Finished reading: Hotshot by River Selby 📚Interesing non-fiction about working as an elite firefighter.

Finished reading: Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson 📚Enjoyed it. Interesting, sad, but also hopeful novel about life and love in the modern world.

Currently reading: Black Magic by Marjorie Bowen 📚

Finished reading: Thelma by Marie Corelli 📚I started reading this book at least a year ago. It’s a product of its time (1887) and it definitely bogged down for a while. Mostly I’m glad it’s done.

Finished reading: Articulate by Rachel Kolb 📚Excellent non-fiction by a Deaf author about her relationship to speaking out loud. Quite thought-provoking, about language, speaking, writing, signing and more.

Currently reading: Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson 📚

Finished reading: The Boy on the Bridge by M. R. Carey 📚Not as good as “The Girl with All the Gifts”.

Currently reading: Hotshot by River Selby 📚 Our February book club selection.

Currently reading: 33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen 📚

Finished reading: Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell 📚Disliked it. There were some interesting points but too much “I’m brilliant” by the author.

Currently reading: Articulate by Rachel Kolb 📚

Finished reading: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor 📚interesting and fun, good twist at the end.

Finished reading: Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell 📚Loved it! Weird and wonderful romantasy with the monster as the main character.

Year in books for 2025

Here are the books I finished reading in 2025. Not as many as the last couple of years but I met my goal and enjoyed these books

The Correspondent Martyr! A Sorceress Comes to Call The Safekeep A Marriage at Sea A Great Reckoning Air-Borne The Ravenmaster Necessity A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks Endling The Just City (Thessaly, #1) A Home in Percival Flight Paths The Last Bake Sale The Butcher of the Forest Raising Hare The East Indian Dreadful Is a River Alive? Small Town, Big Oil World Without Us Spent Bookshops & Bonedust Mina's Matchbox The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain The City and Its Uncertain Walls The Island of Missing Trees Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World The Housekeeper and the Professor Electrify Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club) Lent The Message Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club Intermezzo Russian Winter Turning to Stone Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon Swordheart An Equal Music 142 Ostriches The Mighty Red Playground: A Novel Horse Parsons' Mill The Ministry of Time Solito Gnomon The Postcard The Philosopher Kings The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)

Currently reading: Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell 📚Our January book club selection.

Currently reading: Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell 📚

Finished reading: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans 📚Would be a good bookgroup novel. I greatly enjoyed reading it. In hindsight, it’s a bit trite and predictable but I looked forward to every moment of reading.

December photo #frost

Currently reading: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans 📚

Currently reading: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor 📚

Finished reading: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar 📚Excellent novel, reads like 2025 in a nutshell. Interesting characters, sweet love story which might not be traditional and makes perfect sense, and a good story of addiction and recovery.

Currently reading: The Kurdish Bike by Alesa Lightbourne 📚

Finished reading: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher 📚Not my favorite by this author, a little too close to her horror style. But she is so good at characters, pacing, suspense, and humor. Best not to read this one if you like horses.

Currently reading: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar 📚

Finished reading: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden 📚I like the ideas in this novel but not the actual novel. The characters were somehow flat. It’s about 1960s Netherlands, dealing with the country’s good and bad history of helping/hurting Jewish people during the war and afterwards.