Happy New Year, everyone! I want to start out by thanking all of you who read my blog. I know that I only have a small(ish) group of subscribers, and I also have regular commenters and I want to convey to you how important you all are to me. I have tried to do some private writing (in my offline space) but it is only when I start thinking of my now 17 year old blog and its readers that I can find flow for my thoughts. 2025 seems to have flown but it isn’t until I take stock of my reading that I realise that it has been a long and eventful year both personally, as well as in world events. I started with the Nikos Papastergiadis’s memorable John Berger and Me and finished with Maisey Yates’s Cowboy It’s Cold Outside with its delightful cover but forgetable story.
53 books
Fiction: 29 – Romance fiction: 25
Audiobooks: 0
Picture Books and Junior fiction: 0
Non-Fiction: 24 (note: 22 but I reread two books)
Graphic Novel memoir: 4
Australian authors – 9
YA – 0
DNFd but counted: 3
Of the 53, I only bought 6 books (and 3 of those were given as gifts after I loved them). All the rest were library eloans. No library fines were accrued this year.
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