2025 books read
Jan. 8th, 2026 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ketraiaI didn't do last year's year in books because I felt like I had nothing interesting to say but it occurs to me now I could have just listed them. oh well. here's 2025.
( books read: )
( books read: )
ketraia
2026 - media
Jan. 6th, 2026 10:45 pmheadstone🎧 music
- Immanent Fire - Emily Jane White
📚 books
- Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
🎥 movies
- Son of the White Mare (1981)
📺 shows
- Mobile Suit Gundam [rewatch]
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam [rewatch]
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
🎲 games
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
🎙️ podcasts
- Friends at the Table: Twilight Mirage
- Zen Studies Podcast
- LEPHT HAND
2025 reading summary
Jan. 2nd, 2026 05:24 pma_small_dragoncompleted books: all the hidden paths and a strange and stubborn endurance, both by foz meadows (& both mediocre); minima moralia by theodor adorno; spread me by sarah gailey; paradise logic by sophia kemp; the big sleep by raymond chandler
web serials added to my list: magical girl mechanical heart by thundamoo; pale lights by erraticerrata; maidens of the fall by hungry; ranked competitive breast growth by talia bhatt and beth tpwrtrmnky; carve it on my bones by shadell; the sisters of dorley by alyson greaves
in progress: the crying of lot 49 by thomas pynchon; au bonheur des dames by emile zola; the empusium by olga tokarczuk; the thin man by dashiell hammett
dnf: read fragments of many Shelved By Genre books but did not finish any; mordew by alex pheby; probably more
to read: thinking with type by ellen lupton
to read: thinking with type by ellen lupton
I was not in the mood to read much of anything that was good this year. many hours were spent on godawful web serials which I will not include in this list out of principle/self-defense.
2025 faves
Jan. 1st, 2026 12:59 pmheadstonei lied before, we're doing 2025 retrospectives after all. tagged by commanderspock and fake-monalisa on tumblr <3
🎧 music
albums
(2025 releases only)
- SPELLLING - Portrait of My Heart
- Sophia Kennedy - Squeeze Me
- Anna von Hausswolff - Iconoclasts
- Sorry - COSPLAY
- Leon Vynehall - In Daytona Yellow
- Haru Nemuri - ekkolaptómenos
- Bria Salmena - Big Dog
- Jane Inc. - A RUPTURE A CANYON A BIRTH
- ganavya - Nilam
- Deradoorian - Ready for Heaven
... and some runners-up to the top 10 list:
- Wet Leg - Moisturizer
- Lucrecia Dalt - A Danger to Ourselves
- Circuit des Yeux - Halo on the Inside
- Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying
- Debby Friday - The Starr of the Queen of Life
- Automatic - Is It Now?
- Faetooth - Labyrinthine
- Lady Gaga - MAYHEM
singles & standalone tracks
- "Toxicity" - Fionn
- "Mine or Yours" - Hikaru Utada (& its various remixes)
- "SLIME is BESTIE [Sega Bodega + JT]" - Shygirl
- "Foundry" - Yu Su
- "Koko (Sun's Signature Remix)" - Goldfrapp
📚 books
(fiction only & as usual, some of these were started in 2024 because I'm an insane person who reads 20 books at the same time and takes forever to finish any of them)
- Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
- Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
- A Wizard of Earthsea & The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin
- Beowulf: A New Translation - Maria Dahvana Headley (translator)
- Perfumes: The Guide (2018 edition) - Tania Sanchez & Luca Torin
- By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
- Margery Kempe - Robert Gluck
- Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
- Ballad of Sword and Wine (vols. 1-3) - Tang Jiu Qing
- Marilou Is Everywhere - Sarah Elaine Smith
🎥 movies
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack (1988)
- Sinners (2025)
- Carnival of Souls (1962)
- Basic Instinct (1992)
- Night Tide (1961)
- Strange Days (1995)
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
- Conclave (2024)
- Vampire Hunter D (1985)