Checking my 2024 reading plans
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2024
- End of December 2023 I published my reading plans for 2024. 50 fantasy books.
Reading Plans for 2024 (50 books)
• Reading Plans for 2024...
More that 4 months into 2024 seemed like a good time to evaluate. How much of the planned books have I read? Do I need to adjust my plan? Following the business rule of Plan-Do-Check-Act I check where I'm at, and act accordingly.
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What I love about this video is instead of being harsh on yourself. You looked at the reality and you chose to keep moving forward in a positive manner and that I think more of us need to learn to do. Thank you for sharing.
🙏Plan-Do-Check-Act...
Always good to have a pause and check.
This is such a good way to make sure you're on track -- I might implement it myself. I'm also so happy you kept The Stormlight Archive in your reading plans, I was anxious you would remove them all throughout the video. I think you'll really enjoy them. Have a great day, Ed! :)
Thanks Fahdah, yes, Stormlight is definitely going down this year, or at least the first book.
I liked how you did this video!
Great video Ed! I always find these type of videos fun where readers revisit their goals and adjust. Also, I've always enjoyed your graphics you put together (ex. book timeline or How many days I spent with each book) but this video has one of my favorite you've put together. Great job!
Thank you Daniel. That means a lot!
Those are some good books for the rest of the year! You're very methodical about this. I'm too mercurial to plan out that way. Tried to hold myself to 10 particular series this year and I'm dragging my feet on finishing the last 4, just because I don't feel like it.
My method ends with this video. In real life things I am also 'mercurial' (perfect term). The day after making this video I already picked up a book that isn't on this revised list.
@@DutchGreyBeard Ha, embrace the chaos and the good reads that come with it!
I'm currently reading the beginning of Tad Williams's Dragonbone Chair in Finnish. (They've been translated as split-up one book trilogies for some reason...) It's a fun read so far, and it's interesting to see how it works compared to a lot of modern fantasy. The protagonist is very young and there's some rather simplistic humour and very easy character stereotypes in there, so it could work as a teen novel, but also there's a very very heavy focus on the world's political geography and castle city logistics, which would be a clear adult fantasy marker nowadays (like the other book I'm reading, Katherine Addison's 'The Goblin Emperor'). Been enjoying it all right! But I'm a very slow reader so just one or two books a year is the best plan for me 😂
It will be interesting to hear your thoughts on it later!
Thanks Jasmin, for the info on Dragonbone Chair. Like that kid in the candy shop, I want to attack all candy at once. Who knows, I just might pick up Tad Williams sooner than I think. Although, one day after this video I already started reading a book that is not on my revised list.
I put the Dragonbone Chair books on the top shelf.
You have read a lot of fantasy in the last few days! So glad your slump was short lived!! You seem to enjoy the planning of your TBR a lot. I'm more of a mood reader. I tried Piranesi last year but DNFd it after about 10 pages. I hope you plan on a review of it. Maybe you will convince me to give it another try 🙂.
My most recent fantasy was a post-apocalyptic one in the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews. I would have never thought I'd like a book filled with yucky creatures and devastation, but I finished it in about 3 days. I couldn't put it down! Normally, it takes me about 3 weeks to finish a book since I read a bit out of 6 or 7 books every day.
Regardless of your choices, I look forward to more videos. Wishing you nothing but enjoyable reads!
Yes, happy to report full recovery over here! I'll make it my mission to convince you to pick up Piranesi again. It is so worth it! Someone just recommended the Kate Daniels-serie to me. Putting it on my TBR!
@DutchGreyBeard They are just entertainment - nothing profound. 😊
@@bjminton2698 Just what I'm looking for.
Just so you know, Sixth of Dusk is getting reworked into a novel called of Isles of Emberdark and will be released sometime next year. You can of course still read it but just know that eventually when you get to the secret projects it'll come up. I think what he's doing is using what's given in Sixth of Dusk as flashbacks and backstory as the protagonist goes through this new adventure.
Thanks, this is good information. I wasn't aware of this. I may be some time before I get around to reading Stormlight Archive, but I'll keep this in mind.
Have you made a video about your Susanna Clarke experience? Piranese is one that has stayed with me.
Not yet, just finished reading it yesterdayu. But I will make a seperate reading experience video on this beautiful and mesmerizing book.
Wat een mooi overzicht van je plan en hoe het gaat.
Leuk om te zien en herkenbaar dat we af en toe wat afdwalen.
Al met al veel gelezen en veel plezier aan beleefd en daar gaat het om.
Het plan niks kopen en alleen lezen wat er al op de plank stond. Mijn valkuil bleek de bibliotheek , dit kanaal en een heleboel non fictieboeken 😂
Dank je wel. Wat heerlijk om een valkuil te zijn ;-)
I'm glad that you choose to keep the first two books of the Liveship Tarders but I don't think that keeping the third one for next year is the best considering that there is not much of a natural break at the end of book 2. It is actually in book 2 that the plot gets explosive.
I also totally recomamnd to read the serie during the summer because of the Pirates and Sea faring element !
The Red Rising trilogy is a very fast read and one that you will probably read back to back especially because of the ending of book 2.
Haven't read the other books though the Stormlight Archives and Memory, Sorrows and Thorns are on my TBR
Yes, I really want to continue with Robin Hobb. Good thing that I kept the entire Red Rising trilogy on my list. Still, this list is not the law, thankfully ;-)
Wait a second. When did you read Warbreaker? Am I not recalling a video or something?
Just finished it three days ago. Video is in the making.
When did you read Warbreaker? I just read it last month, very fun.
Finished reading it just a couple of days ago. Loved it! Sanderson is popular for good reason...
I noticed that most of the books you read fall into the high/epic fantasy genre. Do you ever plan to give any fantasy sub-genres a try? Like urban fantasy or dystopian fantasy etc.?
I am not that familiar with all the sub-grenres, but I am an omnivorous reader, so I don't see why not. But true, high/epic is what I like most within fantasy... so far.
@@DutchGreyBeard In that case I will suggest 2 series for you to keep in mind for next year while you broaden your horizons. Both these series have short fast paced books you can read in one or two sittings and are perfect for taking breaks from the longer epics or getting yourself out of a slump.
The first is urban fantasy- urban fantasy is the genre where the fantasy elements have to exist hidden from the real modern world elements. My series suggestion is The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. In this series, wizard Harry Dresden is private investigator and occult consultant for Chicago police department. He takes on seemingly unrelated cases at first but there is a larger story taking place through the books that makes itself known eventually. The series currently has 17 main novels, a novella and 2 collections of short stories.
My second series suggestion is dystopian fantasy. Dystopian fantasy is when our modern world existed but a magical element brought about an end to that kind of existence. In The Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews, magic crashed into the world somewhere in the early 2000s. Magic and technology are in a constant battle and magic come and goes from the world in waves, while it exists so do monsters and every type of magic you can imagine, when it’s gone TV and electricity work again and someone has to clean up the monsters that were let loose. In this world Kate Daniels is a mercenary for hire to protect and do clean up duty. Again there is also a larger story through the case by case regular stories. The main story consisting of 10 books is finished but there are many side stories and short stories in the world.
I hope you give these two a try.
@@Arezoo298195 Wow! Thanks for your suggestions. I've heard about The Dresden Files. So far I've not been very eager to start this, but who knows. You make a compelling case. The other one is unfamiliar to me, but I will check it out. Would you say that The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin is distopian fantasy as well? I loved that trilogy.
@@DutchGreyBeard that’s more dystopian high fantasy rather than pure dystopian fantasy. Pure dystopian literature requires the starting point to be our world as we know it. If the dystopia comes about because of real world scenarios such as nuclear war, then that is pure dystopian literature. If the dystopia comes about because of sci-fi elements such as artificial intelligence take over (like the future in the terminator movies) then this is dystopian sci-fi and if the dystopia happens because of fantasy elements then it’s dystopian fantasy. In the case of the broken earth trilogy the starting point is not our world but it’s own world which is the realm of high fantasy. This world is going through apocalyptic level events so it’s going towards a high fantasy dystopia.
I might be over complicating it but my brain loves categorising stuff when it comes to genre mash ups.😁
@@Arezoo298195 Thanks for clarifying that for me. I'm hardly as compartmentalized, but... I do know what I like 😉