2025: Books!

I read a lot of books in 2025. I keep one-upping myself from the previous year. Unintentionally. I won't be writing blurbs about all the books I read this year, as honestly, I don't remember too much about each one. As I reflect on this list of reading, I think it's a reflection of my year. There's a lot of light/fun reading this year. When I'm in the mood for light reading, it means I'm looking to read something other than what my reality is experiencing. 

I allow myself to do fun reading now. It's nice to enter into a fictional character's world, see life through their eyes, and then step out when the book finishes. I've had to ask myself: why read if I can't remember half the books I've read?  It feels a little counterproductive at times, spending so many hours with these books and not being able to recall anything of importance. But I think that misses the point.

We meet so many people in our lives throughout the years, and we probably truly keep in touch with less than half, maybe even less than a quarter. Were those people we met before "unnecessary"? I still think about my elementary school friends and how close we were at the time. I'd go to their houses to play or do group projects together. 

Even though our lives were not meant to keep in touch with every single person we've ever met or interacted with, it doesn't mean his/her presence wasn't important at the time, even if only for a short while. I think if we actually did keep in touch with every single person, our lives would explode with anxiety and stress at dealing with so many people all the time. 

So much like our interactions with people and the way only a few (relatively) truly stick around and last, reading books feels the same way at times. We read to explore various characters and stories. Many will be forgotten once the back cover closes and others will linger on in our minds, reminding us of the locations we sat and read or multi-tasked while listening to an audio book.   

 

Ornithologists Guide to Love

Veronica Speedwell #1: A Curious Beginning

Accidentally Amy

Happily Never After

Flirty Little Secret

Veronica Speedwell #2: A Perilous Undertaking

The Love Wager

The Secret Service of Tea and Treason

Veronica Speedwell #3: A Treacherous Curse

Veronica Speedwell #4: A Dangerous Collaboration

The Do Over

Veronica Speedwell #5: A Murderous Relation

P.S. I Hate You

Better Than the Movies

Nothing Like the Movies

The Silence Between Us

Fourth Wing

Iron Flame

Just For the Summer

A Pho Love Story

Love on Paper

You Bet Your Heart

Onyx Storm

Wreck the Halls

Veronica Speedwell #6: An Unexpected Peril 

Part Of Your World

Yours Truly

Powerless

Veronica Speedwell #7: An Impossible Imposter 

First Time Caller

A Sinister Revenge

The Wish Switch

Reckless

Love That Dog

Veronica Speedwell #8: A Grave Robbery

Maid For Each Other

The Friend Zone 

Life's Too Short

Fearless

Hamlet

Sounds Like Love

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Volume One 

Love and Other Great Expectations

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Volume Two

I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen

Love Unmasked

Fearful

(The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe came somewhere before Prince Caspian)

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Volume Three

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Volume Four

Prince Caspian 

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Volume Five

Great Big Beautiful Life  

 

 

 

I made it to 53 this year.