Well, it is the 28th. We have left DC and had Christmas and it’s almost New Year’s. I’ll make another post with the last day at DC in it. I don’t think there will be much. Also, I’ve probably forgotten some, 10 days later. I’m glad it was only 10 days. It felt like more.

So. “December Journaling if You Feel LIke You Haven’t Achieved Much This Year.”
Day 18: Favorite Thing You’ve Read This Year.

It’s funny that I didn’t do this, because I was looking forward to this one. I guess everything was just so busy there for a while, and I was also having difficulty charging my laptop (I think the plug brick/base thing was not working right. This year I read more than I have in a while. It was hard, not gonna lie. I did it because I am in my friend Evelyn’s book club and even though I missed several of the last few meetings, I still kept up with reading the books. Even if sometimes I finished after the meeting. I’m hoping to do better this year.

Sometimes I also got other books I’d heard about while I was at the library, or I grabbed them when I saw them. I also got recommendations from Belinda. I went to quite a few libraries this year. I also still have a book that needs to go back to the Oklahoma City Library, boo.

According to my Goodreads, I had a goal to finish 20 books in 2025, and I read 35 books! I got confetti when I went to the site just now! Those books were: Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson; Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell; As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson; The Fall to the Climb: A Mother’s Account of Grief, Faith, and Healing by Chrissy L Whitten; Do You Hear What I Hear by Helen Dunlap Newton; When Stars Come Out by Scarlett St. Clair; The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton; Bird by Bird by Anna Lamont; Maggie: Trapped in the School for the Feeble Minded by Dr. Lynn Phillips; Seven Days in June by Tia Williams; One Two Three by Laurie Frankel; The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins; Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins; Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday; The Martain by Andy Weir; Never Saw you Coming by Erin Hahn; Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt; Letters from the Dust Bowl by Caroline Henderson; The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera; All Better Now by Neal Shusterman; The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick; Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan; The Survivor Wants to Die at the End by Adam Silvera; Orbital by Samantha Harvey; A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf; The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah; The Incredible Kindness of Paper by Evelyn Skye; Where She Went by Gayle Forman; The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley; Shattered Showers: Stories by Rainbow Rowell; Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties; One Year Ago in Spain by Evelyn Skye; The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman; and Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

I also read If I Stay by Gayle Forman and Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, but I guess rereads don’t count for your Goodreads totals. And I read the Bible but I didn’t read it all this year.

I don’t think I’m going to pick a favorite. All these books were my favorites.