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January #Roll100 had this long-standing TBR moving off of my shelves. Have I ever read King Lear? Nope. But this was a fun take.

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I‘ve thought long and hard about my favorite reads from 2025 and this is what I came up with. In no particular order. I feel like I had an exceptionally good year, though, and I really enjoyed lots that didn‘t quite make the cut.

* In 2025, I began hardcore reading Harlequin books because they‘re guaranteed HEA‘s. No shame!
* In 2025, I started Taylor Jenkins Reid‘s books because I felt silly never having read her before. 3 down, and ongoing!

I got to Shakespeare and Co in Paris. Thats the queue to the left! I bought one second hand book for me (a Margaret Drabble I hadn‘t read) and one for my daughter (Jean Rhys - couldn‘t pass that up in Paris!) Didnt do any other bookish things but ate a LOT and practiced my high school French, which people were very polite about but rarely made any sense to them 😂😂😂

Exquisite and brutal.

Five stars and gallons of my tears.

Stunning. I loved the way Shakespeare ran through this book so effortlessly. In the afterword, the author admits she “ransacked Shakespeare's entire oeuvre with giddy abandon” and it was beautiful. I didn‘t want it to end. And there were tears.

There is so much emotion (positive and negative) between these seven classmates, who were all drawn together (for better or worse) by their love of The Bard. As Oliver states, ”I blame him for all of it”.

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“what liars they are, the sky and the water. Still and calm and clear, like everything was fine. It wasn‘t fine, and really, it never would be again”

Starting the year off slowly with this one. We‘ll see how well I keep up with the daily readings 😆