Colin 📚🦔☕️🍵

2nd ARC of 2026 complete 📖

The Last of Earth is an introspective novel that explores grief, guilt, and ghosts through a dual narrative, following a man and a woman navigating loss from very different social and cultural positions.

My full review is up on goodreads/fable/storygraph

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Re-reading To the Lighthouse in honor of Virginia Woolf's birthday today, Jan. 25.

This book changed how I think about time, memory, and the weight of ordinary moments. Woolf stretches a single afternoon into an entire emotional world.

5/5 stars. A lifetime re-read for me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Did Tobias Wolff invent light academia? 📚✨

Probably not, but Old School comes awfully close.

It's a sharp coming-of-age story about ambition, class, and the cost of wanting greatness too badly.

4/5 ⭐️

Have you read Old School?

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This makes me more excited to read it! Hoping to get to it very soon 😃

DNF ≠ bad book.
Usually it means wrong reader, wrong moment.

These 9 books didn't click for me.

Taste is personal, and life’s too short to force yourself thru a book you’re not connecting with!

What’s 1 book you DNF’d & don’t regret, and 1 you loved that seems to bounce off others?

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Jan 12: National Hot Tea Day + Haruki Murakami’s birthday

Novelist as a Vocation felt like the right follow-up after finishing Stephen King’s On Writing.

Two very different approaches to craft. Both worth lingering over. Preferably with hot tea. ☕

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Achievement unlocked: 1st 5-star read of '26!

Crux is a gritty, adrenaline-fueled literary novel that uses rock climbing not just as a backdrop, but as a way of exploring friendship, survival, fear, and the hope of wanting more from life.

Have you read Crux yet, or is it on your TBR?

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🌒 House Made of Dawn is often credited with launching the Native American literary Renaissance.

Momaday’s prose is spare, lyrical, and often beautiful. But the fragmented narrative and symbolic distance kept me from fully connecting. I admired it more than I loved it.

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Thank you!! Libraries are the BEST

Thank you for your thoughtful comments! You made some really insightful points about how to maintain the joy of reading. One of my goals is to just have fun and I need to work on not taking it so seriously.

📚✨ I finally checked out the brand new Mesa Gateway Public Library — opened Dec. 6, 2025.

Wild fact: this is Mesa Public Library’s first new branch in 30 years!

Libraries will always be one of my favorite public spaces, and I’ll always root for them getting the spotlight they deserve.

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📚 26 for ’26

Over the past year, a lot of good books got pushed lower on my TBR as other reads took priority.

So, I did a full shelf inventory and picked 26 books from the backlog that I’m committing to read this year, ~2–3 each month if I want this entire stack finished by Dec. 31st.

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✨ More ways to make 2026 your best reading year ✨

Reading isn’t about doing it “right.” It’s not a competition, and it definitely doesn’t need to be optimized. It can be slow, opinionated, messy, and still incredibly meaningful.

Which ones are you already doing? Which do you want to try?
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The Stranger in the Woods is about solitude, but it’s also about meaning, restlessness, and learning to live with what feels unfinished. It quietly reshaped how I think about being alone with my own thoughts.

These are the lines from the book that stayed with me.

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Loved it ! I want to read more stuff by her. Enjoy :)

What did you choose to read instead?

One of the first books I wanted to pick up in the new year, and one I’m not rushing. 📖

On the Calculation of Volume is a literary septology that's an experience in presence. It asks you to slow down, inhabit time differently, and notice the extraordinary in the ordinary.

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Kicking off the year with an ambitious reading list! 📚✨

Crux is my Book of the Month pick and Dungeon Crawler Carl is a total wild card pick 🤪

Thoughts on these picks? Drop them in the comments👇

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Looks awesome! I want to read flannery O’Connor this year

Great book! I like the edition you posted more than the one I have on my shelf. I went and saw a movie with my family yesterday and there was a preview for a new animated adaptation of animal farm

Awesome! It’s always a great feeling to improve on the prior years reading. Are you setting your goal at 150 again for 2026?

Lighting a candle for JD Salinger’s birthday today
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The Catcher in the Rye is divisive, still discussed, and still finding new readers after 74 years— what’s your relationship with the book?

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How was your reading year? 🗓️

Here’s my proof that I spent 2025 exactly how I wanted: buried in books! 📚
This is my 2025 reading wrap-up from Fable—stats, favorite reads, and a look back at the stories that stuck with me the most.

I’m already thinking ahead…
👉 What should I read in 2026?
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✨ Ready to make 2026 your best reading year yet? ✨

I’ve been thinking a lot about my own reading lately and how I can make it more meaningful.

Here are 12 simple ways to make your reading life more fun, sustainable, and meaningful in the new year.

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Just finished The Dharma Bums 🫖
5/5⭐️ and the perfect way to end the year. 🌄✨

Kerouac asks the big questions about freedom, friendship, and living fully. Mountains climbed, stillness practiced, every moment hums with wonder. I finished lighter, more present, and freer.

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Audiobook update 📚🎧

Just finished A Canticle for Leibowitz (on Libby). Ambitious and thoughtful, but ultimately not for me (★★½).

Now listening to The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (on Cloud Library). Fingers crossed that it's more my speed 🤞

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Pulled together 24 new releases coming out Jan–April 2026 that I’m genuinely excited for—some obvious names, some quieter picks.

If you’re already looking ahead to next year’s reading, what 2026 release are you most anticipating?

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Holiday book haul, part two 📚✨
Books to sit with through the long winter stretch.

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Holiday book haul, part one ✨
More coming tomorrow.

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I spotted this Vonnegut collection for a steal and couldn’t pass it up!

Which of his works do you love, and which ones didn’t click for you?

And how do you feel about collected editions-- do you prefer one volume with multiple works, or individual books on your shelf?

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