End-of-Year Reading Meme: 2024

[quillpunk]

Simply copy-paste the template from textarea at the bottom of this post (that's the little box where the text moves inside), and answer what you want in a comment on this post!

Feel free to add/remove things as you feel like; you don't need to stick super strictly to the questions :D

In 2024:

I Read: how many books in 2024?
My Reading Goal: did you have a goal, and how do you feel about it?
I Challenged Myself: did you do any reading challenges? how did you do? did you like it?
A New Genre I Attempted: did you try a new genre, and if so, how did you feel about it?
An Author New-to-me in 2024 I Really Enjoyed:
My Favorite Book of the Year:
Books I Read in 2024 That I Recommend:

In 2025:

My Reading Goal: do you have a goal, and how do you feel about it?
I'm Going to Challenge Myself: do you plan on doing any reading challenges?
My TBR List: do you have one for 2025? how long is it? any plans?
Books I'm Especially Interested in Reading in 2025:
A Book Coming Out in 2025 That I'm Excited About:
Other Book-Related News for 2025 I'm Interested In:

<h3>In 2024:</h3> <b>I Read:</b> how many books in 2024? <b>My Reading Goal:</b> did you have a goal, and how do you feel about it? <b>I Challenged Myself:</b> did you do any reading challenges? how did you do? did you like it? <b>A New Genre I Attempted:</b> did you try a new genre, and if so, how did you feel about it? <b>An Author New-to-me in 2024 I Really Enjoyed:</b> <b>My Favorite Book of the Year:</b> <b>Books I Read in 2024 That I Recommend:</b> <h3>In 2025:</h3> <b>My Reading Goal:</b> do you have a goal, and how do you feel about it? <b>I'm Going to Challenge Myself:</b> do you plan on doing any reading challenges? <b>My TBR List:</b> do you have one for 2025? how long is it? any plans? <b>Books I'm Especially Interested in Reading in 2025:</b> <b>A Book Coming Out in 2025 That I'm Excited About:</b> <b>Other Book-Related News for 2025 I'm Interested In:</b>

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[skye_writer]

In 2024:

I Read: I read 16 different books in 2024. (If you count rereads of certain titles, I read 20 books.)
My Reading Goal: I mostly just wanted to read 1 book per month, and while it averages out, I didn't quite do that, as I didn't finish any books during March or November.
An Author New-to-me in 2024 I Really Enjoyed: I read Stephanie Burgis's A Marriage of Undead Convenience, a fantasy romance novella, and really enjoyed it. I've resolved to look into Burgis's other books, but that hasn't happened quite yet.
My Favorite Book of the Year: The Sandman, Volume 5: A Game of You
Books I Read in 2024 That I Recommend: The novella by Stephanie Burgis, mentioned above. Also, having revisited them this year, The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, and Sabriel by Garth Nix. Both were still just as good as I remembered.

In 2025:

My Reading Goal: I just want to finish a book per month if I can, though I'm trying to be steadier in my reading habits as well.
Books I'm Especially Interested in Reading in 2025: I would love to get my hands on a copy of Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao this year; it's the sequel to Iron Widow, and I've been eager to read it since I finished the first book.
A Book Coming Out in 2025 That I'm Excited About: John Green's Everything is Tuberculosis, which I believe comes out in March.
Other Book-Related News for 2025 I'm Interested In: I think the Murderbot Diaries TV show is supposed to come out this year? Possibly? Though I'm still not thrilled with the casting for Murderbot/SecUnit, the other casting choices are much better. And it'll be interesting to see how the interiority of the books is adapted for the screen.

[peaceful_sands]

I'm hoping to get to a re-read of the Sabriel series, this year so that I can read the ones that weren't around when I first read the series what feels like 100s of years ago now. I have them ready, but then I've had them ready for a couple of years and just haven't got to them.

Wishing you many great reads for 2025.

[skye_writer]

I hope you're able to get a reread in! I started Lirael last year and got stuck partway through, but I'm thinking I might try to get through it and Abhorsen sometime this year. :)

And thank you!! I hope you have some great reads this year as well!

[silversea]

I'm with you on the Murderbot Diaries TV show. I love Alexander Skarsgård in other works, but the choice was disappointing. Regardless, I'll still look forward to it.

[skye_writer]

Oh yeah. Like... from an outside/Doylist view, I can kind of see why they cast a white guy in the lead; it's quite possible the show might not have been greenlit otherwise. Also with Skarsgård on as a producer as well, it seems likely that this might have been a project of his that he wanted to star in from the start.

But from the perspective of the books, where SecUnit notes repeatedly that the average skin color of a human is "mid-brown", it makes no sense to have a generic, cloned-tissue-created construct be white.

I digress. I'm still looking forward to the show, just to see how they go about adapting it. It'll be interesting, if nothing else.

[silversea]

Other than Skarsgård, I'm pretty curious how they will adapt Murderbot's narration. It's pretty integral to the enjoyment of the story.

I'm also kind of concerned because they're apparently only adapting the first novella for the first season, and well. It's a very short story. I'm not sure how are they going to extend this over multiple episodes.