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Category: year end

  • Everything I Read in 2025

    Everything I Read in 2025

    Yes, it’s January, but I’m just now posting my book roundup for 2025. I didn’t write about books all year and I’m determined to share this! 2025 Book Total: 81 My best showing since 2021, when I read 91 books. Fiction Top 10 I gave limited thought to my top 10s, so let’s not question…

  • The 2025 Soundtrack

    The 2025 Soundtrack

    Without further ado: my annual soundtrack for 2025. Disparate Youth – Santigold // Don’t look ahead, there’s stormy weather / Another roadblock in our way / But if we go, we go together / Our hands are tied here if we stay APT. – Rosé and Bruno Mars // My son’s first favorite song of…

  • The 2025 Survey

    The 2025 Survey

    I was stunned and dismayed to log in this morning and realize I haven’t posted on this blog all year. ALL YEAR!!! I attempted a Q1 catch-up post in the spring, which never made it out of drafts. But I refuse to break a 20-year streak of year-end wrap-up posts, so here’s the survey, with…

  • Everything I Read in 2024

    Everything I Read in 2024

    Fiction The Top 10 Summer of a Thousand Pies by Margaret Dilloway I didn’t expect any middle-grade fiction to make my top 10, but this enjoyable, moving, and relevant story about a tween who goes to live with her aunts deserves it. I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger A weird but unforgettable climate-dystopia novel about…

  • The 2024 Survey

    The 2024 Survey

    I’ve completed this survey every December since 2001. You can find past years’ posts in the Year End tag! What did you do in 2024 that you’d never done before? Wore my hair straight semi-regularly; threw a goodbye party for my uterus; took care of a diabetic child; took a trip with my bestie, our…