1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Welcome back to Such Fun Read. 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:13,200 We're back for Bookmas Day 6 and let's make another reading goal for 2025. 3 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:20,200 I understand that I didn't complete pretty much any of the reading goals that I set last year, but 4 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:26,800 what is the fun in being realistic and not making goals that might make things even harder? 5 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,560 I already talked about the series that I wanted to read in 2025. 6 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,800 I now want to pick 10 books that I plan to read in 2025. 7 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,840 I thought about picking 25 books, but let's be real here. 8 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,200 Let me not make it the most difficult thing for myself. 9 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,560 Also, these are books that I own. 10 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,280 We'll get to the books that are released in 2025 at some point. 11 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,720 I haven't really looked that far ahead yet. 12 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,960 Number 1, Emma by Jane Austen. 13 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:56,800 I am doing it. 14 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,600 I will read Emma in 2025. 15 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:00,400 It is happening. 16 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:05,640 Hopefully, it isn't the only Jane Austen book I read in 2025, but this one is a must. 17 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,920 Here is the summary. 18 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:14,600 Emma is the story of Emma Woodhouse, a young girl from a good home that does not need the 19 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:19,000 financial support of a husband and is determined not to marry. 20 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,360 Emma however is not opposed to the idea of marriage for others and is determined to play 21 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:27,040 matchmaker between several of the local citizens. 22 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:31,840 In spite of Emma's resolve not to marry, she finds herself attracted to several men throughout 23 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,840 the book and considers the prospect of marriage. 24 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:40,680 I think this might be the first time I've ever looked up the book summary for Emma. 25 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:44,880 I just feel like I've always known what it was about because I loved Coolest growing 26 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:45,880 up. 27 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,360 But yeah, I think this is the first time I've ever looked at the book summary for Emma. 28 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:50,360 Interesting. 29 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,880 Number two Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. 30 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:58,520 After doing the I'll get around to it later book tag, I noticed how I have the entire 31 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,680 Wolf Hall trilogy on my shelves. 32 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,360 Is it even called the Wolf Hall trilogy? 33 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,440 Is it the Cromwell trilogy? 34 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:06,640 I don't know. 35 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:11,520 But I do know I've stopped myself from watching the TV show because I wanted to read this 36 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,400 before doing that. 37 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,520 I've had the book for a while now, and it's time. 38 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,520 Here's the summary. 39 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:24,280 England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. 40 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,600 If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. 41 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:33,080 Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of 20 years and marry Anne Boleyn. 42 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,600 The Pope in most of Europe opposes him. 43 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:41,680 And to this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell, a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, 44 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,520 both idealist and opportunist. 45 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,200 Astute in reading people and implacable in his ambition. 46 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:49,880 But Henry is volatile. 47 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,400 One day tender, one day murderous. 48 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:59,740 Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph? 49 00:02:59,740 --> 00:03:01,920 Number three Babel by R.F. 50 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:02,920 Kwong. 51 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:08,400 It is possible that I will read this before 2025, but if I don't, this is a must. 52 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:09,400 Just like the others. 53 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,800 I probably should not say must for all of them. 54 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,540 I think having them on this list already states that. 55 00:03:15,540 --> 00:03:16,880 I really do like R.F. 56 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:17,880 Kwong though. 57 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:22,620 I enjoyed both the Poppy War, I really need to finish that series, and I enjoyed Yellow 58 00:03:22,620 --> 00:03:23,620 Face. 59 00:03:23,620 --> 00:03:26,160 That book was one of my favorite books I read last year. 60 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,280 So what's this one about? 61 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,960 1828. 62 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:37,320 Robin Swift, orphaned by Calera and Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor 63 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:38,320 Lavelle. 64 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:42,680 There he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for 65 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:47,920 the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, 66 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:49,640 also known as Babel. 67 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:54,080 Babel is the world center for translation and more importantly, magic. 68 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:59,360 Silverworking the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver 69 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:04,520 bars has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire's 70 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,600 quest for colonization. 71 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:11,620 For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to pursuit of knowledge, but knowledge obeys 72 00:04:11,620 --> 00:04:17,440 power and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying 73 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:18,720 his motherland. 74 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:23,240 As the studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes 75 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:27,840 Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. 76 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:33,160 When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide. 77 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:37,960 Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require 78 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:42,000 violence? 79 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,320 Now is a society called Hermes like the luxury brand or is it Hermes? 80 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:51,240 Did I say Hermes? 81 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:52,640 I think I said Hermes. 82 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:53,720 Let's move on. 83 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:58,000 Number four, Blackbird Oracle by Deborah Harkness. 84 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,080 Another one I could pick up before the end of the year, but if I don't, it's here. 85 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:03,080 It's on this list. 86 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,800 I am excited to get back into this world and see what's been going on with Matthew and 87 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:07,800 Diana. 88 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:12,640 I may end up finishing my reread of the first one and then go through the entire series 89 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,720 before jumping into this new one, but I haven't decided that yet. 90 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,960 Honestly, I don't even remember what this book is about. 91 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:21,720 I don't even think I ever looked it up. 92 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:27,440 I just saw a new book in the also series was coming out and I had to preorder it. 93 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:31,640 Let's see what it's about. 94 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:36,420 Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch 95 00:05:36,420 --> 00:05:40,920 and vampire geneticist, Matthew de Clermont, in A Discovery of Witches. 96 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:45,360 Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found 97 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:49,920 themselves at the center of a battle for a lost enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 98 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:50,920 782. 99 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,400 Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the covenant 100 00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:00,560 between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana's family line. 101 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,600 Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the congregation. 102 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,840 They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. 103 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:12,400 Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents 104 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:17,080 to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family's future and 105 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,880 answers a message from a great aunt she never knew existed. 106 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,040 Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads, 107 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,480 It's time you came home, Diana. 108 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:31,200 On the hollow ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, 109 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,360 a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana. 110 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:39,820 A confrontation with her family's dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even 111 00:06:39,820 --> 00:06:48,000 greater power is she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it. 112 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Number 5. 113 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,320 Empire Silence by Christopher Arruccio 114 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:52,860 This went viral. 115 00:06:52,860 --> 00:06:57,380 This book got really popular earlier this year or was it last year? 116 00:06:57,380 --> 00:06:58,880 It just got popular. 117 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:04,360 I remember seeing they needed to rush more to print because it kept being out of stock. 118 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:09,160 Is the science fiction series, I believe it is a six book series? 119 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:10,480 I guess I'll find out. 120 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,560 Here is the summary. 121 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:19,320 Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale 122 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:24,240 in the galactic-spanning debut of the Sun Eaters series, merging the best of space opera 123 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:25,720 and epic fantasy. 124 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:27,000 It was not his war. 125 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,760 The galaxy remembers him as a hero, the man who burned every last alien seal sin from 126 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:32,760 the sky. 127 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:37,400 They remember him as a monster, the devil who destroyed the sun, casually annihilating 128 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:42,400 four billion human lives, even the emperor himself, against imperial orders. 129 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,080 But Hadrian was not a hero. 130 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:45,280 He was not a monster. 131 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:46,960 He was not even a soldier. 132 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:51,560 On the wrong planet at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe starts down 133 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,860 a path that can only end in fire. 134 00:07:53,860 --> 00:07:59,080 He flees his father in the future as a torturer, only to be left stranded on a strange backwater 135 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:00,080 world. 136 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,440 Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, 137 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:06,700 Hadrian must fight a war he did not start. 138 00:08:06,700 --> 00:08:14,760 For an empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand. 139 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,160 Number 6, Svartekrigen by M.L. 140 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:18,160 Wang. 141 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,080 I have heard great things about this author. 142 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:25,760 I think this one is a standalone fantasy and I don't normally read those, so this will 143 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:26,760 be interesting. 144 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,880 I thought I guess Babel would be considered a standalone fantasy too. 145 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:30,880 I think. 146 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:35,640 Anyway, here's the summary. 147 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:40,080 On a mountainside at the edge of the Kaganese Empire lived the most powerful warriors in 148 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:45,240 the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. 149 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,920 For hundreds of years, the fires of the Kusunagi Peninsula have held the empire's enemies 150 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:54,280 at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name the Svartekrigen. 151 00:08:54,280 --> 00:09:00,560 Born into Kusagini's legendary Matsuda family, 14-year-old Momora has always known his purpose, 152 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:03,760 to master his family's fighting techniques and defend his homeland. 153 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:08,840 But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain of Kagan's alleged Age of Peace, 154 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,400 Momora realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to 155 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:14,400 be. 156 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:18,880 Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies. 157 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:23,080 Masaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into 158 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:24,680 the Matsuda house. 159 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:29,440 Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything 160 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:31,920 from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. 161 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:36,160 But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an 162 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:41,840 impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, 163 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,280 Masaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface. 164 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:49,600 When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength 165 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:54,320 to defend their empire, or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even 166 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:59,200 reach their shores? 167 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:00,200 Number 7. 168 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,080 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Nefinegger 169 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:04,080 I saw the movie. 170 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,240 I didn't watch the TV show that came out a few years ago, though. 171 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,760 I've heard the book is so much better than the movie. 172 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:11,560 I mean, I'm not surprised. 173 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:13,180 That is usually the case. 174 00:10:13,180 --> 00:10:18,280 This book has sat on my shelf for a while now, and it is about time that I read it. 175 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:22,600 Here is a summary. 176 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:27,280 Henry de Tambeau is a dashing, adventurous librarian who is at the mercy of his random 177 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,280 time-traveling abilities. 178 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:34,080 Claire Abshire is an artist whose life moves through a natural sequential course. 179 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,640 This is a celebrated and timeless tale of their love. 180 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:41,680 Henry and Claire's passion affair is built and endures across a sea of time and captures 181 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:47,200 them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate embasked in the bonds 182 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,680 of love. 183 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:52,680 Number 8. 184 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:53,680 The Love Songs of W.E.B. 185 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:57,160 Du Bois by Honoree Fanon Jeffers 186 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,360 A number of books I have on this list are pretty big books. 187 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:01,760 This one is no exception. 188 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:06,220 I think I want to put bigger books on here so that I will make an effort to read them. 189 00:11:06,220 --> 00:11:08,160 I'm excited for this one, too. 190 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:10,600 Kind of forgot I had it on my shelf, to be honest. 191 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,960 Let's look at the summary. 192 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:19,280 An intimate yet sweeping novel that chronicles the journey of one American family from the 193 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:24,400 centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era. 194 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:25,960 The great scholar W.E.B. 195 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:31,680 Du Bois once wrote about the problem of race in America in what he called double consciousness, 196 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:35,880 a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. 197 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:40,840 Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois' words all too well. 198 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:46,560 Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans, the revere choreographer Alvin Ailey and her 199 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:51,480 great-grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers, Ailey 200 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,840 carries Du Bois' problem on her shoulders. 201 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:58,080 Ailey is rooted in the north in the city but spends summers in the small Georgia town of 202 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:02,480 Chickaseta where her mother's family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa 203 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:03,480 in bondage. 204 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,600 From an early age, Ailey fights about for belonging that's made all the more difficult 205 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:13,160 by a hovering trauma as well as the whispers of women, her mother Belle, her sister Lydia, 206 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,080 and a maternal line reaching back two centuries. 207 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,840 That urged Ailey to succeed in her stead. 208 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:23,280 To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's 209 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:28,920 past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors, indigenous, Black and white, 210 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:30,040 and the Deep South. 211 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:34,600 In doing so, Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and 212 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:39,920 resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story and the song 213 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:45,940 of America itself. 214 00:12:45,940 --> 00:12:49,980 Number 9 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clark 215 00:12:49,980 --> 00:12:54,400 Another one that I didn't watch the TV show for because I wanted to read the book. 216 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,120 I think this one is right up my alley. 217 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:00,040 I may be in the mood for this one right now, but also I have other books I want to read 218 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,480 so this one is going to have to wait. 219 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,920 But I might pick this one up early at the beginning of the year. 220 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:06,920 We'll see. 221 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:10,760 Here is the summary. 222 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:16,260 In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believed magic to have long since 223 00:13:16,260 --> 00:13:21,480 disappeared from England until the reclusive Mr. Norell refills his powers and becomes 224 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:23,180 an overnight celebrity. 225 00:13:23,180 --> 00:13:27,600 After practicing magician then emerges the young and daring Jonathan Strange. 226 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:32,760 He becomes Norell's pupil and the two joint forces in the war against France. 227 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:37,840 But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wild, most perilous forms of magic and he soon risked 228 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:46,040 sacrificing his partnership with Norell and everything else he holds dear. 229 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,160 And the last book I have on this list at number 10. 230 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,160 The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson 231 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:59,680 I know I need to complete the Mistborn trilogy, but I'm seeing all of these people so excited 232 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:01,840 for the new book in this series to come out. 233 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:05,320 It makes me want to read this one too and catch up. 234 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,680 Here is the summary. 235 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:12,280 Roshir is a world of stone and storms. 236 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:17,020 Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that 237 00:14:17,020 --> 00:14:20,400 they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. 238 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:26,120 Hills hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into a soilless ground. 239 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,040 Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter. 240 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:33,760 It has been centuries since the fall of the Ten Consecrated Orders known as the Knights 241 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,920 Radiant, but their shard blades and shard plate remain. 242 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:43,440 Mystical swords ensues to farm them that transform ordinary men into near-invisible warriors. 243 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:48,600 Men trade kingdoms for shard blades, wars were fought for them and won by them. 244 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,840 One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. 245 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:58,600 There Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, 246 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:00,520 has been reduced to slavery. 247 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:05,200 In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he 248 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:09,680 struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable. 249 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:13,620 Bright Lord Daelnor Carlin commands one of those other armies. 250 00:15:13,620 --> 00:15:18,320 Like his brother, the late King, he is fascinated by an ancient text called the Way of Kings. 251 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:24,080 Traveled by overpowering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun 252 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,000 to dial his own sanity. 253 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:31,140 Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shalan seeks a train under an eminent scholar 254 00:15:31,140 --> 00:15:34,760 and a notorious heretic, Daelnor's niece, Jasna. 255 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:38,360 Though she genuinely loves learning, Shalan's motives are less than pure. 256 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:42,760 As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasna hints at secrets of the Knights 257 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,320 Radiant and the true cause of the war. 258 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:51,880 So those are the 10 books I want to read in 2025. 259 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,680 I'm sure there are many other books I want to read. 260 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:59,400 I know there are some that I want to reread, especially since some series have a book coming 261 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:03,120 out in 2025 and that makes me want to remember what happened. 262 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:09,000 I'm curious if you have a book or two or more on your shelves that you have to read in 2025. 263 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Let me know. 264 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,480 But thank you so much for listening. 265 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:15,800 Don't forget to subscribe so that you don't miss new episodes and we'll speak soon.