What are You Reading This Weekend? — December 6, 2024
As the end of the year closes in, I’m beginning to feel a little stressed about my TBR. I’ve met my reading goal for the year, but I have specific books I really want to (or have to) finish before January. I have one more Read Harder task to complete. I have two books I have to read for the January 7th episode of All the Books. I have an 848-page book to read for book club by December 28th. I have a stack of…oh, about 20 library books out right now that are due soon. Plus, I really wanted to read some queer holiday romances this month.
Of course, the month when I have an 848-page fantasy novel to read for book club, I also chose to read an unrelated 533-page fantasy novel for no reason at all. The reader heart wants what the reader heart wants. My friends and I are planning a mini readathon next weekend, so hopefully I can make some progress then.
What have you been reading this week, and what’s on your weekend TBR? Let me know in the comments!
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Since I updated you last, I finished The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America by Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz, and I highly recommend it. It combines historical and present-day realities of Native identity with personal stories from Indigenous people to illustrate them. It’s thought-provoking, timely, and very readable.
I’m still reading The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri, but I am so close to finishing it. I have about 30 pages left, so I’ll definitely finish it today. I love it. The worldbuilding is incredible, the characters are complex, and the stakes already feel so high—I’m nervous about how it will escalate in books two and three!
I also started the audiobook of How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler, which is such a fun fantasy time loop story. Nobody told me it was queer! I see now that people feel like it plays into bisexual stereotypes, but this bisexual says let bi people be horny villains sometimes. As a treat.
Next up, I still need to read Drag: The Complete Story by Simon Doonan to complete my last remaining Read Harder task: #18, Read a book about drag or queer artistry. I also need to read The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon for my book club.
After The Jasmine Throne, I’ll probably take a little break to read some more of Delicious in Dungeon first, though. I am really in my fantasy era right now!
What are you reading this weekend? Let’s chat in the comments!
Check out all the previous 2024 Read Harder posts here.
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