2025

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Jan 3, 2026

2025!

other 2025 posts!

• books

i intended to write a yearly post reviewing what i did but, get this! i waited too long and now its too far into the year!!

cold wind on my arm
the windows open by the heater
there are two of me

we’ll leave thus here a template if i do this next year

Dec 31, 2025

Books from 2025!

two excuses before we start:

1. as a child i wasn’t allowed to watch television and had things from which to run away, so i read a lot
2. in my 20s in went to grad school and had to read at least three books a week

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.

In conclusion

1. 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.
2. 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