The Helmet reading challenge 2025

 Dear reader(s),

Each and every year, the past few years, I have wanted to participate in the Helmet reading challenge... 

https://helmet-tukisivusto.hel.fi/en/recommendations/helmet-reading-challenge-2025/

It consists of 50 prompts, that you will read a book for. I already asked the librarian here in Jakobstad for a rec and I haven't yet read her recommendation, she gave me five suggestions. One I have read before, one that did not interest me in the slightest and one that is so awful I donated it after I read one page (last year in Tampere). She also recommended a few others, if I remember correctly. But I only want to read the one I have read before and maybe the one that's new, that she said is a kind of sci fi and very different:

"Axiom's end" by Lindsay Ellis...

I will borrow it or buy it in Tampere, I can't take it with me to Tampere.

The one I would like to reread is:

"The world according to Garp" by John Irving...

That used to be my favorite book.

Anyway. :) My goal is to read 100 books this year. So far I am already one book behind schedule. That is awful I know. It's difficult for me to get back into reading with my eyeballs, I have been listening to so many audiobooks :( But they have been pretty good. At home in Tampere I have a huge pile of new books that I bought last year, I only took one book with me to Jakobstad hahhah! I know, very unusual for me LOL.

My parents are napping. I am "sprinting" i.e. reading and writing. 

We have sprints with Gavin in the evening. Here is Gavin's channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@GavinReadsItAll

He is so awesome. I admire people like him. Really fun to sprint with him and the other Patreons.

I experienced some booktube drama for the first time last year when a booktuber thought I was either really obsessed with becoming her friend or that I imagined myself being her friend. That was really a different kind of experience. I have never been through that before. I am still a bit flabbergasted to be honest. But it's okay. Not everyone can understand me. And I was in a weird mood back then, I was maybe having some hyper active behavioral problems or something. Thank goodness it's over!

I read 50 books last year! :) I am starting soon planning my TBR for Helmet. 

See ya!