it's the little things...

 Just starting a post instead of a list because I literally never blog anything else anymore.  Perhaps I should figure out a new, more modern system... Summer Island One True Loves A Court of Thorns and Roses

Assuming I don't sit around and finish something over the next few days, here's my list.  I spent too much time on NYT Games at the end of the day instead of reading.  I'm changing that for 2025 as my reading list is way too short compared to the last few years.   More audiobooks this year than years past (but still definitely heavier on actual books I can hold in my hand).  We also finished the Harry Potter series as a family--so I guess that may explain the shorter list, in part.  But we started a book club (BC) that has helped me branch out on reads a little bit.  Finally, favorites.* Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Dirty Thirty Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Nineteen Steps The Only One Left Things My Son Needs to Know About the World Best Wishes, Warmest Regards Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows The Woman in Me Tom Lake Remarkably Bright Creatures* None of This is True The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store* Queen Charlotte Ordinar...

Books read this year, favorites in bold.  Also a big favorite is reading the Harry Potters as a family. 1. Blue Shoe 2. Gone Crazy in Alabama 3. Beartown 4. Going Rogue 5. How to Trap a Tiger 6. The Foundling 7. Mr. Pengachoosa 8. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer 9. Shadow School Dehaunting 10. The Way I Heard It 11. The Stories We Tell 12. The Rabbit Hutch 13. Raymie Nightingale 14. Crenshaw 15. Other Birds 16. The Seven Good Years 17. Inside Out and Back Again 18. The Bandit Queens 19. Spare 20. Louisiana's Way Home 21. I'm Glad My Mother Died 22. Beverly Right Here 23. It Starts with Us 24. Daisy Jones & the Six 25. Nora Goes Off Script 26. House on the Cerulean Sea (again) 27. The Seat Filler 28. The Upside of Falling Down 29. Anxious Children, Anxious Parents 30. The Woman in the Library 31. The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell 32. Diana: In Her Own Words 33. Creative Mending 34. The House Across the Lake 35. Playing With Anxiety: Casey's Gui...