I recall back in January of 2017 I decided to challenge myself to reach a goal I'd been trying to achieve for a long time: re-read the entire Wheel of Time series.
Unfortunately, I did not reach this lofty goal at all. I started off fairly strong and got through The Eye of the World quickly enough so that I could keep that pace and possibly read the rest of the series in 2017, but I realized I'd trapped myself into a bind by doing this. Inevitably, there were other books by other authors I would like to read, and I didn't want to wait until I was all done with the entire Wheel of Time so I could start reading them.
So I'm making a new New Year's Resolution, and I think this will be the easiest one I've ever kept: I'm not participating in the 2018 Reading Challenge. Instead, I'm going to stock up my Want-To-Read shelves with all kinds of books that catch my interest, and I'm going to just keep logging the books I read as I read them here. I lose track otherwise. I actually read more than 15 books this year, but I don't remember all of them, and there were also books I started that I did not finish. I've already dealt with those books, and I'm simply placing them back on my Want-to-Read shelves because they are still books I'm interested in reading, for the most part.
The Traitor's Son has been released, and now I will be shifting focus to another genre for a little while before starting work on The Rebel's Son, so there will not be all that much extra reading time anyway.
I hope everyone has a Happy New Year!