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I love your shirt! 😊 I think you did so good with this experiment! I have to say though, you should have a schedule that works for you, and task switching like that between teaching and research is not good for anyone. I’m assuming you have already, but if not I would urge you to talk to whoever decides and make sure you have time allotted throughout the week for your research, like two full am sessions a week or something. You should not have to get up at five in order to do your regular day job. The employer has some responsibility for your wellbeing, no? I would go on strike as well! 😊 Loved the video, and Emma is adorable, I would be stuck in that chair too.

😺📚📖🖊️ You're doing so well, continue to believe... I think it's a wonderful bit of balance making time for all things, including your love for reading.

This was a good experiment for you. And I think you made some good decisions for yourself. I’m glad that you are intentional about taking care of yourself throughout all this hard work. Btw, is Emma getting credited on your phd work? Haha!

Ooh, I want to-read The Minaturist, I had no idea there was a sequel too. What a gorgeous cover. I have a game Marrying Mr Darcy (exactly what it sounds like), with a zombie expansion inspired by that book😄 Count of Monte Cristo is soooooo good! It looks long but you'll be swept up in it, and if you aren't that's probably a sign to dnf 😄

You’re going to have a great year of reading 😊 I also bought a lot second hand and some of the choices were perhaps questionable, but each time I read a premise again or think Why did I buy that? I can still see the reason, even if it’s not my top priority to read. I think that’s natural and nothing wrong with it 😊 I just wanted some more options on my shelves, and some might look less appealing now, but that’s only because I found more books throughout the year that Im even more excited about! So all good 😊 I think you’ll enjoy Beartown, and I don’t think it will be as difficult for you as Ove, the other ones I haven’t read 😅

Great list and great idea to pick the ones off your shelves that you’re most excited about! You know I love Beartown, and The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See are both so good too. I hope I can read The Secret History this year too, it’s on my physical TBR as well! Same with Monte Cristo as you know haha. I’ll be curious to hear your thoughts on The Atlas Six, I wanted to love it but couldn’t really get into it 😬 Would love to read Brothers Karamazov as well. This is the year of big books, we can do it!!

North and South is one of my favorites! I hope you enjoy it. And good for you for even thinking about going for Ulysses haha. It scares me. 😆

Although I like Backman as an author, I wasn't a fan of Beartown. Moonstone (rather dated), Nightingale, and All the Light We Cannot See were all great! It looks like a nice selection of 25 for 2025.

The Miniaturist was my 2nd book of last year, still havn't gotten to the sequel either. I haven't read "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" but I have read "Sense and Sensibility and sea monsters" and I really enjoyed it! I lo♡e The Faithful and the Fallen! I've read all of Gwynne's books! Technically Priory of the Orange Tree is a standalone. A Day of Fallen Night is a prequel but they are technically standalones. And I absolutely LO♡E them! I like to say Samantha Shannon is the closest thing I have to a god lol. North and South is great! I have read all 3 of my Skaði books! "Njord and Skaði" by Sheena McGrath was a good nonfiction that I learned from! "Skaði's Saga" by Phil Tucker was a good norse inspired fantasy. "Skaði Goddess of Winter's Hunt" by Skye Hellviolet was the worst thing I've read in over a year, It was so poorly made I suspect it may have been written by AI. I decided to get Artemis first but I decided to get statues of Artemis and Skaði to put on top of my feminist bookcase.

Wives and Daughters was in my Top 10 too, it's a real shame there was no ending as North and South has one of the best endings ever. Piranesi blew my mind too, I need to read Jonathan Strange this year. Middlemarch and Jane Eyre were on my top 10 the previous year, although I prefer Middlemarch and watching bits of the miniseries this year reminded me how much I love the characters. I do have the rest of Charlotte Bronte left to read, I should have saved it!

I really want to try Elizabeth Gaskell this year. And I love The Woman in White!

"Its a good one to get into classics if you don't mind miserableness" 😂 I love that I feel you on there just being so many good books read in last year. Having a real time narrowing mine down too. Woman in White is definitely in my favorites too! Piranesi is just about a perfect novel, everything has a place. It reads like a thriller too. Independent People is on my tbr shelf for the year, glad it made an impact, I'm even more excited to get to it.

I completely agree that you should start with Charlotte Brontë's other novels before reading Jane Eyre! Jane Eyre is fantastic and the others just can't complete!

We watched the film for A man called Ove over the holidays and my 14 years old son and I were crying like babies at the end! I had read the book years ago and I knew what was coming but I couldn’t help myself… Jane Eyre is son good! ❤

Hello Bryndis! You are giving me the urge to read all the classics waiting on my TBR pile!!!😅

So glad you found so many new books you love! I know I can always count on you for classics recommendations so I will refer to this list if I’m in the mood for a classic, haha. Piranesi made it to number 5 for me as well, so good!! Agree with everything you said about it. Hmm, good point about not starting with Jane Eyre so I end with her best one. Maybe I’ll check out another of one of her books first and then get to Jane Eyre! And very happy to see a Fredrik Backman here and glad that Ove affected you, even though it was really hard to revisit that grief. I haven’t experienced those things so it didn’t hit me as hard as it did for you but it’s still a really good book ❤️

Jane Eyre is my favorite book of all time - I'm glad you enjoyed it! I really need to read Piranesi this year. What a great reading year!

Seventeen! Wow!! Bryndis, I wanted to tell you that I was trying to tag you, and your name does not show up or highlight. Do you have notifications turned off, by chance?

Thanks for the December reviews. Will you be reading Miss Marple, T&T, or any other Agatha Christie series after Poirot?

Bryndis, I swear we were meant to be friends! I am so glad you had a restful break and your hometown looks like a dream! Visiting Iceland one day is a goal of mine. You read so many good things and I cannot believe how similar our reading tastes are. For the Agatha Christies you read I think Cat Among the Pigeons was my most “eh 😐” out of them. I also find the Gobe bits hilarious because I can always picture it. For the Tolkien, I can so relate to your feeling of joy because they are also my favorite and I am so impressed by how much you read. I have never read Beren and Luthien but it is on my shelf waiting til I get through The Silmarillion. You just let me know whenever you want to do a Tolkien or Christie buddy read and I am here for it 😊

I love listening to your reviews of Agatha Christie’s books. You have motivated me to do some rereading! Have you read her novels published under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott? They are delightful!

I think your kitty wants his own shelf! Love the way you styled your shelves. So many classic Agatha Christie books, I'm jealous!

You read so many things! 😊 I know you want to complete projects, but the most important thing is that you are enjoying yourself, and just because it’s a new year doesn’t mean you have to stop. It’s nice when it’s neat though! I chuckled at you trying to get the animal title right 😅 small and cute? big and brave? small and YOUNG and beautiful?! 😂

My best books of December were. -The Wedding People by Alison Espach -North is the Night by Emily Rath (based on Finnish mythology) I'm the only one that doesn't like the Andy Sirkis audiobooks, I own and listened to The Hobbit and wasn't a fan unfortunatly. (Love the book other times I read it). The newest Sigurðardóttir book in English is "Can't Run, Can't Hide", but it's still very expencive. It's $39.74 which is 5,861.65 Króna I'm currently reading a nonfiction called "Njord and Skaði: a myth explored" by Sheena McGrath and it mentioned Tolkien, here's most of page 127. 『It seems appropriate that the modern variant on the Njord - Skadi story comes from Tolkien. The story goes that two races, the Black Númenóreans and the Gondorians, were at war. The Gondorians and Arnorians were breakaway Numenoreans who considered the others to be renegades.[178] It is not known why the Gondorian king Falastur married Berúthiel of the Númenóreans, presumably as a political accommodation. She went to live in Pelargir, Falastur's home, which was by the sea. She hated the smell of the sea and fish, and the noise of gulls. She wore dark clothing and loathed all ornament. Her name means something like "Angry Queen".[179] She became proverbial, to the point where more than 2,000 years later Aragorn mentions her and her cats in an off-hand remark.[180] Unlike Skadi, she was exiled by the Gondorians and returned home. Tolkien himself commented that Berúthiel was like Skadi, since both disliked their maritial homes.』

Love the kitty helps 😄 the final look of that main shelf turned out great! I like to do bookshelf resets with the new year as well, it held keep them fresh.

Absolutely loved your thoughts, and final rearrangement of your so special, and meaningfully curated collection. Seeing them placed carefully with thought and pleasure, will be, as you suggested a daily joy.

The special edition shelf looks so nice! 😍 Very well styled! The other ones look really good as well, and I completely agree that books make any room feel more cozy and homey. I feel like it’s good for sound levels too. “Where is my finger?” 😂 The older books look so cool as well, if you only have one or two they can look a bit weird but when there are several volumes next to each other like you have 👌 so nice! And everything goes very well with your green wall and decor, and the shelves themselves are so pretty as well . Good job 😊

Ok… firstly, there is nothing wrong with trying to collect all Agatha Christie’s books because she is our queeeen hahaha and secondly, oh my goodness I wish I could find that many lovely books at my thrift store 😢 But you got some lovely books!

Ok… firstly, there is nothing wrong with trying to collect all Agatha Christie’s books because she is our queeeen hahaha and secondly, oh my goodness I wish I could find that many lovely books at my thrift store 😢 But you got some lovely books!

Love your sweater! And I’m so glad you’re not putting pressure on yourself to finish any books you’re not liking or to force yourself to stick to a big TBR. Great way to start the year 😊 I hope you like Bands of Mourning, I’m planning to get into Mistborn this year!

My plan for 2025 is no plan, there are several books about or inspired by my fav character from. Norse myth Skaði. I have "Skaði Goddess of Winter's Hunt" by Skye Hellviolet, Skaði's Saga" by Phil Tucker, "Njord and Skaði " by Sheena McGrath, so I hope they are good! And the top two romances I want to get to are Cleat Cute by Meryl Smithetsman and Set the Record Straigjt by Hannah Bonam-Young. It's not a real tbr, but that's kind of a tbr(ish) thing!

It makes me so happy to see everyone being kind to themselves in the new year! 😊 I think you’ve got a great setup for you tbr/pop there. Ideally you would feel like you did for Moonstone for every book! But then some are good surprises too, so it’s good to be open to trying other ones as well. I will hold you to the dnf and unhaul though! 😂 I had plans, and then I have more leftovers from December than I wanted and also lots of books coming from the library, so I’m lost under a pile of books! It’s fine though, no pressure! 😊

I’m turning 50 in November - how did that happen! Scary and makes me rethink a lot of things. Need to be ruthless and go though my unread books and keep what I want and get rid of anything I’m not ‘feeling’ here’s to a wonderful year xx

I loved hearing about the icelandic christmas traditions! Those Jule lads seem like a fun bunch 😂 I once tried fermented skate and saying it was an experience is probably the best description, I could literally taste that all the way to the back of my head 😆 I reallhy enjoyed your answers to this tag, allthough I think if someone listens to LOTR as their first audiobook, the bar is gonna be set pretty high 😅

Big year! Continuing to be fabulous is a great plan 😄 you are knocking that one out of the park! Sorry to hear your chronic pain has kept going, maybe the new year will bring new ideas to help that lessen. I love the no/low goals goal, I really tried to think of how to get more there, but still gave myself some number goals, because I can't resist.

Happy belated Christmas! I'm a bit behind on my watch later list on booktube, but this was very cosy nonetheless! I've read Letters from Father Christmas by Tolkien over the christmas days and it was just such a precious book, I loved it! By the way, I had a little double take with the christmas tree lighting clip, there was some people counting down in dutch next to you

I’m turning 52 July 29th! 🙂 Nothing much changed since I was 50 and I’m grateful for that but I’m also thinking about slowing down in 2025… so cheers to that! 🎉 Happy new year to you Bryndis!

Hope you enjoyed this Christmas as much as 2023 ... spent with family, wonderful!!!

I am all about slow living and slow reading. I have made a bunch of reading plans for 2025 that I am pretty sure are not very realistic and are not achievable at all. So will slowly end up changing my mind about all of them. Oh well. I hope you have a happy new year! 🎉

These sound like great intentions to me! I’m feeling a similar ways, I like to plan and I like plans, and I tend to go all in, but for 2025 I want to enjoy myself and have zero pressure. No musts or shoulds, just wants and doing whatever feels good and gives me happiness and relaxation and fun. Easy peasy peace and fun. I hope you continue the channel like you intend, because I enjoy your videos, but please feel free to let them be whatever suits you 😊 I hope you’ve had a lovely Christmas and I wish you a very happy new year! 🎆

I'm not making a plan either! Being in the US I'm expecting everything to fall apart. So I don't want to commit to anything. I'm the same kind of planner, so maybe super short term plans will hapoen.

50! You don't look 50! And good luck with the Phd, and your reading goals. As you say, be fabulous.

Merry Christmas 🎄 Have a wonderful New Year 🎉 Thank you for sharing.😊

I loved watching this again! Your Christmas looks so magical. I hope you're having a love Christmas this year!

So lovely of you to think to share. It was a delight to actually see the traditions you described earlier. Yet again, sending you my best wishes for the season and new year!

I loved this!!!

Thank you so much for doing our tag! I loved your video!

Getting a gift for the almond is much better than a wish! 😊 Thank you for sharing this, how fun. Ham and fish are traditional here as well, mostly sill (herring?) and lutfisk, and salmon. I loved hearing about the Yule lads 😂 the rubber boot in the window how festive 😂 Thanks for doing the tag! God jul to you and Emma and everyone you love and care about! 💜

Hello Bryndis, thank you for doing our tag. I agree with you, audiobooks can be a lot of fun.. as long as you don't get distracted while listening 😊 I wanted to tag your channel on my community posts and share this video but I couldn't highlight your channel, not sure why as I see that Ellen was able to tag you on this Booktag thread. Ciao from Italy!

Funny that Emma meowed while you were talking about heathcliff, bc there's a cartoon cat named Heathcliff that was popular in the 80s. And if this is the last video before christmas I'd like to wish you and Emma A Meowey Catmas!