Top Ten Tuesday (#52) (03/25/14)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

 

Top Ten Things On My Bookish Bucket List

1. Purge my books--I have thousands of books at this point.  I'll never be able to read all of them, and the books I have read, are now just collecting dust because I have so many that need to be read.  Yet I hold onto them, I just love them, but they are taking over my house.

2.  Go to more book signings--I have been to a bunch, and I have met so may of my favorite authors at BEA and ALA, but there are a ton more authors I would love to meet when they come on tour here.  It's just hard.

3. WRITE REVIEWS--One of the reasons I got into blogging is that I was hoping it would make me write more.  I hate writing, I have no confidence in my writing, and as a result I have written way fewer reviews than I had intended when I started blogging.  I think the problem is that I have been in a huge reading slump, and have read a lot of books that left me feeling nothing when I am done.

4. Topping my all time high in reading--2012 saw the most books I think I've ever read in one year.  Granted I haven't tracked my whole life, and it's possible when I was in high school I read more than I did in 2012, but in my adult life 2012 was the gold standard.  I would love to top it one day though, I just don't know when.

5. Serve on a book review committee for ALA--This is a true bucket list item. I am currently not a member of YALSA, because my actual job has nothing to do with YA lit.  I would love to change that, but for now my job as a librarian is far removed from YALSA.  One day I hope to change that and become part of YALSA and serve on a one of the committees such as Morris, Best Fiction for YA,  Amazing Audio, or the Odyssey.  The Printz would be a dream, but you have to be elected to that, and I just don't think I will ever have the credentials to be elected.

6. Attend the book bonanza--So this goes completely against what I want to do in my first bucket-list item, but I would love to attend all the conferences.  My work will pay for me to go to one library conference a year, and I always pick ALA, I covered mid-winter this year, and will probably have to do so in the future.  I would love to be able to hit TXLA, BEA, ALA, ALA-MW, and NCTE all in the same year.  Not related to those conferences but library related, I would love to get to Internet Librarian, SLA, and AALL. 

7. Read all of my DNF books--There is a reason that I have so many current DNF, and I always view them as books I'm still currently reading even if I haven't touched the book in years.  I really want to read all those books that I am part way through, there are about 15 of them.  It's not because they were bad, it's just circumstances that have prevented me from finishing them. 

8. Control my e-book buying habit--For as many books that I have sitting on my shelves, I probably have almost as many e-books.  I am actually trying to convert my book collection to e-books, but it's a very expensive habit.  I have a really hard time resisting that $.99-$3.99 price point that the publishers put books on sale for.  I see that magic number, and I just buy, buy, buy.

9. Get better organized with my reading--I used to be so organized and on top of my reading.  As soon as I finished a book, I was on Goodreads sorting it, and marking it off.  In the last 4 months that has all gone down the drain. I kind of have a good excuse, but it really bothers me that I have fallen so far.

10.  Be a better blogger--It goes back to the reviews, but it's more than that.  I enjoy blogging for the most part, but many I have not been as regular as I need to be.  I need to get back in the groove.