Top Ten Tuesday #6: Top Ten Things on My Bookish Bucket List

Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Their blog can be found here.

March 25th: Top Ten Things on My Bookish Bucket List

1. Meet Marissa Meyer. I know that one day, the stars will align and I will be able to meet Marissa Meyer and get her to sign my books. I LOVE The Lunar Chronicles series SO much, and I totally Fangirl over Marissa. She is just so awesome. (If you are reading this and don't know who she is, well, I recommend you find out more about her from her amazing blog. And READ all her books too!) And for all of you that have met her: I am SO very jealous. But also very happy for you. :D

2. Read 150 books in 1 year. I never really kept track of how many books that I read in a year, until I joined GoodReads near the end of 2013. This year my initial goal is 75 books in a year. But I hope that one year (maybe 2015) I will be able to read 150 books. I think it would be pretty awesome.

3. Organize my books by genre. When I have a bigger house, I will get one that has an extra room. A Guest Room. But more importantly this room WILL be my Library/Craft Room. I will have walls of bookshelves (enough to hold ALL my books) and then I will have the space to organize my books by genre/sub-genre/author (etc). And it will be amazing. 

4. Read ALL the Sarah Dessen books. I just started my first Sarah Dessen book: The Truth About Forever and now I must read all her books. I love this story. And I have a feeling that I will like her other books. 

5. Attend a book event. I would love to eventually be able to attend one of those HUGE book events where there are so many AWESOME authors and books and panels. It would be a dream come true.

6. Read every retelling that is on this Epic Reads YA Retellings chart!

Which you can find here

I think it would be absolutely amazing/wonderful/spectacular (insert any other cool adjective here) to read all of these retellings. And this chart is just so epic. It would be cool to make it into a poster, then I could have a conversation piece when people visit my house..."Why yes, I HAVE read all these amazing books on this epic poster." Seriously, one day I would like to have accomplished this. 

7. Interview an author. This would be so cool, but just the thought of it, already makes me nervous. I easily fangirl over authors that I LOVE. But it would be so cool to have an interview with one. 

8. Continue with my book blog. There have been a couple times that I have thought that maybe I should just give up, there are so many book bloggers, and I am SO NEW at this, and hardly anyone even reads my blog, and I think, does anyone care? Then I remember, I CARE. I am enjoying this, and I have made some book blogging friends already. Anytime we chat on Twitter, it instantly brightens my day and makes me smile. I don't have very many people I can talk books with, and like all of you, books are a HUGE part of my life. So I hope that I continue to book blog and chat with everyone about books for many more years to come. 

9. Continue to write and maybe eventually post my stories on my blog. I absolutely love writing. I have enjoyed writing for as long as I can remember. And I participated in NaNoWriMo last year and almost finished the first draft of my first novel (that I feel really sucks). And I want to be able to finish it. And I already have SEVERAL other story ideas floating around that I am really anxious to work on. And I think it would be cool to someday get the courage to share my stories on my blog. I am worried about the criticism. But it is also something that I would love to eventually do.

10. Get a job that involves books. I have my degree in Elementary Education and Exceptional Student Education. And I am happy that I do (although I haven't used it yet due to having my children and being a stay at home mom) But I also would like to do something that has more to do with books. Like own a bookstore. Or be a librarian.