Books & Reading Thread 2025

Just finished Faith of my Father's bully Samuel Sargeant. I really enjoyed it and was disappointed I couldn't give it the time I think the book deserved. So busy with work and personal stuff kept having to go back to it. I'd recommend it and glad got mention on here as another book I wouldn't have read if this thread didn't exist. Also disappointed I read so little this year and hoping to put that right in 2025 and looking forward to the 2025 reading thread for more recommendations. Cheers
 
ob said:
Just finished Faith of my Father's bully Samuel Sargeant. I really enjoyed it and was disappointed I couldn't give it the time I think the book deserved. So busy with work and personal stuff kept having to go back to it. I'd recommend it and glad got mention on here as another book I wouldn't have read if this thread didn't exist. Also disappointed I read so little this year and hoping to put that right in 2025 and looking forward to the 2025 reading thread for more recommendations. Cheers
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So glad you enjoyed it.
If you are able to leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads, that would be amazing and really helpful.
Sam is actually spending Christmas with me, so I will let him know you enjoyed his debut novel.
His next book is titled ‘Crimes Of Their Brothers’ and is available for pre-order from Feb 2025, with an actual release date set by the publisher, of Feb 2026!
Sam is currently writing the third book titled ‘Songs Of Their Sisters’ and he has the outline of a fourth book to follow that.
 
ob said:
Just bought Get it on - How the 70s Rocked Football for £1.99 on kindle
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I'll be interested to know how you get on with it. I loved it and I'll be reading the 80s follow-up this year.

Note that I've renamed the thread to: Books & Reading Thread 2025

I think the "Challenge" part might have put some people off from getting stuck in to this thread. If you remember, somebody started the "Reading Challenge" thread in, I think, 2022. I then just kept this part of the title when I started a new thread and kept it going in 2024.

It's not really a challenge, it's just a great thread for reviewing what we've read and recommending stuff to others.

I finished a book over Christmas and I'll be adding it as my last 2024 book before resetting for the new year.

Happy reading in 2025 everybody.
 
Seeing as I didn't feel much like reviewing my reads last year I thought I'd start this one off with a summary as I at least did track what I read. Hoping that will change for this year and that I get back to at least occasionally keeping things updated.

Year end stats and summary for 2024:

Total books read: 47 (inc. several novella's)

Primary Tag:
Mystery/Thriller 14
Urban Fantasy 6
Science Fiction 12
Non-Fiction 4
Fantasy 9
Horror 2

Original Language:
English 47
Others 0

Author Gender: (repeats not counted, multiple authors and pseudonyms counted separately)
Male 19 different authors, 29 books read
Female 6 different authors, 19 books read

Least favourite book of the year
The Game by Micah Richards – About as intereszting as his level of punditry

Favourite book of the year
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Once again concentrating on series had an effect on my reading diversity with no books at all translated from languages other than English. Though at least I narrowed the gender gap a little this year. Total numbers increased from last year but this was due to the inclusion of several novella's and no real chunksters to slow me down.

Although I didn't keep a journal of my own this last year, I have kept a list of what I read in my 2023 thread on LT for my own records at least (handily linked here https://www.librarything.com/topic/347865#8042569). Hoping that will change for this year and that I get back to at least occasionally keeping things updated.

I wish you all a very Happy New Year.
 
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