Happy New Year! Goals and Challenges 2025

I hope your new year has gotten off to a good start and that you didn’t overindulge last night! I am kind of looking forward to the start of the new year as I have lots of good books lined up to read. I am also really excited about my challenges this year. I have picked three reading challenges and then I am doing the photo challenge again this year. Let’s dive in…

Buzzword Cover Challenge 2025

This challenge is being hosted by BooksandLala and you can see the announcement video here.

I really enjoyed doing the 2024 Buzzword Reading Challenge that was all about titles. It was a lot of fun looking for books with certain words in their titles. I found some good ones that I might not have read other wise. As you can guess this year’s challenge is focused on finding covers with certain elements. There are a few that I think might be a little bit tricky, but I am sure I can find something. Isn’t that graphic cute! I also like that it is pretty easy to keep track on Storygraph and get books ideas when I am stuck.

The 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge

This Challenge is hosted by the 52 Book Club

I did a year long scavenger hunt in 2023 and really enjoyed it. So I have been looking for something similar. This one has way more prompts, 52 to be exact, but some of them are pretty good ones. A couple of the prompts are pretty tricky, but I think I am up to the challenge. There is also a page on Storygraph and a group on Goodreads where you can find lists of books for each prompt. Here are the prompts for this challenge:

2025 Nonfiction Reader Challenge

This is hosted by Book’d Out and you can find her post here.

This will be my third year doing this challenge, although I almost hate to count my first year as I wasn’t good about posting reviews. For this challenge there are three levels you can choose from and then one choice is pick as many books as you want to read. Last year my goal was to read and review 8 books, which I did. But I also read a total of 12 books. For this year’s goal I am going to read and review 10 books. There are some categories to choose from, but all nonfiction books count. I am also going to shoot for reading a book from different categories, just to sort of take me out of my comfort zone a bit.

Nonfiction Grazer: Read & review any nonfiction book. Set your own goal, or none at all, just share the nonfiction you read through the year.

Categories:

History
Memoir/Biography
True Crime
Science
Health
Food
Travel
Garden
Myth, Legend and Folklore
Islands
How-To
Published in 2025

2025 Photo Challenge Bingo

The photo Challenge Bingo is hosted by Marie Antonia.

This is a non reading challenge that I did this past year and had a lot of fun with so of course I had to do it again. I like to take pictures with my phone a lot, but I don’t really ever share them with anyone. So this is a way for me to do that. I managed to get three bingos last year, so I have that goal in mind this year as well. Lots of good prompts that I already have some ideas for.

Blog and Reading Goals

My only reading goal is to just relax and enjoy my reading. I tend to get a little bit anxious about not reading enough, which is kind of weird I know. But I sometime feel like I have to read enough each week so that I have something to talk about on the blog. So there you go. So I am going to try and let that go a little bit, and not sweat it if I’m not reviewing as many books each week as I think I should. Doing this will hopefully give me time to do more fun posts like tags.

My blog goals are pretty simple. I just want to keep posting at least 6 days a week. I like having Sundays off as that is the day I usually write a lot of my posts for the week, or at least start them. My other goal is to do a bit of updating on the graphics and maybe changing my theme as my current one has been discontinued (again!). The theme being discontinued isn’t a huge issue, but there are some things that aren’t supported by wordpress anymore that makes it a little glitchy at times. Finding the time to work on the graphics might be tough too, but I really want to do it this year, so I am kind of motivated.

I am looking forward to seeing what challenges you have all decided to do. As well as your goals for the year. I hope 2025 is your year and all of your books are five star reads!

Until next time…

Happy Reading!