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Carrie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carrie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Here's to 2026!
It certainly has been a while! But it's a new year, and we're leaving negative things in the past and looking optimistically to the future! Here's a short wrap-up of my reading and writing for the last twelve months and goals for the next twelve. ReadingIn 2025, my reading goal was 45 books. I exceeded that and read 55, including some single-issue comics. Here are five of my favorites:
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“I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”
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“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”
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“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”
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“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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