I love all of these and am stealing a few, a few I already had down for my 2025. One I am going to try, but not sure if this interests you, is to read a book each month from an indie publisher or press that I have never read a book from. I find some real hidden gems this way. Thanks for your video.
Love this. I'm doing 'Read One Book a Year from 1971 to 2025', which covers my age. I could do the Winners of the Booker Prize for each of those years. But they're all great ideas.
I had read Jane Austen's six novels over the years, a few of them more than once, but it was only when Alyssa inaugurated her "My Year with Jane Austen" project earlier in 2024 that I began rereading Austen more slowly and carefully, taking notes, and sometimes following up topics in academic critical studies. The result was that I now feel I have a deeper understanding of Jane Austen as an author, and a better appreciation of the literary quality of her novels. I even changed my mind about "Emma".
Loved this list of ideas. I may just give one or two a whirl. The one about prize lists the year you are born could be really interesting. I wonder if all the books would still be in print from my year of birth. Hahaha. The reading for x amount of time a day is a great one too.
Thank uuu my goat, will try implementing these onto my goals 🫶😈 my fav ideas are the Booker from the birth year, soooo good im now looking up the list of my year, and reading from around the world I do think my reading is too western focused I need to remember theres a whooole world of literature out there!
Love the radiating sun ☀️ appearance from time to time, these are some nice ideas! I rewrite poems I see in books for a better understanding or for creativity purposes. 🙌 have an amazing day, Kiran.
I think I'm going to do something like the continent one, I want to read a book by a writer from every Central/Eastern European/post-Soviet country I haven't read from yet :O
Like the author challenge idea. My catnip is Virago Modern Classics, and will be doing 25 in 25. It also satisfies my secondhand bookshop habit. In the past I have set myself challenges to read books by Welsh authors and by writers from the Harlem Renaissance.
I don't think I'd be able to do any of these for a full year (apart from maybe reading booker prizes from a specific year) but these are really fun monthly challenges !! esp. reading from one continent 🔥
also, re liking prose writing from poets: first off, lol. but i do like poetry, so i often like prose by poets. and also sometimes the poetic prose is better than the poems themselves
Yes, the book is always better than the movie. For example, I enjoyed seeing "Small Things Like These" a few weeks ago, but it was apparent that the character of Bill Furlong had been simplified to suit the time constraints of a 1' 38" movie. The exception that proves the rule, I would say, is "The Quiet Girl" film adaptation of Claire Keegan's novella "Foster". The director/screenwriter, Colm Bairead, added some scenes that I thought deepened the meaning and emotional effect of Keegan's original work. At the same time, it's very difficult for a film to capture the inner thoughts of Keegan's little heroine in passages such as this: "Mrs. Kinsella gives me a bar of yellow soap and my facecloth, the hairbrush. As we gather all these things together, I remember the days we spent, where we got them, what was sometimes said, and how the sun, for most of the time, was shining." Isn't that how we'd all like to preserve our memories of things past, when "the sun, for most of the time, was shining."
brb looking up the booker for my birth year!!
omg rainbow reading sounds like a lot of fun!
love all of these ideas!
I love all of these and am stealing a few, a few I already had down for my 2025. One I am going to try, but not sure if this interests you, is to read a book each month from an indie publisher or press that I have never read a book from. I find some real hidden gems this way. Thanks for your video.
Sooo many good ideas!!! Love it
Love this. I'm doing 'Read One Book a Year from 1971 to 2025', which covers my age. I could do the Winners of the Booker Prize for each of those years. But they're all great ideas.
Impeccable ideas
I had read Jane Austen's six novels over the years, a few of them more than once, but it was only when Alyssa inaugurated her "My Year with Jane Austen" project earlier in 2024 that I began rereading Austen more slowly and carefully, taking notes, and sometimes following up topics in academic critical studies. The result was that I now feel I have a deeper understanding of Jane Austen as an author, and a better appreciation of the literary quality of her novels. I even changed my mind about "Emma".
ohh, one colour books for a while sounds fantastic! and 1 non-fiction book every month for a year. thanks for the fun prompts☺
of course!! happy to help :)
You look extra pretty today
Agree, the blue suits her well!
Loved this list of ideas. I may just give one or two a whirl. The one about prize lists the year you are born could be really interesting. I wonder if all the books would still be in print from my year of birth. Hahaha. The reading for x amount of time a day is a great one too.
Thank uuu my goat, will try implementing these onto my goals 🫶😈 my fav ideas are the Booker from the birth year, soooo good im now looking up the list of my year, and reading from around the world I do think my reading is too western focused I need to remember theres a whooole world of literature out there!
Love the radiating sun ☀️ appearance from time to time, these are some nice ideas!
I rewrite poems I see in books for a better understanding or for creativity purposes. 🙌 have an amazing day, Kiran.
yes, these are delightful!
I think I'm going to do something like the continent one, I want to read a book by a writer from every Central/Eastern European/post-Soviet country I haven't read from yet :O
Like the author challenge idea. My catnip is Virago Modern Classics, and will be doing 25 in 25. It also satisfies my secondhand bookshop habit. In the past I have set myself challenges to read books by Welsh authors and by writers from the Harlem Renaissance.
I love these!!!!
Are u thinking of doing any planner journal stuff for the new year?
I don't think I'd be able to do any of these for a full year (apart from maybe reading booker prizes from a specific year) but these are really fun monthly challenges !! esp. reading from one continent 🔥
also, re liking prose writing from poets: first off, lol. but i do like poetry, so i often like prose by poets. and also sometimes the poetic prose is better than the poems themselves
"I don't want those clowns to touch my book" 🤣
Yes, the book is always better than the movie. For example, I enjoyed seeing "Small Things Like These" a few weeks ago, but it was apparent that the character of Bill Furlong had been simplified to suit the time constraints of a 1' 38" movie. The exception that proves the rule, I would say, is "The Quiet Girl" film adaptation of Claire Keegan's novella "Foster". The director/screenwriter, Colm Bairead, added some scenes that I thought deepened the meaning and emotional effect of Keegan's original work. At the same time, it's very difficult for a film to capture the inner thoughts of Keegan's little heroine in passages such as this: "Mrs. Kinsella gives me a bar of yellow soap and my facecloth, the hairbrush. As we gather all these things together, I remember the days we spent, where we got them, what was sometimes said, and how the sun, for most of the time, was shining." Isn't that how we'd all like to preserve our memories of things past, when "the sun, for most of the time, was shining."