Hey, y’all! I just want to start by saying that I cannot believe I only made one post last year on this blog page 😱 Something’s gotta change. My yearly goal this year is to be more active on this page. If you didn’t know I used to do Booktube some years back but planning my content and uploads ended up burning me out. So I’m thinking that returning to filming book content is just not for me (it actually makes the most sense for me to do since I do love books and I was a film student in school). But I also very much enjoy writing. I actually used to have a blog page where I would post my short stories but I’ve discontinued that… not writing or uploading, no, never that. I now upload my short stories on WattPad… I’ve gotten wayyy more views and recognition since doing so. But since I love to write, also, I figure the next best thing is to start blogging more on what I’m reading and see how well it goes from here on out. So I want to put more focus on this blog page. So let’s get into the first post of the year 🤩
So when it came to last year’s reading goal… I completed it and read the 58 books that I wanted to read that year. This year I want to read 65 books. The reason being is because my dad had passed away last year at the age of 58 and he was born in 1965. These have been the inspiration, I guess is the word, for my reading goal number. So far I’ve read one book this year.
My favorite book I read in 2024 would have to be between The Secret History by Donna Tartt and the manga series Megumi and Tsugumi by Mitsubishi Si. I’m obsessed with that manga! I’ve only read volumes 1 and 2 but I bought all the volumes we had at my job (I work in a bookstore 😊) after having only read volume 1. It had very much made its way up to one of my top favorite mangas I’ve read… ever! So that’s been exciting. Least favorite book would probably have to be between this manga called Doubt by Yoshiki Tonogai, Boys in the Club by M.T. Pope and Black Girl Lost by Donald Goines. One star all across the board. Black Girl Lost did absolutely nothing for me. I have a whole rant review of Boys in the Club on my Goodreads, the link to that is on the left side. And Doubt just had me confused, at no point was I into it.
And now for 2025… things are starting off a bit ambitious per usual. I seem to have a thing of joining a bunch of reading challenges at the start of the year just to end up quitting them by mid point. Hopefully I can stick through with what I’m about to say for my reading plans this year. Side note: I’ve already read one book towards one of the reading challenges 😁
So for my reading plans this year I want to:
1. Read more books from my physical TBR.
I’m collecting and obtaining books now more than ever and I need to start actually reading them. For one of the challenges I mention below I did pick mostly books I own for the prompts so with that I should really get the most out of this challenge. My shelves are definitely about to get read this year!
2. My Authors Galore Challenge
This was a challenge I came up with back in 2019 or so. It’s kind of almost similar to the author taste test challenge. But with this one pretty much what I do is I take an author who is new to me, or maybe one where I’ve only read one book or so, and I take their catalog and read it in chronological order. A pretty big challenge. Authors who have a lot of published books are ideal. I want to take this challenge and fully bring it here to my blog page so expect in the future for me to take on authors (whom I’ve never read!) such as Emily Henry, Abby Jimenez, Stephen King (read one, paused on one), S.A Cosby, etc. I could go on, there’s quite a few authors and popular authors I’ve never read from! Almost makes me question who and what am I reading. The first author that I had started this challenge with was Eric Jerome Dickey. I had never read a book by him when I started this challenge but since I had I’ve discovered that he’s one of my favorite authors and not just that but also he’s the only author I’ve come across who has a similar writing style or voice as I do when it comes to my own stories. He passed away back in 2021 so his catalog is pretty much complete at this point. I’ve read a couple of his books now and I’m just now hitting his 2000 year publication. I’m also adding George R. R. Martin to my current author that I’m reading from but only because I need to finish the Song of Ice and Fire series (I’ve been reading book 2 for 10 years now 🫣).
3. Buzzword Readathon
Once again I’m attempting to do this challenge, created by Kayla over at BooksandLala on YouTube. But I figure that this year I should definitely complete this challenge because I’ve chosen books that I own for the prompts. I’m very proud of myself. There were only, like, two prompts that I didn’t have on my shelf but other than that I have the books already at home!
4. Barnes and Noble 52 Week Reading Challenge
This one came out of nowhere because I was this year years old when I found out that this is a thing that I guess they do every year. Not sure where I’ve been, but, okay. So I checked it out and was like, Bet! And so far I’ve already completed the first week’s challenge and I’m definitely going to finish second week’s challenge this week as well, so I’m about to be ahead of the game when it comes to this challenge which is crazy to me because I rarely read a book in a week. My goal for the most part is to start each new prompt for the week on Sunday.
I’m pretty damn hopeful and confident with the challenges I’m taking on this year. I don’t know what it is but I’m feeling pretty good about this year and these goals. Please stick around to catch all my reviews and rants especially when it comes to the Author Galore Challenge 👀 That’s gonna be so much fun to talk about and I’ll even take up author suggestions from readers or people following me on other social media platforms because… who do y’all want to see me read?
Type soon 🤞🏾
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