1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,720 Welcome back to Such Fun Read. 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:08,880 I had wondered the other day if I had set any reading goals for 2024, pretty much because 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:14,280 I don't always set reading goals for the year outside of choosing my Goodreads reading challenge 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:15,280 goal. 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,000 So I really wasn't sure. 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,040 And it turns out I did. 7 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:27,080 Made a video and everything is up on YouTube. 8 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:32,320 So I wanted to go back and revisit these goals, see how successful I was, see how much of 9 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:36,320 a good idea it was for me to even make goals. 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:38,400 And it looks like I only made six. 11 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:45,880 So I want to go ahead and react to these goals and see one, if I completed that goal, and 12 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:51,360 two, if I didn't, will I carry this goal over to 2025? 13 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:56,960 I mean, that is if I should even make a list of goals for 2025. 14 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:02,440 Spoiler alert, I should probably stop making goals. 15 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:07,680 So first off, I want to catch up on some series I started last year in 2023. 16 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:12,000 We have Fox Love, which is a sequel to Bella Donna by Adeline Grace. 17 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,680 I read the first book last year and I really enjoyed it. 18 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:18,380 So I definitely want to continue on and it is a book that I purchased. 19 00:01:18,380 --> 00:01:21,040 So I definitely want to read the books that I own. 20 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:25,520 And this one like the others I'm going to mention, I want to know what happens next. 21 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:30,800 Also there's As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson, which is the third book in the A Good Girl's 22 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:32,680 Guide to Murder trilogy. 23 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,880 Also A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas. 24 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:41,480 This is a part of the ACOTAR series and I believe it's the last book that was released, 25 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,240 the most current book that was released in this series. 26 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:50,120 I'm very, I am rather hit or miss on this series, but I do want to know what's going 27 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:51,120 on. 28 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,960 I do want to know what's happening and I do want to know if I'll ever change my mind 29 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:56,720 and actually like re-sand. 30 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,120 I can't do it! 31 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:01,440 I can't! 32 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:05,640 And the last one I want to mention here is the Mistborn trilogy. 33 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,960 Completing this is definitely a goal for 2024. 34 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:13,560 Reading the Well of Ascension, reading the Hero of Ages, continuing on in this world 35 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:14,720 is a priority. 36 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,880 So it looks like goal number one was catch up on some series. 37 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,120 Well, let's, and I did mention some books that I wanted to read. 38 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,160 Let's see if I read them. 39 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:29,120 So the first book I mentioned was Fox Club, the sequel to Bella Donna by Adeline Grace. 40 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:30,320 I did not read this. 41 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:34,560 I did however purchase the third book in the trilogy with Stereo. 42 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,980 So at least I own the complete trilogy, I guess. 43 00:02:37,980 --> 00:02:43,500 The next book I mentioned was As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson, the final book in the A Good 44 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:45,480 Girl's Guide to Murder trilogy. 45 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,240 And same as the last one, I have not read this yet. 46 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,240 It's been on my list to read all year. 47 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:52,400 This one definitely. 48 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,520 So I have looked at the book. 49 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,000 I have thought about picking it up. 50 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,520 But for some reason, I haven't read it. 51 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:04,720 The next one I mentioned was A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas, the latest released 52 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,120 in the Akatar series. 53 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,720 And again, no, I have not read this. 54 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:15,800 I don't know what was going on with me in 2024. 55 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:23,000 Maybe I just forgot I even made this short list because this is pretty hilarious. 56 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,520 This is pretty hilarious. 57 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,440 And the last one, I am completely annoyed with myself. 58 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,600 I'm very annoyed with myself. 59 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,360 Completely the Mistborn trilogy, The Well of Ascension and The Hero of Ages. 60 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,280 I could have done that this year and I didn't. 61 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:37,800 I don't know why. 62 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,140 I honestly do not know why. 63 00:03:40,140 --> 00:03:45,920 I honestly do not know why I did not pick up any of these books. 64 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:46,920 I don't know. 65 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,720 I love the first book. 66 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:50,160 Loved it so much. 67 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:56,680 Let's just move on to the second goal before I get more angry at myself. 68 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:02,880 My next reading goal is to reread the All Souls series by Deborah Harkness. 69 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:08,980 So I own quite a few copies of the series. 70 00:04:08,980 --> 00:04:14,000 I'm kind of obsessed with this series. 71 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,360 If you want to know what my two favorite series are, on one side of the coin you have The 72 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:24,120 Red Rising Saga by Pierce Brown and on the other side of the coin you have The All Souls 73 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,280 series by Deborah Harkness. 74 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:27,360 I don't know. 75 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:31,760 They are definitely total opposites, but I love them dearly. 76 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:33,600 I love them both dearly. 77 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,000 So goal number two was reread the All Souls series by Deborah Harkness. 78 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,960 A new book in that series came out this year as well. 79 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,280 I own that and I haven't read it yet. 80 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:48,440 Now did I reread the entire All Souls series? 81 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:49,440 No I did not. 82 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:53,160 Did I start a Discover Witches, the first book in the series? 83 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:54,160 Yes. 84 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:55,160 Yes I did. 85 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:59,300 I even did some chapter read alongs on my YouTube channel and I'm currently completing 86 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:01,720 those read alongs on my SubSac newsletter. 87 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,640 There'll be a link in the description box down below if you want to follow along. 88 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:13,720 So the answer to this is no, but I started. 89 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:18,840 I probably will go ahead and do a reread of them next year. 90 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:24,680 Maybe I can't promise, but I definitely want to finish reading the first book and then 91 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:29,360 hurry up and read the most recent release so that I can know what's happening to some 92 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,960 of my favorite characters. 93 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:39,800 The next one is another possible series I end up re-reading and that is the Shadowhunters 94 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,100 series by Cassandra Clare. 95 00:05:42,100 --> 00:05:46,700 Now I've read the Moral Instruments, I've read the Afernal Devices, I have not read 96 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:50,760 the Dark Artifices and I believe it's called The Last Hours. 97 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:56,800 So I'm either going to reread all the ones I read and then start with the ones I haven't 98 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,680 read or just start where I left off. 99 00:05:58,680 --> 00:05:59,880 I'm not sure. 100 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:04,880 But this series is a lot of fun and I have a lot of fun reading them. 101 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,760 Oh, there is the Malak trilogy, right? 102 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,320 I own the first book of it. 103 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,280 I guess that's part of it I need to read as well. 104 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:15,280 Hmm. 105 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:19,880 And I think there are some short stories I'm going to have to get as well. 106 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,240 There's a lot of reading. 107 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:25,320 There's a lot of reading to be done here, but I am going to at least get started back 108 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,480 into this series this year. 109 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:31,920 Rule number three, reread the Shadowhunters series by Cassandra Clare. 110 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:37,280 I honestly do not remember making this goal at all. 111 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:39,400 I really, I really don't remember. 112 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:40,680 I really do not. 113 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:41,680 But you know what? 114 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:42,760 I want to do it. 115 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:44,320 I did not do it by the way. 116 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,720 No, I did not complete this goal, but I want to. 117 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:48,800 That sounds fun. 118 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:50,600 That really does sound fun. 119 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,240 And I may end up doing like episodes per book or whatnot. 120 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:55,720 That actually sounds fun. 121 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,440 I will definitely put a pen in that. 122 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:03,800 The next goal I have is very, very long overdue. 123 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,800 And that is to read Jane Austen. 124 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:11,240 Now I've read Pride and Prejudice, but I have not read any of the others. 125 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,720 And I'm actually not happy with myself about that because I consider myself to be an Emma 126 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:16,720 girl. 127 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:17,720 I love Clueless. 128 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:19,800 I love Clueless. 129 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,640 And the Emma adaptation that came out a few years ago. 130 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:24,180 I love that. 131 00:07:24,180 --> 00:07:25,180 I bought it. 132 00:07:25,180 --> 00:07:26,180 I'm obsessed with it. 133 00:07:26,180 --> 00:07:28,960 I watch it a lot actually. 134 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:35,800 But I haven't read the book and I feel like if I'm going to be an Emma girl, I have to 135 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:37,480 actually read the book. 136 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,720 But that is a plan this year to read Jane Austen. 137 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:47,480 I'm going to read Emma, reread Pride and Prejudice, then you have Mansfield Park, Persuasion, 138 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,400 Sense and Stability, and Northanger Abbey. 139 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,520 Reading these books this year definitely needs to happen. 140 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:57,560 Well, well, well, goal number four, read Jane Austen. 141 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,080 I'm so mad at myself. 142 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:00,880 No, no, I did not. 143 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,120 My goodness, what is wrong with me? 144 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,560 Why do I make these goals and then not follow up on them? 145 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:08,560 I don't know. 146 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:10,120 I had looked at Jane Austen. 147 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:11,120 What? 148 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,680 I had looked at my copies of the Jane Austen books this year and thought, hmm, maybe I 149 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:17,040 should read that. 150 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,000 And then I didn't read it. 151 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,560 So this is just making me sad, honestly. 152 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:27,720 Me looking back on these goals is honestly just making me sad. 153 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:28,840 But that's okay. 154 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:29,840 That's okay. 155 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:31,280 That's, that's quite all right. 156 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,400 I guess I'm gonna have to be all right with it because it's not like I can go back in 157 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:39,400 time and change things and make sure that I've read these books. 158 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,400 But yeah, let's just move on. 159 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,320 Let's just move on. 160 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:49,640 Another author I own quite a few books of that I have not read and that is N.K. 161 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:50,640 Jimmison. 162 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:52,320 I own the Inheritance trilogy. 163 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:53,840 I own the fifth season. 164 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:59,320 I own a couple other of her books that are in front of me so I don't have their names 165 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:00,320 right now. 166 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,360 But I've heard so many good things about N.K. 167 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:04,360 Jimmison. 168 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:09,880 I believe each of the books in the Broken Earth trilogy won like an award. 169 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:15,640 So yeah, she's definitely an author that I believe I need to read. 170 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,720 Goal number five, read N.K. 171 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:18,720 Jimmison. 172 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,400 So I believe I just heard myself say I've never read N.K. 173 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:23,400 Jimmison. 174 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:28,680 I think I lied because I'm pretty sure I had read the first book in the Inheritance trilogy 175 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:29,680 before. 176 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:35,120 I don't really remember it because it was a few years ago and I honestly don't remember 177 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:36,120 it. 178 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:37,120 But I'm pretty sure I did. 179 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:38,640 Now, did I read any N.K. 180 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,160 Jimmison in 2024? 181 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:42,420 That would be a no. 182 00:09:42,420 --> 00:09:44,200 That would be a no. 183 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:45,320 I did not. 184 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,840 I'm pretty sure I've read at least one of her books. 185 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,480 So that's that's a thing. 186 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,680 So that's a success. 187 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:55,200 Just not from 2024. 188 00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:01,640 I'm going to I'm going to count that as a success just because. 189 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:07,240 And the last author, obviously, no one should be surprised about no one at all because that 190 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:08,360 is Stephen King. 191 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:12,080 I still have yet to read Stephen King. 192 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:13,080 I know. 193 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:14,080 I know. 194 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,480 I've been talking about this for the last few months. 195 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:18,360 I understand that. 196 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:23,640 But 2024 is going to be the year that I read Stephen King. 197 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:25,120 It's happening. 198 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:26,840 It's happening. 199 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:27,840 It's happening. 200 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:28,840 So. 201 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:34,840 I mean, I've pretty much grown quite the collection of unread Stephen King books. 202 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:35,840 I have that collection. 203 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,160 Why don't I just go ahead and start reading them? 204 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:43,000 And that is something I plan to do in 2024. 205 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,240 Rule number six, read Stephen King. 206 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:49,800 Oh my goodness. 207 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:56,720 No, no, I have not read any of these Stephen King books yet. 208 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:57,720 And it is December. 209 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,640 It is December of 2024. 210 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,520 I made these goals, I believe, in January. 211 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:04,960 And no, no. 212 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:06,760 So that's a no. 213 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,560 Pretty much a no for all of these goals. 214 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:10,560 Huh? 215 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:12,280 Well, at least I made goals. 216 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:13,680 At least that's something I did. 217 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:18,640 At least I decided to sit down and make some goals for myself. 218 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:20,400 That's good, right? 219 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:24,520 Yeah, that's a good thing, right? 220 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:25,840 Now let's see. 221 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:30,680 Will I, will I carry over any of these goals into 2025? 222 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:34,240 Even though I probably shouldn't even make goals for 2025. 223 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:35,240 Let's see. 224 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,100 The reread of the Xiao Hunter series one. 225 00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:43,900 That one is at the top of the list because that one I really do kind of want to do because 226 00:11:43,900 --> 00:11:45,620 I do think that will be fun. 227 00:11:45,620 --> 00:11:50,600 The next thing on here I must do is continue on in the Mistborn trilogy. 228 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,200 Seriously, I need to stop that one. 229 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:54,200 I need to do that. 230 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,240 I need to continue on and complete that trilogy. 231 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,680 Seriously, no more messing around. 232 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:00,680 Let's do it. 233 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:02,520 Asuka is Dead by Holly Jackson. 234 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:07,520 I mean, yeah, I probably should because then I'll have that trilogy completed. 235 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,680 So that one, yes. 236 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:12,180 The others I don't know as of yet. 237 00:12:12,180 --> 00:12:15,840 I'm not ready to make any goals for 2025 yet. 238 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:22,160 So I kind of want to wait until closer to the end of the year or early next year before 239 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:26,720 those goals are made or even if I decide to make goals. 240 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,580 So yeah, that was fun. 241 00:12:29,580 --> 00:12:32,600 It really wasn't, but that was fun. 242 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,700 And I'm curious if you made any reading goals for 2024. 243 00:12:35,700 --> 00:12:40,420 Did you forget about them like myself or were you able to keep them? 244 00:12:40,420 --> 00:12:41,420 Let me know. 245 00:12:41,420 --> 00:12:43,080 But thank you so much for listening. 246 00:12:43,080 --> 00:13:06,920 Don't forget to subscribe so that you don't miss new episodes and we'll speak soon.