The Mighty Thor of Asgard

Books I read in 2025! I read a pleasing number, although I always want to read more than I do. Such is life, I guess. I did manage to follow through on my intentions to read a few more books in French, which is nice!

I do find that I have to make a conscious effort to focus on books, because it's so easy to look away at every phone buzz and notification and stray thought, in a way that's very frustrating. Smartphones were a mistake! But they also contain most of my friends! Onwards we struggle. But I do want to make more of an effort to read more in the coming year, both books and short stories. For a while I was trying to default to reading a short story on my phone whenever I didn't have anything specific I wanted to be reading or doing instead, and I found that very rewarding, but it was short-lived as a habit. Hopefully this year I can make it stick a little better.

I would say that I want to post more booklogging this year, and I do! I sincerely always do! I also am very consistently bad at following through on that, so I will state the intention sincerely and we'll see what happens with it. But in the meantime! Here is the list of all books and comics I read this year! Feel free to ask about any of them in the comments and I will happily talk about 'em.

( Books read in 2025 )

This is just a quick drive-by post to say: hello! I hope that those of you who are celebrating Christmas have had a lovely one, and that those of you who aren't have had a nice Thursday.

We're at my parents' place having a pleasantly low-key celebration (lots of joy! but also, us plus two elderly people = a lot of lying around on the couch reading, and not a lot of impetus to go all-out for the decorations and feasting), and meanwhile the weather is giving us scenic snow all around.

And also! I got an INCREDIBLY GOOD Yuletide fic!

The Villainous Princess Saves Her Kingdom is a note-perfect post-canon story for Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born. I mostly enjoyed the heck out of that kdrama, in which everyone is a dramatic lesbian who cares deeply about their all-female melodramatic theater, but the heroine makes many incredibly stupid choices and there were various things that frustrated me about the ending. This story focuses on Seo Hyerang, a secondary character who does not care at all about our beloved stupid heroine (and that's beautiful to me), and it deftly and delightfully fixes almost all of my complaints, and made me cackle several times. It's everything I hoped and dreamed for in a Jeongnyeon fic! I'm so happy!!!

I think it's readable without canon knowledge, but you'll have to do a certain amount of piecing things together as you go, and the emotions won't hit as hard. I had many emotions, though. What a treat, what a delight!