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In 2024:


I Read: I was very bad at counting this past year, but it's gotta be about a dozen of things I read willingly + another dozen read for work/study reasons, which I tend not to consider towards my "reading goal."
My Reading Goal: 2024 was the year I switched between three different logging methods, from digital to analog and across various bookwyrm instances, so I didn't have a goal per se. I was very much below my average of past years however, so not too satisfied with that ):
I Challenged Myself: I tried to read more novels written (not translated) in my native language
A New Genre I Attempted: Not exactly "new," but I started reading graphic novels/memoirs again
An Author New-to-me in 2024 I Really Enjoyed: Luciano Bianciardi! Both incredibly funny and soul-crushing.
My Favorite Book of the Year: I always have trouble picking out favourite books, but it has to be either The Left Hand of Darkness or Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
Books I Read in 2024 That I Recommend: As above, plus most of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles (the first three, for sure) and It's a Hard Life by Bianciardi.

In 2025:


My Reading Goal: I'm aiming for a book a week, which will be more or less feasible depending on how much I'll have to work this year.
I'm Going to Challenge Myself: I don't really do structured challenges, except that I'm always sort of trying to tick off books from the Gilmore Girls reading list, but let's say that that's more of a multi-year type of project.
My TBR List: I have a partial log of what I want to read on what has now turned into a 800+ line Excel spreadsheet...
Books I'm Especially Interested in Reading in 2025: Definitely more Le Guin, which is the most embarrassing gap I have in my knowledge of SFF. I also slept on The Book of Love by Kelly Link, which I shouldn't have.
A Book Coming Out in 2025 That I'm Excited About: Alecto the Ninth, should it get a 2025 release date. Besides that, I'm not reading many sagas, and I usually don't keep up to date with specific authors as to know with a ton of advance when they're coming out with a new book. I'm also just very slow at catching up with what I set my eyes on. Maybe the new Torrey Peters, but I won't rush to the shop to get it.
Other Book-Related News for 2025 I'm Interested In: The Raven Cycle graphic novel adaptation is coming out this year, which doesn't really register as a new release for me, but it's something I might even pre-order, even if only out of nostalgia and not genuine enthusiasm. Like, I'm sure it'll be great, they picked a beloved fanartist for it (best case scenario), and I'm sure I'll have an amazing time reading it, but I'm definitely not waiting for it with the same energy as I did with any Stiefvater-related property five years ago.

 

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[community profile] snowflake_challenge #2 In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Alright, the more I think about it, the more I actually do have some goals for this year:
  • Engage in fandom more meaningfully instead of doomscrolling so much. I need to stop leaving my headcanons and meta to languish in my drafts and start prioritizing writing and discussions instead of the quick dopamine shot of scrolling through Pinterest or hate-reading someone's Twitter.
  • Make my profiles more accessible. I should finally learn how to write good image descriptions in different situations! I'm mostly interested in properly researching how people want fanart captioned, because I feel like regular accessibility guidelines aren't really geared towards something like fandom.
  • Talk to people more. I'm awful and I leave fandom and irl friends on read all the time, then wonder why I'm the one who struggles making connections the most. Not something that will be fixed in a single year, but still.
  • EDIT I knew I'd forget the most important one: Stop waiting too long before commenting on fics! You know if you wait too long you're just going to forget about it forever!!!

hex {he/him}

over 25yo. mostly into fandom in a meta way, nowadays, but i also like SFFH books & tv. sometimes (very rarely) I write fic. currently into digital minimalism and looking to be less on social media and more on here or on the indie web.

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