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My Best Books for 2025

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I did away with ‘top tens’ a few years ago, and instead I finish the reading year with a recap of the books that are still speaking to me (less about four and five-star ratings, more about what has stuck). Continue reading →

Nonfiction November 2025 – My Year in Nonfiction

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Nonfiction November kicks off today with My Year in Nonfiction, hosted by Heather at Based on a True Story.

Strictly speaking, I should call it Memoir November (Memvember?!) – doesn’t have quite the same ring but it is more accurate in my case, given that the majority of my nonfiction reading is memoir. Specifically, I’ve read 23 memoirs, and ten other nonfiction titles this year. Continue reading →

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

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Confession: I don’t really have a problem with disconnecting/ doing nothing/ having vast amounts of unstructured time/ ‘resisting the attention economy’ (hmmm… is that a confession or a boast…?).

Nevertheless, I picked up Jenny Odell’s book, How to Do Nothing, partly because I found her more recent book, Saving Time, interesting. Continue reading →