Tamara’s Comments (group member since Mar 26, 2019)

Tamara’s comments from the 2025 Reading Challenge group.

7/55. Betty Boo by Claudia Piñeiro; translated by Miranda France
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

6/55. Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Epic of Creation; eds. Johannes Haubold, Sophus Helle, and others.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

5/55. Heat Wave by Penelope Lively.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

4/55. The Gathering by Anne Enright.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

3/55. The Year of the Hare: A Novel by Arto Paasilinna.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

2/55. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I have set a personal challenge to read and review 55 books in 2025. This is where I will keep track of them.

1/55. The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I had set a challenge to read 64 books this year. I exceeded my goal by reading 78 books. These were divided into the following categories:

42 were books by women authors
16 were books in translation
18 were books in or about the Middle East and Africa
14 were non-fiction
8 were classics

I read some great books by new to me authors. These included a couple of novels by Wallace Stegner, Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, North Woods by Daniel Mason, Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon, The Swan's Nest by Laura McNeal, The Coin by Yasmin Zaher, and There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension and They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by the amazing Hanif Abdurraqib.

All in all, it was a great year for reading.

Happy New Year to all!

78/64. A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

77/64. The Oceans and the Stars by Mark Helprin
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

76/64. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

75/64. Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

74/64. Hum by Helen Phillips
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

73/64. The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

72/64. Entitlement by Rumaan Alam.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....

71/64. The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

70/64. Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....

69/64. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

68/64. The Swan's Nest by Laura McNeal.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....

67/64. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...