Charon07 sees what’s in the cards for 2025

Greetings! I’m Charon07, a retired CPA from central Illinois. This is my second year of the Category Challenge, and I think I’ve gone overboard a little. I’ve been thinking about potential categories too long and come up with too many, so that even after culling, I’ll probably aim for reading just 2 or 3 from most categories. Plus I’m going to try the ColorCAT, the ScaredyKIT, the NatureKIT, the BingoDOG, and maybe even the CoverCAT if I can squeeze it in.

These are my categories for the year:

For the TBR group:
📚 TBR print & ebooks (6)
🔊 TBR audio (6)

Series & authors:
🥁 Louise Erdrich (focus on the Love Medicine books, 9)
🐦‍⬛ Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy (3)
🐺 Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy (3)
🐎 Suzy McKee Charnas’ Holdfast Chronicles (4)

Other categories:
📎 On-hold books (ones I’ve started but not finished, 2-3)
👵🏽 Growing old (2-3)
🇧🇷 Lusophone literature (2-3)
🪆 Baba Yaga (2-3)
📆 2024 Category Challenge potential books I didn’t get around to (2-3)
🪽 Poetry (2-3)
🌍 African authors (2-3)
🐓 Tournament of Books (2-3)
🏔️ Daunting (difficult, dense, depressing, dangerously thick, 2)

CATs, KITs, & DOG:
🌈 ColorCAT (12)
💀 ScaredyKit (12)
🌿 NatureKIT (12)
🐶 BingoDog (25)

📚 TBR print & ebooks

🔊 TBR audiobooks

🥁 Louise Erdrich

Series

🐦‍⬛ MaddAdam

🐺 Wolf Hall

🐎 Motherlines

Other categories

📎 On-hold books

👵🏽 Growing old

🇧🇷 Lusophone literature

🪆 Baba Yaga

📆 2024 Cat Callenge potential books I didn’t get around to

🪽 Poetry

🌍 African authors

🐓 Tournament of Books

🏔️ Daunting (difficult, dense, depressing, dangerously thick)

🌈 ColorCAT

💀 ScaredyKIT

🌿 NatureKIT

🐶 BingoDog

Saving a space for the CoverCAT, maybe?

All in all, the cards predict a very busy year of reading!

Great to see you set up and ready! I, too, fear that I have gone overboard with my planning this year - but as we all know plans are made to be broken!

Good luck and happy reading!

I am loving the tarot cards

>6 Charon07: Daunting (difficult, dense, depressing, dangerously thick) is a great category! Happy reading in 2025.

Beautiful set up! And a clever use of cards!

>13 DeltaQueen50: >14 majkia: >15 lowelibrary: >16 pamelad: >17 VivienneR: Thanks for stopping by!

>13 DeltaQueen50: I guess I’ll see if I can keep up with all these categories, but I really couldn’t find any more that I could part with! Maybe the daunting ones, but I figure if I can’t read at least one or two over the course of a year, I should just take them off my TBR altogether, and I don’t want to do that either.

Great set-up, and I’m curious to see what will go into the daunting category! I’ve got books of that kind myself.

Happy reading! Hope your plans work out, but you can always adjust as you go. I like the card graphics, very unique.

>19 MissWatson: >20 LadyoftheLodge: Thanks for dropping in!

Sadly, a couple of my daunting books are also ones that are “on hold,” started but not finished, which makes them even more daunting since I know I couldn’t finish them at least once before.

Good luck with your 2025 reading!

Nice set-up. I'll never read everything I've planned either, but it's fun planning

Love your setup. I see you have the Wolf Hall trilogy on your list. Definitely one for the daunting category! I have owned the trilogy for ages and it just keeps getting put aside as looking at the three of them together is quite intimidating - so long!

>24 JayneCM: Well, I can try the ebooks—that way their bulk isn’t as intimidating!

>25 Charon07: Good way to trick yourself! :)

Happy reading in 2025!
Boy, can I relate to a "daunting" category.

I love your cards and categories. Happy reading!

Gorgeous illustrations! Looking forward to following your reading in 2025 and maybe hitting up a book sale or two.

These are some great categories! I have a doorstopper category for really long books, which is a bit similar to your "daunting" one. I read three of those in 2024 and hope to read a few more in 2025.

>27 mstrust: >30 MissBrangwen: I’m hoping that making a category for them actually inspires me to read a couple of the daunting books this year!

>28 susanj67: Thank you!

>29 RidgewayGirl: Definitely want to hitone of the bog sales this year, and make the pilgrimage to Exile in Bookville!