Tell Me Something Tuesday is hosted by Rainy Day Ramblings. Check out her blog for upcoming topics! I saw a post by Jen (Twimom) and thought it was fun and decided to join in. So I’ll be jumping in sporadically 🙂
Bad reading habits I’d like to kick
Last week was good reading habits and I felt like I was really stretching because it was so much easier to think of bad habits I’d like to kick. I don’t have a lot, but the ones I have I REALLY want to get better at.
So my bad reading habits:
- Waiting too long to write reviews. Sometimes, when I’m on a good roll, I write a review basically as soon as I finish reading a book. But most the time, I don’t write a review until I’m thinking about posting it on the blog. And since I only do like 1 review a week (on a good week), that can mean a lot of time goes by without me ever writing the review. I really want to get better at this. I used to be great at it, so I know I can do it.
- Buying books and not keeping track of them. My goodreads shelves are atrocious. I think the only thing correct is the books I have read (at least since I started blogging). I don’t know what I own, virtually or in hard copies. I frequently go to buy a book on Amazon and discover I already own it. I need to really make a plan for the books I buy. As a COYER co-host (hell, COYER creator) this is a sad state of affairs and needs to be remedied.
- Starting series and never going back to them. I think this is why my Can You Read a Series in a Month? Challenge is one of my favorites – it’s one of the only times I actually finish reading a series. Way too often I start one and fully intend to finish it, only to forget about it and start another. And another. And so on.
Okay, so I know it’s only 3 bad habits, but they’re BIG ones that are going to take some doing to fix. I really feel like conquering my Goodreads organization is the secret to fixing the rest. Or at least improving them.
I reread each and every book I review (except when I’m pressed for time because it’s an ARC), as in, after the first read I write a mini on Goodreads, and after the second I write a full review. But I need to have the book fresh in my mind, even if it made a huge impression. Um…I can’t think of any bad reading habit? 😶 I just read LOL.
Yeaaaahhh…I wait too long to write reviews all the time. I try to take notes and I even got a review pad to help me remember things if I do take a long time to write. Like right now I have at least 3 I need to write from books I read LAST month. oops. Also, YES my goodreads needs help. I even started a WHOLE NEW ONE to try to keep it under control. That backfired lol
Umm, my bad habits and your bad habits are friends!!!! If there was a check mark box by each of those they would all be checked!
LOL! At least they’re in good company 🙂
Yeah I can relate to all those and work to keep myself out of them. I actually have a really good system for myself on Goodreads so that part I have worked on in the past, with minor adjustment as needed. I just did some updates to my shelves.
I think this year there are so many things happening it’s hard to work on everything I want to improve.
I think cleaning up my goodreads is a goal for 2021. If I work really hard at it for a year, surely I can get it under control, right?
I can so relate to lagging on reviews. And I used to be so on top of it! I’d finish a book and jump right on the review. Now it’s like I can’t be bothered… it’s just on to the next book. Kind of counter-productive for a book blogger. LOL
LOL I know! I feel like, while I’m a book blogger, reviews aren’t the main part anymore… which is weird. But for every 5 posts I do, maybe 1 is a review. Which furthers my willingness to slack :/ I finished a book Sunday and still haven’t written the review!
One – YES to number one. When I’m on a good “reading” roll – I tend to not think about the reviews and then I have to write them a week or month later. UGH!
It’s the worst trying to write a review when you’ve read multiple books in between. Hell, even sleeping 1 night is enough to make me start losing details. I really need to get better at this.
I have a few bad habits I really want to kick as well. I tend to have several books started or I need to read specific ones as review commitments and I pick up other books to read. It’s not a reading bad habit so much as book bad habit, but I tend to snag books and, don’t read them right away- or at all. I also tend to take more for review than I can possible read or listen to in the amount of time I have. I could definite work on these.
Oh I have so many books I grabbed and then never read…. so many that I don’t even KNOW that I own them anymore. So I feel ya!
Writing reviews and not finishing a series that I like are my two worst ones. I think one of the things that causes the second one is that I keep adding new authors to my TBR list due to wonderful reviews I read on the many blogs I follow.
I have the same problem. There’s just too many good books out there!