
I only read 48 books in 2025. This is low. There were some long ones, and about the usual number of abandonments. There were some fun novels, but none I think I’ll remember forever. For non-fiction, I came off 2024 having finished The Master & His Emissary which spun my head around; this year I followed it with McGilchrist’s humongous The Matter with Things which did the same to my soul. It has intensely changed the way I think about music, God, nature, and … things.