I read 103 (lots of escape from reality!) this year. My favorite is What Are You Going Through, Sigrid Nunez

Obviously finding Sigrid Nunez's work was a major highlight of the year!

Pt 2
6 What Are You Going Through/ Nunez
7 A Feather on the Breath of God / Nunez
8 The Time Traveller's Wife / Niffenegger
9 Model Home / Puchner
10 The Last of Her Kind / Nunez
11 For Rouenna / Nunez
12 Dark Matter / Crouch
13 Before the Mango Ripens / Kurian
14 Naked Sleeper / Nunez

I read 103 books in 2025! Lots and lots of escapism, but here's my top 14 favorites. In order that I read them, not preference:

1 The Shadow of the Wind / Zafon
2 A Day of Fallen Night /Shannon
3 The Vulnerables / Nunez
4 The Friend / Nunez
5 The Master and Margarita /Bulgakov

Pt 1

The book is well worth your time!

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy, first line of Anna Karenina

Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.

How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.

Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.

Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...

The president is such a bumbling idiot he thinks tweeting out the word "hereby" a couple times on his white supremacist social media site is the same thing as making an actual law.

The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.

Dust-Licking Pimps Mark Twain and Quincy and Immigration

Last year, I had hope that we would make progress. This year I hope we won’t devolve into an autocratic police state. I hope I have healthcare. I hope my kids can afford to buy groceries. I hope my neighbor isn’t deported.

I have hope. I am also paying attention. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Into all caps territory now

So much this

Unbelievable yet so on brand for OH

🍾

Over 1k at one in Cleveland area!