End-of-Year Reading Meme: 2024
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booknookSimply 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
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:
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:
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:
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Date: 2025-01-06 12:05 pm (UTC)In 2024:
I Read: 53 books in 2024
My Reading Goal: I had a bunch of different goals, or I guess challenges? But strictly numerically, my goal was 48 books
I Challenged Myself: I managed (barely!) to read four books in French. I read a very good chunk in Swedish. I read at least one non-fiction book a month. I read ten books off my TBR (success!) and ten books I've owned for at least a year (fail, since the goal was twelve). A little over half of my books were from women/enby authors, and over 10% were from Black authors. I read something from two new countries to me (massive success, percentage wise, since my goal was just one new country).
A New Genre I Attempted: I read so widely that at this point I don't know if there are genres that I've never attempted. If there are any left untested it's because I have very good reason to believe I wouldn't enjoy myself.
An Author New-to-me in 2024 I Really Enjoyed: Marie NDiaye!! So good. So, so good. But I have mixed feelings about recommending her here because I think the English translation is unusually bad, maybe bad enough to turn people off to her.
My Favorite Book of the Year: Vengeance is Mine by Marie NDiaye for novels, and maybe The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow for non-fiction.
Books I Read in 2024 That I Recommend: Besides those two? I re-read Slaughter-house 5 after my partner read it for the first time and it still hits hard.
In 2025:
My Reading Goal: 48 books, the same I've had for several years now. It works for me.
I'm Going to Challenge Myself: The same challenges I set for myself every year: language challenges (Swedish and French), personal challenges (clearing out my TBR and physical bookshelves), author challenges (gender, race, nationality).
My TBR List: I don't have a TBR list for the year. It just continues to grow and I continue to try to take bites out of it.
Books I'm Especially Interested in Reading in 2025: I don't really have any set reading plans for 2025 so I'm happy to see what life brings me!
A Book Coming Out in 2025 That I'm Excited About: Reading other answers it seems like Alecto the Ninth might come out this year? That would be great. Maybe I'll reread the other books to refresh my memory.
Other Book-Related News for 2025 I'm Interested In: Other answers here have informed me that there is a Murderbot TV series in the works? Potentially interesting!
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Date: 2025-01-06 02:45 pm (UTC)Congrats on reading in multiple languages! That's a great skill!