ffortsa tissimmo - second movement

Hi again. I'm Judy. Maybe we haven't met. In 2025, I made it to 75!

I beg a humble pardon for all the threads I couldn't keep up with last year (as usual)., and the ones I've fallen behind on this year. Keeping up with everyone is beyond my abilities, but I'll do my best.

I still have too many unread books on my shelves, in my Kindle library, in my mind to read. My two ftf book groups are still chugging away, mostly for fiction, but that should only account for 24 titles a year. Lots of room for more.

I'm still a book hoarder, of course, mostly electronic, but I've used the library a lot this year and will continue to do so. I hope to deaccession more paper books to free my shelves for more eclectic display.

I've not yet recategorized my non-fiction into more useful divisions, as I planned for last year. And I have a spreadsheet for book bullets, but it's way out of date. Must pay more attention.

Plans for 2026, not so different from 2025. Reading from my shelves, physical and electronic, of course. I may try again a balance of fiction and non-fiction. Fiction is generally taken care of through my two book groups and my thirst for mysteries. Non-fiction is a different story.

I've actually begun reorganizing my collections and tags for easier searching, and to properly align them along database rules. For instance, it matters more if a book is 'TO READ' and less if it's an ebook. More refinements to come.

Enough about amateur librarianship.

Books read in 2026:

January
1. ♬A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
2. @A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
3. @Confessions of a Red Herring by Dana Dratch (dnf)
4. @Assassins of Athens by Jeffrey Siger
5. @♬Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
6. @Target:Tinos by Jeffrey Siger
7. ♬The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
8. ♬A Serpent's Tooth by Craig Johnson
9. @The Marlybone Drop by Mark Herron
10. @Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit
11. The Sellout by Paul Beatty
12. ↩@A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
13. @A Sleeping Life by Ruth Rendell
14. @Put On By Cunning by Ruth Rendell
15. ♬System Collapse by Martha Wells
16. ✔Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
17. @Land of Careful Shadows by Suzanne Chazin
18. @Speaker of Mandarin by Ruth Rendell
19. @The Wind Knows My Name by Isabelle Allende
20. @Mykonos After Midnight by Jeffrey Siger
21. The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves
22. ♬The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
23. @Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
24. @In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
25. @An Unkindness of Ravens by Ruth Rendell
26. ♬The Jupiter Myth by Lindsay Davis
27. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
28. ♬Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
29. @Falling in Love by Donna Leon
30. @A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
31. @So Big by Edna Ferber
32. @Fatal Pursuit by Martin Walker
33. @Living Proof by John Harvey
34. @The Two Mrs. Abbots by D. E. Stevenson
35. @The Four Graces by D. E. Stevenson
36. @The Veiled One by Ruth Rendell
37. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
38. @The Last Word by Elly Griffiths
39. ↩The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
40. @The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
41. ♬The Accusers by Lindsay Davis

Currently reading:

The Lover of Horses by Tess Gallagher
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger (rec by Banjo)

Now, a book ticker:



and a code guide:

♬ audiobook
✔ off the shelf
@ e-book
✿ TIOLI
↩ reread
✗ dnf