Everyone and their mom are doing In / Out lists for 2024; it’s the new New Year’s Resolution. Sometimes they’re fun, but usually I click or scroll on to the next thing. They’ll be forgotten within a few weeks, if not a few days, only to be re-examined in December to see if they were right. You may have already zoned out in this paragraph, deleted the email, and thought Haley Doesn’t Have Anything Interesting To Say Either, and you’d be right!!!!
A format I’ve seen and liked is the “More / Less” structure. It seems more realistic and less strict than In / Out, but it’s still fun. Here are my lists for books in 2024:
More:
reading 700+ page books without worrying about how it’ll effect your total number
picking out random books from the library
reading a book bc no one’s reading it
characters making choices at random
rhyming couplets
reading 2024 debuts
not finishing books you hate
reading books aloud to yourself
books with plot and nice prose
Less:
counting how many books you’ve read
picking out random books from booktok
reading a book bc everyone’s reading it
characters making choices bc of past trauma
bad prose
only reading books published before 2005
feeling obligated to finish books you hate
audiobooks at 1.5X speed
books with no plot and nice prose
Happy new year :’)