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>

Comments

[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.