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Interesting review. I haven't read the book. I might at some point. I do have The Final Girl's Support Group so I will read it before any other Grady Hendrix books

Im not super into film but I might need to read Silver Nitrate eventually. I’ve enjoyed a couple of her other books. I also really want to read the Paper Menagerie. I keep hearing incredible things about it.

My December was good in that I enjoyed the books I read. The amount I read dropped off. I only completed 2 books. I may complete one more today

I think Dunkelblum was quite a popular book here in The netherlands aswell, I've seen it around quite a bit. I've read one german book this year, I thikn the author is from Switzerland though,, adn that was Der halbbart by Charles Lewinsky, I had a great time reading that!

Ooh I’m so tempted to get a digital reading journal now. That looks like fun. This was great! 😊

I'm excited to read Deadhouse Gates this coming year, I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on it (and others). I read Gardens of the Moon earlier this year and loved it; the world is just so interesting to me.

The book journal looks like it could be really helpful. My main goal was to read 50% from my shelves, I haven't done the calculations yet but I suspect I haven't achieved that so it'll be featuring again in my 2025 goals!

I am with you in aspiring to be a better reviewer. I love the goals you have set for yourself for 2025, looking forward to see how you get on. Love the digital reading journal too, tempting to do something like that but I do prefer physical to digital. I hope you have a Merry Christmas!

Oh how I wish I could experience Earthsea for the first time again. I read it when I was quite young and haven't re-read it since but LeGuin will forever be a favourite. I cannot wait to hear your thoughts on P. Djeli Clark's books, which I love, and also on Legends & Lattes, which I felt decidedly "meh" about.

Love this. I am eagerly awaiting the release of the 2025 spreadsheets from WithAli on Etsy which I've been using this year and enjoying -- I do love a pie chart. I am looking forward to book reviews from you. We read a lot of similar genres so I'm not much help for suggestions outside that. 🤣 I will absolutely make a video akin to this one and share my goals there, but I'm keeping quite a lot the same from 2024! Page/title count, readathons, read a book in French. These I'd like to repeat. I'm doing January focused on books I already own (...and hopefully more beyond). I'd also like to diversify geographically. I like the bingo card and may aim for a set number of translations as well.

You read an impressive number of books this year. I didn't do well on my 2024 goals. My main one was a goal of reading 90 books. I am currently at 72. I chose 40 physical books I owned to read. I only read a few of them. In 2024 I am going to lower my book reading goal to around 70. I and I have a goal to read 25 physical books I own and 25 ebooks. I am going to make more of an effort on this goal than I did in 2024

Great video! I really enjoyed hearing your reading goals for 2025. My biggest goal is reading what I already own. In the past, I mostly read books from the library. But this year I went to several local book events and bought a lot of books to support local authors. So I'm going to set a small budget for next year, and I'm hoping to just read what I own for the next 6 months, since most of the book events I attend are in the fall. We'll see because there is one book coming out in January that I've already placed a hold on at the library.

I love this challenge! It's so easy to just keep buying new books versus reading what is already on the shelf. Subbed so I can follow along and maybe attack my own shelves!

Oh my, such great selection of books! Babel gas also has been on my TBR for an embarrassing amount of time, hopefully we’ll get to it in 2025. As to Dowry of Blood I really hope you’ll enjoy it. It was such a hit for me this past November.

I read Desperation and the Regulators a week apart from each other...im a sucker for punishment 😂

Parable of the Sower is on my list for next year! Can’t wait after hearing your thoughts, but going to be a difficult one. No need to apologize for enjoying a heavy read. Art is supposed to make you feel.

I read Happy Place last year and The Secret Society of Very Irregular Witches this year. Liked both a lot. I haven't read many werewolf books. Perhaps I should change that

New sub ty!

I loved A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. I will have to bec cautious about reading The Reappearance of Rachel Price

Disappointing about Just Like Home. Just from how you talked about it caused my inner book goblin to rage.

I haven't read any of these...no, that's not right. I did read The Princess Bride a few years ago. However, I actually think there is a lot of value in sharing books that were disappointments.

Oh man. The House That Horror Built. I couldn’t with how many times the MC referenced the pandemic lol. Like faced with horror, and is still complaining about limited seating at restaurants lol

My most disappointing books of 2024 are Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer, Normal People by Sally Rooney, Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and The Paleontogist by Luke Dumas

If you enjoyed The Appeal (and The Christmas Appeal), I would recommend The Examiner by Janice Hallett. This one felt the most similar to The Appeal books, but I felt like it packed more of a punch.

Too bad about the Familiar. I still gotta read 9th House and Hellbent! The Princess Bride as a novel has a different kind of tone/humor than the movie does IMO. I enjoyed the book but still prefer the movie.

Completely agree with you about The Familiar. I did finish it because I was hoping it would be more fantastical or I would become more attached to the characters, but nope. Thanks for sharing these.

I'm with you on A Natural History of Dragons, it was ok, but didn't live up to the hype I kept seeing from other BookTubers.

Great job! It’s hard to talk about books when it disappointing. I love reading The Princess Bride, but I understand why seeing the movie first would kind of ruin it. One of the few movies that did better than the book. My most disappointing book was Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Aria. The cover had me excited, the killer was a disappointment. Very easy to predict.

OMG Nghi Vo's "The Brides of High Hill," I don't even have to check my spreadsheet - that book devastated me and it was entirely down to expectations. Book 5 in a series I've loved all along (4-5 stars for every installment) and I landed on a 2.5 star for this one. Had it been first, I wouldn't have continued the series.

I’ve been wanting to read None of This is True. Sounds so good! 😊

I love Holly Gibney, too! Great answers. Thank you so much for doing the tag!

I want to read Legendborn. My 3 favorite books from November were The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, All Hallows by Christopher Golden, and The Night Parade by Ronald Malfi

None of This Is True sounds fascinating. 100 % two wrongs don’t make a right.

Ha, great vid. I like the way you interjected that correction during the edit phase. I never really thought of making adjustments in this nature, but it really went over well. Nicely done! Now I also read the synopsis and book summaries. Sometimes it's accurate and sometimes it's not, but I don't think it derogatively affects my reading experience enough to stop reading them.

Hello and welcome to the community! I'm probably one of your newest "neighbors" having just only found your channel. I really do enjoy your down to earth presentation. I also too love coffee and am looking forward to more of your content.

Welcome from a fellow newbie booktuber 🫶🏻🎉📚 definitely subscribed and looking forward to your content!

Of course I will do a VR and of course we are bookish friends whether I am a booktuber or not 🤣💜

This was fun ❤

I'm also really excited for the new Grady Hendrix book. He writes women especially well (at least in the books of his I've read so far). I'm also planning to read to the new Sangu Mandanna

So many books to look forward to! I hesitate to look at what's coming up next year as I already have so much on my shelf that is still unread, but I know I won't be able to resist.

I haven't heard of most of these! 💜 I am excited to learn more about horror from you - it's something I'm kind of dipping into but isn't a go-to and isn't a genre I know the authors very well in. ARCs are up for the Buffalo Hunter Hunter though! I am really excited for that one. First half of 2025 releases I'm pumped for include (to name a few) "Harmattan Season" by Tochi Onyebuchi and a few new installments in series I love: "Days of Shattered Faith" by Adrian Tchaikovsky and "The Martian Contingency" by Mary Robinette Kowal.

Some interesting books. I can see why you look forward to getting them. I love the cover of They Bloom at Night. I wish I could offer some suggestions about upcoming Sci Fi books. Unfortunately, I don't read that many Sci Fi books anymore. And I am not good at learning about upcoming books.

New to your channel. Arrived via M-J’s channel. Loved this. I’m a bit of a nerd too 😂. Look forward to getting to know you better. Good luck with your channel 😊

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the new Grady Hendrix!

Great video! I love how creative it is! Best of luck to you on Booktube!

Hello! Just discovered your channel through MJ. Wishing you great success with your new channel.

Sounds like great books. I'm going to have to look into that first one (the historical fiction...I'll have to go back and get the title). I haven't heard anything about it here, so it might now be slated for release in the US, but I could always get it from Blackwells.

That is one big book. The only books I know I will be reading in December are The Christmas Tree Farm by Laurie Gilmore and A Court Of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Mass. They are both for book clubs.