{"id":3632,"date":"2022-01-20T11:40:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T11:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2022-05-14T21:01:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T20:01:59","slug":"some-2022-reading-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/some-2022-reading-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Some 2022 Reading Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2021-Reading.-The-full-list.-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2021-Reading.-The-full-list.-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2021-Reading.-The-full-list.-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2021-Reading.-The-full-list.-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2021-Reading.-The-full-list.-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2021-Reading.-The-full-list.-1-730x730.png 730w, https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2021-Reading.-The-full-list.-1-365x365.png 365w, https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2021-Reading.-The-full-list.-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last year (2021) I ended up exceeding my reading goals, largely by reading a lot of fiction and taking some sick leave,\u00a0<strong>with regards to quantity of books read<\/strong>. In the last few days of 2021 I realised I was going to be\u00a0<em>just<\/em> short of 60,000 pages for the year. So one of my aims in 2022 is to break that 60,000 page mark. Without stressing, or trying too hard.<\/p>\n<p>Over on Goodreads I&#8217;ve set the &#8216;Big Hairy Audacious Goal&#8217; of 200 books this year &#8211; which, due to working in publishing, should be doable.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the only way I want to change my reading this year, though. As I note in this post, it is\u00a0<em>very<\/em> easy for me to predominantly or primarily read books by people who look like me and love\/live like me. In 2021 I only read books by 12 non-white authors (some of which were edited collections, so I\u00a0<em>could<\/em> make a desperate case that I read at least 30 non-white authors, but that&#8217;d miss the point) and 21 women (30 if you include husband\/wife teams, and more if you play the edited collection game.<\/p>\n<p>That gives the following rough stats<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Out of 200 (ish) books,\u00a0<strong>just 6% were by non-white authors.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Out of 200 (ish) books,\u00a0<strong>just 10.5% were by female authors.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s quite interesting, and quite sobering, not least as only 25% of the four people in my house are men (me), and the human population is roughly 50\/50 male\/female. On the race and culture piece, I&#8217;m determined to platform more writers that aren&#8217;t like me &#8211; and I think a key way to do that is through\u00a0<em>reading<\/em> them.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, out of my Top 21 of 2021, 15% were by women (or a male\/female duo) and 10% were by non-white people, which does perhaps show that by reading more books by folk who aren&#8217;t white men like me, I might actually read better books overall, in my subjective view.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what are my 2022 Reading Goals?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read 200 books.<\/li>\n<li>At least 15% by non-white authors.<\/li>\n<li>At least 25% by female authors.<\/li>\n<li>Write\u00a0<em>and publish, on blog or elsewhere,\u00a0<\/em>50 reviews, of which at least 15 should be of books not written by white men like me.<\/li>\n<li>Read more than 60,000 pages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d hope to exceed the last four goals, even if only incrementally. The last two relate to my long-term goal to start a part-time PhD &#8211; which will involve reading books and writing things!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, why bother writing this down? Partly because it interests me, partly because people have expressed interest, and mostly because I&#8217;d like to hold myself accountable. We shall see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year (2021) I ended up exceeding my reading goals, largely by reading a lot of fiction and taking some sick leave,\u00a0with regards to quantity of books read. In the last few days of 2021 I realised I was going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/some-2022-reading-goals\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[554,606],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}