a.k.a. V.J.

Back in January, I set a 2025 reading goal on Goodreads of 30 books. Today, on May 29, I finished number 34 and started number 35. Guess I should have set a more ambitious goal.

With the exception of my sampling of pulp fiction a while back, I haven’t written much in this space about the works I’ve been reading. A number of them probably warrant some sort of in-depth review or commentary. I might get to that at some point, but this post is not that point.

This is mostly just a check-in, an opportunity to pat myself on the back for reading a little bit almost every day this year, and an excuse to display the tidy little graphic list Goodreads generated of my 2025 completed books.