Literary Morning

This morning I share some reading stats and my best books of 2025.

Links mentioned:
2025 Goals (episode)
Best Books of 2024 (episode)
Re-reading Watership Down (episode)

Books mentioned:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Watership Down: The Graphic Novel adapted by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
Knowing God by J.I. Packer
More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell
Victoria the Queen by Julia Baird
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower (series)

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This morning I'm taking you along with me as I read through The Brothers Karamazov for the first time.

Links mentioned:
How to Read The Brothers Karamazov (video)
The Grand Inquisitor Analysis (video)

Books mentioned:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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This morning I wrap up all the books I read in October.

Links mentioned:
Fall TBR (episode)

Books mentioned:
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop
Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham
Lost Man's Lane by Scott Carson
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

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This morning I reflect on libraries and how I want to use my library.

Books mentioned:
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Endling by Maria Reva
Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
Life, and Death, and Giants by Ron Rindo
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

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This morning I go through the End of the Year Book Tag and talk about my plans to wrap up my 2025 reading.

Links mentioned:
Midyear Book Freak Out Tag (episode)
Books Unbound (podcast)
My Fall TBR (episode)
My 2025 Reading Goals (episode)

Books mentioned:
The Skull by Jon Klassen
The Stand by Stephen King
The Will of the Many by James Islington
The Strength of the Few by James Islington
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
IT by Stephen King

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