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Thank you - happy new year!

Thank you! Yes it caught me by surprise how much I absolutely loved it. Im glad you liked it too. I wish when I’d read it I’d had the time to continue right away. Hopefully soon in early 2025!

I appreciate that, thank you!

The title alone of your top book has me intrigued… I’m adding to my “explore soon” list! That is a weird reading year. I feel like I go through something similar every couple of years. It’s a good feeling though when you start to enjoy it again. Im hoping early on to get a lot of final book (just read it already) chonkers done next - just one after the other! Then read some nice small books haha.

Thank you!

That’s so kind, thank you! I’m excited for all the content I have planned so far for the new year. :)

It feels good to clean house! I actually haven’t listed the Hobbs yet but I got one inquiry I need to honor first when I get a sec. I’ll let you know if they’re still available in case you need temptations to buy books you don’t need haha.

@ haha ok cool

I’m surprised not as many people loved Mercy, but I was reading it from an appreciation at Abraham’s usual slow burn, it’ll go somewhere amazing, just be patient mentality. The Lyons book was so cool, I can’t wait to see how the series goes.

I’m curious how you’d like Sun Eater. It seems to be hit or miss. I’m finding I liked the first half better than the second so far, but there’s still time.

I’ve had a ton of long content lately, so I appreciate your time. I went into the Klune book hoping for a feel/good experience, so that might be why when it started getting stressful, I started not liking it.

@ that’s totally understandable. I do enjoy long content. 😊

Thank you!! Yay! And someone else who actually liked Mercy of Gods too!! I’m glad I got to that one before all the bad reviews started coming out. I think you’ll have a great time with Cage of Souls! I’m hoping to treat Veiled and Speaking as one long book that’ll slam dunk the series for me. I can’t get to it fast enough!

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I’m glad it made your list! What were the top books in your other categories?

Oh nice! I’ve really loved Siege so far and am hoping the rest of his stuff is just as good.

Thank you! Haha with my scifi challenge early in the year I probably read more scifi than any year before. Best of luck for your 2025 as well!

That makes me so happy. Thank you! It’s such a process. The more times I go through it, the more it seems to come together. Here’s to simplifying in 2025!

It was a good resource!

Desiring paperbacks feels foreign to me these days! But they’re actually my favorite to physically read from. Somewhere along the line I started shifting from reading comfort to collectibility appeal. It sure looks nice. But then I go get the ebook and read it that way haha.

Me too, it’s such a pain to go through all of the return processing. Whereas you know bookstore people get it and are more likely to take care of your copy. If I wasn’t such a recluse I’d do it that way more often rather than gambling.

A good purge feels good once in a while to reset. That way whatever you bring back out comes with a bit more intentionality. I need to do this in my office.

I hear that! I’ve been hanging onto these for so long, I’m kind of tired of them finally. And it helps that I finally found ones I really love, whereas the ones I’m letting go were bought when they were the best I could find at the time.

Thank you - most of this stuff has been on my shelves a couple decades and I’m just sick of looking at it. I’m also getting better at honing in on just the pieces that are really special to me and being more and more willing to let go of the rest.

That’s good to know. I may look into digital copies at some point. It will be telling if I’m still thinking about them in a few months.

I’m so tired. I figured I have to start digging myself out gradually. Although this wasn’t very gradual haha

Haha it’s a good representation of what life is like right now. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Thank you!

@@TheObsessiveBookseller no problem typo. I meant I love the way you said book Feng shui

It really hurts to get hardbacks damaged in shipping - good job for taking good care of them! I get enough packing material from all the books I order (🤦🏻‍♀️) that I haven’t needed to buy any yet.

@@TheObsessiveBookseller Partly some of the stuff I sell is my old D&D collection so some of it is priced quite high. I do not want anything banged up in shipping. I try to take lots of pictures especially if there is existing staining (mostly age and dust) or any other issue. I don't want buyer's remorse :)

I must not have been in the right mindset. All the logistics of it were bothering me.

​@@TheObsessiveBookseller About people not guessing he was alive, I guess it was because he was a pariah in his comunity. People didn't approach him because he would be sacrificed if the need was there so everybody made an effort not to care.

It was less that and more no one noticing there were two of them, especially the girlfriend. There was a specific tech reason but it’s has been too long and I can’t remember what struck me.

Haha I’m deliberately not acknowledging how many I’ll be bringing in next!

Nice! It’s on the docket for next year. I can’t wait!

Thank you - merry Christmas to you and yours also! I’m happy that I read Mercy of the Gods before having a chance to see any negative reviews because I’m sure they would’ve influenced me somehow. I know from Abraham’s fantasy writing that the first book is usually a base for amazingness that’s to come. And in this case I genuinely loved the base. I am really disappointed in the direction Disney took with SW, so I can only hope (pun) the books will fill in what Disney missed. I agree - it shouldn’t have been that difficult to make it better.

@@TheObsessiveBooksellerregarding Mercy of God's reviews, a lot of the time you have to have a pretty good idea of what kind of tastes a reviewer has to get a good idea of what they say they like and dislike would be considered fair from your own point of view. I like seeing a few reviews of books I've loved, hated, and everything inbetween to have any idea. Sometimes you see a review and you're left wondering did we even read the same book? That's why when I find reviewers I really like and value their opinions I stick with them and take their recommendations seriously. People like yourself, Bookpilled, VintageSF, Science Fiction Reads, Cafe au Livre plus a few others across multiple genres are all reviewers I trust. You're definitely in my top 3 not just for your reviewing style but also I love your curating and collection sorting videos. You can't fake sincerity when it comes to the love of books and the pleasure of collecting them. I think Disney thought they had a licence to print money when they bought lucasfilm and they didn't have to bother too much with coherent ideas and the right people in place to shape what to do with both Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Willow etc. They could have easily made films that pleased old fans as well as bringing in new generations of fans without ever needing to retread old ground. There's good and bad stuff in the EU books but there's a lot they could have translated to a wider audience while making it fresh and exciting too. Such a shame, hopefully other franchises are taking notes on how not to do it 😉

Haha it’s not looking too good! I want you to read it so much that I considered starting a weekly Stormlight book club and reading from the beginning with you. But I think going that slow would wreck some of the more amazing momentum moments. Also thank you, I’m eager to get to it. I’m only 20% through Wind and Truth after two weeks, so I’m thinking by March haha.

@@TheObsessiveBookseller If you ever decide to do a reread of SA from the beginning, I'm down!

I’m thinking if you had issue with the pacing in the first, then the rest of the series might feel like a slog!

That’s awesome, I’m planning to dive into Xwing soon. The other two you mentioned are also high up my priority list. It’s great to have so many good ones to look forward to.

Hahaha always happy to wreck appetites! That’s how it felt reading it too. 😝

I agree - such heavy books, I find I need a break after each one as well. Im thrilled you’re loving the Planetside series! Nothing worse than me endorsing a book that people end up hating haha.

Per Service Model - did you make it far enough to the scene where they were clarifying literal vs figurative speech? That’s the turning point for me, but ultimately I wouldn’t recommend going back to it if you’d already thrown in the towel. Just curious!

@@TheObsessiveBookseller I guess I did not make it that far. The robot talk was ok at first but started getting old really fast.

I agree, it was way too much. It never gets better in that regard, but it does get more ironic and funnier.

@@TheObsessiveBookseller Adrian Tchaikovsky has a novella I read this year called Elder Race which I loved.

I liked that one better than service model but so far I think it’s second to least favorite from him.

Oh that’s cool!

Haha it wasn’t funny when it happened, but I laughed when editing. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Oh that’s funny how that worked out. I wish I’d enjoyed the last two books a tad more, but there were enough wow moments that I’m super excited to read the Tainted Cup!

Haha, well at least we know what habits to blame for the problem! I feel the same way with every release I’m not ready for (most of them). Thank you! Hey you only ended up with 9 - that’s even more impressive! I almost almost bought some for series continuations. But I had to get real with myself that I probably wouldn’t get around to them for a while and by then my library may have purchased them.

Oh awesome! I’ll be curious to hear how you like Monstrous Nights. And yay for a Stormlight reread!

I remember! I’m not very far along (10 chapters or so), but so far it’s so good.

Haha oooh burn. So far the initial ten chapters have been mic drops. Just sayin.

Nice!! It’s great to treat yourself to some books this season. I always do better with sugar when I go the cold turkey route. If I do just a little here and there I end up in the withdrawal phase much longer than necessary. I’d rather suffer for a week and then feel better from then on. It helped to have alternative “treats” on hand to get through the cravings. I make a sugarless “muffin pie” with oats and then a blueberry yogurt cereal. Dopamine Nation is on my list - I’ll bump it up the priority a bit!

@TheObsessiveBookseller I've always struggled with sugar since my teens as I would emotionally eat for anxiety and it's stayed my Achilles heel. I'll probably go cold turkey once Christmas is out of the way and stick with it for at least a few months. I've done pretty well the past couple of months resisting the temptation to keep buying books apart from non-fiction I haven't bought a novel and have worked on reading some of my existing unreads. I managed to get through the audible sales recently with no new purchases either, mostly by ignoring all the emails notices and not going browsing. It's certainly reduced my unread pile a wee bit.

Squirrel killers!!! Hahaha That’s such a cool project! I’ll look forward to seeing what book gets picked for each year. It’s so hard to work in these books. You basically have to resign yourself to letting everything else go during that time, which does not help motivation or goal setting. Eventually though, it’ll be worth the “sacrifice.”

This is a great idea. I like to read some middle grade books thru the year so I think I’ll try doing this with Newbery Winners. Mine would be 1961-2025.