Hi Pat, I am simply in awe of your January reading plans. And thanks for including Beard's book on Roman Emperors. You won't be disappointed. Here's to a blessed and safe new year. Bob G.
Hi Bob. Thank you. This may be overly ambitious, but I also think that many of these books and plans are going to be extending into February and March, but I needed to start somewhere. I may start Mary Beard's book this weekend. I'm so glad to have met you here this year, Bob. Wishing you all good things in 2025.
@@Nina_DP you made me laugh out loud. Most of these will extend through February too. That’s my plan: to immerse myself in books for the foreseeable future. We’ll see how it goes….
Good luck with Proust! I remember studying Pygmalion in school and loving it. I have Emperor of Rome on my tbr. I went to an event where she discussed the book and we were given a copy of it as well. I love Mary Beard! Happy new year and happy reading!
@@spreadbookjoy Happy New Year, Jack! I am not feeling optimistic about reading Proust, which is why I’m not committing to anything more than volume 1. We’ll see how that goes. Mary Beard is wonderful! I taught Pygmalion somewhere along the way earlier in my career. What a treasure! Wishing you all that is good in the new year, Jack. 🥰
Wow, it sounds like you have a very full and amazing reading year ahead of you. I have Mary Beard’s “SPQR” on my shelf, which I need to get to sometime. Great video, Pat!
Thanks, Josh. I actually just got a second-hand copy of SPQR also. I probably should read that first. I hope you are doing well. Wishing you all that is good in the new year.
These sound like great plans, Pat! I'll be doing Historathon, as well. I've also got a couple challenges of my own running this year. Nathanuary in January, where we read the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. This year the group read is The Scarlet Letter. I'm also hosting a year long Classic Children's Novel Readalong. Our January read is The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. Have a great week!
I'm glad you'll be a part of Historathon. Nathanuary sounds great, and I've read The Scarlet Letter many times as I used to teach it, but I think my January might be a bit tight right now. Wishing you all that is good in the new year.
Wow those are some impressive plans for the first month of the year. I’m very glad to be joining you on many of your readathons 😊. Here’s to a fabulous 2025 Pat 🎉🎉🎉
Wow! Ambitious January-I’m looking forward to your summaries. I am so happy I happened upon BookTube. It has rekindled my love of reading. January is ambitious for me too. #excited! ❤
@@vickicoleman2474 I’d love to hear more about your January plans. A lot of the books I’m talking about here will extend into February too. Here’s to a great reading year!
Pat, I'm wondering if you mentioned a book I picked up. It's a novella that I'm thoroughly enjoying. "Whose Names Are Unknown" by Sanora Babb. A story about life during the Depression and Dust Bowl years. She wrote it in the 30"s and it remained unpublished until University of Oklahoma Press picked it up in 2004. It's a great finish to the year. If you haven't read it I highly recommend I it!
Wonderful. It's great to be busy. Good luck with all of this! My immediate plan is to finish my 2 current reads so I can start January with new reads. Let's hope it's a great year for us all.
My reading tends to be more whim driven than purposefully charted out. But, inspired by the big plans both you and Allen have been sharing, I decided on at least one significant read for 2025. I just ordered the Penguin Classics Deluxe edition of Les Misérables. All those sightings of it in your videos and your positive experience with it . . . I couldn't resist any longer! 😄
Ooh, it sounds like you have an amazing reading year ahead of you! I'm planning to join in for the first Proust. We'll see how it goes... I'm excited to see what you choose for historathon. And yay for continuing Poetry Thursday! Have you see the books out about Christie's detectives? I know that both Poirot and Marple are out now. They look like fun.
@@HannahsBooks hi Hannah! I’m very excited about all of these events…I’ve never even come close to reading Proust. Like you, I’m willing to try Volume 1, and we will see how that goes. I have seen the books on Christie’s detectives, but I don’t have them yet. They do look like fun.
Bold plans! This all sounds fun and challenging. I’m glad we’re reading together in several groups. Thanks for sharing Endless Drama; I’m so excited to get started!
I'm really excited for Endless Drama too! Most of the books I'm talking about here are really part of longer term, ongoing goals; it's not really all for January. I'm really glad too that we are reading in several groups together.
I like how eclectic your reading taste is! I recently discovered your channel, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts on all of your January reads. Happy 2025 to you! 🎊
@@veronicaprice thank you for this lovely comment! I’m so glad you found my channel! BookTube has most definitely expanded my reading interests. I hope you’ve have a wonderful reading year too!
Hi Ali. Thank you. There are just so many wonderful reading events taking place. Several of these are longer, ongoing events that we can dip in and out of throughout the year. I believe that they will be life-sustaining in the coming year. I hope you're doing well, my friend. Wishing you all good things in the year to come.
Yes there’s lots of wonderful things to join in with, I’m pacing myself though as I’m a serial over- committer and I want to do things well. Wishing you a happy and healthy 2025 dear friend.
Sounds like a fantastic start to the year, Pat! So many wonderful BookTubers running very enticing events! For me, I am reading for Historathon 2025 and plan to read Ancestors by Alice Roberts and possibly Twelve Caesars by Suetonius for both Robert’s event and Historathon. Trying to keep my feeding fairly unstructured this year so I can get to some books I keep putting off. The nice thing about all the events you mentioned is they are so varied in terms of genre. Happy reading, my friend!❤️📚
@@jf8559 yes, there is a lot of variety here, and they are also extended over time and not all for January. Your picks sound great too! Happy Reading in 2025!
I really enjoy watching your videos- the way you annunciate and speak so articulately is really appreciated. Also, you have some great book selections for January. Happy reading!
Thank you, Kevin. It happened at some point today. Unbelievable. I think it will take me more than January to read Mary Beard, but I'm not in a hurry. I figure I've got the first quarter to read it....
Now that's planning! I'm not even sure what I'll be doing later this morning yet. 😊 I've long had Proust in mind as a long term goal, but I tend to be rather math, science, and nonfiction oriented, so that level of literature is a bit intimidating. I suppose there's nothing for it but to take the plunge sooner or later. I've been wanting to try some Shaw plays as well, but that doesn't scare me as much. I haven't read that Mary Beard title yet, but I've had good experiences with other books of hers. Well, I enjoyed hearing about your plans. All the best with your January reading!
@@BryanM.R.-prionic1 Hi Bryan! You just made me laugh out loud. Believe me, I never planned reading at all before BookTube! I hope you’re feeling better. I’m glad to hear you’ve had good experiences with Mary Beard. I’m very anxious about Proust which is why I’m only committing to Volume 1 over a two-month period. We’ll see how it goes. Shaw’s Pygmalion is a quick, fun read. Hope you’re on the mend now!
What an exciting way to start the new year. I'll be joining several of these events. I'm waffling on Emperor of Rome for Q1 of Historathon. If I don't read that, I'll read Weavers, Scribes and Kings by Amanda H. Podney. I'm trying to be realistic and not to overcommit to a lot of things, but it's hard when there are so many great booktube events. I also have my own projects and would like to prioritize those. We'll see how it all unfolds.
Thanks, Arianne. That's how I actually feel too. Most of what I'm talking about here is actually going to be extended over a longer period of time. It isn't really all for January. It's just starting in January.
You have so many good books to read!! Enjoy them all. I am so glad I will have to chance to participate in the Pineiro Project Miss Marple is certainly a comfort read!!
I admire your commitment to reading such a wide variety of genres! I may try to join the banned book group. I find Toni Morrison difficult so maybe if I read it with a group I'd discover what I am missing
Thank you. I guess maybe it's the English teacher in me that has always caused me to read diversely. That would be great if you joined the banned book group. Toni Morrison can be very challenging, for sure, but her books are so important, and they are almost all being horribly challenged in a number of places.
The titles seem fantastic! A very good mix. May ask if you have a reading routine or if you read when you have time and lust? Anyway, Happy 2025 for you and you family also...and happy readings!🎉😊
Very ambitious and very exciting, I think you’ll have a great start to your reading year! 😊 I love seeing everyone’s projects and things to read things together, it’s such a simple thing but just shows the welcoming and friendly nature of the reading community. A great source of restoration of faith in humanity. I have my own Diversity Book Bingo project, and a couple of other prompt word lists that I will play along with. I also want to join in on Mariandrea’s book club for the February read, Olga Dies Dreaming. Maybe more throughout the year, but I’m trying not to over-commit! 😊
Thanks, Ellen. I will find a way to participate in Diversity Book Bingo too. I do read pretty diversely anyway. Mariandrea's book club, the Pineiro Project, and the banned books will, no doubt, fulfill some of the prompts! I do hear you about not over-committing. Much of what I'm proposing to read is actually going to be read over a longer period of time--but just starting in January. My goal for the new year is simply to immerse myself in literature as a good way to keep other noise out as much as possible.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 You're very welcome to, but no pressure, as always! As you said you read diversely already, and I just think I do but the data says otherwise! I think you can handle your level of commitment well, and they are long term projects as well. And we can always adjust as we go along. That's a good goal. I hope things won't be as scary as we fear, but it's still a good plan to have some distraction and a source of joy, whatever comes.
You're making a strong start to 2025 Pat, I look forward to hearing how you get on. I'm also going to be trying to participating in Historathon and am hoping to do so by reading books that I already own and haven't read or can borrow from the library.
Looks like an amazing start to 2025 Pat! I'll have to really consider joining in on Robert G's emperor reading event full force. Glad you are participating with historathon as well!
Hey, I'm going to read Mary Beard for the first quarter of Historathon as well! My son got me another of her books (SPQR), so that is the one I'll read. I'm not sure I'll get mine done in January, either. I'm also going to participate in Mariandrea's and Angelia's reading groups. Well, I'm going to read Pygmalion, then we'll see if I can fit RUR in.
Hi Melinda. Oh I'm so glad that we will be in these events together! I actually did just pick up a used copy of SPQR also. I probably should read that first, but we'll see. I don't see myself finishing in January....Pygmalion will be a quick read. Happy New Year to you!
Pat, what variety of topics, genres, and authors’ ethnicities and nationalities in these books. Bravo for the wide expanse of reading. Last night I finished reading Robert McDowell’s Poetry as Spiritual Practice. Continuing or to be started this month unless priorities need to change: For one church group - Curveball: WhenYour Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming by Peter Enns For another church group and a congregation-wide reading - Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale by Ian Cron As a supplement: The Sun & Moon Over Assisi: a personal Encounter with Francis and Clare by I Gerard Straub As a refresher: How to Read Poetry Like a Professor by Thomas Foster The Language of Birds and Other Poems by Amy Nemecek For public library book club - The Whispers (psychological thriller) by Ashley Audrain And maybe reread or listen to Gilead for Kelly’s books I’m not reading Marilyn Robinson project.
You have some great reading on your plate too! Your church reading sounds very interesting. I love Thomas Foster's books. I used to assign his How to Read Literature Like a Professor to my advanced placement English lit kids. He has a very accessible, readable style. Hope you are doing well.
Great video Aunt Pat!!! 🤔 So we started our channels the same time and we have the same amount of subscribers...if I add 3k to mine. 😂😂😂 Nice job this year and look forward to 2025!!!🎉🎉🎉
January sounds like a busy month! I'm doing the Proust read along. At least I'm going to start and see how it goes. I'm not sure what I'll be reading in January. I don't plan ahead that much. I have vague ideas of what I'd like to read, but that's about it.
Hi Kelly. I never really planned like this either. Book Tube made me do it! Most of these projects will extend far beyond January. I'm committing to Volume 1 of Proust. We'll see how it goes....Happy New Year, my friend!
Hi pat, you have a very ambitious year ahead. I wish you happy reading with all of it. I just finished murder in Mesopotamia Christie and it was a really fun read. It was one of the books I had never went before. Sending you lots of love and aloha from hawaii.
@@GenreBooks23 hi Gavin. Check out Shawn’s Simak announcement video and also Angelia’s drama announcement. Both events sound really fun and they are things you can dip in and out of as your schedule permits.
I love Agatha Christie, probably my favorite classic detective is Poirot. My favorite amateur detective is G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown, but Miss Marple is a close second.
You've planned a lot of books. I'm still working on my plan for this year. I'm trying to decide how many versions of 1775-1783 I want to read this year.
Hi Melissa. We'll see what I can really get through. Most of these are going to extend beyond January. I will look forward to hearing your plans. Hope you are doing well. Happy New Year, Melissa!
I recently read Elena Knows so definitely want to read more of her work! I am a huge fan of Louise Erdrich so I have read Almighty Red. Not my favorite but a good read nonetheless!
I'm hearing that Mighty Red is not up with there with her best, but we'll see. I also really love her work. Our Pineiro Project group is now moving into reading her books chronologically, so Elena Knows is next. For most in the group, it will be a re-read, but it's a first read for me. I've heard all good things about it. The one we are wrapping up now--Thursday Night Widows-- is my least favorite of all that we've read so far.
You’re an ambitious reader for sure. I’ve preordered David Grossman’s new book The Thinking Heart about the Israeli Palestinian conflict after Hannah talked about it on her channel. I’m also going to read The Hopkins Project and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of a Harold Fry.
@@ToddsBookTube91 Happy Holidays, dear Todd! I hope you pick out some wonderful books with your gift card. I received Mary Beard’s Emperor of Rome from my brother and several Barnes and Noble gift cards from other loved ones. Wishing you all the best in the new year! 🥰
@@guardnation hi! Classics and Company was the group. I haven’t heard anything from them lately. I’m not sure if it’s still going on, but that was the group where I first learned about the group read of Les Mis. We had a smaller group on voxer that discussed the novel throughout April and May, I think. Classics and Company does have a BookTube page.
@@guardnation Upon further investigation, I have discovered that the group may have stopped functioning in the last part of the year. I read a few books with them through May of last year, but it seems like the last books planned for '24 may not have happened. I'm sorry....
Ambitious is an understatement. Impressive plans. My only commitments for 2025 are the 3 book clubs I'm taking part in. I do plan to read some history books, but they may or may not fit in the Historathon requirements. I do plan to read some philosophy books, but I am not sure they will fit in the requirements of the Philosophy readathon that Justin @triumphalreads is starting.
Hi Stuart. Most of these will extend beyond January, I'm sure. I am looking forward to Historathon. I know that you will have many books that bring you joy in 2025. Hope you're doing well, Stuart. Wishing you all the best in 2025.
Remarkably Bright Creatures. ❤❤❤❤❤😊
@@KellyBoettcher-qo9tx yes!! I loved it too! I’m happy to read it again with my book group. ❤️
Hi Pat, I am simply in awe of your January reading plans. And thanks for including Beard's book on Roman Emperors. You won't be disappointed. Here's to a blessed and safe new year. Bob G.
Hi Bob. Thank you. This may be overly ambitious, but I also think that many of these books and plans are going to be extending into February and March, but I needed to start somewhere. I may start Mary Beard's book this weekend. I'm so glad to have met you here this year, Bob. Wishing you all good things in 2025.
So many exciting plans. We will overlap a lot which is a joy.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebooks Thanks, Ros. I do love being in reading events with you too!
Congratulations on 3000 subscribers Pat. Smashing it. Here's to some great books in 2025.
Thank you, dear Nigel. Wishing you all good things in 2025, my friend!
I’m so impressed with all your group reads and your selections! Never stop poetry Thursdays ❤
@@booksoffthebeatenpath awww thanks, Meg. I hope to continue Poetry Thursdays for a long time to come.
Wow. You are hitting 2025 RUNNING! I feel like a slacker over here. And I'm good with that! 😂
@@Nina_DP you made me laugh out loud. Most of these will extend through February too. That’s my plan: to immerse myself in books for the foreseeable future. We’ll see how it goes….
Good luck with Proust! I remember studying Pygmalion in school and loving it. I have Emperor of Rome on my tbr. I went to an event where she discussed the book and we were given a copy of it as well. I love Mary Beard! Happy new year and happy reading!
@@spreadbookjoy Happy New Year, Jack! I am not feeling optimistic about reading Proust, which is why I’m not committing to anything more than volume 1. We’ll see how that goes. Mary Beard is wonderful! I taught Pygmalion somewhere along the way earlier in my career. What a treasure! Wishing you all that is good in the new year, Jack. 🥰
Wow, it sounds like you have a very full and amazing reading year ahead of you. I have Mary Beard’s “SPQR” on my shelf, which I need to get to sometime. Great video, Pat!
Thanks, Josh. I actually just got a second-hand copy of SPQR also. I probably should read that first. I hope you are doing well. Wishing you all that is good in the new year.
Congratulations on hitting 3000 subscribers! Your 2025 is off to a great start.
@@literarylove123 thanks, Jen! Happy New Year! Meeting you was one of the loveliest things about 2024.
I'm off to get my copy of Swann's Way!
Terrific!
These sound like great plans, Pat! I'll be doing Historathon, as well. I've also got a couple challenges of my own running this year. Nathanuary in January, where we read the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. This year the group read is The Scarlet Letter. I'm also hosting a year long Classic Children's Novel Readalong. Our January read is The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. Have a great week!
I'm glad you'll be a part of Historathon. Nathanuary sounds great, and I've read The Scarlet Letter many times as I used to teach it, but I think my January might be a bit tight right now. Wishing you all that is good in the new year.
Wow those are some impressive plans for the first month of the year. I’m very glad to be joining you on many of your readathons 😊. Here’s to a fabulous 2025 Pat 🎉🎉🎉
@@RaynorReadsStuff thanks, Debs. Several of these will be Jan-Feb, I think. Looking forward to another great reading year with you, my friend!
Wow! Ambitious January-I’m looking forward to your summaries. I am so happy I happened upon BookTube. It has rekindled my love of reading. January is ambitious for me too. #excited! ❤
@@vickicoleman2474 I’d love to hear more about your January plans. A lot of the books I’m talking about here will extend into February too. Here’s to a great reading year!
Pat, I'm wondering if you mentioned a book I picked up. It's a novella that I'm thoroughly enjoying.
"Whose Names Are Unknown" by Sanora Babb. A story about life during the Depression and Dust Bowl years. She wrote it in the 30"s and it remained unpublished until University of Oklahoma Press picked it up in 2004. It's a great finish to the year. If you haven't read it I highly recommend I it!
Thank you for the recommendation. I did just recently hear someone talking about this book, I believe. Thanks for reminding me!
Wonderful. It's great to be busy. Good luck with all of this! My immediate plan is to finish my 2 current reads so I can start January with new reads. Let's hope it's a great year for us all.
@@helenclare3250 let’s hope! Most of these will continue into February, but I plan to immerse myself in books for the foreseeable future. 😊
Everyone in our book club loved Remarkably Bright Creatures. That's very rare.
@@marnasorensen988 interesting. I really loved it when it first came out. I think most in my group are going to like it too.
My reading tends to be more whim driven than purposefully charted out. But, inspired by the big plans both you and Allen have been sharing, I decided on at least one significant read for 2025. I just ordered the Penguin Classics Deluxe edition of Les Misérables. All those sightings of it in your videos and your positive experience with it . . . I couldn't resist any longer! 😄
@@patriciah8579 oh how wonderful, Patricia! I really loved it, and I was amazed at how quickly it went. I hope you’ve enjoy it too.
Ooh, it sounds like you have an amazing reading year ahead of you! I'm planning to join in for the first Proust. We'll see how it goes... I'm excited to see what you choose for historathon. And yay for continuing Poetry Thursday! Have you see the books out about Christie's detectives? I know that both Poirot and Marple are out now. They look like fun.
@@HannahsBooks hi Hannah! I’m very excited about all of these events…I’ve never even come close to reading Proust. Like you, I’m willing to try Volume 1, and we will see how that goes. I have seen the books on Christie’s detectives, but I don’t have them yet. They do look like fun.
Bold plans! This all sounds fun and challenging. I’m glad we’re reading together in several groups. Thanks for sharing Endless Drama; I’m so excited to get started!
I'm really excited for Endless Drama too! Most of the books I'm talking about here are really part of longer term, ongoing goals; it's not really all for January. I'm really glad too that we are reading in several groups together.
Wow! As you said... An ambitious plan for 2025. Good luck! Looking forward to following your progress.
@@AZWahineReads thanks! We’ll see how it goes. Many of these will continue into February as well. Wishing you a happy new year!
Love Mary Beard, I'm about to read her "A Very Short Introduction: Classics"
Great plans, and some powerful reads lined up for January. Congratulations on 3k subs, Pat! 🎉
Wonderful!
@@PageTurnersWithKatja Thank you. It just happened some time today. Unbelievable...
I like how eclectic your reading taste is! I recently discovered your channel, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts on all of your January reads. Happy 2025 to you! 🎊
@@veronicaprice thank you for this lovely comment! I’m so glad you found my channel! BookTube has most definitely expanded my reading interests. I hope you’ve have a wonderful reading year too!
Your commitment to all the reading groups is impressive Pat. Happy reading!
Hi Ali. Thank you. There are just so many wonderful reading events taking place. Several of these are longer, ongoing events that we can dip in and out of throughout the year. I believe that they will be life-sustaining in the coming year. I hope you're doing well, my friend. Wishing you all good things in the year to come.
Yes there’s lots of wonderful things to join in with, I’m pacing myself though as I’m a serial over- committer and I want to do things well. Wishing you a happy and healthy 2025 dear friend.
@ thank you, Ali. Yes, I can have the problem of over-committing too!
Sounds like a fantastic start to the year, Pat! So many wonderful BookTubers running very enticing events! For me, I am reading for Historathon 2025 and plan to read Ancestors by Alice Roberts and possibly Twelve Caesars by Suetonius for both Robert’s event and Historathon. Trying to keep my feeding fairly unstructured this year so I can get to some books I keep putting off. The nice thing about all the events you mentioned is they are so varied in terms of genre. Happy reading, my friend!❤️📚
@@jf8559 yes, there is a lot of variety here, and they are also extended over time and not all for January. Your picks sound great too! Happy Reading in 2025!
I really enjoy watching your videos- the way you annunciate and speak so articulately is really appreciated. Also, you have some great book selections for January. Happy reading!
@@JustinSchwarz-w1t well, thank you so much! What a lovely comment! It might be the English teacher in me coming out. 😉
Congrats on 3k subscribers my friend. I am not surprised how busy your plans are, you are a human dynamo Pat! I also picked up Mary Beard’s book!
Thank you, Kevin. It happened at some point today. Unbelievable. I think it will take me more than January to read Mary Beard, but I'm not in a hurry. I figure I've got the first quarter to read it....
Now that's planning! I'm not even sure what I'll be doing later this morning yet. 😊 I've long had Proust in mind as a long term goal, but I tend to be rather math, science, and nonfiction oriented, so that level of literature is a bit intimidating. I suppose there's nothing for it but to take the plunge sooner or later. I've been wanting to try some Shaw plays as well, but that doesn't scare me as much. I haven't read that Mary Beard title yet, but I've had good experiences with other books of hers. Well, I enjoyed hearing about your plans. All the best with your January reading!
@@BryanM.R.-prionic1 Hi Bryan! You just made me laugh out loud. Believe me, I never planned reading at all before BookTube! I hope you’re feeling better. I’m glad to hear you’ve had good experiences with Mary Beard. I’m very anxious about Proust which is why I’m only committing to Volume 1 over a two-month period. We’ll see how it goes. Shaw’s Pygmalion is a quick, fun read. Hope you’re on the mend now!
@BookChatWithPat8668 I am, thank you!
Excellent!
It's going to be a great year for reading with friends. Thank you. 🫶🏽
@@books_and_bocadillos I’m looking forward to it! 🥰
So many projects and reading events! I recently acquired Mary Beard’s book. It’s a Q1 contender for me.
Hi Vin. Luckily, many of these events are ongoing and not really exclusively for January. I am really excited to join Historathon this year!
What an exciting way to start the new year. I'll be joining several of these events. I'm waffling on Emperor of Rome for Q1 of Historathon. If I don't read that, I'll read Weavers, Scribes and Kings by Amanda H. Podney. I'm trying to be realistic and not to overcommit to a lot of things, but it's hard when there are so many great booktube events. I also have my own projects and would like to prioritize those. We'll see how it all unfolds.
Thanks, Arianne. That's how I actually feel too. Most of what I'm talking about here is actually going to be extended over a longer period of time. It isn't really all for January. It's just starting in January.
You have so many good books to read!! Enjoy them all.
I am so glad I will have to chance to participate in the Pineiro Project
Miss Marple is certainly a comfort read!!
@@BernasBookishAdventures looking forward to having you along for the Pineiro Project, Berna. And yes, I find great comfort in Miss Marple!
I admire your commitment to reading such a wide variety of genres! I may try to join the banned book group. I find Toni Morrison difficult so maybe if I read it with a group I'd discover what I am missing
Thank you. I guess maybe it's the English teacher in me that has always caused me to read diversely. That would be great if you joined the banned book group. Toni Morrison can be very challenging, for sure, but her books are so important, and they are almost all being horribly challenged in a number of places.
Someone is hitting the floor running for the new year! Love it
@@krzysamm7095 lol! I guess I am! We’ll see how I do. Wishing you a great 2025 too!
The titles seem fantastic! A very good mix. May ask if you have a reading routine or if you read when you have time and lust? Anyway, Happy 2025 for you and you family also...and happy readings!🎉😊
@@muhlenstedt I don’t have a fixed routine, but I do read everyday, and my reading early in the day is the best. Happy New Year to you too!
Very ambitious and very exciting, I think you’ll have a great start to your reading year! 😊 I love seeing everyone’s projects and things to read things together, it’s such a simple thing but just shows the welcoming and friendly nature of the reading community. A great source of restoration of faith in humanity.
I have my own Diversity Book Bingo project, and a couple of other prompt word lists that I will play along with. I also want to join in on Mariandrea’s book club for the February read, Olga Dies Dreaming. Maybe more throughout the year, but I’m trying not to over-commit! 😊
Thanks, Ellen. I will find a way to participate in Diversity Book Bingo too. I do read pretty diversely anyway. Mariandrea's book club, the Pineiro Project, and the banned books will, no doubt, fulfill some of the prompts! I do hear you about not over-committing. Much of what I'm proposing to read is actually going to be read over a longer period of time--but just starting in January. My goal for the new year is simply to immerse myself in literature as a good way to keep other noise out as much as possible.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 You're very welcome to, but no pressure, as always! As you said you read diversely already, and I just think I do but the data says otherwise!
I think you can handle your level of commitment well, and they are long term projects as well. And we can always adjust as we go along.
That's a good goal. I hope things won't be as scary as we fear, but it's still a good plan to have some distraction and a source of joy, whatever comes.
@@ellenmadebookclub exactly!
You're making a strong start to 2025 Pat, I look forward to hearing how you get on. I'm also going to be trying to participating in Historathon and am hoping to do so by reading books that I already own and haven't read or can borrow from the library.
@@AlansReads that sounds like a great plan, Alan!
Looks like an amazing start to 2025 Pat! I'll have to really consider joining in on Robert G's emperor reading event full force. Glad you are participating with historathon as well!
@@TriumphalReads thank you, Justin! I’m looking forward to it! You’ve inspired me.
Hey, I'm going to read Mary Beard for the first quarter of Historathon as well! My son got me another of her books (SPQR), so that is the one I'll read. I'm not sure I'll get mine done in January, either. I'm also going to participate in Mariandrea's and Angelia's reading groups. Well, I'm going to read Pygmalion, then we'll see if I can fit RUR in.
Hi Melinda. Oh I'm so glad that we will be in these events together! I actually did just pick up a used copy of SPQR also. I probably should read that first, but we'll see. I don't see myself finishing in January....Pygmalion will be a quick read. Happy New Year to you!
Pat, what variety of topics, genres, and authors’ ethnicities and nationalities in these books. Bravo for the wide expanse of reading.
Last night I finished reading Robert McDowell’s Poetry as Spiritual Practice.
Continuing or to be started this month unless priorities need to change:
For one church group - Curveball: WhenYour Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming by Peter Enns
For another church group and a congregation-wide reading - Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale by Ian Cron
As a supplement: The Sun & Moon Over Assisi: a personal Encounter with Francis and Clare by I Gerard Straub
As a refresher: How to Read Poetry Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
The Language of Birds and Other Poems by Amy Nemecek
For public library book club - The Whispers (psychological thriller) by Ashley Audrain
And maybe reread or listen to Gilead for Kelly’s books I’m not reading Marilyn Robinson project.
You have some great reading on your plate too! Your church reading sounds very interesting. I love Thomas Foster's books. I used to assign his How to Read Literature Like a Professor to my advanced placement English lit kids. He has a very accessible, readable style. Hope you are doing well.
Happy New Year! With me I will film my January TBR sometime next week or next weekend.
Hi Jess! Happy New Year to you too! I will look forward to your video!
Great video Aunt Pat!!! 🤔 So we started our channels the same time and we have the same amount of subscribers...if I add 3k to mine. 😂😂😂 Nice job this year and look forward to 2025!!!🎉🎉🎉
Lol! I'm so glad to have met you this year! Wishing you all good things in 2025!
January sounds like a busy month! I'm doing the Proust read along. At least I'm going to start and see how it goes. I'm not sure what I'll be reading in January. I don't plan ahead that much. I have vague ideas of what I'd like to read, but that's about it.
Hi Kelly. I never really planned like this either. Book Tube made me do it! Most of these projects will extend far beyond January. I'm committing to Volume 1 of Proust. We'll see how it goes....Happy New Year, my friend!
Hi pat, you have a very ambitious year ahead. I wish you happy reading with all of it. I just finished murder in Mesopotamia Christie and it was a really fun read. It was one of the books I had never went before. Sending you lots of love and aloha from hawaii.
@@MarilynMayaMendoza I’m glad you just finished a fun read! Wishing you a great reading year, my dear friend! Much love…
January already looking full, but Simak and RUR… I’m tempted!
@@GenreBooks23 hi Gavin. Check out Shawn’s Simak announcement video and also Angelia’s drama announcement. Both events sound really fun and they are things you can dip in and out of as your schedule permits.
@ thanks! I spoke with Shaun this evening!
@@GenreBooks23 Excellent!
Happy reading for 2025 🎉
@@Bookishtravels1 thank you! I hope you’ve have a great reading year too!
@ Thank you 🥳
@@Bookishtravels1 🥰
I love Agatha Christie, probably my favorite classic detective is Poirot. My favorite amateur detective is G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown, but Miss Marple is a close second.
I do really like Poirot too, but right now I'm focusing on Miss Marple. I think I probably would enjoy Father Brown too. Thanks for commenting.
You've planned a lot of books. I'm still working on my plan for this year. I'm trying to decide how many versions of 1775-1783 I want to read this year.
Hi Melissa. We'll see what I can really get through. Most of these are going to extend beyond January. I will look forward to hearing your plans. Hope you are doing well. Happy New Year, Melissa!
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I'm pleased you will be joining us for Goblin Reservation.
@@ShawnDStandfast thanks, Shawn! Looking forward to it!
I recently read Elena Knows so definitely want to read more of her work! I am a huge fan of Louise Erdrich so I have read Almighty Red. Not my favorite but a good read nonetheless!
I'm hearing that Mighty Red is not up with there with her best, but we'll see. I also really love her work. Our Pineiro Project group is now moving into reading her books chronologically, so Elena Knows is next. For most in the group, it will be a re-read, but it's a first read for me. I've heard all good things about it. The one we are wrapping up now--Thursday Night Widows-- is my least favorite of all that we've read so far.
You’re an ambitious reader for sure. I’ve preordered David Grossman’s new book The Thinking Heart about the Israeli Palestinian conflict after Hannah talked about it on her channel. I’m also going to read The Hopkins Project and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of a Harold Fry.
@@CionMohler Very ambitious choices also! Wishing you a great reading year!
Happy Holidays Pat! Did you get any books for Christmas? I got Fairy Tale by Stephen King and a gift card to Barnes & Noble!
@@ToddsBookTube91 Happy Holidays, dear Todd! I hope you pick out some wonderful books with your gift card. I received Mary Beard’s Emperor of Rome from my brother and several Barnes and Noble gift cards from other loved ones. Wishing you all the best in the new year! 🥰
Elena knows good but movie is confusing if u didnt read the book..Happy New year to you.
@@theresepazell7875 Happy New Year to you! I don’t know if I’ll ever see the movie, but I’m looking forward to the book, for sure.
Hi Pat: what was the classics reading group you recommended recently? Thanks!
@@guardnation hi! Classics and Company was the group. I haven’t heard anything from them lately. I’m not sure if it’s still going on, but that was the group where I first learned about the group read of Les Mis. We had a smaller group on voxer that discussed the novel throughout April and May, I think. Classics and Company does have a BookTube page.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Thanks Pat!
@@guardnation Upon further investigation, I have discovered that the group may have stopped functioning in the last part of the year. I read a few books with them through May of last year, but it seems like the last books planned for '24 may not have happened. I'm sorry....
Great post, Pat. Lots to add to my TBR lists. Plus, the links are great. 👍
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
Ambitious is an understatement. Impressive plans. My only commitments for 2025 are the 3 book clubs I'm taking part in. I do plan to read some history books, but they may or may not fit in the Historathon requirements. I do plan to read some philosophy books, but I am not sure they will fit in the requirements of the Philosophy readathon that Justin @triumphalreads is starting.
Hi Stuart. Most of these will extend beyond January, I'm sure. I am looking forward to Historathon. I know that you will have many books that bring you joy in 2025. Hope you're doing well, Stuart. Wishing you all the best in 2025.
Hi pat, I have made few eye catching thumbnails for your videos.Could you please share your email with me so I can send you
@@GhulamMustafa-pm7wd that’s very kind of you, but I’m doing ok. Thank you, though.