2024 TBR Update | Multiple DNFs and a Reading Break

I did a video before the new year about my plan to be more intentional with my TBR in 2024. I kept getting excited about shiny new things and my reading life was really disjointed. It was too heavy in one genre when I had a long list of books to read to help me as an author, and a mom, and for my health, that just weren’t finding their way to the top of the pile.
The real question is if this is working and if I have stuck to this plan at all…
I’m a planner, I like to plan, and I had a beautiful plan for my 2024 reading with five categories:
Craft & Author Business
Novel Research
Parenting
Health
Fun
Am I sticking to it?
I have been. I have had rounds where I read one book from each category before I can move to the next. That way I would have a balance and not just read through my fun pile and leave all the non-fiction for the end.
How many days into the year did I deviate (Jan 4)
I did deviate and I picked up a book that would have made my round 2 for the fun category. It was a fabulous book and I’m glad I mixed up my list because it was just sitting there at the library, being all awesome and in need of a good home for a few weeks.
Biggest Lesson so Far
I am susceptible to marketing copy as much as the next person. Especially for the non-fiction titles on my list. They had great titles, and great hooks, and I have had to DNF two books so far and had to muddle through a third. The marketing got me and life is too short to read a book you aren’t loving. So I’m glad I gave these books a try because I had been excited about them. But I think this speaks to an underlying issue in how non-fiction books are produced via traditional publishing. Which is the author crafts a pitch, sells the book on the idea, and then writes it. And the end product maybe doesn’t always live up to the pitch. I’ve read great non-fiction, but I’ve also read some … rough non-fiction. And those books were DNFed.
Best reads so far?
Non-Fiction: The Creative Act by Rick Ruben.
Fiction: I haven’t had a bad fiction experience yet this year.
This is how you lose the time war
Cutting Teeth
The List
Reign
Business or Pleasure
The Other Black Girl
The Royal Game
Room to add more for the year?
Yes, I’m planning to revamp and revise and question the non-fiction books on my list to see if some need to be pruned early to make way for new ones.
Indie April!: reading ARCs and Betas
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And again, please send book recs. But don’t because I have an addiction to adding books to my TBR
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[@EmmaBennetAuthor]

Lovely to have this update!

[@1MKWilliams]

Thank you! I always feel a little weird doing personal updates

[@EmmaBennetAuthor]

@@1MKWilliams this was great. I think sometimes we do need to be more intentional with our reading.

[@EstelleVandeVelde]

I’ve heard good things about Rick Ruben’s book 😊 And i’d be curious as to know which books you DNFed.

[@1MKWilliams]

Honestly, I kind of forgot about them not long after I moved on. Not memorable 😞