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Wow, a lighter mind than many of us.

Great discussion. I recenty finished Lord of Light, and it's so different from Amber. I'm intrigued to read more Zelasny to see what else he's done.

It's never too late for this type of video.

You always have amazing best of lists!! So many of these are on my want to read list. I had no idea that Hyperion was inspired by the Canterbury Tales! (Also on my wtr). How cool! That bumps it up in my list haha. Also what you said about Janny Wurts and romance made me want to read the series even more 😅

Lets go resistance training!

I've two series I'd like to finish this year. "Kingkiller Chroniclese" and "A Song of Ice and fire", both have a small issue with them... ;) I guess I could re-read Malazan…

All of this is perfectly put. Top 10 series of all time imo. I will say I actually preferred the audiobook performances by Tim Pigott-Smith (which are incredible, RIP), but you can't go wrong with either narrator.

Has anyone read ~ n . galilea 's book LEAD me where the light is ours ?

Oh. Very sorry about your losses. Pets are family. I was thinking about the "not doing anything" (reading either) concept is underestimated right before you talked about mindfulness. Fine. Life's too short to do something all the time. And what a beautiful dragonfly! Romans built an empire thanks to (the outcomes of) their idle time. That's a powerful history lesson I remind myself again and again. Last but not least, I love your in depth videos and your thoughtful approach to novels. That's why I'm listening to you (and other booktubers, such as Philip Chase). It brings some quiet to my life. I love it!

You also did a brand new tag with Alan. Even here the poor guy is being betrayed I, of course, joke

Hello Can you review Empire of Wisdom series?

My thoughts on monthly wrap-ups echo yours. I had thought about doing a video every 4 books that I read so I can dig in more, but realized that I honestly read too fast to do that and keep up! I've been gradually increasing my monthly wrap-ups times instead; when I started my channel, my monthly wrap ups were around 10 minutes, but most of mine are now 20-25 minutes now. Maybe closer to 30 in the new year! Have a great 2025!

Hey Whitney, For the Culture series I recommend starting with Look To Windward. IMO it'll give you a great intro to The Culture universe. Better intro than the other books. 😊

sleep is super important. I'm trying to walk that tightrope now with my new job.

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I really need to get back to my classics this year.

Okay thanks for making me feel even worse about the fact that I read ZERO of my 24 in 2024 books hahah oops. Amazing that you did so well with your standalone goals, hope they all lived up to your expectations as well! Really love hearing you talk about how much your reading journal has improved your reading experience. I am still procrastinating starting one myself because I am just such a lazy reader, but I feel like it would be good to slow down in that way 💕 Here's to the quiet living, I am joining you for that! Being chronically online is great for my mental health in the sense that it allows me to have so much fun with all my international friends, but I also feel like I am wayyyy to overstimulated at this point and I need to take a step back. Good luck with all your goals, and looking forward to the top 10 video ;))) 🥰

I also try to keep the series I have going at the same time in check. I cycle through 6 series at a time so I don't get burned out on a series but also make progress on them. If I finish a series then a new one goes in!

Your channel, videos, and vibe is the zen of booktube. Puts you in a good space. I'm looking forward to seeing what you get to in 2025, Johanna. Happy reading!

Thanks for the video ❤

Great goals, a reading journal sounds like something I should be doing. P.s. you can do more pull ups then I can, just hanging is a work out for me lol

Only thing i want, is to be more consistent in my reading. I consistently fail at being consistent, and want to improve upon fixing that. 😅 Also want to read some authors i've had on my tbr for years. Jack Vance, Terry Pratchett, Mark Hodder, Jacqueline Carey and V. E. Schwab. As well as continue dwelling into older adventure and fantasy literature. Might add gothic to that list of genres.

Great video Johanna! I love that you have a review journal that is just for you. What a neat idea! I also loved hearing your lifestyle goals.

I’m going to have to watch your journaling video, feel like I need that! Love that sleep is a top goal, it’s one for me too 😅

I really liked the video with Bookborn and Jimmy about gender and reading and would love to see more thematic/why read combos if you have any ideas for them! Regardless, I'm excited to see what videos you come out with in 2025. As for your thumbnails, I think you're selling yourself short. Maybe look into different artistic ratios used in graphic design and photography? I did a training for work on that back in 2023 and while I don't remember details, I think it made me more intentional when I make graphics and thus more confident

14:36 IMPRESSIVE!! 😍

Nice goals. I think your thumbnails are great!

I don't have much in the way of channel goals as I just read a single book and do a video. Simple. I might...MIGHT...be able to get totally caught up on my TBR. I intend to dip my toes into Warhammer 40K with the first book. Various booktubers have planted the seed for me to read Janny Wurst books.

Lovely video Johanna. We seem to have similar reading habits - I don’t like to have many series on the go, am always reading standalones in between and love to mix it up with fantasy, sci fi and the occasional contemporary. I would also like to thank you for the journal video. I watched it and have taken your method but put my own little touches to it and it has been extremely rewarding. Long form chats are my absolute favourite and I don’t think I’ve missed a Why Read yet. I’ll probably be jumping on the wagon and starting my own soon, so if one day you’d like to chat to me I’d be extremely honoured. My goals for 2025 are just to keep afloat! I just started University again (technically my 3rd degree 😅) so it’s a big life change. My priority series is Dandelion Dynasty :) All the best for a great 2025!

I'm sorry about the loss of your pets Johanna, they're like children and it hurts so deeply when we loose them, the best to you and your husband 🤗 I've been thinking already for some time to start a reading journal, you convinced me to go ahead with it ! 🙂 I'm starting my Malazan journey this year although I already read 'Gardens of the Moon' 2 years ago. I'm going to try to read 5 books this year and then in 2026 the remaining 5.

I think the thumbnails rock! And sorry to hear about your cat and dog-that is rough to deal with. Best of luck on all the goals, hope 2025 is fruitful

Yay for a reading journal! Love your Celtic font, as for what I want to improve...well I need to get better at editing! God bless it, I must admit it is my least part of this whole thing.

Love to see it Johanna. I’m excited to see what your top ten videos will be! I’ve never been able to do wrap ups because I’ve felt like I can’t convey anything worth people’s time in a really short way. Maybe that’s something I just need to work on. Beyond that there’s a lot of books I read and just don’t have anything worth saying. I think making a video about “6 books I read recently” would work better personally than an official monthly wrap up. I always feel like you do a great job conveying a lot about a book if in those shorter segments.

Such a great year and so much to look forward to! I'm so glad we collab'd on both of our channels. More to come this year!

I loved your collaboration with merphy and bookborn

🫣 I was grinning at the excellent combination of being self-confessed shy as well as a BookTuber! Doing all the things you do is well outside my own comfort zone, so I am always surprised when folks get out and do it. I’d be much too self-conscious. But as well as that fun stuff, I do like the channel year in review from your own PoV, because I get reminded of things and it’s fun to see how they worked out in the end. I’d like to finish more series, but the lure of the new is strong. Oddly I prefer reading familiar worlds rather than continually acquainting myself with a new one, but I have so many unfinished series on the go at the moment. So many!

I can’t wait to see your Top 10 list! And your goals revolving around mindfulness, sleep quality and fitness are all things I’m also working on. 🙌 Personally, I would love to see more Vlogs from you. But, I know how time-consuming they are and the views / engagement is perhaps a little bit lower than with typical videos. It looks like it’s going to be an amazing 2025 on Johanna Reads!

Oof a top ten series list sounds so daunting to me 😅😂

I am grateful and honored that The Edan Trilogy is one of the series you finished in 2024, Johanna, and the discussions you hosted on each book are wonderful BookTube highlights for me. It was also so much fun to be in discussions on WOLAS and Aspect Emperor with you (and I still need to finish Unholy Consult!). Why Read? is such a valuable part of our community, and I'm so glad you've created such insightful discussions with it. You do a marvelous job of getting the right mix of people together. The loss of your cat and dog in one year must have been very difficult, and I am so sorry you experienced that -- and are no doubt still experiencing it as dealing with such losses does not end at any particular point. Finally, I actually think your thumbnails are awesome!

This is a really good way to remember more of a book, thank you for showing.

The Why Read videos are booktube gems so I am happy to see that these will continue as well as your always welcome thoughtful contributions about books.

14:37 !!!!! Pull up queen! 👸

Ahhhhh the vibes are immaculate💙✨

I dont do like a journal, but (mainly because I used to blog and it's what like muscle memory) usually when I'm done a book I'll write out a review in a word doc or notepad about my thoughts at a time. That way weeks later when I finally get around to making a video on it, I have something to reference before freeballing it. I agree it's a great way to enjoy what you've read more!

I need to read more standalones, I plan to incorporate more historical fict., literary fict., and even some nonfiction, I'm also working on journaling and tracking my reads this year in 2025, thanks to Evie, who provided a handy Excel spreadsheet. Loved the Epic Fantasy discussion you and Tori had last year. One of my favorites. So sorry to hear about your pets, I had to do the same with my dog last year. We don't get over it but we will get through it, right? All the healing to you and your husband on your loss. Hope 2025 brings you much joy, the harmony of mind & body, and some amazing reads. - Cheers

I have a lot of goals for 2025. One of them is to read The Fall of Hyperion. I read Hyperion in 2023 and I keep meaning to read the next book and I keep pushing it off. I also want to finish reading all the Travis McGee novels from John D MacDonald. Which should happen in the next five weeks. I have averaged one a week since the middle of August last year. The audiobooks are great and thanks to my job I have about 30 hours a week I can dedicate to audiobooks, which is the main reason I get a lot of reading done. After that I might keep the train going and read the rest of his books at the same pace of one a week. I think he wrote 55 books and 21 of those are McGee novels. I have started reading Lois McMaster Bujold's bibliography. Her books might be my project for 2025(It still feels so strange to write 2025 as the year, it is an arbitrary number but my monkey brain still goes "woah 2025!, when did this happen?"). Another goal this year is to write more book reviews. Mostly just for goodreads and the discord groups. I have been trying to be more active in the discord groups when it comes to the books I'm reading. I read The Black Company again and shared my thoughts through the entire read through. It was a lot of fun. Same goes for the Penric and Desdemona novellas. One of my highlights of last year was chatting with fellow Booktubers. The Lonesome Dove discussion was a lot of fun and I have been on a few channels since then. I also made a book swap video with Carlos and Yolanda from Storytoob. I want to do more of that this year. Last year was my most productive reading year ever. I still have no idea how it happened. I guess I just made books a bigger priority in my life. Especially audiobooks. I cut out most of my podcast listening(now I just use them as a break between audiobooks). I missed my arbitrary goal of 20% of my reading being non-fiction last year. I want to reach that goal this year. I also have my entire "40 Books to read before I turn 40" list to work through and time stops for no one 🤣. So I need to get to work on that(I have read two of them this year so I am on a good pace). My channel goals are to find a happy medium when it comes to video releases and to make some more in depth videos exploring ideas. I want to learn how to make video essays, but maybe just small ones. I have no desire to cover a topic for 4 hours🙃. Great video and from watching your channel all of last year I think you have done a great job of hitting your goals.

I am so excited for more of your topical videos!! Those are always some of my favorite of yours to watch, particularly when you bring in a guest or two for a really in depth discussion. I've gone back and listened to many of them multiple times because I always take away something new! I also am trying to do more mindfulness, particularly when my kids are home; I want to start doing something like a screen-less Sunday, but it's going to be a bit of an uphill battle!! And while I've started doing VERY basic annotations (mostly just tabbing with diff colors), I want to try doing your style of journal soon. I did try one last year, but I tried too hard to make it aesthetic, which defeated the purpose of it being quick and easy, so I want to start over with something that need not ever see the light of day except when I'm going back to write a review. As always, thank you for sharing!! Lots of luck with accomplishing all your goals in 2025!

Fabulous video Johanna! I feel you when you speak of introspection, particularly about one's recent reading journey & what one would like to accomplish going forward, partially based on that introspection. So happy to hear your reading life quality ascended in 2024, and that your reading journal really worked for you!I wish you an amazing reading year, and a happy, healthy and prosperous 2025!

Hope u find amazing books this year!! Happy reading to you!! 🎉

Thanks for your candor, this is such an interesting topic. I just realized that while I read a lot of books by men with male dominant casts of characters and possibly a male audience in mind, the 5-6 booktube channels I follow closely are all women. These amazing content creators (you included) are so honest and critical about things that a lot of male content creators don't see or address. Your voice is important!