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 Small Things Like These The English Understand Wool Eating to Extinction The Wild Robot Protects The Rules of Fortune The Little House on the Prairie  Commonwealth  Foster  The Answer is No: A Short Story Tell Me Everything Now Or Never (Thirty-One on the Run)  What Happened Every Summer After  Sew Deadly Intermezzo Under the Whispering Door Meet Me at the Lake  A Girl Called Samson  Here One Moment Old Yeller  The Life We Bury The God of the Woods The Galveston Diet  Verity Disappointing Affirmations  Broken Country The Fall Risk Death Row Homemaker  The Dutch House  My Friends  Family Family Somewhere Beyond the Sea  Under the Tulip Tree Abscond  The Animal Family Malibu Rising Rental House ...

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...