This year my goal is to read 40 books. I have read 5 books so far in January. My TBR for January was The Assassins Blade, Throne of Glass, Lights Out and Daisy Jones & The Six.

I did read some books from my TBR but I also strayed from it but can you blame me Onyx Storm was released January 21st.

For January I read: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros, The Assassins Blade by Sarah J. Maas, Lights Out by Navessa Allen, Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros and, A Pack for Winter by Eliana Lee.

This year Goodreads has updated the reading challenge by adding achievements and challenges. You get monthly achievements from reading a at least one book every month. You can earn the Grand Slam achievement from reading a book every month, the Nailed It achievement by setting and reaching your reading goal and Stepped Up by reading more books than the year prior.

There is also the Community Favorites Challenge. There are six achievements in total. They are Buzzy Books, Epic Quest, Era Explorer, Essential Reader and more to come. They have set days when they are made available and they have a time limit. They have lists of books to choose from to fulfill these challenges.

So far the only achievements I have gotten are the January Reader and Buzzy Books. I am now working on the Epic Quest and Era Explorer achievements. These are hard challenges considering a lot of these books are not genres that I typically read. Another challenge is trying to stay in my TBR as much as I can. I am a mood reader and sometimes I need to change genres or read something that I do not have to use a lot of brain power so that I won’t go into a reading slump. I typically go into a reading slump for months at a time and that will not work for the monthly challenges, which I really want to participate in. But, if I can’t get theses achievements then I will try again next year.