Merry Christmas New Year!

[glacier_kitty]

Happy New Year! Yesterday my parents and I watched the ball drop, and the London fireworks, which is one of the COOLEST things I've ever seen! It was so intricate and I'd never seen fireworks do some of those things before, like spiraling around the London Eye! That must have taken a LOT of planning. Then mom and I watched the new Endurance documentary (very good! Even on the bottom of the ocean, the ship still looks proud <3). When it turned midnight, I held Abby and said "you're 20 this year!! You're such a good kitty!" hehe

Today we finally had Christmas with Ryan and Jo, who both wore masks and gloves..surely we're not contagious by now?? I got a Celtic knot bookmark and a giftcard to Barnes and Noble from Ryan and Jo, and from mom some fleece jackets, pants, glacier soap, a little kit with scissors and stuff to go in my new desk, cat sticky notes and a back scratcher mom said I can also use to get things down from places I can't reach haha. Dad got everyone cool fancy hand painted dishware from Poland! I got Ryan a butter dish in the shape of a coffin with a skull on it, which he LOVED. He'd probably be happy if Halloween lasted all year :P


What’s the best book you read this year? Legends & Lattes, The Overnight Guest, The Mystery Guest, etc
What’s the worst book you read this year? The Poseidon Adventure, Orbital, Ninefox Gambit, Pageboy
Your favourite “classic” you read this year: Les Miserables
The book that disappointed you: The Poseidon Adventure, The Ice Orphan, State of Wonder, etc
The hardest book you read this year (topic or writing style): Les Mis (insanely long and detailed lol), The Poseidon Adventure (anti-Semitism, fat shaming, etc), Orbital (to existential for me!)
The funniest book you read this year: The Thursday Murder Club, Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, etc
The saddest book you read this year: The Road..so bleak!!
A book that touched you: Trooper
A(nother) book you read this year you want to recommend (maybe one that you haven’t mentioned yet?): A Short Walk Through a Wide World had a unique premise! (The main character became deathly ill if she stayed in one place, so she traveled around the world
A book that you discovered this year that you will definitely read again: I have a feeling The Maid might become a book club book lol, so I'd probably read it again if so
A book that you never want to read again: The Poseidon Adventure
Were you part of a reading challenge? Did you meet it? Yeah, I've been doing the Popsugar Reading Challenge for a few years now, it's pretty fun!
Which authors featured most prominently for you in 2024? Robert Galbraith, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, etc
The book series you read the most volumes of this year: I read five of the Cormoran Strike books
The last book you finished this year: Anxious People, in a rush, because my Goodreads stats somehow got messed up..
The first book you will finish in the new year: We'll Prescribe You a Cat, for the "healing fiction" prompt of the 2025 Popsugar Reading Challenge
The genre you read the most this year: Mystery, sci-fi/fantasy, adventure/polar exploration
Which books are you most looking forward to reading in 2025? The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, The Hidden City, The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, etc
And finally, make a New Year’s Resolution: How many books do you think you will read in the new year?: Hmmm..85 seems like a good number lol