It's so easy to get caught up in all the reading events and challenges on booktube. I had to set myself a one book per event/challenge limit. Now I can take part in events that interest me and still have plenty of time for my personal reading. That is a beautiful cover for Autumn Chills.
@@colonelmustardinthelibrary good idea to set that limit! I call it loosely participating when I try to match what I’m already reading to at least one prompt or just choose one book for that Readathon. It’s just not normally in my nature to not shoot for blacking out the board!
@@believeinyourshelf thank you! I can’t wait to use it! I do like to participate but I think for 2025 I will just read what I want and see if any books fit the challenge instead of picking books especially for the challenge.
Good luck with your end of the year reading goals! 📚I'm having a relaxing, low key end of the reading year. I just have 4 new release cozy mysteries (Murder at the Lemonberry Tea by Darci Hannah, The Witch is Back by Angela M Sanders, You Feta Watch Out by Linda Reilly, and A Killer Hold by Leah Dobrinska) that I want to read before the end of the year. I'll mood read after that and watch Christmas movies. Have a Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🥧☕
Jane Eyre is one of my favourite books. I love the Her Royal Spyness series - need to read the next one in 2025. Hope you get all the books you want to read by the end of the year read. What a lovely reading journal
@@readsandeats2263 I hear that about Jane Eyre and since I was young when I last read it, I thought maybe it would strike me differently now. I did start We Three Queens today! I miss the old narrator but I’m finally used to the new one (5 or so books later!) I usually listen to The Twelve Clues of Christmas each December so I’ll be looking forward to that in a couple of weeks.
I have been thinking of trying to step back a bit from all the challenges too. I have some ideas for this for next year. I think the books you chose sound great.
@@CandlewickLibrary I was just thinking about how many books I read this month compared to other months. I think my sweet spot is 14. In the months that I’ve read more than that I’ve felt more pressure and less full-blown enjoyment. I definitely am going to be more mindful of how I participate in challenges next year!
Jane Eyre is definitely worth pushing through. Everything gets hard for Jane before it gets better, but it's such an engrossing story. The 52 book challenge interests me but I think it's too much for me. I do 2 or 3 year-long challenges (12 books each) and that's about as much as I can handle.
@@insearchofwonder this is the first year I’ve stuck to the prompts. I generally read many more than 52 books a year but reading to fit a prompt a week was very, very challenging!
I was also doing the 52 Book Club challenge this year! At this point, I think I have four prompts that I haven't completed. There's a good chance I won't complete them by the end of the year, but we'll see.
@@Coffee_and_a_Book I’m curious, were you doing them 1) picking books to fit the prompts in order, 2) filling prompts as you read a book, 3) not in order but picking books to fit the prompts?
@eMsBooksAreEverywhere I just read the books I wanted and checked to see if they fulfilled a prompt. And if a book fit more than one prompt, I tried to pick the one I thought would be the hardest to complete, out of my options, and had the book count for that one.
@@Coffee_and_a_Book that is what I was thinking of doing for next year. It was really fun and challenging going in order week by week. But at this point, it’s still challenging just not as fun!
@eMsBooksAreEverywhere I understand that. Every year I like the idea of a challenge, and the bigger the better. But by about halfway through, I just want to be done with it 😅
@@CourtneyReads it’s never really been a story I gravitate towards. I’m more of an Austen fan than Brontë. But some people love it and even regard it as their favorite of all time, so I thought I’d take another chance on it.
@@CourtneyReads I read Wuthering Heights, around the same time as Jane Eyre (the first time). I liked it less than Jane Eyre. I have not tried Anne’s books. I suppose I’ll try Wuthering Heights again soon but might do one of Anne’s first.
@eMsBooksAreEverywhere I actually like Wuthering Heights. More for the artistry behind the style than anything. I've read it more than once. I like both of Anne's. I really want to reread The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
@ I completely understand liking the artistry and give credit for that to the author. I think it’s characters first, plot second, and execution (writing style) third in how I determine how much I like a book. I haven’t thought it through but I think that’s it.
It's so easy to get caught up in all the reading events and challenges on booktube. I had to set myself a one book per event/challenge limit. Now I can take part in events that interest me and still have plenty of time for my personal reading. That is a beautiful cover for Autumn Chills.
@@colonelmustardinthelibrary good idea to set that limit! I call it loosely participating when I try to match what I’m already reading to at least one prompt or just choose one book for that Readathon. It’s just not normally in my nature to not shoot for blacking out the board!
I rarely participate in reading challenges because I tend to get too overwhelmed. Also, your new book journal is BEAUTIFUL!
@@believeinyourshelf thank you! I can’t wait to use it! I do like to participate but I think for 2025 I will just read what I want and see if any books fit the challenge instead of picking books especially for the challenge.
Good luck with your end of the year reading goals! 📚I'm having a relaxing, low key end of the reading year. I just have 4 new release cozy mysteries (Murder at the Lemonberry Tea by Darci Hannah, The Witch is Back by Angela M Sanders, You Feta Watch Out by Linda Reilly, and A Killer Hold by Leah Dobrinska) that I want to read before the end of the year. I'll mood read after that and watch Christmas movies. Have a Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🥧☕
@@catreadsbooks happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍁 That sounds like a wonderful way to end the year!
I want to read the Rachel Fordham book as well 😊 I love Agatha Christie as well ❤
@@thebirdhouserules I am really hoping to get to Rachel Fordham this week!
@eMsBooksAreEverywhere Awesome! Hope you like it 😁
Little house in the big woods 🫶🏻
@@BeYOUtifulBooks I just remember all the cozy family vibes!
Your copy of Jane Eyre so pretty 😍
@@BeYOUtifulBooks thank you! I like pretty books especially to motivate me to pick them up!
Rachel Fordham 🥳
@@BeYOUtifulBooks this will be my first one!
Jane Eyre is one of my favourite books.
I love the Her Royal Spyness series - need to read the next one in 2025.
Hope you get all the books you want to read by the end of the year read. What a lovely reading journal
@@readsandeats2263 I hear that about Jane Eyre and since I was young when I last read it, I thought maybe it would strike me differently now. I did start We Three Queens today! I miss the old narrator but I’m finally used to the new one (5 or so books later!) I usually listen to The Twelve Clues of Christmas each December so I’ll be looking forward to that in a couple of weeks.
@eMsBooksAreEverywhere hope the new narrator will get better. Enjoy the Christmas book when you start it.
Jane Eyre can be a tough read.
@ it’s more that I just pity Jane so much and would want her not to suffer so much!
@eMsBooksAreEverywhere can relate to that
Love your copy of Jane Eyre! Love that book, it was the first classic I ever read. I think I was in my early 20s, sooo long ago lol.
@@StormReads I’m trying to like it better. I was young when I read it and probably just couldn’t get over how badly treated she was.
I have been thinking of trying to step back a bit from all the challenges too. I have some ideas for this for next year. I think the books you chose sound great.
@@CandlewickLibrary I was just thinking about how many books I read this month compared to other months. I think my sweet spot is 14. In the months that I’ve read more than that I’ve felt more pressure and less full-blown enjoyment. I definitely am going to be more mindful of how I participate in challenges next year!
I'd like to read Jane Eyre next year.
@@AlmasBookJourney I’m still plugging away!
I'm thinking of trying the 52 Book Club Challenge this year.
@@AlmasBookJourney I recommend it if you haven’t done it. The prompts for 2025 were just released. You can find them on the52book.club website
Jane Eyre is definitely worth pushing through. Everything gets hard for Jane before it gets better, but it's such an engrossing story. The 52 book challenge interests me but I think it's too much for me. I do 2 or 3 year-long challenges (12 books each) and that's about as much as I can handle.
@@insearchofwonder this is the first year I’ve stuck to the prompts. I generally read many more than 52 books a year but reading to fit a prompt a week was very, very challenging!
I was also doing the 52 Book Club challenge this year! At this point, I think I have four prompts that I haven't completed. There's a good chance I won't complete them by the end of the year, but we'll see.
@@Coffee_and_a_Book I’m curious, were you doing them 1) picking books to fit the prompts in order, 2) filling prompts as you read a book, 3) not in order but picking books to fit the prompts?
@eMsBooksAreEverywhere I just read the books I wanted and checked to see if they fulfilled a prompt. And if a book fit more than one prompt, I tried to pick the one I thought would be the hardest to complete, out of my options, and had the book count for that one.
@@Coffee_and_a_Book that is what I was thinking of doing for next year. It was really fun and challenging going in order week by week. But at this point, it’s still challenging just not as fun!
@eMsBooksAreEverywhere I understand that. Every year I like the idea of a challenge, and the bigger the better. But by about halfway through, I just want to be done with it 😅
I have a difficult time with Jane Eyre, too. I tried it a few times before I finished it. I like it, but it isn't really a favorite.
@@CourtneyReads it’s never really been a story I gravitate towards. I’m more of an Austen fan than Brontë. But some people love it and even regard it as their favorite of all time, so I thought I’d take another chance on it.
@@eMsBooksAreEverywhere I'm definitely more into Austen than Bronte, too. And actually, I prefer Emily and Anne's writing to that of Charlotte.
@@CourtneyReads I read Wuthering Heights, around the same time as Jane Eyre (the first time). I liked it less than Jane Eyre. I have not tried Anne’s books. I suppose I’ll try Wuthering Heights again soon but might do one of Anne’s first.
@eMsBooksAreEverywhere I actually like Wuthering Heights. More for the artistry behind the style than anything. I've read it more than once. I like both of Anne's. I really want to reread The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
@ I completely understand liking the artistry and give credit for that to the author. I think it’s characters first, plot second, and execution (writing style) third in how I determine how much I like a book. I haven’t thought it through but I think that’s it.
I really like those seasonal Agatha Christie books. I saw they have one book for each season. Do you have them all?
@@AlmasBookJourney I have Autumn and Winter. I am planning on ordering Spring for my birthday in December and Summer for Christmas.