2025 Reading Plans, Intentions, Wishes, Resolutions

[Extollager]

I expect that, in 2025, I'll finish P. D. James's cycle of Dalgliesh novels. I'm on the 6th of 14 now.

Though I used to teach English, I wasn't much of a one for reading literary criticism. I want to read D. G. James's Scepticism and Poetry (i.e. Romantic poetry) will -- if -- I have the wit to understand it more or less.

Certainly I mean to read more Arthurian works.

Maybe this year I will read Lud-in-the-Mist at last.

I want to read plenty more Walter de la Mare.

How about y'all?

 

[hitmouse]

I expect that, in 2025, I'll finish P. D. James's cycle of Dalgliesh novels. I'm on the 6th of 14 now.

Though I used to teach English, I wasn't much of a one for reading literary criticism. I want to read D. G. James's Scepticism and Poetry (i.e. Romantic poetry) will -- if -- I have the wit to understand it more or less.

Certainly I mean to read more Arthurian works.

Maybe this year I will read Lud-in-the-Mist at last.

I want to read plenty more Walter de la Mare.

How about y'all?

Lud-in-the-Mist is a light read over 2 or 3 evenings. Treat yourself.

 

[hitmouse]

I don't really plan my reading ahead.
I have just got Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi, and have William Gibson’s Mona Lisa Overdrive lined up. Otherwise I will see what I get in my stocking.

 

[Rodders]

I need to count up, but my plans were to read two books a month for 2024. I think i've acheived this.

For 2025, i'd like to continue with, or exceed 2 books a month.
Finish my re-read of the Gaunt's Ghost books, including the Vincula Insurgency.
Get Frank Herbert's Dune series on audiobook and listent to them. (i tried to read them in the nineties but could never get into them.)
I have a couple of Neal Asher's later Polity books to read.

 

[Toby Frost]

I expect that, in 2025, I'll finish P. D. James's cycle of Dalgliesh novels.

My grandfather used to read these, when he wasn't reading Dickens. I take it that they're consistently good?

I'd like to read more in 2025, and to discover new writers that I liked - I'm rereading quite a few older books these days - but beyond that I've not got big plans. SFF has moved away from me, fantasy in particular, and I find crime novels increasingly appealing. I also want to get a lot of writing done, so I might be a bit short of time.

 

[Extollager]

Toby, the Dalgliesh books are character-driven and the pace is deliberate. James is good at description. Some readers like a rapid-paced mystery/detection/crime novel and would find James too literary.

 

[Extollager]

I have just got Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi

I will add that to my plan for 2025 because I have owned a copy since around 1978. It was given to me by a former teacher and somehow I've never read it yet.

 

[Toby Frost]

Thanks: they sound interesting.

 

[Extollager]

Thanks: they sound interesting.

I might slow the pace on finishing the Dalgliesh cycle, since I also want to finish the C. P. Snow "Strangers and Brothers" cycle of 11 novels (I have three yet unread, & an itch to reread The Masters also).

If you're new to P. D. James you might start with the first of the two Cordelia Gray books, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, which is more exciting than the Dalgliesh books usually are for long stretches. Just a thought.

 

[Randy M.]

My plans are nebulous. I intend to read more works by women -- 2024 was testosterone heavy, and I have several authors I want to get to or get back to (P. D. James, Ruth Rendell, Helen Oyeyemi, Martha Wells, Joanna Russ, Octavia Butler, Tanaraive Due, Angela Slatter and on and on). Simultaneously, I plan on rereading a few books; I'm rereading Raymond Chandler's The Lady in the Lake now and plan on starting Ghost Story by Peter Straub by the weekend. And, I hope to shuffle the deck of books so for every book I read first published in the last three years (no good reason, just an arbitrary number), I also read a book I've owned for 5 or more years (which, both as something I've owned for years and as something written by a woman, maybe me too for Lud-in-the-Mist).

Along with all that, I've been putting a little effort into reading "classic" mysteries according to three or four books/lists I've come across.

This should last through most of January before I go off on a tangent.

 

[paranoid marvin]

I expect to read and read until I am sick.

 

[Serendipity]

Having looked at what is scheduled to come in science fiction, I do not have high hopes of anything new and exciting in the science fiction genre for 2025, just variations on themes type of thing. I've got an ARC of Cory Doctorow's Picks and Shovels that I'm looking forward to. Beyond that it'll be catching up on my TBR including the later stories in the Martha Wells MurderBot series.