Making my Reading Journal: Creating a Home Library (part 1)
In 2021, I read nearly 200 books, and added nearly 200 more to my "want to read" shelf on Goodreads. Needless to say, BookTube and BookTok had given me an inordinately long TBR. However, I kept adding and forgetting about books that I'd add to my "want to read" shelf, then the I'd realize that there were so many that it was getting hard to go through and pick one. As such, my list hardly used as a way to pick a book I'd been wanting to read, and I usually ended up scrolling through Libby or Kindle Unlimited to find a new read. Eventually, I tried to compile a smaller "TBR" shelf on Goodreads, where I kept the books I most urgently wanted to read, but most of those ended up being exclusively the genre I wanted to read when I made the list, not always what I wanted to read then Eventually, I had given up on all my GoodReads shelves, really only using the site as a way to track what I'd read so far. So there was my first issue with my GoodR...