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Your February TBR looks fantastic-so much variety! I love the balance you strike between newer reads and books you already own. I also really appreciate your thoughts on The Wheel of Time-I had similar feelings about Eye of the World being a bit too Fellowship of the Ring-like, but I’ve heard that later books really come into their own. Also, Sea of Rust sounds incredibly intriguing (and possibly nightmare-inducing given current AI developments!). Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on these reads!

to kill a mockingbird is one of my favorite books! I want to re-read it as an adult too sometime. thanks for helping me put it higher on the list

And hello again 🏆 First of all: you look gorgeous in this video (you always do, but I love braids, so extra gorgeous!) Second off: all hail Lockwood & Co. And Locknation 💙 Then digged through my 2024 books and must say, my best book would be "The Liveship Traders 3" by Robin Hobb. Such a fantastic ending to the trilogy and I just love the character Althea and Brashen! I also cant really name just one worst book because I've read a couple Romantasy books by german Authors... which were very poorly written and very not plotted out and with just the most annoying and sometimes even dumb female mc's I've ever encountered...

What are you excited to read this month?

🦢🫶🏻 And I don't actually have a favorite book from December 🤔

A good breakdown, thank you!

Have you read this book? Or seen the movie? Or even the old miniseries? Which was your favorite?

Eh, this channel is a good idea

Such an excellent list! LockNation is lucky to have you! And while TCS is my personal favorite, I'm with you on the character introduced in THB. I love them so much! 💙🖤🧡

I am so happy that lockwood and co helped you be friends with so many people. I hope you have a very good year.❤

124 books is incredible, and I love the way you structured this list-not just highlighting favorites but also the ones that didn’t quite work for you. I totally get what you mean about Hell Bent cementing Bardugo’s skills as a writer; Ninth House was good, but the sequel really showed what she can do with character and atmosphere. Also, your love for The Hollow Boy is infectious-it’s always special when a series becomes more than just books and connects you with a whole community. Great video!

124 books is incredible, and I love the way you structured this list-not just highlighting favorites but also the ones that didn’t quite work for you. I totally get what you mean about Hell Bent cementing Bardugo’s skills as a writer; Ninth House was good, but the sequel really showed what she can do with character and atmosphere. Also, your love for The Hollow Boy is infectious-it’s always special when a series becomes more than just books and connects you with a whole community. Great video!

What was your best and worst book of 2025?

What was your favorite book from December?

Do hunchback of notredam

"I don't see US parents being completely untrustworthy of the system" you don't know US parents aparently.

Ik a lot about the LGBTQIA++ community (I am also bi), but I don’t know much abt demisexuality. Can somebody please explain to me what it means? :)

I recently read Vicious and while i disliked both characters, found the anti-hero and anti-villain dynamic interesting!

What are you excited to read in January?

How do you feel about morally gray characters?

I wanted to watch this video but the bell sound effect is literally hurting my ears and drowning out whatever she's saying underneath that sound.

New subbie here. Enjoyed your office makeover.

Keep going❤

I’m reading faebound next month and I’m excited for it!

Sorry this wrap up is so late! What was your favorite book from November?

Wow, very impressed! A very realistic and relatable topic, good flow, good editing, and good job on the room makeover.

Very happy to have discovered your channel! I did NaNo but didn't use the site at all. I find the challenge incredibly useful.

That method sounds amazing! Definitely going to try it. Thank you!

First video I've seen of yours - you did a great job! I especially love the curio cabinet and rug :) For the bookshelves - what about some peel and stick contact paper or wallpaper in a print you love, just on the backs?

This was so fun to watch! your office is so beautiful now!

What room would you makeover if you could?

Wait, how did you call me out perfectly!!! 😢😢😢😂😂😂😂 WHAT!? (Like actually what…?) (My fave book is Carry On)

What book(s) do you need to finish before 2025?

Hey ho! Slowly but surely working on catching up with all videos in my "watch later" So here I am... on the last day of November! 😂 anyway! Hope you had a good writing month!📒💚

I had no idea about any of this, thank you for making this video. 💕 📓

Which one did you like better?

📓 I dumped NANOWRIMO 8 YEARS ago after the 2016 election. Some self-righteous fool director there sent an email saying that if you voted for Trump, you are no longer wanted here. I thought that was so shitty to say and for the organization to put it under their masthead. The same people whine about the danger to democracy and free speech but promote ostracizing and canceling people over who they vote for. Now, who is the real threat to democracy? The book I was writing at the time was about a rock band in the early 80s. There was absolutely nothing about politics in it. But, that was enough to show me who they really are and I thank them for losing my business.

Lots of people are doing the challenge through TrackBear. I'm part of a leaderboard with around 200 other participants on the platform.

WorldAnvil also has a November writing challenge. They call it NovelEmber. Simultaneously in November they have a prep for their December challenge which is a world building challenge (WorldEmber) NovelEmber is 50k words WorldEmber is 10k words

I did NaNo a few years back and it was awful for me personally. Pushing to get the words in lead to crazy burnout and I didn't write for like three months after. Which is antithetical to the whole point of the challenge. Add to that the 80k book I wrote was absolute trash and it was so frustrating to have put myself through that I made a video last year about NaNo and why I don't like it. I'm more of the opinion to find a stride that works for you and keep at it. I like the Terry Pratchett method of aim for 800 words each day. It's enough that it's easy to keep up with and if it gets me putting words to paper every day it adds up way faster than if I do 2k words like two days a week because I fried my brain

I too opted out of NaNoWriMo this year. I found that my experience with the NaNo forums were not fun last year. So, this year I'm writing a novel, planning on hitting 100000 words by the end of December. It's sort of a double challenge. So ar, as of 10/14, I'm just over 30k words. Strangely, I feel less stressed than when I was doing the official challenge.

I'm in the far north over Xmas shutdown, so it will be Nanookwrimo for me.

I'm doing the Rough Draft Challenge's 10k goal. I always wanted to do NaNoWriMo but I work a lot and never felt I had the time. So far, I'm on track! I take Lot's of days off during the week, and mostly write on weekends. The lower word count option is the only reason I'm writing at all

Ooh, I just picked up Frankenstein from the library and I'm looking forward to trying it. 18:00

Thank you, very informative. I liked hearing the whole controversy in an organized fashion, and hearing a few new options instead of NaNoWriMo. Edit: I would recommend adding timestamps, because I had a bit of a hard time finding the names of the two other options that I'd wanted to look up...

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Helloooo 💙 To answer your in video question: i love the least to favorite thing (its 11 pm here in Germany and my english is out of the window or something 🤣). To answer your other question: since I only read one book in October, which I did not enjoy, I do not have a favorite book 😋

I grew up loving doing nanowrimo with my friends, I hate how it’s turned out

I'll have to finish watching this later - but I really liked the points you brought up, I left nano due to their initial controversy, so I wasn't aware of their stance on AI shifting. I will not be going back to their platform. That being said, I'll definitely look into the alternatives you described! The Order of the Word sounds very intriguing. I struggle to balance writing with my other hobbies, so it might be a good place to get motivated to focus on writing.

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