Early March of this year will mark the sixth anniversary for this blog. Thank you to any readers! As far as goals for 2025 are concerned, while I didn't quite meet my goal of two blog posts a month, I did at least have something here every month. I also had a reading goal, which I actually make in a range. The low end is 11 Forgotten Realms novels read, 24 or more is high, so 18 is the middle goal area. Last year I read 19. That's less than in 2024, where I read 23, but not terribly less. In 2024, I had two months, June and October, where I read none. In 2025, I had three months with no completed Realms reading: January, September, and November. I'll now list all the reads for the year below.
February: Crypt of the Shadowking, Soldiers of Ice, Curse of the Shadow Mage, The Glass Prison
March: Finder's Bane, Daughter of the Drow
April: Promise of the Witch King, Black Wizards
May: Tangled Webs
June: Dealing with Dragons, Darkwell
July: Windwalker, Road of the Patriarch, War in Tethyr
August: Swords of Eveningstar, Escape from Undermountain
October: The Mage in the Iron Mask, The Council of Blades
December: Swords of Dragonfire
So I did finish up The Harpers series, which was a goal. I also read all of the Starlight and Shadows Trilogy, and I finished up the Moonshae Trilogy and the Nobles series. I also got 2/3 through the Knights of Myth Drannor trilogy. Not bad!
I'm not sure if we'll get any more new novel releases in 2026, the last few years have had some largely mediocre releases. I have lost most hope of a full novel line revival with how these new books are not even written for the same audience as the 300 old books.
As far as reading, I want to finish the Knights of Myth Drannor trilogy, read Tymora's Luck to round out the Grubb and Novak books, and read the Twilight Giants trilogy. Beyond that, I need to make more plans. Maybe I should read the odd-one-out Pools book that seemingly isn't really related to the Pools Trilogy. And since I've come to love Cunningham's books, I may have to acquire the Counselors & Kings books. Money has been very tight while I work a blue-collar job and attend graduate school, so I have bought considerably less books the last couple years. I also may read the second Spelljammer book, which is set in the Forgotten Realms (and has the setting logo on the back of the book).
I have been running 4-6 videos per week on my channel Liam's Lyceum, and also had another project on YouTube last year with the Ælfric Homily Project, which was succesful but very time consuming. I read 170+ books, so Forgotten Realms is only a chunk of all the reading I do, be it fiction or non-fiction reading.
If you would like something from me on the Lyceum here, let me know. I need to catch up with campaign journals, and maybe I'll get the motivation to plan out some posts like I did last year (the final post for 2025 was written in January!), that would be nice.
Amarast, friends!
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