#thinks really hard about all the then weird niche kindle books i read in that time

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while i would watch a willow wren tv show in a heartbeat. i think a novelization would have been the SHIT to middle school sunne

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2023 in Books | The Reading Plans

Tomorrow Goodreads will ask me how many books I want to read in 2023. And I’m not sure what will be my answer, but I do have an idea of what I would like to read next year. Again, in list form, because it’s easier to find my words like this. 

▲ The big goal for this year is to read all the physical books on my TBR. I got four (!) new books for Christmas and, together with the ones I’ve bought for myself the past couple of years, I have a decent stack of things I’m very much interested in that sit on my shelf and collect dust because I keep buying Kindle versions of weird niche books youtubers recommend. I love reading physical copies, I am interested in all this stories. All I need is a little bit of self restraint. 

▲ Discovering new favourite authors is always exciting, but I would love to dive deeper into the bibliographies of my currently established favourites. So far, Emily St. John Mandel is the only author whose bibliography I’ve read in its entirety (at least, as far as the novels go). I’ve been wanting to read the complete works of Jack McDevitt for a really long time (his books are always good fun), I want to read all the Sci-Fi work by Adrian Tchaikovsky because his Sci-Fi style is my favourite (and I find his fantasy series quite daunting, considering how little I like fantasy and how long the series is), I want to read more things by Paul Tremblay, by Iain Reid, by Charlotte McConaghy. 

▲ What about the classics? My mum has a beautiful edition of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Romanian translation). It’s split into four volumes which are pretty comfortable to read and hold. In general I’m not super attracted to old things (I always joke that I don’t like thinking about the world before the invention of the lightbulb), but this might be the type of slow reading experience that is much needed sometimes. And I do feel like I’m reading too much in English sometimes. I also recently took an ancient edition of For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway from my grandmother’s shelves and I think I would like to read it. I hear a lot of good things about Hemingway from the classic lit booktubers and it seems fast paced enough to not be a slog. I’m not making any promises, though. 

▲ Greg Egan. Anything by Greg Egan. This is an Australian author who writes hard Sci-Fi. I know very little about his books, except that he features a lot of advanced mathematical topics in his stories. As a mathematician, I feel compelled to check his works out. 

▲ The other big reading plan I have is dive into the the world of British Sci-Fi masters. I’ve read Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space and I’m interested in trying House of Suns next. Then, it’s time to taste the works of Peter F. Hamilton and Iain M. Banks, all of which I’ve seen here and there in the English section of my favourite bookshops in my city. Sci-Fi continues to be my favourite literary genre. 

▲ These are the plans. I didn’t want this post to be a big list of titles and synopses, so I leave you with my tbr shelf on goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/29691853-ioana?shelf=to-read