Notes & Photos

I set a goal of reading 50 books in 2025, and really enjoyed using StoryGraph to track my reading metrics. While I didn’t hit the 50 books read mark, I did gather some interesting data. And, I’m thinking that setting a “quantity” goal might not be the best approach for 2026. Instead, I’m going to focus on more carefully curating and writing about books read.

Some highlights from my StoryGraph 2025 reading summary:

“…I said that I had typed up something I wanted to show him. I had found notes that I had taken after 2 interviews with the UC psychologist I saw in 1955. One set of notes was on a torn-out notebook page, the other partly typed with handwritten notes added. Reading them, I said, I had been struck by how they seemed to address the very things we were talking about, and discouraged by how little progress I had made toward addressing these things during the 45 intervening years.”

~ Joan Didion, in discussion with her therapist, in Notes to John