Moon over NinieB's Reading in 2025

I'm Ninie (rhymes with shiny) and I'm an avid reader in beautiful upstate New York. I've participated in the Category Challenge since 2019. I love finding books that satisfy the CATs, KITs, and BingoDOG, while trying to read from my groaning shelves (and boxes).

I hope you enjoy the category toppers below. No real theme, just a number of nice pictures of clouds (in some) and the moon (in others). All are public domain.

My categories have expanded some this year. First, as always I have my categories for different time periods, with mysteries separated out. Second, I have the different reading challenges I'm participating in or have set for myself. I've expanded these to include several authors that I've been focusing on and plan to focus on in 2025.

Classics

20th Century

21st Century

20th Century Mysteries

21st Century Mysteries

CATs and KITs

BingoDOG

Keating Mysteries
These are mysteries on H.R.F. Keating's list of the 100 Best Crime and Mystery Fiction. I've read close to 80 of them. I'm hoping to finish reading the list in 2025.

Virago Modern Classics and Persephones

Emile Zola
I started reading Zola's Rougon-Macquart series in 2024.

Anthony Trollope
I first read Trollope around 33 years ago. Now I'm on a quest to read his novels through in publication order.

Ellery Queen
I've been slowly and erratically making my way through Queen's novels and short stories for the past few years.

Mrs. Gaskell
A new challenge for this year, to read Mrs. Gaskell's novels in publication order.

Special Projects
Where I store reading projects that come up during the year.

Welcome, all! The door is open!

Lovely pictures. I could sky gaze all day in here.

I love your moons and clouds, especially >15 NinieB:. Have fun with your categories in 2025!

Great theme and pics! Good luck with your 2025 reads!

Beautiful pictures! I look forward to following along.

Love your pictures. >1 NinieB: I live on a lake and sometimes see the moon shining on the water. I like your idea of reading authors. Good reading in 2025.

Ooh, love your categories. Of course, the VMC category calls to me. I found some more green Viragos recently, including a quite intriguing one, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, one of the first science fiction works from Australia.
I am still trying to read/reread all of Dickens, otherwise I would love to turn to Mrs Gaskell too.
Look forward to following along.

Lovely pics. Wishing you great reading and a wonderful year.

Lovely pics. Reading Trollope and Gaskell in publication order should be interesting, I'll be looking out for your comments.

Thank you, everyone!
>17 lowelibrary: Happy to have you skygazing with me, April.
>18 Charon07: That's an interesting one, isn't it?
>19 Tess_W: Welcome, Tess!
>20 VivienneR: And I'll be following along with you, Vivienne!
>21 mnleona: I have lived both near the ocean and on a lake, Leona, and moonlight on water is one of the joys.
>22 JayneCM: That Eldershaw looks super interesting, Jayne. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
>23 majkia: Great reading and a wonderful year to you as well, Jean.
>24 MissWatson: It's a tactic I've used before, Birgit, and it's so interesting to see how the writer develops.

Gorgeous images! Happy reading, Ninie!

Great pictures! I keep meaning to look at the Keating list to see how many I've read.

Hello Ninie! You have some great challenges :-)

>26 Cecilturtle: Welcome, Cécile, and thank you!
>27 dudes22: Thanks Betty! It's a fun list; lots I would never have heard of otherwise.
>28 susanj67: Hi Susan! With your Victorian reading I hope you'll find some interesting reviews/thoughts here!

Happy reading in 2025. Looking forward to plenty of book bullets from your mysteries and classics categories.

>30 pamelad: Thank you, Pam! I expect I'll be gathering book bullets from your thread as well.

Hi there, Happy Reading in 2025. I loved looking at the pix you posted. Some of them are quite peaceful, and others quite mysterious.

Such lovely photos--so calming. You know I'll be following your Gaskell, Trollope and VMC/Persephone reading, and hope to compare notes.

>32 LadyoftheLodge: Thank you, Cheryl! The photo at the top really set the mood for me, and then I had no trouble finding more that went in good directions.
>33 kac522: Aren't they lovely? Such generous photographers to give their art away for free. I really look forward to comparing notes with you, Kathy!

Enjoy your 2025 reading. I am quite a bit behind you on the Keating List with a total of 47 so far, hopefully I will give it more attention in 205!