I need to read these books! (it's crunch time)
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Hi friends!
We're halfway to the end of the month/year, and I still haven't reached my reading goal! Here are the 7 books I need to read before 2024!
Wish me luck!
Warm wishes,
Carolyn Marie
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My goal was to surpass my previous high which was 15. I have completed 18 and I have served myself War And Peace as my desert. There is little chance that I will finish by years end, but I'm okay with that. Thank you for your encouragement. All the love.
I think it's same for me, around 18 books. And also I'm currently reading Anna Karenina which I won't be able to finish this year 😄
Pushkin is, for Russians, the equivalent of Shakespeare. It is studied a lot at school and for many a favourite. I'm happy to see someone giving him all this love that he deserves❤
I love that you count picture books to your goal! As a daycare teacher, I’ve read about a million this year 😅
I made my goal 55 and read 101 so far! Before the year ends I want to read Castle in the Clouds, which was a wintery book recommended by emmie here on TH-cam. I think it will be perfect for the holiday season!
I’m currently reading Castle in the Clouds!! it’s the perfect wintery cozy hallmark book, totally recommend if that’s your thing :)
Currently reading My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry. So glad to know about Backman! Each year I either set a goal to read all of one author’s works or a series. This year it was The Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Reilly-incredible! In 2024 I’m going to read all of the Brontë sisters works.
I've met my goodreads goal for the year (35 books) and now my only remaining goal is to finish the doorstopper that is Les Mis. I'm on page 950/1300 and I started it on the 7th of December... last year lol
I think I am about 15 books behind! But right now I am finishing up The Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking, Jurassic Park, Fourth Wing, and The Girl who Drank the Moon. My Christmas books are A Christmas Carol l, Hercule Poirot‘s Christmas, and The Enchanted Sonata. I am expecting lots of time off for reading in the near future.
Also, that sweater is doing an excellent job at bringing out the colour of your eyes 🥰
I’m planning on reading a few more books before the year ends. The one I’m really excited to try is Murder on the Orient Express.
Thank you so much for recommending Small Things Like These, Carolyn! I absolutely loved it, and will continue on with the rest of Claire Keegan’s novels. I am reading Little Women, currently, and hope to delve into The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories and An English Christmas by John Julius Norwich in the run up to Christmas and in the week before New Year’s. Happy reading…I hope you reach your goal!📚📖♥️
This channel has made me want to read more classics in 2024, so the only book I am hoping to finish before the end of the year is the first book on my classics journey - The Picture of Dorian Gray.
GREAT first classics pick! Enjoy your journey with the classics!! :)
My Winter rereads are always Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. I always feel that Winter is the perfect time to reread childhood favourites.
I met my goal of 50 in July. However I’m trying to reach 100 by the end of the month- 93 finished so far. I am a third of the way into Atlas Shrugged and have a pile of graphic novels, manga and shorter books suggested by my young patrons at the library where I work in order to reach the mark. Thank you for letting us know that Game of Tomes will be back. I like to plan my yearly goals in January and will keep twelve open spots for the book club ❤
Every year I will read some version of The Nutcracker. This year I'm reading The Enchanted Sonata for the first time. I'm half way through it and am enjoying it! Little Women is the other book I always find myself reading this time of year as well.... one of my favorites.
You can do it, Carolyn! I also love reading The Night Before Christmas every year. I have the Hallmark pop-up book version, which I've had since childhood. It's such a nostalgic reading experience. :) I'm hoping to finish The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens before the end of this year.
i have just recently started reading books, usually i read graphic novels and such. but after finding out your and emma's channel, i am having so fun reading!! its like we are all friends who love reading, its just amazing!! there are some books i started before (thats why they are not all wintery books) which i have not yet completed, so my goal to complete them all:- Scarlet letter, nutcracker (emma's recom), a christmas carol (my first dickens), notes from the underground, the picture of dorian gray, little women, dracula, the setting sun... woah thats a lot....but imma try my best~
I don't tend to read for the season. I'm currently reading Red Comet by Heather Clark, and it's a Sylvia Plath biography so I am not finishing it this year. On the side I am reading January by Sara Gallardo, and that will probably be the last book I finish this year. I made my 2024 reading list back in June, I couldn't help it!
I read Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel every Christmas. It's like visiting with an old friend. I read A Christmas Carol for the first time last year and I'm thinking that one will be a yearly holiday re-read as well.
Planning to start Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell the weeks of Christmas and New Year's. Piranesi was my favorite last year. Also a book on Sibelius (composer), don't know which yet.🎄
I read Beartown two years ago around the holidays and I recently found Us against you in a used bookstore so I’m gonna try to finish this one before the end of the year. cant wait!!
Love the SNOWMAN cup...! 😎
Hey Carolyn! Thank you for posting.
I made my goal 1... lol. But I'm hoping I'll get to 30. I'm at 27 right now. And in the middle of 3 books. Sword Catcher, Again and Again, and The Two Towers from LoTR
I just finished book 170 yesterday with Hamnet (HIGHLY recommend btw) and had a goal of 100 books. It was a great year of reading for me and part of that was because I stopped being so stuffy about "what books counted" in my book count and I devoured a about 35 manga this year. I'm rounding out my year with Little Women and A Sword Called Kaigen.
I am reading Andersens tales and Hamlet as I am visiting my sister in Kopenhagen this year. I also have A Christmas Carol packed. I do love to match my reading to the seasons and places I go :)
I am finishing up my 2023 goal of reading more children's literature and I have two books to go. Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild and Fifteen by Beverly Cleary.
Have a cozy Christmas!
I reached my reading goal of 10 a long time ago, my current and probably last read of the year is Anna Karenina! I'm 50% through it according to goodreads and it'll be my 14/10 book of the year
I'm also currently reading Anna Karenina, I'm halfway through as well, and hope to finish it by the end of the year. :)
I definitely want to read Winnie the pooh and the penguin book of Christmas stories before the year ends !
Hey Carolyn! I hope you meet your goal. I have a goal to read 55 books and I’m reading 7 altogether to finish 2023. Some of them are The Kite Runner, The Underground Railroad, Sula, and Message In A Bottle. All have been terrific.
Pushkin IS our Shakespeare! Love Onegin too ✌🏻
Happy Holidays!
To help with Twelfth Night, try to watch the Globe production from around 2013. It’s historically-accurate (I.e. all-male cast), hilarious, and stars Johnny Flynn as Viola, Stephen Fry as Malvolio, and Mark Rylance as Olivia.
Carolyn! If you give your local Barnes and Noble a call, they may have already put Heartstopper vol. 5 out on the sales floor. My husband works at a B&N, and when I went to visit his shop this past weekend I saw them out in the YA section! I didn’t even realize they were supposed to come out on the 19th. Worth a shot, since if they weren’t marked “strict on sale” for their store, maybe they weren’t for others too. Just a thought, since I lept at the chance to buy it too! Love this series so much!
I personally haven’t made a reading goal in terms of quantity in a while, I just write down a few books that I know I want to go through. Also, I love to read slowly so if I only read 10 in a year and they completely become a part of me, I have no problem with it.
If you haven’t read The Idiot, I think you would enjoy it for next year!
I am hoping to finish my current reads before the end of the year haha I have Big Swiss for my physical and The Long Earth for my ebook, but i had to take a reading break mid November until now to focus on finals. I'm already so excited for the books I'll read next year! Picked up the first four books in the Discworld series in audio.
to reach my goal i need to read 3 more books. I have two ongoing reads that i'll probably be able to finish in time: kentukis by samanta schweblin and the fifth percy jackson book (which i want to finish before the show comes out and is a comfort reread) idk about the last one.. i'll probably pick a short poetry collection :) good luck with yours!
I didn’t make a goal but I’ve read 18 (I started the year with the unabridged version of Stephen kings “the stand” which took me 3 months lol) and plan on reading two more to make it 20. My last two books of the year are gonna be Lolita by Nabokov and “Mother Night” by Vonnegut. I can’t wait for next year I have good books I plan to read
I think reading goals are very helpful. I read Count of Monte Christo and it derailed my early momentum. So I too had to play catch-up in late Nov and Dec. I concentrated on some short books, something I rarely ever do. Since mid Nov I have read: Peter Pan, Small thing Like These, End of the Affair, and Hemingway's Paris. I'm almost finished with Checkout19 (which is super-creative), and Id like to read Letters from Father Christmas (your recommendation) and Washington Square before the end of Dec. I think I can do it. Good luck. Happy Christmas.
PS Every year I read aloud A Christmas Memory (Truman Capote) and about every other year A Christmas Carol (Dickens). So I'll be reading the former for sure.
Books I’ve read recently Anna Karenina, and War and Peace, Russia, snow, what can I say 😂. I love them 😍. Xxx
My reading goal was to not have a goal after 8 years, I had a baby in the end of last year so I didn’t want to put much pressure on myself, I was extremely happy to find that I read 38 books so far, so now I want to read 2 more just to get to 40
. Foster by Keegan (I also read Small Things Like These and CR Antarctica)
. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Calvino
. Persuasion by Austen
. Hogfather by Pratchett
I have Eugene Onegin on the list but it might go into January!
Morning, I’m planning on finishing The Door-To-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn (which I think you’d love, btw) and reading Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger. Merry Christmas!
You have the sweetest voice.
The Polar express, I want to watch the film before Christmas. I have over twenty library books I need to read, some of them are Christmassy and some not. Janet Dailey's The Sleighbells is one; At the Pond an anthology; Santa's secret diary (picture book); just to name a couple. I'll be concentrating of the library books over this Christmas season. I have leave for 3 weeks so I should be able to read lots, especially since where I'm spending Christmas is hot, hot, hot. I live in Australia, it's Summer and the temp's go into the 40's C, which I think for you is in 104's F abouts! So my mum and I kind of hibernate indoors and read.
I love claire keegan. The forester's daugher is also so good.❤
The Polar Express is my favorite Christmas movie ever, we always watch it on Christmas Eve. Someday I really need to read the book 🩷
love your channel. You have inspired me to read some amazing books. I want to read a Christmas Carol. But, I am also in the middle of Picture of Dorian Gray, Don Quixote and Hamlet! Working is messing with my reading life.
today is my birthday and I’ll consider this video as wonderful gift!
Happy birthday!!! I hope it’s been wonderful so far 😊
I surpassed what I did last year. My only other big goal was reading The Fountainhead which is a monster classic... I'm a third in.
I also recently finished Flowers for Algernon and that book made me break down sobbing on the last page! Have you read that classic before?
I just want to say that you really inspired me to pick up a Shakespeare for fun *gasp*. I had the experience of being forced to read Shakespeare in school in a way that I don't feel is conducive to actual enjoyment of his craft, an experience which I imagine many others share. I recently picked up Taming of the Shrew and legitimately laughed out loud while reading it. If anyone is feeling turned off by the idea of reading a Shakespeare outside of academia, trust me when I say that you CAN enjoy it (with enough effort and a good Folgers edition 😉). Thank you Carolyn!
I need to finish 9 more books to reach my goal 😅
I’m planning to read the last 4 volumes of Attack on Titan (they’ve been sitting on my shelf for 2 years because volume 30 hit too hard), Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder and its sequel Candy for Christmas, The Hobbit, and then maybe Legends & Lattes and/or some short poetry collections I have by Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton
I just finished my first reread of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and I have The Nutcracker by Hoffmann in my bag ready to go.
I hope to finish my current read: Anna Karenina by the end of the year. I'm halfway through, and while I really enjoy the story, I'm not really getting into the reading flow with this book, thus it takes me longer to get through it. But the near end of the year motivates me to finish it and start the new year with a fresh read:)
I’ve been reading Dickens short stories. I’m on The Chimes for this year.
Carolyn, the last book i've read was Swann's Way, by Proust and i loved it! I highly recommend it. I want to read Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen and a collection of russian fairytales.
Please do a reading vlog about trying to catch up on ur reading goal!!!
I am currently reading Midnight in Everwood by M.A. Kuzniar. I am about half way through and am loving it so far.
❤📚 I surpassed my goal this year. Picture books definitely count! My husband and I watch Polar Express every year on Christmas Eve!
I read The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale this month. I thought it was going to be a fun, magical Christmas book. It was not that. It was so much more. Magic, toys, love, jealousy, and war. I can't quit thinking about it.
I managed to reach my reading goal early this year, mostly due to an exam I had during the summer. I'm hoping to finish Anna Karenina and Dickens's Great Expectations before the year ends!
I will say I love Tweith Night because of how gender play a role and because of my gender journey with learning how to socialize as a My gender as a trans person and a good recommendation is The Afterlife of Holly Case
well this is spooky! I also set myself a goal of 60 and am also at 53. Good reads keeps saying I am 3 books behind and I am not the fastest reader. Short books and children's books is the way to go . I hadn't thought of counting The night before Christmas but now I definitely will 🙂
My goal was to read 50 books this year but I've read 30 so far😂...currently I'm reading all the light we cannot see...hopefully, I'll be able to finish this book before 31 dec
hi Carolyn! I’m 80% through Anxious People by Frederick Backman, an author that I picked up on your recommendation and it’s safe to say that this is definitely my most favourite read of the year ❤️
Hi Carolyn, I never set goals, because Life just gets in the way especially this busy time of year, and Season. I love reading Children's books about Christmas,the illustrations are always gorgeous ! I love "The Night Before Christmas", and" Stopping by The Woods On A Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost, illustrated by Susan Jeffers. I think you would love her drawings. I love the book "The Polar Express" by Chris Van Allsburg,but, I didn't like the movie.It was too long and I didn't like the crazy dancing on the train,and the Tom Waits character. Just my opinion though. I do love "The Snowman" by Raymond Briggs the book and movie are truly "Magical". Happy Reading, Cindy 🎄 🎅⛄
I am Currently Reading The Magician's Elephant by Kate DeCamillo (Re-Read: Love This Short Story) and Anna Karenina( Re-Read ~ pg.334 Love The Story of Levin and Kitty( And Farming😁😊)📚📚😊
LOOOVE The Polar Express Movie But Have Yet To Read The Book😊📚
I need to read Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild by the end of the year.
Hello! I might read a book or two by Agatha Christie because I enjoy them and they are a quick read. Since some are set around Christmas, they would be perfect. 📚
I just finished up Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, and the Secret History. I'm about to finish Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Didion, and going to start The Dark Forest By Cixin Liu
My goal was 60 books for this year. I finished the secret history yesterday as 116th book of the year. Currently reading night circus and love in time of cholera and planning to read panenka. Maybe i will add one more book and complete 120 straight .💪
I really want to finish The last man by Mary Shelley before the end of the year, it is definitely not a happy book but the writing is truly beautiful and I'm really enjoying it, but it has taken me a long time to get through it since I've been very busy😔.
In India it's not very christmasy so I am reading the night train in deoli which is a short story collection by ruskin bond(my favourite short story writer) and funnily enough I am also reading twelfth night too and also not liking it 😅
My goal is 35 books. I've read 34 books so I just need to finish one more. Next year I want to read more books.
I, and my grade 10 classmates, didn't love Twelfth Night either when we read it over 20 years ago. It's a shame so many schools use it to introduce Shakespeare.
I'm almost finishing the buried giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, quite different to his others books but I guess all his books are different. This one is very slow, where what matters is the journey... I find it interesting though
Hey Carolyn, Merry Christmas! I'm working on three things: First is a textbook that I'm slogging thru a few pages a day in preparation for a big exam I plan to take next year [fingers crossed]; besides that is another chunker in which I'm making steady albeit slow progress Does God Exist? [I'll let you guess the final answer bc I don't want to spoil the ending should you choose to read it]; the third is much shorter but in French so I can't go as fast as would like: Comment je crois. The author was a French Jesuit who had some trouble swallowing the Genesis dogma, particularly with respect to original sin. His writings were on the banned list until he passed and possibly he's still not the most popular monk writing biblical interpretation.
Another great & cozy vid
I wish to start a booktube channel & reading goal of 50 once I graduate from school early next year
I want to finish, I capture the castle!!!!!!!!!
Love that one! Read that a few months ago😊.
As someone who doesn’t celebrate Christmas, it’s so nice to hear you acknowledge that not everyone does! I don’t normally read multiple books at the same time but somehow I currently have 4 books on the go (2 books, 1 ebook, 1 audio). Dombey & son (first time reading), Jane Eyre (my all time favourite book any time of year), Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins (first time reading) and No name also Wilkie Collins. I’m not a prolific reader so I doubt they’ll all be finished by the end of the year.
Right now, I only have one book I want to finish before the end of the year, that is Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong.
I read 160 books this year. 😊 my goal was 100. I hope pass the 200 mark next year.
may i know where the bookclub which you co host with emma is? is it in goodreads?
my goal is to finish little women and then maybe continue the series i started called the winternight trilogy
i was waiting for a christmas carol to pop up in the video but it didn’tttt
How do I join your book club? Xxxxx 💕💕💕
My goal was to read 60 books but I'm up to 133 now.
My goal is 24 books a year. How do you guys find time to read so many books ???? Share advice/tips please
😂 why are you so worried about meeting reading goals? Read for fun only.
I had been reading some books but was not able to finish. Maybe I will push harder in the last two weeks if I can due to other commitments. To me, important is to grow from my habits like reading, training or any learning. I don’t want to spend time on finishing books to meet my reading goals and then regret for the opportunity cost I paid.