Hey all, Sam here.
All right, well December ended up being a halfway decent month for reading…even though I didn’t read at all for like three weeks. I’m truly hopeful that I’m leaving this terrible reading slump period behind in 2024 where it belongs. Although, I will say that in 2024 the first couple months of the year ended up being rather wonderful months for reading, so with any luck 2025 can repeat that.
I also know that I’m trying to work on being more consistent with my creative writing in 2025, so I’ll have to balance my reading and writing with all the general life stuff. We’ll see how that works out as we get deeper into the year.
Anyway, I completed five books in December, which took my total of books read in 2024 up to 120 books, which isn’t my highest year total, but it certainly wasn’t my worst year of reading either. I guess I’ll take it. December was a great month for book ratings though, because I really loved everything I read (I guess that would have to be true since I read all of this in basically the last week of the year).
The Legend of Vox Machina: The Whitestone Chronicles Volume 1 – Ripley by Critical Role, Marieke Nijkamp and Tyler Walpole — 5 stars
The Heartbreak Show by Jesikah Sundin — 5 stars
The Study of Fire by Maria V. Snyder — 5 stars
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong — 5 stars
Dear Writer, You Need to Quit by Becca Syme — 5 stars
There you have it…a graphic novel, a short writing craft book, and three novels. Compared to some of my reading months, that is pretty lackluster, but I truly enjoyed all of these books, so I’m allowing myself a little grace and saying that I wrapped up my 2024 nicely.
I will try to work on getting reviews written for a number of the books I read in 2024, especially since some of them were NetGalley reads and I definitely want to get reviews written so I can improve my declining percentage. NetGalley likes to say that you have better luck with getting approved for books if your review percentage is 80% or above, and I think I’m at like 63% or something like that.
Oh, and I’ve actually already completed one read for 2025 and have started a second book already, so hopefully I’ll have even more reviews coming to the blog soon.
Okay then, that is all from me for today. Thank you so much for stopping by and I’ll be back soon with more geeky content.
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