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My Reading log

Below please find my bespoke reading log for the current year.

You can also visit my past year reading logs:

• My 2024 Reading Log

(I do still try to track my reading on Goodreads because I have a lot of old friends and colleagues there, but I want it first on my own website in my own way.)

Currently Reading

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My 2025 Reading Log Gallery

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My 2025 Reading Log

a bunch of children's poetry books by multiple authors and illustrators

Date Started: 2025-01-18

Date Finished: 2025-01-19

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: poetry, children's poetry, children's nonfiction, picture books, novels in verse

Context:

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Date Started: 2025-01-01

Date Finished: 2025-02-01

Times Read: 6

Genre / Strand: children's middle grade fantasy Christian fiction

Context: reading with my son, a re-read for both of us

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Date Started: 2025-01-30

Date Finished: 2025-02-08

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: apocalyptic zombie horror cult christian-eco-fascist versus trans queer found family teen fiction

Context: listening to Chat Pile and Blood Incantation while reading last night

Poetry January/February 2025 - Young People's Poetry by Poetry Foundation; Elizabeth Acevedo, Issue Editor

Date Started: 2025-02-15

Date Finished:

Times Read: 2

Genre / Strand: Poetry, magazines and journals, anthologies, collections

Context:

Abandon Me by Melissa Febos

Date Started: 2025-02-14

Date Finished: 2025-02-22

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: memoir essays love family relationships writing abandonment

Context:

Still in a Dream: a Story of Shoegaze 1988-1995 by various authors

Date Started: 2024-12-14

Date Finished: 2024-12-16

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: music history, essays, liner notes

Context:

The Mythmakers - The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien by John Hendrix

Date Started: 2025-03-23

Date Finished: 2025-03-25

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: graphic novel biography friendship creativity authorship mythology mythopoeia

Context:

A 2024 Favorite

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

Date Started: 2025-03-27

Date Finished: 2025-03-25

Times Read: 1

Genre / Strand: novel in verse, mythological adaptation, coming-of-age, queer, postmodern acient Greek poetry fragment translations

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