My 2025 Goals

[@Christopher_Navo]

Good goal. I also have both WoLaS and Malazan going on this year. Both of which I won't have finished by the end of the year as I also want to tackle some other authors intermingled between these heavy hitters. Let's do this! 💪🏼

[@TomOrange]

The more I think about it the more I know ill probably be reading those series for years!

[@Christopher_Navo]

@@TomOrange 😂 too true

[@AnnaDeponte6298]

I had mine at 50 did 59 last year . I set it to 50 again so I’m curious on how well I’ll do this year .The highest I’ve read ever in a year is 74. My life goals are 1. Go on a walk almost everyday/ everyday .2. Journal every day . 3. Keep up on my fiber intake

[@TomOrange]

Hope the reading goes well! I love a good walk

[@BookishChas]

Awesome goals Tom! I really like your makeshift book covers lol. It’s a unique feature for your channel. Your lifting goals are really cool! Those stones are massive lol.

[@Haliwafa_]

the 300+ lb stone balls was a flex ngl amazinggggggg wow!!!! proud of you

[@TomOrange]

Thank you!

[@paperpagespossibilities]

I like the idea of continuing the hand-drawn book covers, definitely unique to you and it fits the vibe of your channel.

[@TomOrange]

Thanks!

[@MattBramer]

YES! TOM! I'm so happy I found your channel. You're around the same reading style I'm in. However, I've been reading a lot of non-fiction! It's been wonderful! I'm really interested in the American Presidents. I have read 5 biographies so far, I highly recommend Ron Chernow (author) -- whoa is he incredible! Also, I picked up Memories of Ice and House of Chains too, I look forward to reading those! I'm going to re-read a lot of series this year since I picked up a few books late in a few series I'm reading.

[@ChanelChapters]

All the best with your goals Tom x

[@TomOrange]

Thanks Chanel!

[@Chance.Dillon]

Hand drawn covers-let’s EFFIN GO

[@RanboGaming]

Some great non-fiction I have read recently are 'Escape from Camp 14', 'The Happiest Man on Earth', and 'Spymaster: The Man who Saved MI6' Love the content btw, keep up the solid work

[@TomOrange]

Thanks for the suggestions!

[@tgibridays]

I love the drawings! Keep them coming. Haha I also like hearing your strongman updates every so often. My goal this year is to run my first marathon... of course right after I signed up I tweaked my back and I can't currently run. It's not until November, though so I should have time. Here are a couple of nonfiction recs if you're interested. - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer It's obviously history and insanely long, but I found the 57 hour audiobook to be engrossing. - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande A book about death from a medical point of view (the author is an accomplished surgeon who's seen a lot of death) and it was super fascinating and thought provoking. He talks about how with modern medicine we really need to think about how you want to die. It really struck a nerve with me after watching two of my grandparents struggle with dementia and a very slow, drawn out, painful death. - Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker The author is a neuroscientist and psychologist who studies sleep. It was very eye opening about how important sleep is. It's a bit scary to think about how flippantly we often ignore sleep. - The Disordered Mind by Eric Kandel Another neuroscientist author. It goes into what we can learn about the brain from neuro-divergent people. I found it super fascinating. - Factfulness by Hans Rosling This one was much more positive and uplifting than the others about how much better things are today than they pretty much ever have been. Really puts things in perspective when it seems like everything is going wrong.

[@TomOrange]

Thank you for those suggestions! Also good luck with the marathon! Im not a runner myself but thats an awesome goal

[@NevsBookChannel]

Nice goals. Have fun!

[@TomOrange]

Thanks Nev!

[@MoombaMakai]

Looking forward to the live stream goal. Honestly the only live stream I ever watch is Jimmy Nutts (how I found your channel, actually) and I look forward to those on Friday nights so much! 🤓🥰 I love hearing other book lover’s views, experiences and current TBR’s, plus it’s just fun to have a little book community online, so it would be awesome so watch your live streams as well. Also btw that atlas stone thing is insane! And 705 pound dead lift? Dear GOD you’re extremely strong🙌Congrats! Very impressive. I’m a runner so I didn’t understand some of that terminology but sheesh…..good job! 👍 Oooo you should add nutrition/meal plans on the channel too lol

[@TomOrange]

Jimmy is the king of the live shows. They are always so well done! I find runners to be so impressive. Ask me to run a mile and im going to try to hide lol.

[@TheBeardedBookBeast]

Tom! Needed to get caught up on your videos! Great goal, I think thats about what I want to shoot for too. I really want to read Forgetting Moon, I plan to in 2025 so hopefully I will catch up to you this year so we can chat about them. I love your plan for manga, I am the same way with manga and graphic novels. Yessss, do more livestreams bro! Id love to see you do that! Love your channel Tom, you are such a great dude! Keep rocking it brother!

[@TomOrange]

The forgetting moon is awesome. Super looking forward to reading The Blackest Heart soon. Im always down to chat

[@TedReadInstead]

All great goals, Tom! I'm here to cheer you on. I will speak on your goal to be more active in the community. I've noticed you over on my channel and I see you commenting on your videos a lot more so if you'll take this feedback - You're doing great, my friend! :)

[@TomOrange]

Thanks Ted! I think its good for everyone to support everyone as much as they can

[@AnonforGod777]

Im excited youre picking up Sun Eater as I am reading it too.. I am about to read my first Stephen King book 11/23/63

[@MoombaMakai]

11/22/63 is an amazing book! Def a mind warp. Hope you enjoy it!🎉

[@TomOrange]

Hope you like it! Thats one im very excited to get to.

[@thegreatwaugh]

Great goals for the year! I think the book cover drawings are great and hilarious. Also, I would be down for you to do a livestream at some point in the year. I’m going to work on completing some of the series that have been on my backlog and try to not let the hype around other series distract me too much.

[@TomOrange]

glad you like the drawings! Completing series is always a great goal

[@TheBeardedBookBeast]

Hahaha 😂 You're cover creations idea is amazing!

[@TomOrange]

Thanks man!

[@KindlesandKicks]

Good luck on your goals! I look forward to your channel changes and first live stream. Malazan is a 2025 goal for me as well. House of Chains will also be my next read. I would like to complete the series this year but we’ll see what happens. Also one question, where’d you get that cool as mic?

[@TomOrange]

Hope you can finish it! I would love to but I know there is no way its happening this year. The mic is a hollyland lark m2 wireless. I got it off of amazon

[@RANTSRUS]

I had concluded by the end of last year I was going to aim for 50 books read this year but I kind of ran into the same problems you were speaking of. For some reason I decided to start the year off by reading Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings and Jay Kristoff's Empire of the Vampire, Second book of Red Rising and John Gwynne's The Shadow of the Gods. I gave myself a month to read these titles but man was that stupid. I'll probably be reading The Way of Kings for the next two or three months and Empire of the Vampire is about that long as well. I'll probably have finished the entire Red Rising and The Shadow of the Gods series by the time I finish The Way of Kings. So I cut the list down to 40 for me and still feel like that is pushing it. No more Sanderson books for me for this year as it takes 200 pages to slog to just to get to the good parts and those 200 pages feel like a terrible dose of medicine with each page, which just makes me not want to read anything. I don't see how people read 100 books a year or anywhere even close to that with everything life throws at people. I barely can handle the reading list I currently have.

[@TomOrange]

I think its awesome that people can read 200 books a year but its just never going to be me lol. Hope you have some solid reads with what you mentioned! I was a big fan of Empire of the Vampire and really enjoyed the Bloodsworn saga by Gwynne. And if Sanderson doesn't click for you definitely bounce off it

[@RANTSRUS]

@@TomOrange Yea I think Sanderson is a great writer in his own right. His stories just aren't for me. It's not that they aren't good its just they are too much of a slow burn. Empire of the Vampire is awesome. At first, I didn't know if I was going to enjoy how it was written but I personally love it. Can't wait to read the second book. As far as Gwynne, he's one of those authors that's just a good easy read. He's not like my all time favorite authors by any stretch but I know when I pick up a book he has written its going to be a good read. He's just consistent. I'm finally reading the first book of The First Law by Abercrombie and that book is amazing. As soon as I finish the first one I'm headed straight for the second one. I'll have that whole trilogy finished in a month at this rate. Fantastic character driven stories. Then the Sun Eater books after that. Only reason I haven't already tried them is because I was already reading the Red Rising series and I didn't want to burn myself out on sci-fi but I've heard there worth the read.

[@noname3609]

Malazan and Dandelion Dinasty for me this year.❤ You're Druss the Legend irl😮

[@TomOrange]

A stretch goal for me would be to start Dandelion this year

[@itscatoclock]

Good luck with Malazan! Take it slowly would be my tip. Enjoy!

[@noname3609]

@@itscatoclock mindful normal read usually.I don't like reading slow.Thanks!!! 🙂

[@TheBlahh888]

for non fiction, i haven't read it yet but the three volume set by shelby foote on the civil war, bought it in 2023, it apparently is the definitive edition of the civil war, each being 1,000 pages each, took him 20 yrs to write, it reads like a novel, planning on finally reading it this year Also regarding one piece, you've essentially read the prologue to the story, (the first 140 - 50 chapters) and are now into the first real arc in alabasta

[@TomOrange]

That sounds like some crazy in depth books to read! Ive been told alabasta is when it really starts to get good so im hoping so

[@Johanna_reads]

You are so strong!! I started my journey building a little muscle halfway through last year, and it was kind of life-changing for me. 😅 A commenter mentioned Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. I read that many years ago for my undergrad English-lit class and loved it! I’m curious about the book Philip mentioned in his top 10: The Dawn of Everything. You could also go on brand with a muscular flex thumbnail and read Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. 😂💪🏼

[@TomOrange]

I love to hear that about gaining muscle. I think a lot of times it is under valued in other exercise realms. Just big block letters in the thumbnail saying "Be A Stoic" lol

[@Johanna_reads]

@@TomOrange 🤣

[@TF-lk6co]

Whenever someone asks for non-fiction recommendations I have one answer: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer.

[@TomOrange]

So ive not read that book but I read and watch a few different things about that event.

[@TF-lk6co]

@@TomOrange It's an incredible story and Krakauer is not only a journalist and excellent writer, but was climbing Everest when it all went down and was directly involved in the events. A crazy coincidence. Perhaps the most mind-blowing part of the book is that the prologue summarizes everything that happened -- essentially "spoils" the ending. But it's actually a stroke of genius because knowing the outcome in advance makes the details that much more heart-wrenching as you're reading.

[@Already-Overbooked]

You should definitely read more nonfiction. There have been some very intense stories that would definitely peak your interest. Legend by Eric Blehm and Ghost Stories by Hampton Sides are just a few

[@TomOrange]

im sure there are some amazing nonfiction books out there. Its just never my first go to. Like I mentioned I end up trying to watch a documentary. But thank you for the suggestions.

[@parkercrystal1]

My reading goals are to finish the GD series I have started!

[@TomOrange]

always a great goal! I have so many im in the middle of

[@radudumanovschi3387]

I have read many biographies. One of them is my favorite book (Open by Andre Agassi). Dave Grohl has a very nice biography called The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, the Obamas have interesting biographies. This year I have two: Federer's and James Blake's (I don't know if you've heard of him. I followed him at Roland Garros in the early 2000s). Nadal's biography is interesting but the author seems to have forgotten that there are paragraphs in books. Because of that I found his biography tiring.

[@TomOrange]

thank you for the suggestion!

[@Unpotted]

The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger is gripping. The movie had a few good scenes, but was uneven and poorly edited. 😺✌️

[@TomOrange]

Im pretty sure I have seen that movie!

[@RhinoViper]

For nonfiction try stories of survival instead of just biographies or whatever. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand and Endurance by Alfred Lansing.

[@TomOrange]

Thanks for the suggestions!

[@RowdyPlayer1]

What a minute….was that you in a GRAY tank top? I thought you only have orange shirts!! 😂

[@TomOrange]

lol yes unfortunately orange looks really bad when it gets dirty

[@jorgejribarra]

Do you have multiple orange shirts or do you just wash this one? 🤔

[@TomOrange]

I have five that look just like this one. I also have another 11 or 12 orange shirts that are different

[@jorgejribarra]

@@TomOrange okeeey so it's not just a KZbin gimmick lol you just really like orange

[@loralunara]

Guns, germs and steel is an excellent nonfiction book to check out!

[@TomOrange]

Thats a very catchy title.