2025 Reading Round Up: My Highlights!
Reflecting on the year of reading that was 2025, I am struck by the variety of books that I read and the richness that they brought to my life. This hobby of reading and writing about books has brought me such pleasure, and continues to enrich. This completes my fourth year of sharing my thoughts about each book I read on Bookstagram, the corner of Instagram for bookish content, and for this blog. I would never have imagined such a rich pastime in my retirement from my career in medicine. I still post my thoughts about each book I read on my Instagram page (I’m @trishtalksbooks ), with very few exceptions. Occasionally there’s a book that I didn’t finish that I have no interest in writing about, and sometimes one that’s just so terrible that I have no interest in doing so. But that’s rare. I tend to find something I like in most books, and prefer to highlight the good, while not glossing over the negative too much. I continue to strive for a mix of books that include releases from...
