Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Late New Year's resolution: buy less books (for now)

After some time watching TV shows and anime, and reading comic books, I decided to go back to my beloved books. And along with this, I got that urge to go to GoodReads and Youtube and add more books to my already big 'want-to-read' list.


But, having a lot of unread books and needing to save money, I just decided that I could only buy 1 new book for each 2 that I read from the ones I already have NOW. The only exception allowed if there's a good discount on some kindle book that it's on my TBR, and that's because I have a $13 gift card on Amazon, so I won't be spending money.


Most of these books are 2014 Christmas gifts. That's because last year I decided to improve my English and, although my reading skills were good already, I've tried to keep the focus and chose to read almost only in English rather than the books in Portuguese that I already had. But I ended up not reading much, as I started to watch more cartoons, TV shows and movies without subtitles (for most of the time, at least).

Anyway, it was a great year, and with my IELTS test scheduled to Feb. 18th, now I'll try to catch up with the books I already have. It'll be great for my wallet and my brain, as I'll stop feeling frustrated and guilty for not reading them.

And you, what are you 2016 resolutions?