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NEW THREAD ALERT - TSR Reading Resolutions 2025📚

The New Year is fast approaching and I want everyone to make their reading resolutions for 2025 and try to commit to it:

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1.

How many books do you want to read in 2025?

2.

What has been your favourite book series/standalone of 2024?

3.

Would you be interested in the 2025 Book Club

I'll go first:

1.

Challenging myself to 100 books...hopefully I'll follow through 🤞

2.

I'm a series girly...so Blood and Ash Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Happy Reading💜💙💜


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by halfharry
NEW THREAD ALERT - TSR Reading Resolutions 2025📚

The New Year is fast approaching and I want everyone to make their reading resolutions for 2025 and try to commit to it:
Comment down below

1.

How many books do you want to read in 2025?

2.

What has been your favourite book series/standalone of 2024?

3.

Would you be interested in the 2025 Book Club

I'll go first:

1.

Challenging myself to 100 books...hopefully I'll follow through 🤞

2.

I'm a series girly...so Blood and Ash Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Happy Reading💜💙💜

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ooh this is exciting! :awesome:

1.

I'm going to start off with a very small goal of 10 given I only read 1 book fully this year :erm:

2.

I only read 1 book this year and it wasn't that good + it was for school sooo....hopefully next year will be better!

3.

Yess hopefully it encourages me to read more!!

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by scar-the-queen
ooh this is exciting! :awesome:

1.

I'm going to start off with a very small goal of 10 given I only read 1 book fully this year :erm:

2.

I only read 1 book this year and it wasn't that good + it was for school sooo....hopefully next year will be better!

3.

Yess hopefully it encourages me to read more!!


Oooh what book was it?
Also I've always said school makes us read the most rubbish books

Reply 3

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by halfharry
NEW THREAD ALERT - TSR Reading Resolutions 2025📚

The New Year is fast approaching and I want everyone to make their reading resolutions for 2025 and try to commit to it:
Comment down below

1.

How many books do you want to read in 2025?

2.

What has been your favourite book series/standalone of 2024?

3.

Would you be interested in the 2025 Book Club

I'll go first:

1.

Challenging myself to 100 books...hopefully I'll follow through 🤞

2.

I'm a series girly...so Blood and Ash Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Happy Reading💜💙💜

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I found that my sweetspot for reading in a year is 25 books as I like to reading big tomes but i'm not able to sit down long enough to read a lot of them. going to challenge myself to 27 books once again because it fills out my notebook tracker really nicely and i'm like that

i mainly re-read series this year. it feels like cheating to say A Song of Ice and Fire because i love those books to death anyways - it feels predetermined considering i was nearly called arya or brienne. i did read the Shattered Sea trilogy by Joe Abercrombie which was pretty decent YA. it was both refreshing and weird to see Abercrombie write outside of The First Law (my favourite books of all time) world with all it's grimdark and misery.

however, i did quite a bit of standalone reading. highlights: Min Jin Lee's Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko (probably moreso Pachinko), Karen Joy Fowler's Booth. if I included re-reads, my favourite book of the year was probably Red Country by Joe Abercrombie because he's my favourite author and a fantasy western grimdark-tinged romp is fun.

not sure on book clubs due to bad experiences in the past but i'm interested

(sorry for the rambling)

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by halfharry
Oooh what book was it?
Also I've always said school makes us read the most rubbish books

An Introduction to Economic Inequality by Eamonn Butler. The book wasn't awful but it has some interesting takes that I don't fully agree with.

Reply 5

Hi! I am so pleased to see this thread, can't wait for the rejuvenation of the Book Club :smile:))
As for the questions,

1.

I would like to read at least 80 books in 2025 - so far this year I have read roughly 70, and I am definitely to read many more this winter break due to having finished mocks and school

2.

I have so many good books that I have read this year! Some of my favourites include Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan, Red Rising by Pierce Brown, Babel by RF Kuang and Frankly In Love by David Yoon

3.

I would definitely be interested in the 2025 Book Club

Reply 6

Original post
by halfharry
NEW THREAD ALERT - TSR Reading Resolutions 2025📚

The New Year is fast approaching and I want everyone to make their reading resolutions for 2025 and try to commit to it:
Comment down below

1.

How many books do you want to read in 2025?

2.

What has been your favourite book series/standalone of 2024?

3.

Would you be interested in the 2025 Book Club

I'll go first:

1.

Challenging myself to 100 books...hopefully I'll follow through 🤞

2.

I'm a series girly...so Blood and Ash Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Happy Reading💜💙💜

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1. Alot :smile: but I will stick with 50
2. One of my favourite series would be (it's so hard and I can't remember when I read which book) magpie society
3. Ofc hazza ;>
1. How many books do you want to read in 2025?

I challenged myself to read 30 books this year but my dissertation and third year of uni obvs got prioritised :biggrin:. Currently sitting at 26/30. I'm hoping I can finish it before NYE :colondollar:

Next year I'm hoping I'll be able to increase to 35.

2. What has been your favourite book series/standalone of 2024?

*goes to check goodreads*

Favourite standalone probably the Secret Garden, favourite series Anne of Green Gables - just finished book 3 and it's such a cozy series :love: Hoping I will be able to read more series next year although I seem to be reading more classic stuff recently.

3. Would you be interested in the 2025 Book Club?


Yes please :grouphugs:

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1.

ill aim for 10 books this year

2.

ive started the inheritance games book series - its good so far, my fav standalone is prolly 'as long as the lemon trees grow' - you know its a good book when it makes u cry 😭

3.

definetly

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by scar-the-queen
ooh this is exciting! :awesome:

1.

I'm going to start off with a very small goal of 10 given I only read 1 book fully this year :erm:

2.

I only read 1 book this year and it wasn't that good + it was for school sooo....hopefully next year will be better!

3.

Yess hopefully it encourages me to read more!!


10 books is a very good start🥳🥳🥳
Will be following on your journey!!
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by imxa6
Hi! I am so pleased to see this thread, can't wait for the rejuvenation of the Book Club :smile:))
As for the questions,

1.

I would like to read at least 80 books in 2025 - so far this year I have read roughly 70, and I am definitely to read many more this winter break due to having finished mocks and school

2.

I have so many good books that I have read this year! Some of my favourites include Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan, Red Rising by Pierce Brown, Babel by RF Kuang and Frankly In Love by David Yoon

3.

I would definitely be interested in the 2025 Book Club


EIGHTY BOOKS🥳🥳
Adding your suggestions to my wishlist 📝
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by Trickia
1. Alot :smile: but I will stick with 50
2. One of my favourite series would be (it's so hard and I can't remember when I read which book) magpie society
3. Ofc hazza ;>

50 is very good!
I forget some of the books I read then suddenly wake up in the middle of the night remembering books I read when Iw as in year 5...so strange :facepalm:
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by Chronoscope
1. How many books do you want to read in 2025?
I challenged myself to read 30 books this year but my dissertation and third year of uni obvs got prioritised :biggrin:. Currently sitting at 26/30. I'm hoping I can finish it before NYE :colondollar:
Next year I'm hoping I'll be able to increase to 45. Maybe I'll even reach 52 now I've finished uni.
2. What has been your favourite book series/standalone of 2024?
*goes to check goodreads*
Favourite standalone probably the Secret Garden, favourite series Anne of Green Gables - just finished book 3 and it's such a cozy series :love: Hoping I will be able to read more series next year although I seem to be reading more classic stuff recently.
3. Would you be interested in the 2025 Book Club?
Yes please :grouphugs:

Completely understand prioritising uni...what was your dissertation on?

WAIT..Anne of Green gables is a series?!!?!? Year 5 me is crying right now..I thought it was a standalon😭😭
I like classics for children..like you'll never catch me reading Jane eyre or the odyssey but I love Heidi, Watership down, the lion the witch and the wardrobe!!
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by User_09

1.

ill aim for 10 books this year

2.

ive started the inheritance games book series - its good so far, my fav standalone is prolly 'as long as the lemon trees grow' - you know its a good book when it makes u cry 😭

3.

definetly


I LOVE the inheritance games...currently reading book 5
As long as the lemon trees grow..adding to wishlist 📝

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by User_09

1.

ill aim for 10 books this year

2.

ive started the inheritance games book series - its good so far, my fav standalone is prolly 'as long as the lemon trees grow' - you know its a good book when it makes u cry 😭

3.

definetly


As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow was such a sad book, it's so sweet and beautiful though... would recommend!

Reply 15

1.With GCSEs that year, I won't be able to read as much as I've wished to, but I hope to read at least 5-10 during the summer holidays :smile:

2.I'm a mythology/fantasy enthusiast, so some favourite series of mine would be the secret of the sirens, nevermoore, percy jackson, heroes of olympus and the trials of apollo!

3.Definitely!

Reply 16

1.

I'm going to try for about 50 but I'm not sure if it'll happen because of a-levels!

2.

My favourite series of this year has definitely been China Mieville's Bas-Lag Trilogy- each entry was excellent in its own way

3.

Absolutely!

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by halfharry
50 is very good!
I forget some of the books I read then suddenly wake up in the middle of the night remembering books I read when Iw as in year 5...so strange :facepalm:

Real sometimes I end up mixing plots of books that are in the same series 😭
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by halfharry
Completely understand prioritising uni...what was your dissertation on?

WAIT..Anne of Green gables is a series?!!?!? Year 5 me is crying right now..I thought it was a standalon😭😭
I like classics for children..like you'll never catch me reading Jane eyre or the odyssey but I love Heidi, Watership down, the lion the witch and the wardrobe!!

My diss was about analysing local honey samples using different techniques (mainly High Performance Liquid Chromatography) :thumbsup: most people in my year did literature reviews, but I decided I needed more lab experience since most of my first and second year lab practicals didn't happen because of covid :sad:

There's about 7 or 8 books in Anne of GG's I think. After reading quite fast paced fantasy books definitely a lovely series to read :love: My Mum's reading them now as well :biggrin:

Jane Eyres on my list! Classics wise I loved War of the Worlds, the Lion, Witch & the wardrobe, the Old Man and the Sea, found Animal Farm quite interesting (as never studied it for GCSE). Currently reading the Time Machine by HG Wells :awesome:

Still struggling but want to read 1984 as it sounds right up my ally, but I'm struggling with some of the language in it even though I'm reading it on my kindle, and which im so thankful has a dictionary in it :facepalm: :hide:

Reply 19

i have loads of books stacked around the house ready & waiting .... currently i am leaning towards police/spy thrillers. i have just started reading Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel. it is very enjoyable.

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