March is over and spring is here, so I’ve been reading on the deck in the afternoons.
I’ve started including Storygraph’s wrap-up image because they do cool things with data.
February goal:
I’m < 30 minutes from finishing my next audiobook, so I’ll commit to 4 books in March.
What I read:
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- Version 1.0.0
- The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality—Amanda Montell
- Audiobook 🎧/ 4h 32m
- Feb 22 – Mar 3
- 3⭐
- Review
- Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity—David Lynch
- Audiobook 🎧/ 1h 11m
- Mar 2 – Mar 6
- 3⭐
- Review
- Room to Dream: A Life—David Lynch & Kristine McKenna
- Audiobook 🎧/ 10h 6m
- Mar 11 – Mar 27
- 3.5⭐
- Review
- The Hunter—Tana French
- Kindle / 480p
- Mar 10 – Mar 30
- 3.75⭐
- Review
In-progress:
- Everything is Tuberculosis—John Green
- Audiobook 🎧
- 38%
- Persuasion—Jane Austen
- Kindle
- 21%
Abandoned:
- none
2025 Note: I quit linking titles to that big site that funds the rich dude and fascism a while ago. I’ve been linking to Goodreads, but the same guy owns that, so I linked to Storygraph this month. Regardless, I recommend supporting independent bookstores. My favorite is Old Town Books (they ship!). You can also support my favorite podcast through their Bookshop.org link at KickBezosInTheBalls.org (or pick a local shop of your choosing). And you can never go wrong with your local library!
2025 Progress
Star Ratings:
Based on the flat stars, not the quarter stars I assign in my reviews.
- 5 stars: 1 book
- 4 stars: 4 books
- 3 stars: 6 books
- 2 stars: 0 books
- 1 star: 0 books
- 0 stars: 0 books
- Abandoned: 0 books
- Not rated: 0 books
Pages Read/Hours Listened:
(Does not include partial books, abandoned books, or edited manuscripts)
- January – 1359p, 4h 13m
- February – 766p, 8h 0m
- March – 1475p*, 15h 49m
*Note: Storygraph has a slightly different number because they count what they think I actually read each day based on when I update my progress. I always count the entire book in the month it was completed, even if I read everything but the last page in the previous month.
Reading Goals:
Read 36 books
I finished 4 books toward my Goodreads Challenge and I’m 2 ahead of schedule.
- Audiobooks: 6
- Kindle: 5
- Physical books: 0
Decrease my TBR
- Jan 1: 59 physical / 20 digital
- Feb 2: 59/20
- Mar 2: 59/20
- Apr 6: 59/20
Read 25 minutes per day
March 31 was Day 1293 of my reading streak.
March was mostly audiobooks, including 2 from David Lynch that I had put on hold just after his death, so it was interesting they became available at the same time. And that second one was looooong. I listened to it for several hours on my birthday while doing a puzzle in order to finish it before it was returned to the library. The book I read on my Kindle felt like it took forever, so I shouldn’t have been surprised to see it was almost 500 pages long.
April’s goal? I’m well into an audiobook but I’m also reading Persuasion and classics tend to go slowly for me. I’ll commit to 3 books this month.
As always, you can find me online to see what I’m reading:
