2025 Wrap-Up
Jan. 2nd, 2026 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tullycatI'm back >:)
I think my goal for the first quarter of 2026 will be reminding myself that just because I failed at continuing something, I can always just start doing it again. So for example: posting my monthly wrap-ups on DW, writing daily, and running are all things I plan to start up again in this quarter. My other goal for this year is to finish my cross stitch project! And maybe continue playing mahjong...learning how to play and then immediately winning my first two games is a high I'm going to be chasing for a while I think.
I read 90 books in 2025, which is why I fell off my DW posts...it just became overwhelming to have to wrap up so many books each month. My book goal for 2026 is 52 books again, because I don't expect to have another 90+ book year this year?...
Top books without thinking too hard about it:
And a recap of the other books I read this year that I didn't post about (but can talk about in the comments if you're interested in something specific):
Top concerts: Taemin, Ateez, The Boyz, Seventeen, Wayv
I think my goal for the first quarter of 2026 will be reminding myself that just because I failed at continuing something, I can always just start doing it again. So for example: posting my monthly wrap-ups on DW, writing daily, and running are all things I plan to start up again in this quarter. My other goal for this year is to finish my cross stitch project! And maybe continue playing mahjong...learning how to play and then immediately winning my first two games is a high I'm going to be chasing for a while I think.
I read 90 books in 2025, which is why I fell off my DW posts...it just became overwhelming to have to wrap up so many books each month. My book goal for 2026 is 52 books again, because I don't expect to have another 90+ book year this year?...
Top books without thinking too hard about it:
- The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez (my favorite of the year was from February....talk about chasing that high)
- Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett
- Going to just count Heaven's Official Blessing as one book, MXTX
And a recap of the other books I read this year that I didn't post about (but can talk about in the comments if you're interested in something specific):
- August
- The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
- The Three Lives of Cat Kay, Kate Fagan
- Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, Kylie Lee Baker
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V.E. Schwab
- September
- We'll Prescribe You a Cat, Syou Ishida
- Junie, Erin Crosby Eckstine
- Trust, Hernan Diaz
- Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
- October
- Katabasis, R.F. Kuang
- Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe, Carl Zimmer
- The Will of the Many, James Islington (reread)
- Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, Eve L. Ewing
- The Antidote, Karen Russell
- November
- Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital, Elise Hu
- The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Mate, Ali Hazelwood
- December
- The Strength of the Few, James Islington
- I'm Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones
- Game Changer, Rachel Reid
- King of Ashes, S.A. Cosby
- Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz
Top concerts: Taemin, Ateez, The Boyz, Seventeen, Wayv
