Posts tagged with 2025
- as a child i wasn’t allowed to watch television and had things from which to run away, so i read a lot
- in my 20s in went to grad school and had to read at least three books a week
- This was a year primarily of sci-fi, which I didn’t realize till now. I am trying to write an encyclopedic sci-fi novel, perhaps that’s why.
- I love to look back at books like this. Because I read voraciously I read these at home, in the park, on the train, on vacation, and so many other places. It’s an accidental collection of small memories
Books from 2024!
two excuses before we start:
this is all to say that
Stats
i read 158 books this year and, again, i wont apologize. this is two less books than last year, so I quess you might say i’m slowing down. i still confuse my gs and qs always tho
i also gave up on 26 books, often early, in case you confuse my obsessiveness for a sort of masochism
Favs (no order)
Paul Celan - 70 Poems
Astounding
Walter M Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz
My second time reading. Dude knew that deathly serious stuff is never serious without a few little jokes; or, god no surprise this guy did a suicide
Lucy Ellman - Ducks, Newberryport
I just sank inside this book. I wish it were longer.
J. G. Ballard - High-Rise
Post-facto: i read an intro to a collection of his short stories calling ole JG a “surprisingly normal man”. Sorry, I’ve read this shit. He was not normal
Stephen King - Duma Key
Stephen King tries Murakami. And it’s in Florida!
Garielle Lutz - Complete Stories
If I ever get around to adding reviews to my site bookshelf you’d see how up and down I really am with these, but overall they’re fantastic in a ( me at least) new way
Stephen King - 11-22-63
Only king could write a book about killing lee harvey oswald that’s almost half a self-consciously nostalgic look at the 50s. Like all great king books, he stumbles headfirst into something unpleasant and profound.
Other Notable Books
Gordon Burn - Happy Like Murderers
Realistically, a fave, but i just finished it in the last few days, and its very gruesome. However I’ve already started imitating its voice.
The Animorphs series (finished it this year)
I am 30 or 40 years old and I need to make record of this.