love the reading goal of finding books you haven't heard anyone else talk about! i find it's so easy to let other peoples opinions sway my own or to only read books that everyone else is reading. not necessarily a bad thing, but would be cool to read something with fresh eyes and completely open mind! i think i'll add that to my own 2024 reading goals :)
seasonal TBR worked so well for me personally - it really helped me to just have a list of books that gave me that seasons vibe and freely picking from them! love the blind date with a book idea! im always looking for unheard of gems!
10:40 I personally do a loose seasonal TBR because I’m mainly a library user and like to have an idea of books that I’d like to read that season so I can place holds. That being said, I also love watching monthly TBRs especially since many creators use TBR games/jars. Monthly vs seasonal could also depend on how strict the TBR is (my TBRs are very loose, more like here are some wintry books that could be fun to read this winter, plus new books being released during that season, but no worries if I don’t read any/every thing).
My goal was to read 40 books, and I read 41 ☺️ Going to aim for 50 next year! I like watching monthly TBRs if they are prompts from games/jars, but seasonal sounds good too!
I like monthly tbr's since a seasonal one, by the time the third month rolls around, you may not "feel" the books left. If you pick 8 books per month (2 a week), that gives you options.
Nonfiction I highly recommend: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon, The Crying Book by Heather Christle, pretty much anything by bell hooks, and Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty! Hope you have an excellent 2024 ❤🎉
My goal is to switch to reading non-anticipated titles as well as very long books as ebooks. I don't reach for my e-reader enough, but whenever I do, I keep getting surprised just how comfortable it is with all the adjustable settings! And after physical copy of Priory of the Orange Tree messed up my wrists, I kind of really need comfort while reading.
happy new year katie! i really love you and your videos, you have such a nice energy and make me feel really calm🤍✨ for non-fiction, i LOVED reading Maybe you should talk to someone
your channel is killing it, you smashed your subs goal!! i too am interested in what the sub/patreon threshold is... if you find out let me know 👀 very excited to see what you have in store for 2024!!!!! 😊
Thank you! I will keep you updated on the patreon situation I feel like most people do it around 5k but I've seen people be successful starting at under 1k or waiting a lot longer so I really have no idea
have been so happy watching you this year! i have A Lot of nonfiction recs, so here’s 15 1. When the Bulbul Stopped Singing: Life in Palestine during an Israeli Siege by Raja Shehadeh 2. Guerilla Green by Ophelie Damblé (graphic novel!) 3. Any and all Patti Smith! 4. Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef 5. Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan 6. The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang 7. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad 8. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis 9. A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate 10. The Story of More (climate science) and Lab Girl (memoir), both by Hope Jahren 11. Fairest by Meredith Talusan 12. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman 13. What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron 14. Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror 15. In Jail With Nazım Hikmet by Orhan Kemal
