My 2025 Albums of the Year
Your last few words in my ear still ring (Oh)
Malice on verse 2 of Clipse’s The Birds Don’t Sing
You told me that you loved me, it was all in your tone (Oh-oh)
“I love my two sons” was the code to your phone, now you’re home
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My 2025 Books of the Year
Books became the medium I kept returning to more this year than any other. A mix of seasonal depression and anhedonia for the first half of the year meant that other forms of media that I enjoyed like music and video games weren’t hitting like they usually do. As such this will be the first of the three “2025 media of the year” posts.
I will start this blog post with some statistics and then I will get into each book in my 2025 books of the year list. The books will be listened in ascending order of when I read and reviewed them.
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Review: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
“I’m excited,” Vanessa said, closing the gap between them. “I want to take you everywhere. And do everything with you. And ask you every single question that’s been on my mind for months. And I want to know when you knew what was happening between us and I want to tell you when I knew. And I want to hold your hand in a quiet corner and I want to lie in bed and hear your heartbeat through your chest. I want to bring you coffee in bed. And I want to hear you tell me anything you’ve always wanted to tell someone. Because you know that you’ve met someone who desperately wants to listen.”
page 175, Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Review: The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
Family. That was the word that came to mind as Loulie took in the domestic scene. It gripped her heart like a vise, made it difficult to breathe. She had become accustomed to–preferred–living a solitary life, but it was easier to forget what she had lost in the cities where the families were scattered and hidden. Sitting around this campfire, she could see the interconnectedness of the lives around her–and she could see herself sitting in the heart of the web, adrift.
page 253, The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah