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Solo book club time
Every few years I get hit with the urge to blog and think I have can only go to dreamwidth to do it- so I’m back!
I’ve decided my New Years resolution is to read more novels, because I’ve fallen off on that a lot. When I was a kid I read like multiple books a week and even in uni I managed one a week, most of the time. SO let’s set a target for the year!
By the end of 2024, I will have read 15 books. Preferably new novels but may slip in an old fave or a nonfiction in there and choose to count it. I’ll try to remember to document them, at least briefly, here. I do not expect anyone to read this but I have to keep track somehow.
Anyway, first book of the year! The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. Everyone else read this book already but I’d kept putting it off!
I’m not going to do an in depth review, but I enjoyed this one! Took me a couple chapters to get into it, but that’s just because I was readjusting to diving into heavy fantasy worldbuilding again, with all the fancy names and maps. Been a while since I read fiction with a glossary at the end, but I’m glad to be back in the game. Good to read some quality high fantasy that knows it’s business. If you don’t have multiple maps that your readers will need to reference, are you even writing fantasy? I got really invested in all the characters, all the ships and even all the mythology! Some heartbreaking deaths having actual emotional impact, some well crafted romances and beautiful friendships. Highly recommend it, I imagine I’ll be putting more of Shannon’s books on my list as the year goes on.
Not sure what I’m reading next, might pick a classic off my bookshelf in need of a reread. Might hit the library and pick something. On the highly unlikely chance anyone I know still checks their personal reading list, feel free to recommend something!
1/15
I’ve decided my New Years resolution is to read more novels, because I’ve fallen off on that a lot. When I was a kid I read like multiple books a week and even in uni I managed one a week, most of the time. SO let’s set a target for the year!
By the end of 2024, I will have read 15 books. Preferably new novels but may slip in an old fave or a nonfiction in there and choose to count it. I’ll try to remember to document them, at least briefly, here. I do not expect anyone to read this but I have to keep track somehow.
Anyway, first book of the year! The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. Everyone else read this book already but I’d kept putting it off!
I’m not going to do an in depth review, but I enjoyed this one! Took me a couple chapters to get into it, but that’s just because I was readjusting to diving into heavy fantasy worldbuilding again, with all the fancy names and maps. Been a while since I read fiction with a glossary at the end, but I’m glad to be back in the game. Good to read some quality high fantasy that knows it’s business. If you don’t have multiple maps that your readers will need to reference, are you even writing fantasy? I got really invested in all the characters, all the ships and even all the mythology! Some heartbreaking deaths having actual emotional impact, some well crafted romances and beautiful friendships. Highly recommend it, I imagine I’ll be putting more of Shannon’s books on my list as the year goes on.
Not sure what I’m reading next, might pick a classic off my bookshelf in need of a reread. Might hit the library and pick something. On the highly unlikely chance anyone I know still checks their personal reading list, feel free to recommend something!
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