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Taking a look at all that I consumed in 2025, this time including some music recommendations! We’re back for the continuing series of things I consumed. I did an excellent job of tracking in 2025, with the help of Things 3 and emojis. Traditionally I made a giant spreadsheet of all that I consumed but with the help of Chat GPT, it’s been easier to track via Things, sort via Sheets, and then clean up and analyze with Chat GPT. Books Overall I read thirty-six books this year, thirteen of which I gave a star to. That’s about a 35% hit rate, which actually is pretty great! For a deeper dive into my 2025 reading, I’ll send you over to the quarterly book reviews I’ve been doing, which detail exactly what I read. For 2026, I’m giving up Goodreads and moving over to Storygraph . I know, you’re thrilled by this news. Flummoxed? Either way, I’m over there now, thanks! Best Reads 2025 Babel, R.F. Kuang Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino Central Places, Delia Cai Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsk...

Going over my year in books, movies, television, and games. Plus a quit list!   Can you believe it? My first blog post in five years! I'm back baby! I know it's been dead around here since 2020 but I've never stopped blogging--in my head. I've got years of drafted posts--okay ideas for posts--stacked up and ready to go. I'll lead off with the classic annual review of stuff consumed! My tracking for all consumption was in dire straits in 2022-2022, but I've got it all down from 2023 forward so maybe I'll move backwards. Nothing says "fresh" like years old recommendations! Let's gooooo! Books I’m almost too embarrassed by my lack of book reading to lead off with this subject. I technically logged about twenty books read but some of those were awfully short, some were semi-graphic novel, and some of them I’m just in the middle of them, but past the fifty percent mark. Of those reads, I can only cite four as semi-recommends: 17 Things I’m Not Allo...