My 2025 reading in review Pictured are the physical books I read this year that I didn’t have to give back Highlights: 74 📚 617 hours 📖 202 hours🎧 36 from the Booker Prize lists, including both longlists +20 TBR increase ( 82 acquired vs 62 crossed off) Gender: 31/42 m/f

she cried, as a sleeper in the night, starts and stretches a hand in the dark for help. —- (I’m enraptured by the intensity of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Pup less so)

My year of reading, 2025

The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood ok - so I want to tell you about Atwood's 1st novel, how the 2nd wave of feminism plays in it, but also, mainly, the humor. This is a really fun, and funny, look at a serious world problem, relevant today. I tried here: www.librarything.com/work/32423/r...

Can you feel the intensity? (I’m as worked up as I can without disturbing my lap kitty.) Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura wraps up 2025. Perfect prose and the magic of Kitamura, with oomph. She doesn’t only do cerebral. She can wound you.

I recently finished one of my best books of the year - Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

The best laid plans… Here’s a snapshot of what I plan to read in 2026. Some Renaissance. A lot of Virginia Woolf.

An excerpt from Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1980). The girls trying to get their aunt to tell them about their deceased mom. This juxtaposition!

Started a new book - Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson from 1980

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A triple perspective on Antigone www.librarything.com/topic/375106...

At midday on the year’s midnight into my mind came I saw the new moon late yestreen wi the auld moon in her airms… —Liz Lochhead, “In the Mid-Midwinter” published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Polygon 2016) #poem #poetry #StLucysDay birlinn.co.uk/product/fugi...

Saturday morning. Sir Thomas Malory must overlepyth a whyle.

The 2025 Year in Review is now available on LibraryThing! Now in its third year, it's better than ever! We've added lots of new information, in order to give you even more insight into your LibraryThing activity over the course of 2025.

We’re delighted to reveal the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel. Mary Beard will act as Chair, and is joined by Raymond Antrobus, Jarvis Cocker, Rebecca Liu and Patricia Lockwood. Find out more: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/omwonxgxjj

(My 1st Bluesky post) I have a little pile of short books lined up to finish the year. This one is 1st. From 1960