#readinthenewyear

ring in the new year with a readathon! dedicating time to reading is my most favoritest way to end one year and begin the next, and so we bingo for a sprinkle of festivity

anyone is welcome to join in ♡

to literally rip from my post last year: fills are focused on checkpoints along the way of reading + easy peasy pitstops when you need a break, rather than focused on what you’re reading, so it's friendly to multiple genres and formats! win by any pattern you choose!! this is all for fun & the love of reading

static board >>here

new year’s eve & new year’s day #readinthenewyear

keep reading for the row by row list of prompts, plus some totally optional suggestions for the free space. feel free to ask for clarification!

ring in the new year with a readathon!

looking for an excuse to boost your 2020 reading & get a jump on 2021? look no further babe, we’re doing bingo 🥳

there are two boards to choose from: one + two. fills are focused on checkpoints along the way of reading + easy peasy pitstops when you need a break, rather than focused on what you’re reading, so it's friendly to multiple genres and formats! win by any pattern you choose!! this is all for fun & the love of reading 

new year’s eve & new year’s day #readinthenewyear

prompts are hopefully self-explanatory but feel free to ask for clarification! keep reading for an alphabetical list, plus some totally optional alternatives for the free space

in fairness, “most anticipated” is a stretch. I’m not totally up on upcoming releases because I’m not really in the book community like I used to be. these are mainly titles I found interesting in a quick search

the stolen heir by holly black admittedly the folk of the air series is akin to fast food for me. like it sustains me exactly as long as it takes to finish it, and twenty minutes later I’ve forgotten all about it. however it’s a friend’s favorite series and I’m looking forward to their excitement enough that it’s elevating my own

song of silver, flame like night by amélie wen zhao the cover is beautiful and I’ve been leaning more into fantasy lately. it’ll be a bit of branching out since I’ve not read anything else by this author

emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries by heather fawcett another author I haven’t read and a cover that’s fun. I’m charmed by the summary of a socially struggling academic studying faerie folklore

the daughters of izdihar by hadeer elsbai it’s being shelved as lesbian and I’m shallow enough to be hooked on that alone. plus I love a good fight for your rights story so fingers crossed it fucks

vampire weekend by mike chen “about a boy meets what we do in the shadows” literally all this book has to do is be mildly good in the follow through and I’ll love it

clytemnestra by costanza casati I just think books about reviled women are something that can be so personal

MOST ANTICIPATED  2023 BACKLIST READS

the golem and the jinni by helen wecker I read about 50 pages of this every six months and have never finished it. now that I listen to audiobooks, I’m determined to read it all. idk what’s stopped me since I enjoy it when I pick it up

sword of destiny and blood of elves by andrzej sapkowski I’m a good way through sword of destiny already. my witcher era never really ends but will shift between the show, the games, and the books.

cruel illusions by margie fuston it’s especially unfair to call this one a backlist read as it’s a very recent release. anyway, that noted, I just got the fairyloot edition and it’s so gorgeous. so this is kind of a vanity pick I’m hoping lives up to its presentation but vampires and magic and deadly games does sound dope

a closed and common orbit by becky chambers omg I was such a long way to a small, angry planet girlie when that was released only to then never read another in the series... planning to change that in 2023. I might even reread the first book because it’s been so damn long

saga, compendium one by brian k. vaughan saga has been tapping my shoulder lately begging to be reread and I definitely need the refresher before picking up vol.10

I'm going a little wild this year and setting my goal to 150 books. for the last two months, I’ve read 3 per week on average. if I keep that up, then I’ll come in over 150 easy, so it’s not that wild but it’s still a huge shift from 2022′s goal of 24 books

2022 was a slump year for me. I read 5 books between jan + oct, with the fifth book read in july so oof. and most of my reads were meh to forgettable. though I did discover an appreciation for audiobooks, especially star wars books because the sound effects are so stupidly fun. my favorite books in 2022 were legendborn and bloodmarked!

ring in the new year with a readathon!

posting on the day because I’ve been so sick all of december that I hadn't planned to make an event™ of it this year. but I have a stack of books & comics beside me plus audiobooks through libby, and reading is my favorite way to kickoff and end each year! so I'll power through 💪🏽

I’ve done this publicly once before and while I’ve updated the boards, the prompts and this post are largely the same as a time-saving measure. I’m sharing in case anyone wants to join in ♡

boards: one (pictured), two (blue/purple), three (grayscale, easy to read)

fills are focused on checkpoints along the way of reading + easy peasy pitstops when you need a break, rather than focused on what you’re reading, so it's friendly to multiple genres and formats! win by any pattern you choose!! this is all for fun & the love of reading

new year’s eve & new year’s day #readinthenewyear

prompts are intended to be self-explanatory but feel free to ask for clarification! keep reading for an alphabetical list, plus some totally optional alternatives for the free space

read 50 books

start using storygraph

read more nonfiction

continue series I started this year, like the expanse, the witcher, the shannara chronicles, also shit bro.. maybe things that haven’t been adapted for tv lmao ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

join an active book club. maybe scifi focused?? maybe queer scifi???

try at least a chapter of the million books I take out instead of sending half of them back totally unread 

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2020 was shaping up to be such a good year for me with books! A third of my total reads were in by early March. But the only reason I’ve read anything since then is because we get to read at work when we’re handling curbside.

Which like... the alternative is staring at the wall so thank u for the forced motivation @work 😘

Most of what I read was forgettable though rip. I think I need to branch out, try a little harder to figure out what I like nowadays and go from there.

The highlights. Us Against You, The Space Between Worlds, Leviathan Wakes, Evvie Drake Starts Over. The week I spent inhaling Shadow & Bone for the first time, rereading SoC, and then topping it all off with King of Scars and The Language of Thorns. The one book a day breeze of finishing The Folk of the Air trilogy. Reading more romance than I have in my life. My temporary fixation on baseball in both fiction and nonfiction that was really just spillover from running out of Pitch fic lmao 

I mostly don’t have specific titles, just the 100 unread books scattered around my home to choose from and a desire to close out my 2020 reading challenge. I even grabbed a ton of books from work last week too, which is good because they later pulled us back a phase or two and I wouldn’t have had time to do it this week.

Okay. So all that said, my goal is to read 2 books + 5 comics!

I’m probably going to stick to the piles on my desk here, but I’m not counting out anything on my shelves. Definitely starting with Spell on Wheels vol. 2: Just to Get to You. Pretty sure I read vol 1 the last time I did a readathon around this time. Aka years ago. It’s been an eternity, I’m really excited it’s out!