What Are Your Reading Plans For The Rest Of 2024? (10/27/24)

[Marc]

With a little more than two months left in the year, what do your reading plans for the end of 2024 look like?

[Luke]

I recently started making use of my old county library system again. After having relocated away for work, it's a three hour round trip to pick up/drop off books, so it's taken some time for me to be in the mood for a trek. I'll be zeroing in on the 70+ items in my TBR whose closest location is on those shelves. Amazingly enough, my first two reads have both been five stars, so I'll be happy to keep to this course for the rest of the year.

[Henk]

I think I want to focus on some longer works, maybe due to the reading challenge I always tend to go for shorter works earlier in the year, but now I hit my target I think I should tackle some bigger books “guilt free”. I am currently reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tart and really enjoying it so far!

[Robert]

This year I said I would focus on depleting my TBR stack. It’s been going well with the booker being the only blip. I’ll continue to do so until December when it becomes a free for all.

[Hester]

I will be reading selected works of Isabel Colgate , Anthony Trollope / An Autobiography and continuing The Wolf Hall Trilogy .

oh and finishing Dance to the Music of Time / Anthony Powell.

Enough to keep me company and enough wriggle room for a couple of book group reads I hope .

[Sonia]

This year I have picked some shortish translated fiction to finish the year. I want a relaxed end to my reading year.
Summer in Baden-Baden
The Time of Cherries
Forgotten on Sunday
Mina's Matchbox
Queenless
Un amor
Tidal Waters
A Leopard-Skin Hat

[Hugh]

I don't really do reading plans beyond group reads and keeping the to read pile under control, but I am currently rereading The Magic Mountain in preparation for reading The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, and would also like to fit in Praiseworthy, The Maniac and All My Precious Madness, so there won't be room for too many more.

[David]

Books on my tbr, most of them upcoming buddy reads:
- Of Fathers and Fugitives
- Season of the Swamp
- Sister Deborah
- Lesser Ruins
- Herscht 07769
- Gliff
- Carnival: A Novel
- On the Calculation of Volume
- Cybernetics, or Ghosts?

I also need to finish The Children of the Dead. It's one of those books that's either 2 stars or 5. I can't decide.

[Jenna]

This is the time of year when start to try and figure out if I’m going to finish any of the many books that currently have book marks in them piling up next to the tbr pile (remember the mirror and the light from one of your early weekly questions?! Yeah, no progress since then) or if they should be re-shelved for another time. I will probably try to finish the luminaries and give hilary another go, but I dipped a toe in tale of genji and that is definitely not for this year. That is as far as planning goes the rest is the usual fun random walk!

[Whitney]

I'm like Hugh in not having specific plans based on the year coming to a close but just prioritizing favored group reads. I did intend to reread The Book of the New Sun series, one book a year with a really deep dive into interpretations, so I may still try and get to the second book this year.

I also want to read Magic Mountain in preparation for The Empusium, but I don't see that happening this year.

[Sam]

Whitney wrote: "I'm like Hugh in not having specific plans based on the year coming to a close but just prioritizing favored group reads. I did intend to reread The Book of the New Sun series, one bo..."

If you see a group read originate for that, I would be interested. I am way overdue.

[Sam]

Aside from book club and group readings, I will continue to read from the NBA's various longlists, the Baillie Gifford longlist and reduce my library hold list from its current 15 all coming due in the next month. If I can find time, I will continue with Karl Ove Knausgård's Morning Star series. I will look at the Aspen Words longlist and NBCC longlists when they come out and cherry pick from them as well.

[Bill]

My travel schedule has suddenly changed significantly, so I'll be stuck with e-books after election day.

Paper books before I leave (all in progress):
Gabriela Miravete, They Will Dream in the Garden
Mariana Enriquez, A Sunny Place for Shady People
Charles Burns, Final Cut

Then most likely the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards shortlist that I haven't got to yet. Also some Jeff Noon, and maybe Gary Shipley.

[Whitney]

Sam wrote: "If you see a group read originate for that, I would be interested. I am way overdue."

I reread the first one along with the podcast "ReReading Wolfe", which is an incredible resource. The do an episode for every chapter, consolidating most the sources and discussing the different theories. Each episode is around 1.5 to 2 hours, so it's a major commitment, but one of the best literary deep dives out there. They are currently on chapter 3 of The Sword of the Lictor.