I too have started to take everything (read or unread) that I'm no longer thinking it's something I want to keep and donating them. It does, indeed, spark joy. Every time I drop off a pile of books I breathe a little deeper.
@@novelideea I definitely want to get better at doing this. I find it so hard to get rid of books. One thing that has helped me with the unread ones is the thought that they are languishing on my shelves and someone could be enjoying them!
@@scallydandlingaboutthebooks absolutely! That’s a great way to think about it - ebb and flow! I’m trying to be more mindful about doing less when I need to and being okay with that.
This is my first reading ramble and I loved it! Very cozy and warm. I like to get organized both mentally and physically so that you can be intentional and productive. Loved the self reflection 😊
@@OnastackofBooks I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I’m exactly the same - need to get my thoughts and space in order so that I can be productive. Hope the year started well for you!
@@novelideea thank you, Deea! I have a whole load of colourful scarfs I used to wear quite a lot because I tend to wear black and grey jumpers and dresses so they add in nice touch of colour plus kept my neck warm in the winter. They’ve been packed away - it’s nice to rediscover clothes that you haven’t worn in a while!
Hi Jack, Yay! Alberta and Jacob! I’m sure you will love it. I love the idea of playing with books because they’re readers toys. I am also reading from my shelf this year, but it hasn’t been that successful yet because I am collecting books from the library and going down rabbit holes because of the best of 2024. Love your reading rambles. Aloha dear friend.
@@MarilynMayaMendoza so glad you enjoyed the ramble, Marilyn! The exact same thing has happened to me because I keep reserving books and they keep coming through because of everybody’s ‘best of 2024’ lists! Oh well - as long as we’re enjoying ourselves!
I loved your reading ramble, Jack, and I am so glad that you were able to make good decisions to take better care of yourself in the past year. I'm so happy that you were able to find a copy of Snow in August. It's such a lovely novel. I hope you enjoy it.
Always love your videos and listening to you talk about books and life. I had a really busy strange 2024 and only read 21 books so this year I’m hoping to get back on track a bit. My goal is to read my owned tbr. 3 of my own books and then I can borrow 1 library book so that I’m still supporting libraries.
@@KitQuirke hey Kit! I think that’s probably a really good move regarding library books being your treat for reading three of your own books. I should probably implement something like that myself because I’m just constantly reading library books at the moment. And while I definitely wanted to keep borrowing library books to support them, it’s definitely getting in the way of reading my own books this month. But then some of the books I’ve had on hold for ages so just need to manage a bit better. Happy reading!
I'm such a mood reader, so I can relate to what you are sharing. I feel like setting number goals and trying to stick to tbr lists suck the joy out of reading for me 😖 that's actually why I've never done read alongs or reading challenges. I love your reading ramble style of video! Makes me feel like I'm just hanging out with a friend and talking about my favorite hobby 😀📚
@@beyondtherequiredreading Really glad you enjoyed this chatty style of video. Have to be really selective with the reading challenges or read-alongs that you take part in or it can quickly dominate your reading life. As someone who always felt they were a mood reader, I quickly let that get out of control and it made something that supposed to be a wonderful hobby a little bit stressful.
It’s always a pleasure to watch your videos Jack. Happy to see you hold up Hugo Cabret! I got stalled on Saga somewhere around issue 60 but I’m planning to get back to it in 2025. 😊
This is so lovely to hear about your reflection year, thanks for sharing and how you aporoached it. So pleased you managed to do things that worked for you. And hooray fir the Winter of Joy💜📚 Your community centre sounds gorgeous. Yay for playing with your books i love that! 🫂💜📚 So far 🤪😴☺️ is my Jan
@@ChattieTheMadChatter I think that seems like a lot of people‘s Januarys! 🤣 I feel like I’m reclaiming reading for me with my winter of reading joy - hoping to continue the trend in 2025!
Love your reading ramble Jack, am glad you’re taking care of yourself. I’m dropping the numbers game this year and just seeing how I go. Am doing Ben’s challenge which is fun and a couple of reading groups but that’s it!
I'm a slower reader, but in 2024 l consistently read books all year for the first time in ages. Continuing in 2025! I'm a mood reader with a few prompts and month challenges when they appeal to me. Look forward to a few more ramble videos this year when you feel like creating them.📖
Congratulations! I hope it continues for you in 2025! Highly recommend the ‘Read Good’ challenge for the flexibility that it offers. Happy you enjoyed the ramble - thank you!
🏋♂🙃🧡💛💚💙 You've inspired me to give more of my books to charity. Just the ones that have been on my shelf so long that I'm bored of seeing them. This is a good thing! My year so far has been strange, I've done very well with my goal of working out first thing in the morning, but it feels like everything else has gone out the window 😅 Thanks for the video as always.
@@Ellen_Mercy I always find it really difficult to let go of books, especially if they’ve not been read but realistically, I doubt I’ll ever get to these books! It helped me to think of the fact that the books need to be read by someone rather than languishing on my shelves - poor books! Well done and working out every morning - not a small thing! I had wanted to do that myself, but my motivation completely went out the window.
I love your ramble updates. I'm also doing the Ben reads good challenge...but I need to finish my current book before i start my Ann book. I'm going to read Ann Leckie ancillary justice and have commonwealth by ann pattchet as an audiobook back up. I'm also doing a version of read what you own challenge, but for me it's not just reading what I own but also unhauling, so I got my husband and run to roll dice for how many I have to read and unhaul (physical for both) before I can buy another book (minimum 2 maximum 12) I got 10 so the idea being that I have to read 10 physical I owe but also have to unhaul 10 I own (they can be different books to what I read if I decide to keep any) before I'm allowed to buy another physical book. I'm not limiting myself on library books but I need to be trying to read more than I own and moving it on after when I don't think I'll reread or I'm not emotionally attached to it, since last year I only read a 1/3rd owned, this is pretty much my main goal this year, read what I own, do Ben reads good challenge and also read war and peace. Once I've done 10 I can buy 1 book and they get to roll the dice again!
@@jillybeanh67 sounds like a fun system! I think the issue with me and reading what I own is that I am constantly borrowing books from the library based on all of the ‘best of 2024’ videos! I love the read good challenge for the variety that it’s offering me from my own shelves. Such a fun idea. A few years back I used to do the read harder challenge which I think was set up by the book riot website and it was similar and that it would have unusual prompts. I might try and return to that actually!
@@clarepotter7584 that’s why I haven’t posted with most of my uni books - they were expensive! I’m keeping my eye out for a couple more that I want and Oxfam seems the most likely place now!
16:27 - such a difficult thing to manage! I have uad to reflect alot on why am in not picking up a final book in a series that i really want to read. So why am i still not reading it😂💜📚
Hence why i don’t do wrap ups felt it really ‘eugh’ to film. I love a good ramble am rather partial to it myself 😂 I am going to try and finish some series myself. Ohh Edward Marston, fab! I picked up Fairy Tale in a charity shop recently.
16:15 - yes Jack, i love a series contination...could Amari be calling to you? Or perhaps the next Hobb. Lol i started 2 new series this month and I have a new "where does this book come from" category - my eldest son's personal library 😂 i think it 8s only his non-fiction minecraft books that he got for christmas which i don't want to read! 😂💜📚
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I always love how thoughtful and measured your reading reflections are. Booktube’s most mentally-healthy reader! 😅
@@benreadsgood trying to be! Thank you, Ben - I’m glad you enjoyed my rambling!
I too have started to take everything (read or unread) that I'm no longer thinking it's something I want to keep and donating them. It does, indeed, spark joy. Every time I drop off a pile of books I breathe a little deeper.
@@novelideea I definitely want to get better at doing this. I find it so hard to get rid of books. One thing that has helped me with the unread ones is the thought that they are languishing on my shelves and someone could be enjoying them!
Some interesting books mentioned. Food for thought. The ever expanding tbr! Happy reading to you.
Thank you! And happy reading to you as well!
It's very relaxing listening to you ramble. I think it is so important to allow ourselves to ebb and flow naturally with reading and making videos.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebooks absolutely! That’s a great way to think about it - ebb and flow! I’m trying to be more mindful about doing less when I need to and being okay with that.
This is my first reading ramble and I loved it! Very cozy and warm. I like to get organized both mentally and physically so that you can be intentional and productive. Loved the self reflection 😊
@@OnastackofBooks I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I’m exactly the same - need to get my thoughts and space in order so that I can be productive. Hope the year started well for you!
I love your Rambles!
@@novelideea thank you, Deea. I’ve missed doing them.
I loved this reading ramble. 🙂
@@ariannefowler455 thank you, Arianne! I’m really pleased to bring them back!
This raspberry pink gray combo looks lovely on you, btw.
@@novelideea thank you, Deea! I have a whole load of colourful scarfs I used to wear quite a lot because I tend to wear black and grey jumpers and dresses so they add in nice touch of colour plus kept my neck warm in the winter. They’ve been packed away - it’s nice to rediscover clothes that you haven’t worn in a while!
Love me a good ramble thoroughly relatable thank you ☕🫖😊
@@melissahouse1296 oh good! I’m happy to be doing them again! 🤍
Hi Jack, Yay! Alberta and Jacob! I’m sure you will love it. I love the idea of playing with books because they’re readers toys. I am also reading from my shelf this year, but it hasn’t been that successful yet because I am collecting books from the library and going down rabbit holes because of the best of 2024. Love your reading rambles. Aloha dear friend.
@@MarilynMayaMendoza so glad you enjoyed the ramble, Marilyn! The exact same thing has happened to me because I keep reserving books and they keep coming through because of everybody’s ‘best of 2024’ lists! Oh well - as long as we’re enjoying ourselves!
I love your reading rambles 😊😤
@@novellenovels thanks, Em! I’m glad to be doing them again. 💟
My year is going alright as far as reading goes. I am not reading that much. But I am enjoying what I'm reading
@@stuartgriffin1001 and that is the important thing! You could be reading a lot and enjoying none of it and I know what position I’d prefer to be in!
Got to love a ramble... lol.
Totally! 😂
Always love a Jack reading ramble. You always make me reflect but also put things in perspective (🐌😴 my emojis )
@@CharlieBrookReads thank you so much , Charlie! Those emojis match me as well!
I loved your reading ramble, Jack, and I am so glad that you were able to make good decisions to take better care of yourself in the past year. I'm so happy that you were able to find a copy of Snow in August. It's such a lovely novel. I hope you enjoy it.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 really looking forward to reading that at some point - thank you for telling us all about it!
I love Brian Selznick's books.
@@novelideea Hugo Cabret was my first - I have to seek out some more!
I most definitely want to see what you were gifted!
@@novelideea I shall add that to the next reading ramble!
I am also using the Read Good Challenge to read books from my shelves that I really want to get to sooner rather than later.
@@mariasmiles68 it’s such a fun challenge!
I listened to this in the car on the day you published it and now I’ve forgotten everything I wanted to say 😂
Love that the rambles are back though 🎉
@@GemofBooks I do the same when I’m listening and cooking or driving! 😂
Always love your videos and listening to you talk about books and life. I had a really busy strange 2024 and only read 21 books so this year I’m hoping to get back on track a bit. My goal is to read my owned tbr. 3 of my own books and then I can borrow 1 library book so that I’m still supporting libraries.
@@KitQuirke hey Kit! I think that’s probably a really good move regarding library books being your treat for reading three of your own books. I should probably implement something like that myself because I’m just constantly reading library books at the moment. And while I definitely wanted to keep borrowing library books to support them, it’s definitely getting in the way of reading my own books this month. But then some of the books I’ve had on hold for ages so just need to manage a bit better. Happy reading!
I'm such a mood reader, so I can relate to what you are sharing. I feel like setting number goals and trying to stick to tbr lists suck the joy out of reading for me 😖 that's actually why I've never done read alongs or reading challenges. I love your reading ramble style of video! Makes me feel like I'm just hanging out with a friend and talking about my favorite hobby 😀📚
@@beyondtherequiredreading Really glad you enjoyed this chatty style of video. Have to be really selective with the reading challenges or read-alongs that you take part in or it can quickly dominate your reading life. As someone who always felt they were a mood reader, I quickly let that get out of control and it made something that supposed to be a wonderful hobby a little bit stressful.
It’s always a pleasure to watch your videos Jack. Happy to see you hold up Hugo Cabret! I got stalled on Saga somewhere around issue 60 but I’m planning to get back to it in 2025. 😊
@@lindysmagpiereads thank you so much, Lindy! I am loving saga and have two volumes left to go. Hugo Cabre was such a wonderful afternoon’s reading.
This is so lovely to hear about your reflection year, thanks for sharing and how you aporoached it. So pleased you managed to do things that worked for you. And hooray fir the Winter of Joy💜📚
Your community centre sounds gorgeous.
Yay for playing with your books i love that! 🫂💜📚
So far 🤪😴☺️ is my Jan
@@ChattieTheMadChatter I think that seems like a lot of people‘s Januarys! 🤣 I feel like I’m reclaiming reading for me with my winter of reading joy - hoping to continue the trend in 2025!
@spreadbookjoy bring it! 😃🥰🪻🪺🥞☕️🌊🌈🎊
Wishing you all the joy! 📚💜
Love your reading ramble Jack, am glad you’re taking care of yourself. I’m dropping the numbers game this year and just seeing how I go. Am doing Ben’s challenge which is fun and a couple of reading groups but that’s it!
@@Ali-AvidReader the challenge is adding another fun dimension to reading what I own. Glad you enjoyed the ramble - happy reading! 💟
I'm a slower reader, but in 2024 l consistently read books all year for the first time in ages. Continuing in 2025! I'm a mood reader with a few prompts and month challenges when they appeal to me. Look forward to a few more ramble videos this year when you feel like creating them.📖
Congratulations! I hope it continues for you in 2025! Highly recommend the ‘Read Good’ challenge for the flexibility that it offers. Happy you enjoyed the ramble - thank you!
🏋♂🙃🧡💛💚💙 You've inspired me to give more of my books to charity. Just the ones that have been on my shelf so long that I'm bored of seeing them. This is a good thing!
My year so far has been strange, I've done very well with my goal of working out first thing in the morning, but it feels like everything else has gone out the window 😅 Thanks for the video as always.
@@Ellen_Mercy I always find it really difficult to let go of books, especially if they’ve not been read but realistically, I doubt I’ll ever get to these books! It helped me to think of the fact that the books need to be read by someone rather than languishing on my shelves - poor books! Well done and working out every morning - not a small thing! I had wanted to do that myself, but my motivation completely went out the window.
I haven't read Dragonflight, but I have read her Harper Hall trilogy and it is an all time favorite series. Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums.
@@novelideea good to know!
I loved this so glad you are doing these videos again ❤
@@CandySoulAndSoil thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! ☺️🤍
Hi Jack. I play with my books too (doesn't everyone?!)
@@GinaStanyerBooks if they don’t, they should! 😁
I love your ramble updates.
I'm also doing the Ben reads good challenge...but I need to finish my current book before i start my Ann book. I'm going to read Ann Leckie ancillary justice and have commonwealth by ann pattchet as an audiobook back up.
I'm also doing a version of read what you own challenge, but for me it's not just reading what I own but also unhauling, so I got my husband and run to roll dice for how many I have to read and unhaul (physical for both) before I can buy another book (minimum 2 maximum 12) I got 10 so the idea being that I have to read 10 physical I owe but also have to unhaul 10 I own (they can be different books to what I read if I decide to keep any) before I'm allowed to buy another physical book. I'm not limiting myself on library books but I need to be trying to read more than I own and moving it on after when I don't think I'll reread or I'm not emotionally attached to it, since last year I only read a 1/3rd owned, this is pretty much my main goal this year, read what I own, do Ben reads good challenge and also read war and peace. Once I've done 10 I can buy 1 book and they get to roll the dice again!
@@jillybeanh67 sounds like a fun system! I think the issue with me and reading what I own is that I am constantly borrowing books from the library based on all of the ‘best of 2024’ videos! I love the read good challenge for the variety that it’s offering me from my own shelves. Such a fun idea. A few years back I used to do the read harder challenge which I think was set up by the book riot website and it was similar and that it would have unusual prompts. I might try and return to that actually!
Methinks someone's donated their Cambridge companion guides post study. I bought a couple for OU, they cost me a decent amount, I'm keeping them!
@@clarepotter7584 that’s why I haven’t posted with most of my uni books - they were expensive! I’m keeping my eye out for a couple more that I want and Oxfam seems the most likely place now!
16:54 i have Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel as a Potential this year! I really want to read Jade City. I love I shall wear Midnight 💜📚
@@ChattieTheMadChatter it took all of my energies not to dive into Jade City!
@spreadbookjoy 😆😆😆 but then if you are having a read of wonderfullness maybe you should! 💜📚
I’m gonna try and be good!
@@spreadbookjoy 😆😆😆
So, we definitely need to read Abhorsen so you can finish the series! 🤣
@@novelideea exactly!
16:27 - such a difficult thing to manage! I have uad to reflect alot on why am in not picking up a final book in a series that i really want to read. So why am i still not reading it😂💜📚
@@ChattieTheMadChatter yes I’ve decided that I really need to just give up on some!
@spreadbookjoy good shout, especially when you can barely remember what happened before! 😆😆
Hence why i don’t do wrap ups felt it really ‘eugh’ to film.
I love a good ramble am rather partial to it myself 😂
I am going to try and finish some series myself.
Ohh Edward Marston, fab!
I picked up Fairy Tale in a charity shop recently.
@@Bookishtravels1 started fairytale yesterday and it hooked me straight away!
@@spreadbookjoy ohh promising :)
16:15 - yes Jack, i love a series contination...could Amari be calling to you? Or perhaps the next Hobb.
Lol i started 2 new series this month and I have a new "where does this book come from" category - my eldest son's personal library 😂 i think it 8s only his non-fiction minecraft books that he got for christmas which i don't want to read! 😂💜📚
@@ChattieTheMadChatter really should read Amari! Always good to have a new source of books 😁
@spreadbookjoy or dangerous! 😆
When she is cqlling to you, ihope you pick up both the next Amari books and have a lovely time 🔮✨️💜📚
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@@toniweller6008 🙌😁🤍
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@@marie-joseedrolet9655 😁🤍
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@@Toourowntune perfectly describes my new year so far as well!
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