Book Meme 2025
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I read 40 books this year, which is less than in the last few years. As I was reflecting on the books I read this year, I think part of it is that the books were just ok. There weren't really books that I loved a lot. I liked many of them - there are a lot of good and interesting books that I read, didn't like some, was disappointed in a few. Overall it was ok year but my reading is slowing down over the last few years.
Book List 2025
1.Penric's Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold, 173pp (Jan 7) [Penric and Desdemona 5]
2.Mira's Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold, 105pp (Jan 11) [Penric and Desdemona 6].
3.The Prisoner of Limnos by Lois McMaster Bujold, 169 (Jan 16) [Penric and Desdemona 7].
4.James by Percival Everett, 303pp (Jan 25).
5.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 327pp (Feb 7).
6.The Bad Day Book, Parenting Edition: Parenting While Losing Your Mind compiled by Amilee Weaver Selfridge, edited by Liz Kazandzhy, 269pp (Feb 9).
7.The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks, 135pp (Feb 21).
8.The Tower of the Swallow by Andrzej Sapkowski, 683 pp [189 read in 2024], [in Russian, translated from Polish] (Feb 25) [The Witcher Book 4 out of 5]
9.Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie, 209pp (Mar 3).
10. False Value by Ben Aaronovitch, 294pp (Mar 28) [Rivers of London 8].
11. Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky, 840pp (Mar 31) [read in Russian]
12. The Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes, 352 pp (Apr 7) [audiobook].
13.Beartown by Fredrik Backman, 415pp (Apr 13).[translated from Swedish]
14. Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with your Kids Before they start High School by Michelle Icard, 282pp (Apr 18).
15.In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some by Josh Gad, 253pp (Apr 21).
16.The Giver by Lois Lowry, 225pp (Apr 26) [reread].
17.Hope: The Autobiography by Pope Francis (with Carlo Musso), 292pp (May 2) [translated from Italian]
18.Tales from the Folly by Ben Aaronovitch, 224pp (May 6) [Rivers of London Short stories].
19.The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, 228pp (May 14).
20.The Book-Makers: A history of the Book in Eighteen Livess by Adam Smyth, 341pp (June 13).
21.The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, 332pp (June 23).
22.Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench with Brendan O'Hea, 378pp (Jul 3)
23.The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, 375pp (Jul 20) [Percy Jackson and the Olympians 1]
24.Sidelines: Talks and Essays by Lois McMaster Bujold, 276pp (Jul 20).
25.Heart Lamp: selected stories by Banu Mushtaq, 211pp (Jul 25)[translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi] [International Booker 2025].
`26. The Orphans of Raspay by Lois McMaster Bujold, 156pp (Jul 25) [Penric and Desdemona 8].
27.Spent by Alison Bechdel, 257pp (Jul 26).
28.Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan, 559pp (Aug 9)
29.All Systems Red by Martha Wells, 94pp (Aug 13)[reread]
30.My Friends by Fredrik Backman, 434pp (Sept 2).
31.The Names by Florence Knapp, 316pp (Sept 7)
32.Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman & Pierre Cole, 242pp (Sept 21).
33.Night by Elie Weisel, 109pp (Sept 25) [reread].
34. The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith (J.K.Rowling), 897pp (Oct 12).
35.Love Forms by Claire Adam, 271pp (Oct 20).
36.Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh, 529pp (Oct 31) [Hugo book].
37.The Husbands by Holly Gramazio, 388pp (Nov 8).
38.They'd Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley, 255pp (Nov 16) [Hugo book]
39.A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir by Jacinda Ardern, 337pp (Nov 28).
40.The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, 406pp (Dec 16) [Hugo book].
Book Meme 2025
The first book you read in 2025:
Penric's Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold
The last book you finished in 2025:
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
The first book you will finish (or did finish!) in 2026:
Just finished "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir
How many books read in 2025?
40
Fiction/Non-Fiction ratio?
29 fiction/11 non-fiction
Pretty high ratio of non fiction in 2025; more than usual, especially in the first half of the year, where it was pretty even ratio.
Male/Female authors?
19 male authors/17 female authors
Most books read by one author this year?
5 by Bujold, 2 by Backman and 2 by Aaronovich
Favorite books read?
Love Forms by Claire Adam and Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench with Brendan O-Hea. Also Metro 2033. Penric novellas continue to be fun.
Best books you read in 2025?
Love Forms by Claire Adam was beautifully written. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic for a reason.
Least favorite?
The Ministry of Time by Kaliene Bradley - the first third of this book was so promising and the premise was so interesting and fun, and then I just wanted to throw this book against the wall. The main character was so annoying and the book is just so preachy. Let historical people have historical moral without judging them! I just disliked it greatly by the end.
Most disappointing book/Book you wished you loved more than you did?
Two books: James by Percival Everett and Beartown by Backman. Everett is technically a very good book. I can see why it won so many awards and what the author was doing. But I started reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn alongside it and I realized that he wasn't really doing Jim's perspective story, he was changing various details to make the story fit his point. And that was disappointing to me since I was expecting direct retelling of Twain. But it is more alternate reality.
As for Beartown, Backman is one of my favorite authors and for some reason his writing quirks and style were irritating me this year instead of delivering twists. I don't care about hockey but I also didn't care about soccer and I loved Britt-Marie was Here. Maybe I just didn't care about the characters in Beartown that much. And Beartown is first part of a trilogy and I will read the other two books but I'm not looking forward to it. Even "My Friends" which I also read this year and which was better was also starting to annoy me with the way he would end the chapters and start new ones. Maybe I was just in the mood for his style.
Best series you discovered in 2025?
Percy Jackson
Favorite new author you discovered this year?
I guess Adam, since I enjoyed her book and style of writing. But also Riordan since I did like Percy Jackson. And I liked Holly Gramazio.
Other new authors
Everett, Selfridge, Shonda Rhimes, Icard, Josh Gad, Pope Francis, Joan Didion, Bradley, Judi Dench, Banu Mushtaq, Kevin Kwan, Florence Knapp, Adina Hoffman and Pierre Cole, Holly Gramazio, Mark Clifton and Frank Riley, Jacinda Ardern, Robert Jackson Bennett.
Oldest book read?
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published in 1884.
Newest?
The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) published on September 2, 2025.
Longest book title?
Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with your Kids Before they start High School
Shortest title?
"James" and "Spent" and "Night" - all 5 letters
How many re-reads?
All Systems Red - I usually don't reread, but after watching "Murderbot" I wanted to compare it to the book.
Night by Elie Weisel - I read it as a teenager last.
And Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - I think I read that when I was a kid but I don't remember much and it was in Russian and probably abridged version.
Any in translation?
The Tower of the Swallows - read in Russian, translated from Polish
Beartown and My Friends by Backman, both translated from Swedish
Autobiography of Pope Francis, translated from Italian,
Heart Lamp: Selected stories by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada
Night by Elie Weisel, translated from French
Metro 2033 I read in Russian.
How many of this year's books were from the library?
30, mostly on Kindle
Book that most changed my perspective:
The Book-Makers: A history of the Book in Eighteen Lives and Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza - both history books that talked about lives of specific people in the past and through them elaborating on history of both the book in a printed form and on scholars who studied Cairo Geniza and their lives. Not changed perspective as much but a more three dimensional view of the past.
Favorite character:
Still like Penric. I also liked Dal from Tainted Cup - he is interesting in his detective endeavors and his engraving memory. I also like Alison Bechdel alterego from her book - it is based on her life but it is not really her, it is her fictionalized life with enough real stuff in it. Murderbot is still fun too.
Most memorable character:
I guess James from James since I spent time comparing him to Jim and it is not the same person. But if I take him as a separate person, then he is certainly very memorable and interesting on his own merit.
Favorite scene:
I can never do this, but I enjoyed Husbands and various awkward scenarios of husbands popping out of the attic. And a bunch of things that Penric was doing - the general chaos he often causes.
Favorite quote:
Can never remember specific quotes.
Most inspirational in terms of own writing?
I haven't been writing for a while but Love Forms was just beautifully written.
How many you'd actually read again? A book that you never want to read again:
Probably Penric books I would read again. I will have to reread Night in the summer of 2027 when Tanya will need to read it for summer homework. Probably will reread Wells again at some point.
I never want to read "Ministry of Time" again. And also "They'd Rather be Right" - it was the first book that won a Hugo and Jo Walton mentions it is considered the worst one and I don't disagree. It is not really that good at all.
Book you recommended most to others in 2025?
I don't think I recommended much but I guess I can recommend "Love Forms" which was on the longlist for the Brooker. Also "The Husbands" since it was fun.
The book series you read the most volumes of in 2025:
Four of Penric novellas
The genre you read the most in 2025:
Fantasy: 8
Non-fiction memoir/biography: 8
Sci-fi: 7
contemporary: 7
general non-fiction:4
history: 2
kid's books: 2
mystery: 1
historical fiction: 1
memoir/biography is creeping up - it is tied with fantasy this year. Contemporary is also higher than normal.
Your favorite "classic" you read in 2025:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Night are both considered classics and both were great for a reason.
Most surprising (in a good way) book of the year?
In Gad We Trust by Josh Gad had a good depth to it and A Year of Yes was interesting to listen to when I don't always focus on audiobooks.
The hardest book you read in 2025 (topic or writing style):
Night is the hardest topic. Heart Lamp gave an interesting glimpse of a culture and it was hard to see the lives of women in it (which was the point).
The funniest book you read in 2025:
Penric stuff was occasionally funny. In Gad we Trust had some jokes. But the Husbands probably wins out for ridiculousness.
The saddest book you read in 2025:
Night
The shortest book you read in 2025:
All Systems Red at 94 pages
The longest book that you read in 2025
Hallmarked Man at 897 pages. The second longest was Metro 2033 at 840 pages.
Best book that was outside your comfort zone/a new genre for you?
Nothing really a new genre but Heart Lamp was unusual in the style of prose and the culture I was reading about in its short stories.
Most thrilling, unputdownable book of 2025?
Metro 2033 was pretty good since I wanted to see what would happen. And Hallmarked Man. Both might be long but it never felt like it. And I kept wanting to read Husbands.
Most beautifully written book in 2025?
Love Forms
Book you most anticipated in 2025?
The Hallmarked Man - it was marked on my calendar
Favorite cover of a book you read in 2025?
I don't look at covers especially since most books I read are on Kindle but I did sort of like "The Tainted Cup" cover. I think I saw another person with a physical copy on the subway just as I was reading it on my Kindle in December.
Book that had the greatest impact on you this year?
Not sure. I liked all the biographies and memoirs.
Book you can't believe you waited till 2025 to finally read?
Percy Jackson - it was fun to be introduced to this series. I should read more.
Book that had a scene that left you reeling and dying to talk to someone about it?
I don't really have people in real life other than my Dad or Bear to talk about books with. And I can't think of a scene.
Looking Ahead:
One book you didn't read this year that will be your #1 priority in 2026?
I have "Flesh" waiting on my Kindle, the Booker Prize winner. I need to read that before I can take any other book from the library. I didn't get to Brust books so I want to read those.
New book you are most anticipating for 2026?
New Dresden Files book "Twelve Month" coming out in January and new Murderbot coming out in May.
I read 40 books this year, which is less than in the last few years. As I was reflecting on the books I read this year, I think part of it is that the books were just ok. There weren't really books that I loved a lot. I liked many of them - there are a lot of good and interesting books that I read, didn't like some, was disappointed in a few. Overall it was ok year but my reading is slowing down over the last few years.
Book List 2025
1.Penric's Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold, 173pp (Jan 7) [Penric and Desdemona 5]
2.Mira's Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold, 105pp (Jan 11) [Penric and Desdemona 6].
3.The Prisoner of Limnos by Lois McMaster Bujold, 169 (Jan 16) [Penric and Desdemona 7].
4.James by Percival Everett, 303pp (Jan 25).
5.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 327pp (Feb 7).
6.The Bad Day Book, Parenting Edition: Parenting While Losing Your Mind compiled by Amilee Weaver Selfridge, edited by Liz Kazandzhy, 269pp (Feb 9).
7.The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks, 135pp (Feb 21).
8.The Tower of the Swallow by Andrzej Sapkowski, 683 pp [189 read in 2024], [in Russian, translated from Polish] (Feb 25) [The Witcher Book 4 out of 5]
9.Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie, 209pp (Mar 3).
10. False Value by Ben Aaronovitch, 294pp (Mar 28) [Rivers of London 8].
11. Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky, 840pp (Mar 31) [read in Russian]
12. The Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes, 352 pp (Apr 7) [audiobook].
13.Beartown by Fredrik Backman, 415pp (Apr 13).[translated from Swedish]
14. Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with your Kids Before they start High School by Michelle Icard, 282pp (Apr 18).
15.In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some by Josh Gad, 253pp (Apr 21).
16.The Giver by Lois Lowry, 225pp (Apr 26) [reread].
17.Hope: The Autobiography by Pope Francis (with Carlo Musso), 292pp (May 2) [translated from Italian]
18.Tales from the Folly by Ben Aaronovitch, 224pp (May 6) [Rivers of London Short stories].
19.The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, 228pp (May 14).
20.The Book-Makers: A history of the Book in Eighteen Livess by Adam Smyth, 341pp (June 13).
21.The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, 332pp (June 23).
22.Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench with Brendan O'Hea, 378pp (Jul 3)
23.The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, 375pp (Jul 20) [Percy Jackson and the Olympians 1]
24.Sidelines: Talks and Essays by Lois McMaster Bujold, 276pp (Jul 20).
25.Heart Lamp: selected stories by Banu Mushtaq, 211pp (Jul 25)[translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi] [International Booker 2025].
`26. The Orphans of Raspay by Lois McMaster Bujold, 156pp (Jul 25) [Penric and Desdemona 8].
27.Spent by Alison Bechdel, 257pp (Jul 26).
28.Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan, 559pp (Aug 9)
29.All Systems Red by Martha Wells, 94pp (Aug 13)[reread]
30.My Friends by Fredrik Backman, 434pp (Sept 2).
31.The Names by Florence Knapp, 316pp (Sept 7)
32.Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman & Pierre Cole, 242pp (Sept 21).
33.Night by Elie Weisel, 109pp (Sept 25) [reread].
34. The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith (J.K.Rowling), 897pp (Oct 12).
35.Love Forms by Claire Adam, 271pp (Oct 20).
36.Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh, 529pp (Oct 31) [Hugo book].
37.The Husbands by Holly Gramazio, 388pp (Nov 8).
38.They'd Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley, 255pp (Nov 16) [Hugo book]
39.A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir by Jacinda Ardern, 337pp (Nov 28).
40.The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, 406pp (Dec 16) [Hugo book].
Book Meme 2025
The first book you read in 2025:
Penric's Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold
The last book you finished in 2025:
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
The first book you will finish (or did finish!) in 2026:
Just finished "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir
How many books read in 2025?
40
Fiction/Non-Fiction ratio?
29 fiction/11 non-fiction
Pretty high ratio of non fiction in 2025; more than usual, especially in the first half of the year, where it was pretty even ratio.
Male/Female authors?
19 male authors/17 female authors
Most books read by one author this year?
5 by Bujold, 2 by Backman and 2 by Aaronovich
Favorite books read?
Love Forms by Claire Adam and Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench with Brendan O-Hea. Also Metro 2033. Penric novellas continue to be fun.
Best books you read in 2025?
Love Forms by Claire Adam was beautifully written. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic for a reason.
Least favorite?
The Ministry of Time by Kaliene Bradley - the first third of this book was so promising and the premise was so interesting and fun, and then I just wanted to throw this book against the wall. The main character was so annoying and the book is just so preachy. Let historical people have historical moral without judging them! I just disliked it greatly by the end.
Most disappointing book/Book you wished you loved more than you did?
Two books: James by Percival Everett and Beartown by Backman. Everett is technically a very good book. I can see why it won so many awards and what the author was doing. But I started reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn alongside it and I realized that he wasn't really doing Jim's perspective story, he was changing various details to make the story fit his point. And that was disappointing to me since I was expecting direct retelling of Twain. But it is more alternate reality.
As for Beartown, Backman is one of my favorite authors and for some reason his writing quirks and style were irritating me this year instead of delivering twists. I don't care about hockey but I also didn't care about soccer and I loved Britt-Marie was Here. Maybe I just didn't care about the characters in Beartown that much. And Beartown is first part of a trilogy and I will read the other two books but I'm not looking forward to it. Even "My Friends" which I also read this year and which was better was also starting to annoy me with the way he would end the chapters and start new ones. Maybe I was just in the mood for his style.
Best series you discovered in 2025?
Percy Jackson
Favorite new author you discovered this year?
I guess Adam, since I enjoyed her book and style of writing. But also Riordan since I did like Percy Jackson. And I liked Holly Gramazio.
Other new authors
Everett, Selfridge, Shonda Rhimes, Icard, Josh Gad, Pope Francis, Joan Didion, Bradley, Judi Dench, Banu Mushtaq, Kevin Kwan, Florence Knapp, Adina Hoffman and Pierre Cole, Holly Gramazio, Mark Clifton and Frank Riley, Jacinda Ardern, Robert Jackson Bennett.
Oldest book read?
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published in 1884.
Newest?
The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) published on September 2, 2025.
Longest book title?
Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with your Kids Before they start High School
Shortest title?
"James" and "Spent" and "Night" - all 5 letters
How many re-reads?
All Systems Red - I usually don't reread, but after watching "Murderbot" I wanted to compare it to the book.
Night by Elie Weisel - I read it as a teenager last.
And Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - I think I read that when I was a kid but I don't remember much and it was in Russian and probably abridged version.
Any in translation?
The Tower of the Swallows - read in Russian, translated from Polish
Beartown and My Friends by Backman, both translated from Swedish
Autobiography of Pope Francis, translated from Italian,
Heart Lamp: Selected stories by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada
Night by Elie Weisel, translated from French
Metro 2033 I read in Russian.
How many of this year's books were from the library?
30, mostly on Kindle
Book that most changed my perspective:
The Book-Makers: A history of the Book in Eighteen Lives and Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza - both history books that talked about lives of specific people in the past and through them elaborating on history of both the book in a printed form and on scholars who studied Cairo Geniza and their lives. Not changed perspective as much but a more three dimensional view of the past.
Favorite character:
Still like Penric. I also liked Dal from Tainted Cup - he is interesting in his detective endeavors and his engraving memory. I also like Alison Bechdel alterego from her book - it is based on her life but it is not really her, it is her fictionalized life with enough real stuff in it. Murderbot is still fun too.
Most memorable character:
I guess James from James since I spent time comparing him to Jim and it is not the same person. But if I take him as a separate person, then he is certainly very memorable and interesting on his own merit.
Favorite scene:
I can never do this, but I enjoyed Husbands and various awkward scenarios of husbands popping out of the attic. And a bunch of things that Penric was doing - the general chaos he often causes.
Favorite quote:
Can never remember specific quotes.
Most inspirational in terms of own writing?
I haven't been writing for a while but Love Forms was just beautifully written.
How many you'd actually read again? A book that you never want to read again:
Probably Penric books I would read again. I will have to reread Night in the summer of 2027 when Tanya will need to read it for summer homework. Probably will reread Wells again at some point.
I never want to read "Ministry of Time" again. And also "They'd Rather be Right" - it was the first book that won a Hugo and Jo Walton mentions it is considered the worst one and I don't disagree. It is not really that good at all.
Book you recommended most to others in 2025?
I don't think I recommended much but I guess I can recommend "Love Forms" which was on the longlist for the Brooker. Also "The Husbands" since it was fun.
The book series you read the most volumes of in 2025:
Four of Penric novellas
The genre you read the most in 2025:
Fantasy: 8
Non-fiction memoir/biography: 8
Sci-fi: 7
contemporary: 7
general non-fiction:4
history: 2
kid's books: 2
mystery: 1
historical fiction: 1
memoir/biography is creeping up - it is tied with fantasy this year. Contemporary is also higher than normal.
Your favorite "classic" you read in 2025:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Night are both considered classics and both were great for a reason.
Most surprising (in a good way) book of the year?
In Gad We Trust by Josh Gad had a good depth to it and A Year of Yes was interesting to listen to when I don't always focus on audiobooks.
The hardest book you read in 2025 (topic or writing style):
Night is the hardest topic. Heart Lamp gave an interesting glimpse of a culture and it was hard to see the lives of women in it (which was the point).
The funniest book you read in 2025:
Penric stuff was occasionally funny. In Gad we Trust had some jokes. But the Husbands probably wins out for ridiculousness.
The saddest book you read in 2025:
Night
The shortest book you read in 2025:
All Systems Red at 94 pages
The longest book that you read in 2025
Hallmarked Man at 897 pages. The second longest was Metro 2033 at 840 pages.
Best book that was outside your comfort zone/a new genre for you?
Nothing really a new genre but Heart Lamp was unusual in the style of prose and the culture I was reading about in its short stories.
Most thrilling, unputdownable book of 2025?
Metro 2033 was pretty good since I wanted to see what would happen. And Hallmarked Man. Both might be long but it never felt like it. And I kept wanting to read Husbands.
Most beautifully written book in 2025?
Love Forms
Book you most anticipated in 2025?
The Hallmarked Man - it was marked on my calendar
Favorite cover of a book you read in 2025?
I don't look at covers especially since most books I read are on Kindle but I did sort of like "The Tainted Cup" cover. I think I saw another person with a physical copy on the subway just as I was reading it on my Kindle in December.
Book that had the greatest impact on you this year?
Not sure. I liked all the biographies and memoirs.
Book you can't believe you waited till 2025 to finally read?
Percy Jackson - it was fun to be introduced to this series. I should read more.
Book that had a scene that left you reeling and dying to talk to someone about it?
I don't really have people in real life other than my Dad or Bear to talk about books with. And I can't think of a scene.
Looking Ahead:
One book you didn't read this year that will be your #1 priority in 2026?
I have "Flesh" waiting on my Kindle, the Booker Prize winner. I need to read that before I can take any other book from the library. I didn't get to Brust books so I want to read those.
New book you are most anticipating for 2026?
New Dresden Files book "Twelve Month" coming out in January and new Murderbot coming out in May.
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Date: 2026-01-07 04:35 pm (UTC)I started Beartown at a vacation condo a couple of years ago, and while I was enjoying reading it well enough while it was the only book lying around (despite not caring about hockey either), I didn't feel any great pull back towards it after I had to leave it behind.
(Also, I got a kick out of seeing The Bad Parenting Book on your book list :)) I think I never finished it myself, lol, and probably should do that at some point XD)
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Date: 2026-01-08 02:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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