2025 Reading Plans

 

It's 2025 and  my plan for this year is to try and actually blog a bit again in a quiet and out of the way corner, where I can try to put some words into something hopefully halfway coherent and make grand reading goals without any pressure. So consider this blog my training wheels.

A new year means I get to make all shiny new reading plans that I prooobably won't stick to that much (mood reader!). But every January I show up excited and optimistic and that's half the fun anyway. I set my Goodreads challenge for 52 books again, but this time I also want to read more regularly again instead of this mad dash to the finish line I've been doing the last years. I already started on this by setting myself the daily habit of reading for 30 minutes and have not missed a day this year. It's most difficult when I've finished a book and can't decide on my next read😬

SFF

Since The Expanse got cancelled, I've been wanting to read the book series that the show was adapted from. I read Leviathan Wakes and really enjoyed it, even though this might be one of the few cases where I prefer the tv adaptation (less dude-ish perspective, more rounded characters). I've got book 2 waiting on my shelves and can't wait to meet book-Avasarala, who I've been promised curses much more than the tv version (who I adore). Then I'm also excited to read Corey's new series, it's already been optioned to be adapted (but I've not given up hope yet that they'll get to finish The Expanse once Amazon's rights run out), and the second book is coming out this year. Two other newish works by favorite writers have been on my list for a while, I'm waiting for them to be on Everand or show up as a Kindle deal.

NONFICTION

Another goal this year is to read more nonfiction and more specifically, expand my reading beyond self-help and brain books (which served their purpose) again. I've got my eye on memoir and essay-type works and then the ultimate dream: to have the energy and focus to read from the DukeUP catalog again. Should that happen, I'm eyeing Between Shadows and Noise by Amber Jamilla Musser.

WORLD LIT

I've also missed reading more international lit, I used to just grab what looked interesting at the library but then with my study focus I shifted towards mostly US/UK lit, so I want to get back to that. I'm including German lit in this category, because while I don't enjoy a lot of it, there have been some exciting publications in recent years that I want to catch up on.

And generally I want to finish or finally DNF all the about 12 books I started, read poetry collections while listening to the audiobooks version and also read lot's of cozy comfort reads (usually funny scifi or mysteries and maybe a MGlit work here or there).