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Out with the Old, In With the New – End of Year Review – A Little Book Problem


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It’s mid-December and I have just posted my final blog tour review of the year. No more reviews due now until 6 January 2025. Although I will be posting a few more reviews on the blog before the end of the year, they will all just be of books I am reading for fun, so I thought now would be a good time to do my wind up post for the year so I can relax and enjoy the festivities.

This is the end of my eighth year of blogging. I started this blog in early 2017 when I realised by TBR was getting totally out of hand and I wanted to motivate myself to do something to reduce it. Of course, blogging has had the opposite effect. My TBR pile has grown exponentially year on year as I have discovered new authors, new publishers and picked up amazing recommendations from fellow bloggers. I am now drowning in unread books with no signs of this trend stopping. I’ve read 162 books so far this year. With a couple of weeks to go, that final tally will probably reach 170, and it hasn’t made a dent.

I think I’ve said so many times that I’m cutting back on blog tours in order to focus on my TBR that nobody believes me any more, not sure I even believe it myself, but I’m really going to try in 2025. My unread NetGalley books alone are starting to panic me. I’ve got blog tours booked in throughout January but I’m trying not to put any in after that unless it is a book I would read anyway. So then I’m going to focus on #OperationNetGalley which I started a few months ago to take books off my NetGalley list before I add new ones and #ProjectDiscworld where I am rereading all the Discworld novels after a gap of many years, just for fun.

In addition to this, I saw a post yesterday on Jonetta’s Blue Mood Cafe blog about the 2025 Beat the Backlist Challenge which sounds like just what I need, so I’m going to join in with that and try and remove at least 50 books from my TBR next year before I add any new ones. You can find more information about the challenge here.

So, that’s it. That’s the blogging plan for 2025. Whether I stick to it or not remains to be seen.

Just time to wish you a Merry Christmas, I hope you all enjoy the holidays and I look forward to seeing what the rest of my blogging friends have in store for the coming year.

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