Come join myself, Naomi, Natalie, and Steph on Saturday 3.15.2025 at 3:00 pm EST for a live chat to talk about women in horror! We will discuss our favorite horror books written by women, anticipated releases, and more :) Zoom link to come, hope to see you there!

Hi my loves!

If you aren't in the discord yet I ~highly~ recommend joining as that is where most of our discussion and updates are for book club. I posted an update in the discord notifying everyone that for at least the next couple of months we are going to pause live meetings. Our book club is still small and growing and there are some months I have had only 1 or 0 RSVPs for the live meetings (which is fine - never any pressure to join!!) but I figured it would be better at least for a bit to make sure more people can be included in our discussions. To do this I am going to focus on discord chat and polls throughout the month to keep as many people engaged in the discussion (on our own time) as possible.

Our book for February is Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina - I can't wait to chit chat with you all about it :)

A calendar is here that will help us all stay on track the rest of the month to make sure we try to finish the book before March suddenly appears.

I loveee setting goals each year and although it may not be for everyone, hobby-goal setting is always my favorite.

Here are my 4 main reading goals for 2025:

1) Read more sci-fi

Almost everytime I read science fiction I have SO much fun with it and ask myself why I don't read sci fi more often... and then I continue to _not _read it. 2025 is my year of science fiction!! I personally lean more towards dystopian, techy/AI, and timetravel types of scifi and mostly steer clear of anything space (idk why but space travel is about as interesting to me as grocery shopping). If you have recs that fit these please tell me!

2) Read 130 books

For 2023 and 2024 I set my goal as 125 and I've reached it easily each time, although narrowly. 125 has become an easy target for me, 130 will still be doable but a bit of a discipline stretch which I'm looking for in my reading this year. I don't want to read a high quantity just for the sake of numbers, but I do want to be intentional about integrating reading more into my daily routine, and I think the outcome of that will be more books read.

3) Read with my eyes more -- especially print books

Trust me I will NEVER be the "audiobooks don't count as reading" type - I think I've read over 70 audiobooks this year and I'm never stopping. Libro.FM hates to see me coming. BUT my attention span has shrunk to non-existent (just in life in general- not only with books) and i want reading to be more of an unplugged hobby without the stimuli of playing games at the same time or scrolling online. Hopefully I can improve my attention span, withdraw from the instant gratification and seratonin of the internet, and sit in a quiet room for an hour+ to read print books without feeling like I'm experiencing WWIII fighting to get back to my phone.

4) Finish Octavia Butlers backlist

This goal relates closely to #1 - but I have LOVED everything I've read from the mother of Black science fiction and I want to prioritize her work next year.

So far I have read:

• Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, Fledgling, and Wild Seed

Next up I need to get to:

• The Xenogenesis series, Bloodchild and Other Stories and the rest of the Patternmaster series.