Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Movies 2025

1. The Wild Robot 

2. Saturday Night

3. Dog Man

4. Back to the Future (rewatch)

5. Inside Out 2 (airplane with F)

6. Ratatouille (rewatch, airplane with F)

7.  Goonies (F gave up after 1 hour)

8. Happy Gilmore 2

9. Unfrosted 

10. Rudy (rewatch)

11. The Woman in Cabin 10

12. The Life List

13. A Minecraft Movie 

14. A Merry Little Ex-mas

15. The Family Holiday

16. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (was on while I mostly ignored it)

17.  A Biltmore Christmas 

18. Freakier Friday

19. Back to the Outback

I enjoyed most of the kids' movies. I was quite taken with A Biltmore Christmas and quite annoyed with A Merry Little Ex-mas. 

Books 2025

 I guess we're still doing this. I'm using The Storygraph to track my reading. I read 41 books this year and quit at least 2. I average a book every 10 days and 76% of my reading this year was fiction, slightly above the 68% of the last 19 years. 


1. Roller Girl

2. The Flawless Skin of Ugly People

3. Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation

4. Dear Edward

5. The Game

6. Wellness

7. The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (re-read)

8. The Wild Robot Escapes

9. Uncommon Type

10. Kingdom Quarterback: Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback

11. The God of Woods

12. The Night We Lost Him

13. Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports-- And Why it Matters

14. Great Big Beautiful Life

15. Rental House

16. The Ministry of Time

17. Less

18. All the Water in the World

19. A Different Kind of Power

20. Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

21. The Sense of Wonder

22. The Woman in Suite 11

23. The Future

24. 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation for Managers, Parents, and Educators

25. Life Audit: A Step-by-Step Guide to Discovering Your Goal and Building The Life You Want

26. The Bullet Swallower

27. Girls They Write Songs About

28. It's Elementary (Mavis Miller #1)

29. The Nineties

30. A Girl Like Us

31. Culpability

32. I Hope This Finds You Well

33. Wild Dark Shore

34. The Flatshare

35. French Braid

36. The Teacher

37. Convenience Store Woman

38. Heart the Lover

39. Wreck (Rocky #2)

40. The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causign an Epidemic of Mental Illness

41. Joan is Okay 


My favorite was Dear Edward. Heart the Lover was high on my list too. Less was my least favorite. I also abandoned Spice Gate, The Sellout and a couple others.