My favorite books (and other things) of 2025

Since I last wrote about my favorite books for 2024 , it's been one year and one day. In that time, I've read 64 books totaling about 19,000 pages. I sometimes feel that my perception of time is very slow, but only gets faster when I'm having a good time, and y'all, while there are bright spots, this has not been, on balance, a good year. As a result, this year feels like it's dragged on for a…