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Merry Christmas, Kari!!🎄🎅 I've only had 1 European Christmas experience on my OE 30 years ago (yikes!) and remember seeing the Christmas window display at the Galeries Lafayette. It was very beautiful! Good haul. I'll have to put Cusk on my list, and I love Ottessa Moshfegh, so want to read more of her in 2025. Am reading Foster by Claire Keegan today, and it'll probably make me cry 😢

I’m sorry, 200 pages in 1 hr??! That’s amazing. My speed is approximately 45-55 pages per hour. Beautiful journal!! Definitely gave me some great ideas! Has your speed increased over time or have you always naturally been a speed reader? Plz, tell me there’s hope for me 😩😩

Have you looked at Light Novels, for your translated fiction challenge? Many manga, and anime, are based on light novel stories. Strike the Blood (urban fantasy) is a good example of this! As for my reading goals, for this year, I've gotten nowhere near, as I'm not really much of a reader. I'm hoping to change that next year, however, as I've signed up to The 52 Book Club challenge! 🙂

I achieved most of my goals, but I try to keep my goals pretty light. One thing that will become a goal for 2025 is to reread some of my books, so this year I've reread 12 books and I really enjoyed that. Am also focusing on reading what I own and I've c. 200 books unread on my shelves so I'd like to continue getting c. 30-40 of those off my TBR each year. The only bigger goal I failed on was to read a > 1,000 page novel. I wonder why that failed haha 😂

i’ve added to my goals next year to do some re-reads of books i love, they always get set aside for all the books on my tbr poor things 😭

Wait - where can I read more of Donna Tartt online? I'm starting to enjoy reading opinion pieces, essays and short stories so please point me in the right direction!

I cannot WAIT to read Paradais, Hurricane Season was incredible

Yay, your 2024 journal video helped me make my first reading journal for 2025

Where did you get the stand for this compact?

You are prepared! I have thought of ideas I'd like for my 2025 reading journal, but haven't even started XD I have horrible writing, and don't have a printer, so am trying to think of cute ways to get around not having printed cover images in my journal. My daughter suggested trying to just draw tiny images/use some stickers that are to do with things in a book which I'll probably end up doing!

What is the process for finding/printing the thumbnail pictures of the books? Thanking you in advance for helping this 70 yr old figure these things out. I’m making my first Reading Journal for 2025. I appreciate all the wonderful inspiration.

I love your goals!! As a professional translator (from English to French) and also a writer, I can tell you that before a book gets translated, it needs to achieve a rather high level of success in its original language. It might explain why it appeals to a certain readership…books that “fail” don’t usually get translated - in English, because the market is huge, even terrible books offen achieve commercial success 🫢

So last week I finished reading "The Goldfinch". I thought it was pretty good. Like you said how the painting is always in the background, which I thought was brilliant because it is also always in the back of your mind while reading. The writing itself wasn't as great as "The Secret History" (My opinion. Although I absolutely loved it), but still masterful writing from Donna Tartt. She writes books that get you obsessed with until you finish it, and then you are still thinking about it afterward. Now as for the film adaptation of the book, which I decided to watch after, it was the worst film I have ever seen. It was so disjointed, the dialogues were cut, scenes that highlight important parts were left out, locations which are a big part of the novel were there but barely, and the casting for the most part was terrible (just two actors I thought were good for the part), as well as the acting was terrible(Nicole Kidman - wow, really bad acting. And I usually like her acting). DO NOT WATCH THAT FILM!!! Stick with the book. Enjoy it savor it and look forward to reading her other works.

Goodreads, I used to use it a lot back in the day, but as they slowly but steadily went downhill I stopped. Haven't been on since c. 2018-2019. Can't take them seriously when they have popularity contests with Romantasy stuff like Fourth Wing winning awards lmao 😬😂 I just read what I'm interested in reading!

What an awesome idea for a video! 🎉 As an author it’s funny, I just want a community of readers. I don’t necessarily strive the awards. 😂 I just hope to bring some joy to others. 📚✍️

Whats the Brazilian book your read in 2024? 😊

Omg I LOVED The Rachel Incident and The Night Guest, and now I need to read Exhalted!

first of all that collections of classics behind you is absolutely stunning!!!! and secondly you HAVE to read perfume and pain by anna dorn!!! read it earlier this year and it’s one of my favorites of the year

Thanks for sharing about Exalted, now on my TBR. I loved The Husband & The Rachel Incident too, also enjoyed Snake Oil & The Boundaries We Cross that I read in November.

Hi Kari! Greetings from Hungary! I love your idea about keeping your reading goal reasonable, and only increasing it by 5 book annually. I feel like I am in a big transition period regarding my reading life, and my goals for 2025 show that. My reading goal was 120 books for 2024, I am at book 135 right now, so I could go for 130, I guess for 2025, but I will keep it at 120. Here are the reasons why. For years I only read e-books (because of arthritis I could not hold hardbacks) but now that my hands are doing better, I rediscovered the joy of reading hardbacks. And I also started annotating. My first book annotated was Babel and I had a BLAST!! So now I can not wait to annotate more books. I am rambling sorry!! Okay.... my goals for 2025! Read 120 books, Read more hardbacks, Annotate More Books, Quality over Quantity, Start a reading journal, read 3 classics and read at least 1 book nominated for a prize (Booker or Womens Fiction.) Love xxx

Just found your channel x

I will buy a few books from this list!

Just read Exalted by Anna Dorn. Those women were super unlikableeeee.... 😬 a hard book to explain without giving away the twist..which i feel like i should have picked up on sooner btw lol. The author making the scorpio an obsessive person was on point though so sometimes she was relatable... im a scorpio with a scorpio stellium. When she started to bash astrology i agreed that its not good to use it for the reasons she was using it. I thought she didnt even understand astrology lol...like why didnt she look at her and his synastry chart? Not even once... smh...all that bein said, i read it in one day. It was riveting.

Love your vids! Out of interest, what did you think the rachel incident was going to be about from the blurb? Ive only listened to the audiobook. Also,have you read still born by guadalupe nettel? I thought it was a beautiful book on the topic of whether to be a mother

I agree on 'gentle goals'. Lots push for these unreasonable goals and then reading becomes a challenge and a chore and not fun. Reading is for fun! My goal for 2024 was 52 books. I've just read my 100th book. If I get to 104 I'll have doubled my goal so awesome, but if I don't reach it, it's allgood. Hello from New Zealand 👋 and I couldn't tell if we were coloured in (cause bad eyes 😕) but my daughter loves Ngaio Marsh (like Agatha Christie) and Catherine Chigdey is an author I want to read, as she's popular and writes weird-ish books 😁

Awesome goals. Awesome video. Love from Egypt 🇪🇬❤️❤️

I’m getting so many ideas for my own journal. Thank you! Would love to see an updated video.

Hail Mary!! Can't wait for you to get to that one! And I've never heard of Exhalted but now I'm interested! OMG Cloud Atlas is one of my favorite books of all time, it literally changed my reading taste forever Omg literally why are we like the same person 😅 I'm also a vegetarian/almost vegan and since you mention Cardcapture Sakura, I have to mention the other manga by that publisher that is set in the same world (but can be read separately) -- xxxHolic! It's one of my favorite mangas and it's so magical & cozy but with a dash of darkness that CS doesn't have.

Such a fun list!! Have fun working through them!

The important question is, Kari, is a Blob of what?! 😂 Seriously, great list. I think you'll love Murakami. Some say he's a massive sexist, but it's all about artist vs art, which sadly, lots miss the point on. I was lucky enough to hear Murakami talk years ago at a Writers Festival here, and he was the sweetest, funniest man! Word of warning though, Norwegian Wood was his 1st book, and he now doesn't like it lol. I want to read some of these books in 2025 as well, including Lolita.

I think you should definitely read your 'Sally-signed-this' edition! Had 2 great reading months, with 13 reads in both October and November, but now I'm in a bit of a slump. Once I finish my reread of LotR The Two Towers I'll have hit 100 books for the year, which is great by me! My goal was 52, so yay 😁

I would definitely read from the actual book you own (Intermezzo). Also, I hope you will recap your favorite literary fiction reads from 2024… 😊

16:14 omg how did you do this spread!! this is smth i really need when i start my journal 😭

Thank you Kari for your lovely video! I have never read a Sally Rooney book before ( I know....😮😅) bit will definitely give intermezzo a try! Just finished a dance with dragons. I am planning on reading Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney, The most wonderful crime of the year, Terror by Dan Simmons, Vladimir and the Winter Street series by Elin Hilderbrand. I read the christmas guest last year and absolutely loved it, so I want to reread it this year ❤❤❤ Can not wait for your next video! Byeeee

The Christmas Village is really cute!

You have Santons! My dad bought a set of them in Marseilles in 1944. He was stationed there during the war. I have the set now, which I simply adore. The figures are very similar. Bread baker. The sheep. The women carrying firewood. Very rustic. Plus the scene of the manger--including camels and the 3 Wise Men. The story idea was all the townspeople came to see the baby in the manger. Not just kings but the hard working common people. Thanks so much.

Honey I read the push . Utter trash no plot twist . It was made very very clear in the beginning that violet/the daughter was a psychotic kid . The whole Novel is just the mom telling everyone that the daughter is not normal , and the dad or the husband always ignoring his wife . He cheated on her too . Trash novel . Thanks for shity suggestion bro

The goldfinch was one of the most boring books and most terrible movies I’ve ever seen🤷🏼‍♀️

Great recomendations! new follower here!

Hallo Reading challenge. Empty space A book that was published in the year of my brith🎉

My dream is to visit Paris someday, I must go to this bookstore, I'd love to sit there drink a good cup of coffee and talk to the people, just by seeing this place I feel in home.

Hey Kari! Great review thanks! I was wondering if you could make a video for us about your annotations? How you write them? What is your process? What do you write down as notes? Would really love to hear your toughts on that topic!

Where did you buy this??

All of those washi tapes are adorable!

If you find that the Velcro dots add more bulk than you want in your book, you might consider using temporary scrapbook adhesive or clear photo corners to hold the book covers. Then when you have a final list at the end of the year, you could adhere them with permanent adhesive (if you want).

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