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#readingbracket #readingbracket25 #readingbracket2025 @Catsandbooks 😍

And even with different wild cards, it still won out, @TheBookHippie. #missionaccomplished 💙🤍♥️

#readingbracket #readingbracket25 #readingbracket2025 @CSeydel 🩶❄️🤍

Can you believe it, @TheBookHippie? Can you really? I'm a bit stunned if I do say so myself. Thank you for this monumental achievement--for me, anyway. 😘 Wonder if Proust will be the favorite next year? Somehow I doubt it, but we'll see. 🤣

#vivelafrance 💙🤍♥️

Best of my 2025 reads 🥰

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#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Though I loved The Wanderer, More Weight edged it out as my favorite read from October to December. The Hike then surpassed More Weight to advance—only to be defeated in the final matchup of the year by Slewfoot. A thoroughly deserving winner, Slewfoot earns my Book of the Year for 2025. 😊 #readingbracket #bookbracket #readingbracket2025 #bookbracket2025 #bookoftheyear #bookoftheyear2025

My favorite December read is the tagged. Through one wolf‘s epic journey, Walker traces terrain, history, looming threats, and other animals, recounting the wolf‘s final months while probing the species‘ fight for survival. The Wanderer blends natural history with the complex human relationship—Indigenous peoples, settlers, scientists, and politicians—with this predator. #bookbracket #readingbracket #bookbracket2025 #readingbracket2025

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).

This happens nearly every year where my January read is my favourite of the year lol. All these books are so different though and it‘s hard to compare them - loved them all for different reasons. #readingbracket2025

Happy New Year 🥂

@cseydel
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And the winner is - My Friends by Fredrick Backman!