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Last year I didn't accomplish my goal of running more miles than I did in 2020. Every bit a matter of fact, I struggled to keep up with any semblance of a fitness routine at all. The ane resolution I did nail: I read more than than I had in 2020 and the previous years. Granted, my reading habits have evolved with the pandemic to mainly beach reads and other forms of guilty pleasance. Merely still, I read 23 books for a total of ix,910 pages in 2021 — a sure Sarah J. Maas fantasy series sure kept me busy with +600-folio and +700-page volumes. In 2020 it was nine,690 pages read, and 7,412 pages the year before that.

The reason I know with such particular is that I log near everything I read — if I ditch a book after reading ten% or even 30% of it I tend to non record that info, though. I use the social network for bookworms, Goodreads. Let me tell you that, yes, I buy and borrow a lot of books, but I too abandon them oft and without an ounce of guilt.

To keep my reading moving forrad I also joined the Goodreads Reading Challenge. This is my sixth year doing it. At the beginning of the year, y'all set the quantity of books you'd like to read during the side by side 12 months. I aim for 22 because I know it'south both a realistic number to achieve, merely also not super easy to become for me (I'm a slow reader). I recommend striving for a number both achievable all the same nevertheless challenging. Don't go for the whole 50 books in 2022 unless you know y'all'll be reading ane per week.

Goodreads isn't perfect. It seems to be stuck erstwhile in the mid-2010s and no new features ever get added to it. Even though it has an app version, some of its functionalities only work on desktop. And yous'll exist able to observe all mainstream popular books in that location, but I had more problems logging books written in or translated to Spanish, Catalan or French.

Simply information technology'south still the best way I found of tallying what I read. I tend to forget the titles and even the names of authors I dearest, only with Goodreads, they're at my fingertips. It's easier for me to make recommendations to friends and family unit this way. Or only to add together things to my want-to-read list and never run out of titles to check out. And the reading challenge keeps me engaged every twelvemonth to at to the lowest degree try to finish a couple of novels per month.

Sydney Sweeney and Brittany O'Grady in "The White Lotus." Photo Courtesy: HBO

When it comes to film and television, things become a scrap more complicated. I don't set a minimum of titles I should be watching in a year because I feel that, for piece of work reasons, I already spotter a ton of movies, and peculiarly TV. But I all the same like logging everything I consume. It helps me to put together cease-of-year lists of the best Television set shows and movies. It also makes things easier when someone asks me what to watch next, now that they've finished Succession or Only Murders in the Building or The White Lotus.

I have an business relationship on IMDb and use their rating feature to listing everything I watch there. If I've rated something a number of stars, it means I've watched it. Simply it'due south a very imperfect system that lacks dates and other features. And so I besides keep a Note on my phone of all the movies and films I've watched in a given twelvemonth (and all the titles I should still lookout man and haven't).

A lot of colleagues and film buffs have also started using the social network for movies, Letterboxd, where y'all can keep track of everything you scout during a yr, rate information technology, write a review, and follow other users and see their ratings and recommendations. My only complaint is that Letterboxd but works for movies, and I'd like to exist able to have one single platform that includes both films and TV. But it's the place to delve into if you're looking for hot takes on Don't Look Up or want to gauge all the praise surrounding Spider-Man: No Fashion Dwelling house. Also, take a await at Rotten Tomatoes and what the critics and the public are saying most a release. If a film premiered a couple of years ago, no one even remembers it and it has a rotten audience score…do you lot really need to sentry it at present?

I know it'southward about incommunicable to cull what to lookout man next with then many films and Television set shows debuting weekly. But there's no reason why you should binge Friends for the umpteenth time this year unless you're truly feeling like it, just considering yous can't decide what to cull from Netflix, HBO Max or Hulu. That's why I keep reminding you to accept a await at our monthly streaming guides with TV and film recommendations. Here's what's new in January and what nosotros highlighted in Dec. We fifty-fifty tell you lot where to watch and whether a film is bachelor on streaming, in motion picture theaters or both. It may assistance y'all keep some of your moving picture and Boob tube new year's resolutions on rail and be able to enjoy some of the latest titles.

Selena Gomez in "Only Murders in the Building." Photo Courtesy: Hulu

Then there's music. And hither'southward where I accept a harder time staying relevant and listening to new artists. I like starting by asking my colleague and music connoisseur Bryn Rich. Take a look at his selection of best albums and songs of 2021 or what he'southward anticipating near in 2022.

Get a Spotify or an Apple Music subscription if you don't have one already. And employ their many features to discover new music, from Spotify's Discover Weekly to Apple Music's New Music Mix. Both services as well spotlight new releases every week.

Of course, I like to keep runway of what songs I've been obsessively listening to with Spotify Wrapped, which tells you your superlative tracks at the finish of the year. Only I also keep an eye on what else people have been enjoying that I may have completely missed and should sample even if I'm doing it a few months later than everyone.

At the stop of the day, in that location's no perfect fashion of keeping track of everything you lot watch, read or listen to. But aiming for discovering new authors and artists and their work certain may make our lives richer. I experience it's the one new year's resolution that'south easier to achieve (more feasible indeed than working out 5 times a week or losing those damn 10 pounds).