2024 Year End Recap

(If you have a short reading attention span, feel free to just skip to the actual ranking, which you'd have to click into the blog post to view >:3)

This particular blog post is to first document what was actually published in 2024.

Note: Notice two font sizes below? The regular size matching this sentence and paragraphs above, are my makeup work for before. The smaller size (like this) are the ones that are posted extremely closed to, if not in fact on the exact published date. Those, should there actually be casual viewers of my blog, are hard to miss, since the Blog Archive function reflects them quite well, and the backdated ones are what easily gone unnoticed, hence the emphasis.

1. [Series Overview] The Book of Tea - Judy I. Lin
2. [Series Overview] The Drowning Empire - Andrea Stewart
3. [Series Overview] The Stolen Heir duology - Holly Black
4. [Series Overview] The Queen of the Tearling trilogy - Erika Johansen
5. [Series Overview] The Celestial Kingdom - Sue Lynn Tan ☜ NOW MOVED TO 2025!!!
6. [Series Overview] Shadow Bruja - J.C. Cervantes
7. [Series Overview] Threads That Bind duology - Kika Hatzopoulou
8. [Adaptation Observations] ゴーストハント (Ghost Hunt)
9. [Source Material vs. Adaptation] フェルマーの料理 TBS series Season 1
10. [Series Overview] The Study Chronicles: Valek's Adventures - Maria V. Snyder
11. [Series Overview] The Midnight Hour trilogy - Benjamin Read & Laura Trinder
12. [Series Overview] The Licanius Trilogy - James Islington
13. [Series Overview] The Books of Ambha - Tasha Suri
14. [Post Index] 宅宅逛展展 / sightseeing / window shopping
15. 2024 Year End Recap ☜ THIS POST!!!

Technically this post wasn't exactly posted within the timeframe, but close enough to be counted as published on time, so I'm counting it, lmao. That said, as this is the one post per year you'd get more of my personal life, I'll still share the gist of my year:

• True to my words (?), 2024 really is relatively smooth (but busy). I admit, I was rather unhappy and grumpy from mid-February to the end of June, and was truly fearing the fiasco of 2022 would reappear, but luckily it didn't, and thanks to all my friends IRL and from the Net, I kept my sanity. Another year went by, I'm content.
• So why o why am I reading so little and also writing so little? Simple: I became way more active IRL, as documented HERE. You can see how much more 2024's activities are comparing to previous years. Originally the plan was to gradually post all items individually, but unfortunately, technical difficulties occurred (translation: Facebook sucks) so it didn't happen in 2024. I still hope to do it in the future though.

Okay, if it wasn't obvious, I was as previously predicted, busier in 2024 due to RL responsibilities; I do hope that next year my reading and blog posts wouldn't be so unevenly distributed, fingers crossed.

Anyways, as of 2024/12/31, according to the Blog Archive function, I have 8 posts published in 2024 (not counting this one), and 1 of them WILL be has been readjusted to be counted for 2025. That one particular post that was more than 90% done back in 2021? I finally published it, and will continue to update it. I really hope I can fully finished it by the end of the first quarter of 2025 though! That, along with a couple of other non-Series-Overview posts. Wish me luck! lol

2024 Reading Challenge

Sammm has read 32 books toward her goal of 35 books.

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32 of 35 (91%)

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It's because of 2024's unusual circumstances that resulted in the first part being larger than usual. I hope people are patient enough to reach this part, lmao. On Goodreads, there's the My Year in Books function they provided that give some statistics, [check out mine for 2024!] (My GR profile is set for GR Users only, so this one, you'd have to login in order to view.) There's also the Goodreads Year in Review, [read mine!] (no GR account required.)

So what's different here is that I'm going to rank what I've read, but limited to series that concluded or standalones, extras, and compilations published in this year and the year before. You may notice, 2024 is like 2022, I fear there'd be no point of making a ranking list had I not included the two-year duration from the start. And, ladies and gents, drum roll....!

Note: First books of series represent said entire series. I know the cut-off was the final book, but I believe people are usually more familiar with the cover and title of first installments so.

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Right... Not fun since not enough series meet the criteria I set. Because the pool is too small, I'm going to include series concluded or standalones published two years ago that I read this year into the mix; ta-da:

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Right... (lol) In case people didn't feel like counting, the total is 12 works. The reason why some have been stacked, is because, 1 per slot made the ranking list lengthy, which in itself isn't too big of a deal, however, I feel bad for the ones closer to the bottom. It really wasn't like "it's the second to the last place"; trust me, previous years, certain gaps are super huge, but this year is like, even the ones I liked the least, isn't so, so horrible. Since it's still not reflecting well enough, I figure grouping what I feel the similar amount of like, would make me feel less guilty, haha. There you have it!

Hope despite the crisis in 2024, you'd still have a fruitful year! What series concluded in 2024 do you like the most? Feel free to share!