Ready Player One
Tender is the Flesh
A Dowry of Blood
Carmilla
Game of Thrones
Interview with the Vampire

2025 I will read 50 pieces of fiction

I don't recall reading more than one book all year

The Will of the Many

so that i guess. i spent my time watching movies and listening to music, but that's still bad.

How to say Babylon (Memoir)
Frankenstein (Fiction)
Bad Monkey (Fiction)
Hyperbole and a Half (Memoir, funny)
Black Sunlight (Fiction, flawed but visceral)

I had a similar experience, but it was from reading Eileen and My Year of Rest back to back. Didn't like Eileen very much (but I enjoyed the movie adaptation quite a bit), and then My Year of Rest was surprisingly enjoyable. Darkly funny too.

Same lol. It was the book I read then thought to myself, "okay, I get the cult following of Ottessa Moshfegh."

The ending was a bit wonky but I dug the rest of the novel.

1. Warlock by Oakley Hall
2. The Shards by Brett Easton Ellis
3. Angels by Denis Johnson
4. In the Heart of the Country by William H Gass
5. Blood on the Forge - William Attaway

Hm: Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor

So excited to dive into warlock. Heard so many good things about it

Excellent western and a very engaging read. Felt like the blueprint for Deadwood in many ways.

Ayo

Deadwood was my s***. Yeah I'm hype

it being a collection of notes loosely related to a topic really shows but it has high highs and low lows, it’s interesting and i enjoy it cause it is edited to be systemized with aphorisms being placed in “books” relating to a certain topic, but the quality of the “books” varied a lot.

1. Another Country - James Baldwin
2. Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
3. Cinema Speculation - Quentin Tarantino
4. Heaven - Mieko Kawakami
5. Babel - RF Kuang
Bonus Friends & Lovers - Eric Jerome D***ey

currently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude so if i finish this before the years out, maybe the list will change.

Which ones did you like most? Maybe I’ll just skip the bad ones

how was the troop? thinking about getting that one next year

big fan of that one man. haven’t read a ton of horror but that book had me engaged from the first page to the end

i read it at start of the year, so my memory is hazy looking at the content all topic do seem “books” do seem enjoyable to me, there’s only 4 but i remember book one “europeon nihilism” being a standout while the rest have their ups and downs