
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January 6, 2018 at 12:31 am
What lovely resolutions Kathleen and so doable! I like to try to make resolutions I can envision myself doing… and I LOVE getting books from libraries. I was bummed this week when a MAJOR book I wanted to read hadn’t been purchased… but I guess we can’t get EVERY book from the library…
Have you read any magical realism books? That is the genre that jumped to mind when you said no mysteries. I haven’t read a ton of them but my book club peeps and fiction reader blogger friends LOVE them and are always suggesting various ones. ❤
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January 8, 2018 at 12:49 pm
It’s hard purchasing books because you know what your patrons will like, but there’s a very limited budget! 😭
I have read some magical realism! My favorite is “Daughter of Fortune” by Isabel Allende, and I enjoyed “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake” by Aimee Bender. It’s a nice change of pace from high fantasy sometimes =P
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January 8, 2018 at 1:29 pm
Me too on the read more (of my own books) and spend less.
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