[Top Ten Tuesday] 2018 Reading, Writing, & Blogging Resolutions

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish but is currently being run by That Artsy Reader Girl. A prompt is given each week, and I hope to do it every week so I always have something going up on Tuesdays. This week we are talking about resolutions! It's officially 2018 which means it's time for some resolutions! Each year I try to make reasonable resolutions for myself, and I feel like I have done a good job keeping up with them. In this post I will first discuss my goals from last year and see if I was successful in sticking with my reading goals from 2017. Then I will list resolutions for my reading, my writing, and my blogging. These are the three things I feel like most of my focus will be going to in the next year, and I am hoping by the end of the year I feel like I have read a lot of great books, have finished my first novel, and I have improved and expanded my blog.

25 Bookish Facts About Me

This tag has been going around for ages now, and it's been over six months since I have started Heather's Reading Hideaway so I thought this would be a great way for everyone to get to know me more as a reader. So here are 25 random bookish facts about me!

[Book Blogger Hop] July 14-20th

 Book Blogger Hop

Book Blogger Hop's purpose is to give bloggers a chance to discover and follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend bloggers, and gain followers. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end on Thursday where there will be a weekly prompt following a bookish question.

[Book Blogger Hop] July 7-13th

 Book Blogger Hop

Book Blogger Hop's purpose is to give bloggers a chance to discover and follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend bloggers, and gain followers. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end on Thursday where there will be a weekly prompt following a bookish question.

Question:
In one sentence, describe your passion for reading.

Answer: 

My passion for reading stems from escaping to another world, feeling like I could do anything, and remembering that I'm not and never will be alone.

Thanks for reading!

[Book Review] This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

5 STARS

It has been SO long since I have stayed up late in the night hooked on a book. This book was on my brain as I settled into my bed to sleep. I ended up caving and compromising saying I'd read for fifteen minutes. An hour and a half later and now more than half way through the story I had to force myself to put down the kindle, and get sleep. The minute I woke up I was back grabbing my kindle and needing to be in the fantastic and unique world Victoria Schwab created. 

This Savage Song is a book I feel like is best to go into with little to no information about it (honestly, I think that's the best way to jump into most books) but what I feel is important is knowing the basics. In the world of This Savage Song the United States as we know it has been mostly destroyed because the violence in our world bred monsters, literal monsters, who now are pretty much ruling the lands.

2017 Reading Goals

 

These are twelve reading goals I really want to accomplish this year. The overall theme of this year is for me to try my absolute hardest not to get so caught up in how many books I have completed so I don't get caught up in a reading slump and lose interest in reading for months at a time (which happened in 2016 twice). I am hoping to feel satisfied at the end of the year with most of the books I have stacked waiting for me already read and it will feel a bit like spring cleaning.

[Graphic Novel Reveiw] LumberJanes Volume 3: A Terrible Plan

4 STARS  

LumberJanes is a comic series about a group of girls at a summer camp who run into weird supernatural entities that are [for the most part] out to get them. This series is an amazing one. It's fun, hilarious, and the art is well done and colorful.