Last year (2018) I seriously neglected my blog for about 7 months. Perhaps I had no motivation or perhaps my professional work life took up too much of my time and energy – either way, this year I resolve to fix all that. Part of my new year’s resolution is to not just improve on my blog, but also to build on it. Create new content, explore new bookish things, spread my wings and really make use of this opportunity to share my voice and my thoughts. So as my first post of 2019, I would like to share with you my 2019 book blogging goals!




For Lena’s Notebook: a book blog

  • Recently I managed to find a way to download Netgalley books onto my old very basic Nook – this was a success in itself! So since I’ve done this, I aim to be able to read more ARCs AND review them in due time. I’ve already read three books, and I need to get the reviews ready for them to be posted near publication date.
  • Planning – I have now started writing down all my approved Netgalley titles with respective publication date so I can accurately plan what to read first.
  • Go to more bookish events – so things like launches (if I can), at least one book signing, author talks and hopefully some publisher events! And I would love to be invited to at least ONE blogger event! (and so I am building up my blog to that)
  • Get around 10 or more people in my blogger circle. I use Blogspot as I find it quite easy and flexible – but not many people use Blogspot! I will have to find a way to get these ‘friends’ or ‘followers’. At the moment I have one. 
  • Post more often – really need to write more content – which shouldn’t be so difficult considering how much I read! I can be quite lazy sometimes, and I’m at the PC the whole day for my job so when I get home I always need a computer detox which makes it harder for me to blog at night! In this cold weather I should dedicated about two lunchtimes a week to blogging!
  • Read at least one non-fiction book a month – there are so many amazing and super fascinating non-fiction books out there that I need to read. And that’s the issue. When I was in Waterstones last week, I felt as if there was too much to choose from! There were loads that really caught my eye, and I wanted to read them all in one go, which made me feel really overwhelmed. However, I vow to be a bit more decisive and settle on something! I really need to broaden my mind and explore new ideas. 
  • Make new blogger friends. Other bloggers online are so friendly and supportive I should definitely communicate more and read other people’s posts. This is also a good way to swap blogging ideas.


And so here we are – I’ve got 7 goals to achieve, and let’s hope I can be less lazy, procrastinate less, and aim to achieve them!


What are your blogging goals for 2019?