I was rummaging around TH-cam trying to find a book person to follow. And as how these things go, I stumbled upon you today. I was interested in the books that you started to describe and I love how you articulate them and I love your emotions around the books, but the thing that made me hit subscribe was that you put in evidence of things unseen. I feel like my sister and I are a two person team trying to get everyone in the world to read this book. I'm not much of a re-reader… I hope to improve on this, but I have read this book 4 times. The characters are incredibly developed and the history they are living through is astonishing. I learned a lot. There were so many moments in this book where I felt like I was being let in to a very small mysterious back room and was shown something so private and incredibly tender or secret. Thank you! My 10 year-old granddaughter just challenged me to read in a genre. I generally think I don't like and so because I gained a lot of respect for you just in this one video I may tackle red wall. I was going to write Lord of the rings, but I couldn't make myself do it
@@randyjoseph8145 thank you so much!!! Evidence of Things Unseen is another example of an underexposed spectacular book. I almost didn’t reread it because I was scared I wouldn’t love it to the same degree as when I first read it. I was wrong. It was and is spectacular. ❤️
I have just recently found you..i think about books as you do. I feel so grateful that if life has beat me up on some days I always have someplace to go to get away from what was troubling me
Just found your channel, and I love it! Cannot wait to read a few that you shared on your list. Thank you, I like your style too, so natural and friendly❤
Thank you. I am a new subscriber and just so appreciated your commentary and all the books. I have some of these, read some, but now I have more books that have become an interest. ❤️
I Who Have Never Known Men (Jacqueline Harpman): I read this in September and knew it would be the best book I got to this year. I hope you get many great reads (*cough* thebeesting *cough*) in 2025. Love the content.
New subscriber! I throughly enjoyed this video and look forward to more. I am eager to read The Count of Monte Cristo , Middlemarch and Idaho. Thank you for sharing your love of books.
Since I watched this video I started listening to The Lord of the Rings read by Andy Serkis. You were right, the audio is fantastic! And it is helping me getting out of my non-enjoyment of reading. It is such a beloved book (I started reading it for the first time at 12 years old while baby sitting my cousins) and so wonderfully read that slowly the joy to read is coming back. I am now reading a young adult alternative history book by Ryan Graudin. For the first time in months I am enjoying a book. Thank you!
What a massive project…choosing the books that make you happy to be a reader. This is a great video because reading has been my life. Also, agree 100% about Andy Serkis’ reading of The Lord of the Rings. Love the Count on Monte Cristo…epic tasty revenge. Middlemarch is everything to me and brought me to your channel. I could go on and on about your choices but I’ll stop now.
Loved this video and that you’ve taken such joy in these books. Lord of the Rings gets better every time I read it and I recently re-read Fellowship via the Andy Serkis audio for the first time and it was absolutely fantastic. Could not agree more about Redwall - brilliant book. I am now very curious about Sea Biscuit and I too cannot abide horse racing!
@@spreadbookjoy thank you! I always feel like I hit the jackpot when I finish a wonderful book. Like I’m the first to read it and want to tell everyone. 🥰🤩
Redwall! My boys loved that series so. I think I read them the first one and then almost yearly at Christmas, Brian Jaques would come out with Another! My eldest, who loves reading and has since become an English teacher, still has most of them, a few of them signed too if I recall. 🎉
Wonderful discussion, Kim. We have many books in common, and you also describe several that I still want to get to and still others that I'd love to revisit. Terrific video.
what a lovely and thoughtful video idea! i found myself prompted to reflect on the titles in my own reading that have brought joy for various reasons -- a lot of titles were ones you shared (LOTR, Hamnet, I who have never known men, the wall, etc), and for the ones i hadn't heard about i started opening a tab in my Libby to place some titles on hold as you explained them. your mention of theology books made me remember one of the most joyful and accessible books related to divinity i've read, The Jesuit Guide to Almost Anything, which has been endlessly re-readable over the years and which now i'm eager to pick up again, thank you again for such a thoughtful video, happy holidays!
@@AlexATheEngineer thank you so much! The Jesuit Guide sounds like something I’d love! I read and treasure The Practice and Presence of God by Brother Lawrence. ❤️
@@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH have to check that one out, and yes I think you'd enjoy the Jesuit Guide! I believe James Martin even does the narration for the audiobook, but regardless it's a fantastic, timeless book, my physical copy is endlessly earmarked and highlighted and it's a lovely, accessible read
Thank you for this video which is so fitting for the season of joy. I have read Middlemarch and Lonesome Dove and enjoyed both. You've given me some ideas for other books which I may enjoy also.
Most of the artistic works I especially enjoy are dramas and tragedies, whether told in print, paintings, poetry, films, comics, and music. This explains why I'm cheery most of the time, I tease friends and acquaintances who can't understand my library. Glad to see Hamnet. And of course the Greek tragedies. Beautiful stories. Hamlet and Wuthering Heights made made me a serous reader. Since joining booktube I noticed that some booktubers read an astonishing amount of books. I'm unable to do that. I spend much time on a book and I read several of them at a time. Stories, where would we be without them?
Hi Kim, I love giraffes and just hearing your story brought tears to my eyes. I'm about to listen to Seabiscut because I've had problems starting it in print. I'd love to join your reread of Lonesome Dove. I've never read it. I want to read Idaho too. I enjoyed your video immensely. Aloha friend.
Great selections! Many I have read because of your recommendations in the past and are now personal favorites as well! I’ve been here since close to the beginning of your channel and I never get sick of hearing you gush about your favorites! Some of mine: Count of MC Lonesome Dove Jane Eyre The Long Winter Farmer Boy The Home-Maker Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Frankenstein Roots The Crimson Petal and the White Fair Weather
Thank you for the recommendations. I have never heard of Josephine W. Johnson. I must read her books now! I just finished Idaho. It is so beautifully written. I'm surprised more booktubers have not been talking about it. It needs more praise!
It’s so nice to hear about books that influence readers. Also this is perfect for the time I have before starting work. 😆Going to settle in on the couch with this video and my coffee!
Dont ever apologize about a long video... we are here for this kind of content! I am fairly new in watching your channel, but i kind of figured your favorite book would be Middlemarch!! Thank you for bringing us into the center of your reading world... i have read a few, and i wrote down 8 titles i would like to look into!!
Just found your channel and very much enjoy your choice of books and your views on them and subscribed immediately. I'm looking forward to browsing through some of your past video reviews. I see a lot of American reviewers voicing a strong feeling that James should have won the Booker. Huckleberry Finn is quintessentially American and I wonder if perhaps it (and accordingly James) doesn't have the same mass appeal to non-Americans. I saw that James won the National Book Award which is American. I absolutely loved seeing some of my favourite books in your selection, such as The Count of Monte Cristo, Lonesome Dove, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and (for me) all three books in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Kim, this was not too long! Ahab’s Wife and Seabiscuit were books I remember positively too. I kept Ahab’s Wife for a future reread. I have several of the others on my want to read list and will be adding Idaho. For adding to your want to read list, I recommend No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister and The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven (fiction) by Nathaniel Miller. Both are beautifully written and prompted pondering.
I adore Tolkien, Middlemarch, Lisbeth Salander, Steinbeck, etc Also Hamnet, the book I discovered Maggie O'Farrell with (not only the flea, which is unforgettable, I agree, but the moment when "she" comes into the cemetery with so many children and exits with one less - that broke my heart). Many others you quoted are on my TBR thanks to you. My favourite book of all times is and always be Jane Eyre (I've read it 9 times so far). _ç (the two last character were typed by one of my cats...). Thanks so much for sharing !
Such a nice video and very apt for me now. And the term you were looking for was not at length, but ad nauseam 😂😂😂 I have been following your channel almost from the start and I have seen all these books talked about and I read most of them, or if I didn’t they’re on my tbr. Lonesome dove and Idaho for sure 🙂 Why apt? I read every day, I can’t do otherwise, but this year has been awful: I lost two family members, I lost two colleagues, one of which was about the first person I got to know when we came to Aruba 25 years ago. And on top of that I lost two good friends, one I knew for 47 years, the other for 41 years. The grief of losing all these people is sometimes overwhelming, so I read, but I don’t really enjoy it. It’s not the books, they’re wonderful and intellectually I know they’re wonderful, I just don’t enjoy reading at the moment. It will return in time, but I am just sad not to be enjoying my reading. Maybe I need to revisit a beloved book 😊
Thank you for a great video! I have read a number of books you have mentioned but I want to call out one book specifically, that you mentioned, and that is Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor. In addition to the feels you describe, I am in awe of the actual writing. To be able to read words rendered so artistically, to be so impactful is surely a gift to be celebrated. Unfortunately, because the subject matter is so bleak, I very seldom see the book mentioned.
Looks like you have the Robin Buss translation of Count? Any thoughts on other translations or should I not overthink it and just go with the Buss? Hurricane Season has been on and off my TBR several times now, but after hearing you talk about it here, it's back on.😆
Perfect video. You are so thoughtful in your comments. Not too long at all. Ps-Lonesome Dove is in my library now, thanks to you. Would have never thought about it-I haven’t started it yet-but for 2025, it’s on❤️
Great video Kim. Animals in captivity do bother me to no end. I refuse to visit zoos. The Bluest Eye is my favorite Morrison novel. I did like Sula too. I am making my way through all her books. Yes, Paradise is not a favorite.
@@Mary-hs3gu I don’t think I read that many books. This yeas I won’t even crack 100. But I’ve had great reading experiences. I may be a fast reader and I read as much as I can every day. I’ve always been a reader. 🥰
Hi Kim! As a fantasy reader, have you read Robin Hobb's "Realm of the Elderlings" series? To be honest, I almost did not read past the first or second book but I'm so glad I did! Have you read "Les Miserables?" I think you might enjoy it. I loved this video! I have so many books to add to my list now.
I enjoyed The Lonesome Dove but boy, after Terms of Endearment I lost all my appreciation and respect for McMurty. So chauvinistic. I would love for you to read that and get your impression after reading that!
@@michellemorrill888 I definitely will read that. The movie displayed the same stuff. Without having read the book I wonder if he may have done that on purpose to create those types of characters.
I was rummaging around TH-cam trying to find a book person to follow. And as how these things go, I stumbled upon you today. I was interested in the books that you started to describe and I love how you articulate them and I love your emotions around the books, but the thing that made me hit subscribe was that you put in evidence of things unseen. I feel like my sister and I are a two person team trying to get everyone in the world to read this book. I'm not much of a re-reader… I hope to improve on this, but I have read this book 4 times. The characters are incredibly developed and the history they are living through is astonishing. I learned a lot. There were so many moments in this book where I felt like I was being let in to a very small mysterious back room and was shown something so private and incredibly tender or secret. Thank you! My 10 year-old granddaughter just challenged me to read in a genre. I generally think I don't like and so because I gained a lot of respect for you just in this one video I may tackle red wall. I was going to write Lord of the rings, but I couldn't make myself do it
@@randyjoseph8145 thank you so much!!! Evidence of Things Unseen is another example of an underexposed spectacular book. I almost didn’t reread it because I was scared I wouldn’t love it to the same degree as when I first read it. I was wrong. It was and is spectacular. ❤️
Great video Kim, the joy you get from books is infectious😊
@@Ali-AvidReader thank you! 🥰
So glad I'm a reader. And glad to have found you too, Kim. You always have something inspiring to share. Thank you!
@@LindaEdge-r7c thank you so much! 🥰
I totally agree ❤❤❤
@sonjapetersen1264 🥰🥰🥰
Perfect timing. I watched the whole video while wrapping presents! So many great recommendations - I'll add them to my TBR! 😊
I have just recently found you..i think about books as you do. I feel so grateful that if life has beat me up on some days I always have someplace to go to get away from what was troubling me
@@beckyliechty2699 thank you so much! And I feel exactly the same way! 🥰
Just found your channel, and I love it! Cannot wait to read a few that you shared on your list. Thank you, I like your style too, so natural and friendly❤
@@cherirose6660 thank you so much! 🥰
Thank you. I am a new subscriber and just so appreciated your commentary and all the books. I have some of these, read some, but now I have more books that have become an interest. ❤️
@@dianesellepedrosa1876 thank you so much for subscribing! 🥰
I Who Have Never Known Men (Jacqueline Harpman): I read this in September and knew it would be the best book I got to this year.
I hope you get many great reads (*cough* thebeesting *cough*) in 2025.
Love the content.
@@Tetsujin-28 🥰🥰🥰
New subscriber! I throughly enjoyed this video and look forward to more. I am eager to read The Count of Monte Cristo , Middlemarch and Idaho. Thank you for sharing your love of books.
@@Lisa-li1jd thank you so much for subscribing! 🥰
Lovely video, Kim. My son loved Redwall and its "medieval rodents"!
Since I watched this video I started listening to The Lord of the Rings read by Andy Serkis. You were right, the audio is fantastic! And it is helping me getting out of my non-enjoyment of reading. It is such a beloved book (I started reading it for the first time at 12 years old while baby sitting my cousins) and so wonderfully read that slowly the joy to read is coming back. I am now reading a young adult alternative history book by Ryan Graudin. For the first time in months I am enjoying a book. Thank you!
@@eiketske ❤️❤️❤️
What a massive project…choosing the books that make you happy to be a reader. This is a great video because reading has been my life. Also, agree 100% about Andy Serkis’ reading of The Lord of the Rings. Love the Count on Monte Cristo…epic tasty revenge. Middlemarch is everything to me and brought me to your channel. I could go on and on about your choices but I’ll stop now.
@@kristinmarra7005 I really appreciate you being here!!! 🥰🥰🥰
Loved this video and that you’ve taken such joy in these books. Lord of the Rings gets better every time I read it and I recently re-read Fellowship via the Andy Serkis audio for the first time and it was absolutely fantastic. Could not agree more about Redwall - brilliant book. I am now very curious about Sea Biscuit and I too cannot abide horse racing!
@@spreadbookjoy thank you! I always feel like I hit the jackpot when I finish a wonderful book. Like I’m the first to read it and want to tell everyone. 🥰🤩
Redwall! My boys loved that series so. I think I read them the first one and then almost yearly at Christmas, Brian Jaques would come out with Another! My eldest, who loves reading and has since become an English teacher, still has most of them, a few of them signed too if I recall. 🎉
@@barbarabemis4949 wonderful!!! And I love that he became an English teacher! 🤓
Wonderful discussion, Kim. We have many books in common, and you also describe several that I still want to get to and still others that I'd love to revisit. Terrific video.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 thanks Pat! 🥰
Great topic! Loved seeing the books you love.
I loved The Wall. It's rarely mentioned.
what a lovely and thoughtful video idea! i found myself prompted to reflect on the titles in my own reading that have brought joy for various reasons -- a lot of titles were ones you shared (LOTR, Hamnet, I who have never known men, the wall, etc), and for the ones i hadn't heard about i started opening a tab in my Libby to place some titles on hold as you explained them. your mention of theology books made me remember one of the most joyful and accessible books related to divinity i've read, The Jesuit Guide to Almost Anything, which has been endlessly re-readable over the years and which now i'm eager to pick up again, thank you again for such a thoughtful video, happy holidays!
@@AlexATheEngineer thank you so much! The Jesuit Guide sounds like something I’d love! I read and treasure The Practice and Presence of God by Brother Lawrence. ❤️
@@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH have to check that one out, and yes I think you'd enjoy the Jesuit Guide! I believe James Martin even does the narration for the audiobook, but regardless it's a fantastic, timeless book, my physical copy is endlessly earmarked and highlighted and it's a lovely, accessible read
I LOVE your long video, Kim!!! It's a lovely ode to your love of books and reading :)
-Mikiko
@@FMsukina thanks so much Miki! 🥰
I love The Count of Monte Cristo too! And Ahab’s Wife!
@@ATruthUniversallyAcknowledged yay!!! 🥰
Thank you for this video which is so fitting for the season of joy. I have read Middlemarch and Lonesome Dove and enjoyed both. You've given me some ideas for other books which I may enjoy also.
@@annharbaugh2991 that’s excellent! Thank you!!! 🥰
This was a great idea for a video. I feel the same way when I finish a book.
Most of the artistic works I especially enjoy are dramas and tragedies, whether told in print, paintings, poetry, films, comics, and music. This explains why I'm cheery most of the time, I tease friends and acquaintances who can't understand my library. Glad to see Hamnet. And of course the Greek tragedies. Beautiful stories. Hamlet and Wuthering Heights made made me a serous reader.
Since joining booktube I noticed that some booktubers read an astonishing amount of books. I'm unable to do that. I spend much time on a book and I read several of them at a time.
Stories, where would we be without them?
@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt I learned to be very happy with the quantity of books I read. And not to compare myself to the Joneses. 🥰
I love this idea for a video. So many great books.
Love Redwall❤️
I appreciate you Kim. Your channel enriches my reading life. Thank you. I needed this list more than you can possibly imagine. Go well 😊
@@nathanfoung2347 thank you so much Nathan! You’re a wonderfully encouraging human being. ❤️
@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH the dogears still hurt though 😂😂😂 just had to say. Had to cover my dog's eyes.
I love your channel. Sula is also my favorite Toni Morrison.
@@emilystowe3951 thank you so much! 🥰
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Hi Kim, I love giraffes and just hearing your story brought tears to my eyes. I'm about to listen to Seabiscut because I've had problems starting it in print. I'd love to join your reread of Lonesome Dove. I've never read it. I want to read Idaho too. I enjoyed your video immensely. Aloha friend.
@@MarilynMayaMendoza I’m not going to read Lonesome Dove as a project but I’ll let you know when I get to it. I hope you get a chance to read it. 🥰🥰🥰
Great selections! Many I have read because of your recommendations in the past and are now personal favorites as well! I’ve been here since close to the beginning of your channel and I never get sick of hearing you gush about your favorites!
Some of mine:
Count of MC
Lonesome Dove
Jane Eyre
The Long Winter
Farmer Boy
The Home-Maker
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Frankenstein
Roots
The Crimson Petal and the White
Fair Weather
@@jillwhitneybirk I need to read Frankenstein and reread Crimson Petal. Thanks for your continued support!!! ❤️
Thank you for the recommendations. I have never heard of Josephine W. Johnson. I must read her books now!
I just finished Idaho. It is so beautifully written. I'm surprised more booktubers have not been talking about it. It needs more praise!
@@GreenGranny I totally agree!!! I think you would love Now in November. 🥰
I knew it was coming…I was waiting for it! 😂☄️
@@myreadinglife8816 🤣🤣🤣
It’s so nice to hear about books that influence readers. Also this is perfect for the time I have before starting work. 😆Going to settle in on the couch with this video and my coffee!
@@gemgerm thank you! 🥰
Dont ever apologize about a long video... we are here for this kind of content! I am fairly new in watching your channel, but i kind of figured your favorite book would be Middlemarch!! Thank you for bringing us into the center of your reading world... i have read a few, and i wrote down 8 titles i would like to look into!!
@ thanks so much for the support! 🥰
I also loved Seabiscuit, I listened on audio, it was fantastic!
Just found your channel and very much enjoy your choice of books and your views on them and subscribed immediately. I'm looking forward to browsing through some of your past video reviews.
I see a lot of American reviewers voicing a strong feeling that James should have won the Booker. Huckleberry Finn is quintessentially American and I wonder if perhaps it (and accordingly James) doesn't have the same mass appeal to non-Americans. I saw that James won the National Book Award which is American.
I absolutely loved seeing some of my favourite books in your selection, such as The Count of Monte Cristo, Lonesome Dove, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and (for me) all three books in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Oh - and I added a few to my TBR list too, so thank you - although my bank balance begs to differ😊
@@ellieb3930 thank you so much for subscribing! And sorry about your bank balance. 🤣🤣🤣
Kim, this was not too long!
Ahab’s Wife and Seabiscuit were books I remember positively too. I kept Ahab’s Wife for a future reread. I have several of the others on my want to read list and will be adding Idaho. For adding to your want to read list, I recommend No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister and The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven (fiction) by Nathaniel Miller. Both are beautifully written and prompted pondering.
@@RebeccaStultz-y9f thank you for the recs! 🥰
I adore Tolkien, Middlemarch, Lisbeth Salander, Steinbeck, etc Also Hamnet, the book I discovered Maggie O'Farrell with (not only the flea, which is unforgettable, I agree, but the moment when "she" comes into the cemetery with so many children and exits with one less - that broke my heart). Many others you quoted are on my TBR thanks to you. My favourite book of all times is and always be Jane Eyre (I've read it 9 times so far). _ç (the two last character were typed by one of my cats...). Thanks so much for sharing !
@@isabellemenez5704 we have awesome taste! 🤣🥰
@@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH 😎
Such a nice video and very apt for me now. And the term you were looking for was not at length, but ad nauseam 😂😂😂 I have been following your channel almost from the start and I have seen all these books talked about and I read most of them, or if I didn’t they’re on my tbr. Lonesome dove and Idaho for sure 🙂
Why apt? I read every day, I can’t do otherwise, but this year has been awful: I lost two family members, I lost two colleagues, one of which was about the first person I got to know when we came to Aruba 25 years ago. And on top of that I lost two good friends, one I knew for 47 years, the other for 41 years. The grief of losing all these people is sometimes overwhelming, so I read, but I don’t really enjoy it. It’s not the books, they’re wonderful and intellectually I know they’re wonderful, I just don’t enjoy reading at the moment. It will return in time, but I am just sad not to be enjoying my reading. Maybe I need to revisit a beloved book 😊
@@eiketske I have experienced something similar this year. Reading becomes almost impossible. That’s when I go to a reread or something extra cozy.
Thank you for a great video! I have read a number of books you have mentioned but I want to call out one book specifically, that you mentioned, and that is Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor. In addition to the feels you describe, I am in awe of the actual writing. To be able to read words rendered so artistically, to be so impactful is surely a gift to be celebrated.
Unfortunately, because the subject matter is so bleak, I very seldom see the book mentioned.
@@evajanczaruk8790 I thought it was brilliant but only saw a few readers who also thought so.
Looks like you have the Robin Buss translation of Count? Any thoughts on other translations or should I not overthink it and just go with the Buss? Hurricane Season has been on and off my TBR several times now, but after hearing you talk about it here, it's back on.😆
@@kirsten0929 don’t overthink it and go with Buss. I trust the Penguin. It was excellent. 🤓🤩
Great video! have you ever continued on in the lonesome dove series? Love your tree!
@@lindadashner9205 yes I read Streets of Laredo which was also very good and would like to read the rest. I’m going to reread LD first. 🥰
Perfect video. You are so thoughtful in your comments. Not too long at all.
Ps-Lonesome Dove is in my library now, thanks to you. Would have never thought about it-I haven’t started it yet-but for 2025, it’s on❤️
@@vickicoleman2474 thank you so much! That’s great. 🥰
Great video Kim. Animals in captivity do bother me to no end. I refuse to visit zoos. The Bluest Eye is my favorite Morrison novel. I did like Sula too. I am making my way through all her books. Yes, Paradise is not a favorite.
@@jorgem71962 glad I’m not the only one! Didn’t like Jazz that much either.
So many great books - some I have read, some I mean to read.
Hi kim up late glad your here..
I’m retired so I have more time than my past life, but how do you read so many books - and some of them more than once??
@@Mary-hs3gu I don’t think I read that many books. This yeas I won’t even crack 100. But I’ve had great reading experiences. I may be a fast reader and I read as much as I can every day. I’ve always been a reader. 🥰
Hi Kim! As a fantasy reader, have you read Robin Hobb's "Realm of the Elderlings" series? To be honest, I almost did not read past the first or second book but I'm so glad I did! Have you read "Les Miserables?" I think you might enjoy it. I loved this video! I have so many books to add to my list now.
@@doraspenlow haven’t read that one. I’m hoping to read Les Mis with my book group next year! 🥰
@@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH Awesome! Definitely look into Robin Hobb as well. So glad I found your channel today!
@ thank you! 🥰
❤️ ❤❤
Also, you are the second person recently who mentioned Middlemarch, so I need to figure that one out.
@@dianaleerode5847 read it!!! 🤣🥰
I enjoyed The Lonesome Dove but boy, after Terms of Endearment I lost all my appreciation and respect for McMurty. So chauvinistic. I would love for you to read that and get your impression after reading that!
@@michellemorrill888 I definitely will read that. The movie displayed the same stuff. Without having read the book I wonder if he may have done that on purpose to create those types of characters.
I set a goal but have absolutely no problem not meeting it. It’s just for fun.