Reading in Public No. 90: A year end reflection on my 2025 reading intentions
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I’m sorry to be sending an end-of-year goal reflection to you in November. Please do not interpret this as me having my life together and certainly don’t view it as a declaration that now is the time for everyone to begin reflecting. I just have a weird relationship to the calendar where I view December as a liminal month. I always feel the urge to wind down my year-end thoughts—from best books to goal reflections—early because there’s something about that mentally categorizing December as a sort of in-between month that makes me feel truly relaxed and rejuvenated. So I’m sharing these reflections now to grant myself the gift of a December with no goals, no intentions, no book tracking—just floating through and gathering myself to start anew.
Despite not being a big goal setter, this January I put together some intentions for 2025.
After a midyear check-in I felt pretty good about how things were going, but the second half of the year has felt more scattered than the first. Today I’m checking in on how things went overall in 2025 so I can spend the end of the year thinking about what I’d like to work on in the new year.
#1 Read fewer books, better
I checked in last year I read 160 ...
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