A new year has begun and the yearly book counters has been set to zero.

How did last year’s reading go?

I did squeeze in a Nancy Drew the last hour of the year to reach my goal of reading 80 books.

I tried out a new book app (Fable) the last part of 2024 and they summarized my reading like this:

My most read author was by far Eric Ugland with 15 books. The series The Good Guys and The Bad Guys have been warming my ears since July and I still have 11 to go before I am all up to date, and then one book in the series The Grim Guys.

My average rating 3.4 is slightly lower than 2023’s 3.8, but higher than 2022’s 3.2.

I have a spread where I in the beginning of each year attempt to set a goal to read my thickest books. Last year I managed to read two of those books, Fourth Wing (5 stars) and The Spanish Love Deception (4 stars)

Reading plans for 2025

I have set my Goodread’s (and Fable) goal to 50 books. The reason behind my lowered goal is to make room for those thicker books and also to actually read more in German. Both of these goals are quite familiar, they have been set before, but let us give it a go again.

The thicker books have now an updated spread with the following books:

Let us see if I can tick off at least two of these books.

The German reading goal is a little trickier. I do have the second Harry Potter book in German (unread) at home and have read the first previously. I am pondering rereading the first one before starting the second or if I should go directly to the second. I have been looking for other books to read in German and I find this quite tricky. Ideally I want a book where I know the story well so that I recognise it and have an easier time following the story.

My audiobook service are offering some books in German (both audio and ebook) but many, where I know the story, are abridged and I want the full length ones. I do not think that the Swedish book sellers have a big selection of books in German either. I will have to keep digging for a bit to find a suitable book.

A few days ago, I stumbled upon someone online making a book blanket. The wheels in my head started turning and I am playing with the thought of making one of my own as well. The most common version seems to be using granny squares. I finished my granny square blanket not too long ago and am therefore thinking about doing something different. And since I am planning on reading less this years, I might not get as many squares anyhow. The current idea: a Tetris blanket!

I am still playing around with the details but I am leaning towards doing a Tetris blanket where each block represents one book published during a certain time span. This will hopefully also encourage me to pick up books from different time periods. Each block will probably consist of four squares so the blanket will hopefully not grow too slow.

I am still playing around with the colour scheme and have yet to settle on one.

I think that is it, my book thoughts at the moment. I will also leave my good old Bookshelf tracker here. It shows the current book status of the books that was unread in my book collection at the start of 2020 and the ones added since. I noticed last year when I tried to keep track of my unread pages on a monthly basis with this app that it was not accurate but I think it is fun to get a rough idea on the status anyway.

Do you have any book related goals this year?