Richard M wants to read The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (Spellshop, #1)

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (Spellshop, #1)
Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as a librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and …
In all honesty, it had been years since I regularly read anything of note. An occasional audiobook (of while I have an intimidating collection of unread volumes. I've been collecting epub and pdf books from bundles and sales, etc.
2024 was the year of my dropping Twitter and (mostly) Facebook. It was also the year of stopping dropping most things Google and Reddit and other sites that encourage division. I deleted my podcast app, as nothing I was listening to was truly compelling or really even that interesting.
It's been a year now, in July 2025 and I've completed over 40 novels and novellas. Short story collections, poetry, etc. I have about six books on the go at any time, just like I used to do when I was a teenager. Instead of a stack of open books stacked up beside my bed, it's all on my phone and tablet.
As of this writing I have read 30 books of the 12 I thought I might finish in all of 2025. I think I might need to up my estimate a bit.
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Success! Richard M has read 48 of 12 books.
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They're not a problem for the reader, so much as the protagonist, though.
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