2022 Reading Goals + TBR // browsing my shelves w/ Willow (my dog)
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Hello friends!!!
One of my favorite things about a new year is setting new reading goals and thinking about all the wonderful books I want to read!
I'm very excited about the goals I've set myself, and I'd love to hear what your reading goals are! Feel free to share your goals and TBR in the comments, so we can all inspire one another and provide some recommendations! :)
Sending you my very best wishes!
Carolyn (& Willow) Marie :)
My Goals:
- Read more broadly
- Try not to read too many classics back to back
- Read more contemporary fiction (in-between classics)
- Read the books that have been on my TBR for ages
- Go on special trips to the bookshop where I start/read my purchase the day I get it (prevent book buys from sitting on my shelves unread)
- Keep reading through the Penguin Little Black Classics
- Keep reading through the Beatrix Potter boxed set
- Pick a selection of major classic authors and read one book from them each (especially if I've never read from them before)
- Read major/longer Russian classics (less in book count but more in page count)
- Read more Shakespeare plays
- Get back into Poetry: continue with Walt Whitman and Mary Oliver especially
- Re-read Beartown and Us Against You in preparation for "The Winners" (the third book in the trilogy)
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- Ranking all the Russian classics I read in 2021 - • Ranking Every Russian ...
- Favorite books of 2021 - • Favorite Books Of 2021...
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Love Willow! She has a heart on her forehead, and is just beautiful. 💕
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful reading adventures with us, it's a joy to see them and learn of new titles and recommendations. Be well. 🙏
I'm so exited that you will read "Master and Margarita", is one of my all time favorit book!! Enjoy it!!
Willow is the cutest omg how lucky we are she graced us with her presence
The Blue Castle is my ultimate comfort read by Montgomery. I kid you not. For the last 45 years I have owned the physical copy more times than I can count, and every time I get a new device, ereader or computer, it's the first thing I download. Last time I read this sweet beautiful, and deep little story, was when I broke my arm and was waiting in the emergency room (about 3 years ago, before pandemic). You will NOT regret a second of it.
this was such a comforting video, and i think you will absolutely love "the shadow of the wind"! it really touched me, as someone who loves and appreciates literature.
Beckett's play is amazing!
Travels with Charlie!! John Steinbeck!! It’s his travels with his poodle across country!! Lovely. 🥰
I was so excited when I saw your edition of Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita because it’s the same one I have and I absolutely loved it!!! It’s comedic, unexpected, intense and a hundred other things. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did
The House in the Cerulean Sea is so sweet and heartwarming and was one of my favorite reads of last year. I think technically it is classified as adult but many people say (and I agree) that it reads like a middle grade (though I am a middle grade fan so it was definitely not a problem for me). I would say a must read! ❤️
It's a beautiful book
im such a fan of your vlogs and rlly love the calm vibes, feels like facetiming a friend
I'm trying to read more widely this year, too. I totally agree that switching between genres is really helpful for ensuring you love what you read. After reading classics I've started reading the odd 'palate cleanser,' just something light I don't have to think about much, and I think the contrast helps everything to shine out for what it is, without being too closely compared to the book I just read!
LOVE your taste in books, and your bookshelves are absolute goals! I think you're going to have a wonderful reading year this year 💛
As for Italian literature, I first read both Calvino and Ferrante this last year and just kept reading them because they’re incredible
Great list! Trying not to read as many classics as well... I recommend Raymond Carver's work - I read only his poems and stories which are incredible. Also, for Surrealist literature, you can read some of Leonora Carrington's work, she wrote short stories, novels and one children's book which she illustrated (one of her biggest influences was Beatrix Potter) and I think you will be interested in that as well.
I forget that some people actually buy the gorgeous covers instead of just fantasizing about them. All beautiful books!!
You will LOVE The Master and Margarita!!! And you have the best edition out there, imo!
Hamnet is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read
Me too, the master and margarita however is not, sorry. My ex-husband recommended it to me when i first met him, the book dragged and was so strange in places. It should have been a warning sign to me...😀
oH SISSSS, the crispiness of this video is *chef kiss*! So excited for you, Carolyn!
What if your dog chooses your next book? You pick 5 books you want to read in a month, then Willow sniffs the one he/she likes the more and that's the one you're going to read first. Could we see that?
Middlemarch is wonderful! It was one of my favourite books of 2021. I think you’ll love it 💕 And To the Lighthouse is amazing as well, another favourite!
You are adorable. And your love of all things books is infectious.
You and Emma inspired me to read Anna Karenina - I have 100 pages left and am absolutely loving it so THANK YOU 💗
I’m an eclectic reader for the same reason. I always have 1 Classic going but I use a reading plan of about 30 pgs a day..then along w that I rotate about 3 other books at the same time . Currently I’m reading Jane Eyre, Outlander and 2 cozy mysteries. I enjoy reading this way. I have found reading plans for my chunker books and classics works best for me.
Omg, The City of Dreaming Books is my favourite book of all time. You’ll love it.
LOL you said you want to read more broadly but your list contains mostly classics.
Good luck Carolyn, your TBR sounds awesome.
I think Willow is allergic to Philip Pullman. 😄 books around you and an adorable pup in your arms. Such bliss.
Middlemarch is on my TBR for this year too! If anyone wants to buddy read it, count me in!
This year 2022 is the centenary of Ulysses by James Joyce - that's a rewarding read.
Tender is the night oh my gosh so so beautiful! One of my favorite books! 🥰
i love your videos so much ! they bring me comfort and make me feel safe
Most of those classics that you picked out are ones I haven't read so I"M PUMPED!!! I cannot wait to get your views on them. They are all sitting on my shelves staring at me...2022 is going to be a great year for this channel, I can already tell. I am also looking forward to a lot more Russian classics(they have my entire heart)
What a lovely video- so calming!
I definitely prefer this style
My main goal is kind of like what you said about Russian lit. I want to read less books, but a similar number of pages.
Especially last year I didn't really pick up long or really challenging reads and so that is something that I really want to focus on this year.
My tbr includes:
Master and margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (already started it and really enjoying it)
The book thief by Markus Zusak
Mansfield park by Jane Austen (I would also like to reread some of her other work but Mansfield park is the only novel of hers I've never read)
How wonderful your videos. I wrote down every genre that I have in my library and I include short stories short mysteries short fairytales poetry and such. And then I go down that list, look at my library and choose one of those genres and check it off, and once I have finished that book I will choose another genre and check it off. That way I get to read everything I have and not skip any genres. Good luck with your 2022 goals
I’m getting way too excited watching this video!
I love John Green! Paper Towns is my favorite of his novels, but The Fault in Our Stars is great (and popular for good reason)!
Northhanger Abbey is my favorite Austen after Emma! I really want to read The Mysteries of Udolpho and get more of a gothic background in general!
Virginia Woolf is my favorite author of all time! Mrs. Dalloway is my all time favorite book, but To the Lighthouse is a great place to start as well! I haven’t read Orlando yet!
Yess, I also want to read Northanger Abbey this year and I just bought the first book in the Witcher series!! 😍
North and South would be good to read with Shirley since they are both about Mill owners. I started Villette and got about half way through. I'm meaning to finish it someday.
If you werent crazy about Crime and Punishment the first time, it could definitely be the translation you read. I am personally not a fan of Pevear and Volokhonsky whatsoever (I know a lot of people are), you will likely have a better experience with a different translation. I would recommend the Penguin McDuff or the Penguin Deluxe Oliver Ready!
I came down to the comment section to recommend the exact same thing. I can highly recommend the Ready translation. I preferred it by far to the P&V translation.
I sooo agree! I own the P&V and started it back in September 2021, I found it very hard to get through, personally it felt very flat and it was hard to keep focused or to visualize the plot or the characters so I DNFed it but I want to either reread it or pick up a new translation.
Yea P&V is not very readable.Try Rosemary Edmonds or Briggs
The house in the cerulean sea is an adult fantasy
So fun seeing you get excited about different books, also I have just started crocheting so I enjoyed seeing your crochet project! I received a copy of Anna Karenina for Christmas so that is definitely on my TBR for 2022 and I also just bought a copy of The Idiot by Dostoevsky so am hoping to get to that too. I really like your idea of going to the bookstore and then starting to read the book you buy that same day - I think I need to implement that as I am always picking up books from the second-hand bookshop in my town and then letting them sit on my shelf for ages!
I think you'll really enjoy Northanger Abbey AND North and South- both are all-time favorites. I'm actually buddy reading The Blue Castle this month! Thanks for sharing and Willow is just precious. ❤
i was very lucky to see sir ian mckellan in the cherry orchard last year and it was HEARTWRENCHING i cried. so much
The Blue Castle is sublime! I think you'll love it!
Yay! Very excited for this. Love our videos! I'm doing 3 reading challenges this year (3 books per month) & I just recommended "The Green Mile"by Stephen King to you. It's amazing. I started it last night & I'm already 65% though. I can't put it down! It had been on my to-read shelf for 2 or 3 years. Next I'm reading "The Woman They Could Not Silence" by Kate Moore and "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
I'm a new subscriber and only just saw this video. The Tempest and The Winter's Tale are two of my favorite Shakespeare plays. I read The Winter's Tale last year and was completely taken in by the ending. I also love Madam Bovary! I've come to realize that I really enjoy French classics in general. Right now I'm working on Lost Illusions by Balzac and I'm really enjoying it.
So happy to hear you like Hemingway! I feel like not enough booktubers talk about him. I read several of his books in transition when I was younger and I loved them, now my goal is to read them in English. His short stories unfortunately didn’t make any sense in translation, it’s probably because Japanese is so far away from English language 🥲. Japanese is so far away from any other languages 😅. I have been reading and rereading In Our Time, so can’t wait to hear you talk about it!
I'm a big John Steinbeck fan! East of Eden is fantastic, but check out Cannery Row too! It's really lovely and short (and a little heartbreaking).
Oh that’s great to hear! I’ll definitely look into Cannery Row! Thank you for the recommendation :)
As a Swedish person it was so fun hearing you talk about a swedish book, i did not know it was swedish haha…
really enjoyed all of this! good luck w everything 💛
Willow thinks you are talking to her🥰
I get willows all the time.
Awwww .. Carolyn, I love you. My new year resolution is to not buy a single book this year. I want to read the books I have on my bookshelf.
Aside from being and interesting look into your TBR (all the interesting side-notes included, like the Pocket-Biran), I will mark your videos as the ones I can put in the background as you have a lovely speaking voice :D
Aw thank you so much! I’m very happy to hear that! :)
I recommend reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise either before or after Tender is the Night. It was his first book and is really good. I will warn you though, it might bring up some tears towards the end due to it's similarity to the quietness of college campuses due to the pandemic. It almost made me cry.
George Eliot is amazing! I read The Mill on the Floss, which was my first book by her, and it was one of the best books I've read.
I sent you the Marie Bashkirtseff book. I wasn't able to put a note with it, and wasn't sure if you got it. Then I just happened to spy it on your shelf!! I'm hoping to find volume two, but I believe these are out of print. Marie is such a character. As her journals begin she's a Russian teenager living in Southern France. She eventually becomes an artist. I immediately thought of Marie when I started watching your videos. Anyway, glad you got it.
I LOVE On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. It really is such beautiful writing, and my mom being from Vietnam, I believe depicts a very raw and real experience of the Vietnamese diaspora. Also, ASOUE is also my favorite children's series, that I still reread to this day! As for East of Eden, I love John Steinbeck and this is definitely his best work. I actually recommend reading another of his works (maybe Grapes of Wrath?) first, before going right into East of Eden, because I think it gives one an even greater appreciation for East of Eden, which imo is a masterpiece :)
You need to read Dead Souls and Madame Bovary!!! I read them both in my 19thc European Lit paper last sem along with Crime and Punishment and Balzac's Old Man Goriot and they were amazing.
Fathers and Sons, Shadow of the Wind, Mary Oliver, Heidi, The Blue Castle, The Winter's Tale, The Professor, Those three hardbacks which look like fairy tales...OMGosh😍Stay Tuned!)
I saw a Sylvia Plath drawing on your website, will you be selling that one? I would buy one as soon as possible!!
You have to read the house in the cerulean sea!!! I finished it last week and it's such a heartwarming book! 💗
If you haven’t read it already, you’ll love “A Gentleman in Moscow.”
Try "Shadow of the Wind"again.You won't
regret it."The Decameron" is a good place to start for Italian Lit.Better than Dante
So many great choices for 2022 :D I can't wait to see what your thoughts on The Master & Margarita are. East of Eden is amazing, I actually came across it because of the movie (I used to be quote obsessed with James Dean :p) It's a big book, but super readable :) Oh, I feel so nostalgic about The Series of Unfortunate Events.... I was 14 or 15 (I think?), when I first came across it, and I remember me and my friends being so crazy about it, and going to the bookstore after school to get the next books. I think I had 6 books in total and when I was leaving for Uni, I gave them to my little sister and now I'm not really sure what's happened to them, but now I wish I still had them, so I could reread them and most importantly finish the whole series. :)
You inspired me a lot) thank u for this
About my goals: i just want to read more than 50 books in this year, enjoy all of them and find new favourites
And now I’m thinking to make video about my goals for 2022 too…so, maybe I will do it))
"I have such a crush on Geralt. I mean it's Henry Cavill - how can you not have a crush on him?". So true! That man is so beautiful, he makes my eyes hurt 😍
Hi Carolyn i read east of eden last year and really loved it, please read the book first the details and every little thing that he describes and the way he describes it is just beautiful and different from the movie.
Willow has growth fast!!!
Hemingway short stories are sooo good, crisp and elegant, nothing redundant at all. Think you can maybe slowly work your way through them to keep the feeling fresh :)
Master and Margarita is truly a masterpiece .You will enjoy every word of it. I had a pleasure reading it in Russian and Bulgakov is amazing. I am happy for you already :) enjoy!
I want to reread Crime and Punishment too, but first I want to read Anna Karenina, Brothers Karamazov, and Master & Margarita first. I need to continue working on my ability to get through 500+ pages within the year, as well as finishing some series. Like you, I want to add more variety in my reading.
I don't have time to watch the video right now, but the thumbnail is so pretty😍
Aw hahah thank you so much!
Also, I’ll be reading Eugene Onegin because of you Carolyn. I have a collection of his poetry and picked it up just to understand your love and, man, you were spot on. So, onto Onegin we go!
Aaaaaaa read Villette! :))
I love your reading goals! I love reading and analyzing classics but reading them back-to-back can be a bit taxing so I like to break it up with "lighter" books. Also I have the same problem with having many books that have been on my shelf for ages (whoops), some that have never been read while others I read but have no idea what it is about haha
I loved The Book Thief.
just say the word and we’ll start northanger abbey!!!
Amazing!! Will do 😄❤️
I hope you do get to read to the lighthouse and middlemarch! both of them are really good; I loved them and I feel like you will like them too ❤
do read if on a winter's night a traveller! i just finished it a few days ago and it was really a trip. the structure of it gets a little repetitive as you go along but the discussions wrt reading and books were really worth it
Your reading plans sound really great! I hope you have a fantastic reading year. Do you have a recommendation for where to start with Hemingway? I've never read any of his works but I'd love to do that this year.
Carolyn, have you heard of The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa? It partly follows Anna's son and the Karenins after the events of Anna Karenina.
North and South is so wonderful...but I must say the BBC mini series is just as great, maybe even better! I'm not used to book adaptations surpassing the book. 😲😲
I am a new subscriber. Love your Russian reads. I have read War and Peace three times and Anna Kar. twice . One author you never mention is Faulkner. He said the greatest book in lit. Is Anna Kar. You should try him .My favorite author.
Your video is really inspiring, Carolyn, I have been reading some books by José de Alencar, a brazilian author from Romantism (1860) In my list for this year: Minx by Julia Quinn. Some Bram Stoker´s short stories, Whutering Heights, A romance Uma menina está perdida no seu século à procura do pai by Portuguese Gonçalo M. Tavares. Passage to Ararat by Armenian Michael J. Arlen, The Human Comedy buy the Armenian William Saroyan, O pai Goriot by Balzac, The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins, Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, I had read Americannah by her and I liked it very much. I am very ecletic in my readings. Hugs from São Paulo, Brazil, and a very happy new year!
this video feels so homey, like i was right there with you skdkejdjr also, the thumbnail is gorgeous!!!!!!
Aw I’m so glad!!! Thank you so much! ❤️
Definitely not back to back... that's how I read Jane Austen!!! Omnibus edition from the library 🤣 BIG mistake. 'Blue Castle' 🏰 awesome. Remember 'Northanger Abbey' gothic satire.🤩❤️❤️❤️👋from 🇨🇦
If you allow me, I would like to recommend you (and everyone of course) Il barone rampante by Italo Calvino. I read it last summer and it is one of the most beautiful books that have been written in the 20th century. You will not regret.
Greetings from Barcelona.
There's a wonderful 2014 movie version of "Madam Bovary" entitled "Gemma Bovery" which updates the story (more or less!) to the modern day and stars the luminous English actress Gemma Arterton in the title role. Read the book first then watch the film (then read the book again!)
I know this video was awhile ago, but I would love to know where your friend got the personalized magnetic bookmark.
I have yet to read Powers’ Overstory but I read Bewilderment recently and it is among the best books I’ve ever read, life changing and heart breaking, please read it everyone
Also, I am just now halfway through listening to The Shadow of the Wind and I have the exact same feeling. I am disappointed that I don't love it. Maybe the second half if better. We'll see.
Love that Book Thief edition too.
I want to read more classics this year! I bought Crime & Punishment, based off of many recommendations here on RUclips, but I was so intimidated! Also, where do you get your Penguin Deluxe editions?! I haven't seen any online and I really want to add to my collection!
Excited to read The Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennett and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte.
I'm really interested to see what you think about the Witcher. I really like the games - I think this is where the original fan base comes from - but I also really liked the first season (haven't watched the second yet). HOWEVER. I really didn't like the first two books (the short story collections), and I thought they were incredibly sexist, among other things that put me off.. :( It got a lot better with the first novel, however (I'm currently on book 4), so if you struggle with the first book, let this be your hopeful reminder that they DO get better.
a passage to india is my favorite book of all time, but to appreciate it you need to read it slowly
You look so cute in this outfit ♡
I like to group all the books that I want to read in 2022 on a separate shelf so that my eyes don’t wander to other books that I really shouldn’t be reading, even if I don’t get to all of them.
I read the last wish and Sword of destiny and both are great. I also plan on reading North and South this year, so I will love to hear your thoughts on the book once you read it.
I am trying to find the Anna Karenina copy with the woman in the corset on the front. One of the videos I watched, you mentioned waiting for it to come in the mail. Please where can I find it?
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