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On the 12th day of Christmas my true love read to me…

12 patients coding
11 feds a-tracking
10 Kansans grieving
9 scandals brewing
8 microbes spreading
7 mothers plotting
6 bots a-murderin‘
~ 5 ~ golden ~ rings ~
4 fungal nets
3 fishing boats
2 bureaucrats
And a desolate Scottish coast 🎶

#12booksof2025

Working at a coffee shop this morning, but hoping I can squeeze in a few minutes of reading somewhere in there

A sad meditation on grief following Didion‘s husband‘s sudden death. Don‘t look for answers on how to move on. Very powerful. Read it slowly.

It's been awhile since I've posted on here. School and work just have me incredibly busy. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season & their reading goals set for 2026. I've got 80 books to read as my goal.Setting a new reading goal is always so much fun for me! It's never knowing what 80 books I'll read that creates so much excitement. I've already completed one book 'Win, Lose, Kill, Die" by Cynthia Murphy.

#newyear #newbooks #goals #readKY

1) sunset this evening
2) New Year‘s Day dinner cooked by my husband with ham, mac & cheese,& collard greens & hoppin‘ John for a year of good luck
3) January hopefuls 😂😂
4) Trip to NYC via train to Morgan Library & Museum for Renoir exhibit
5) special golden spoon for stirring that first coffee of the day 3x clockwise while stating my positive intentions for the day

My library haul today minus The Repair Shop: Behind the Scenes which the hubs promptly grabbed. Some fluff evened out by the meaty Ernest Becker.

This was my favorite read in September. I won‘t have a favorite for October. #12booksof2025

Interesting wordless picture book about a girl who finds a golden rock and we learn the history of where that golden rock originated and what it went through to get to her hands. Beautiful illustrations.

My Bookish Goals for 2025

✔100 books - I read 199
✔50K pages - I read 64,229
💀25% NF - I hit 24% which is a bit shy but I am still happy with it!
✔50% not US - I did 53% and read from 64 different countries!
✔12 Chunksters - 15

It is always so fun to look back at what we accomplished even if we just missed out goals, at least we tried!

December‘s winner is PASSAGE by Connie Willis.

This isn‘t my favorite Willis — not even top 3, honestly — but it was still entertaining and thought-provoking and full of all the Willis-isms we have come to expect. Speaking of which, I kept having to remind myself when it was written, since people kept getting “busy signals” when they tried to call each other, which is super anachronistic even for 2001 (sorry Connie).