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As I tried to finish the tagged, my final read of 2025, I fell asleep with my head on my book. My husband asked, “Did you drool?” (I did… but not on my “pillow”). This anecdote is a placeholder for the whole year. I‘ve been exhausted. In 2026, I want to rest more. I want to focus on sleep, on getting that Good Sleep, so I can be more awake.

Reading goals: read about sleep.
Doing goals: sleep, dream, wake.

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monalyisha 1/2: Falling asleep on my book is not a commentary on the book itself. It‘s *lovely.* One of my favorites this year. Sarton‘s journal entries are about solitude — the pursuit of, delight in, and suffering from — while living in a farmhouse in NH. By the end, she is looking towards a big move to coastal Maine. 2w

monalyisha 2/2: If it‘s any indication of how much I loved it, I already have the following journal, The House by the Sea, on order. Despite her rages (which aren‘t a particular vice of mine), she feels kindred — which is always such a relief. 2w

JamieArc I really loved this one as well (surprise surprise), but I had forgotten about the following journal. Happy New Year, friend. Here‘s to good rest and good sleep 🛌 🍻 2w

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claudiuo

Reading Journal: For Book Lovers | Potter Style

My 2025 wrap-up in a simple chart. Big thanks to everyone who helped me read more, directly and indirectly, through recommendations, encouragements, comments, posts and challenges.

Biggest thanks to @TheAromaofBooks and @PuddleJumper, the #BookSpin, #BookSpinBingo and #Roll100 are amazing and they make me read more every month!

Thank you!

Hope everyone will have an awesome 2026, full of everything they wish and great reads! Happy New Year!

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic year!!! 2w

dabbe #welldoneyou! 🤩👏🏻🤩 2w

PuddleJumper That's wonderful! What a great reading year 2w

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Journalkeeping | Carl Koch

repost for @TheBookHippie

#JOURNALINGPROMPTS JANUARY

Ⓙⓐⓝⓤⓐⓡⓨ ②⓪②⑥

𝔻𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕊𝕟𝕠𝕨
𝔹𝕪 ℝ𝕠𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕥 𝔽𝕣𝕠𝕤𝕥

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕒𝕪 𝕒 𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕨
𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕕𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕠𝕟 𝕞𝕖
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕤𝕟𝕠𝕨
𝔽𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕒 𝕙𝕖𝕞𝕝𝕠𝕔𝕜 𝕥𝕣𝕖𝕖
ℍ𝕒𝕤 𝕘𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝕞𝕪 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥
𝔸 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕞𝕠𝕠𝕕
𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕕 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥
𝕆𝕗 𝕒 𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝕀 𝕙𝕒𝕕 𝕣𝕦𝕖𝕕.

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monalyisha

Journal of a Solitude | May Sarton

“The big question…is how to hope and what to hope *for.* We are citizens of a corrupt country, of a corrupt vision. There is such a sense of death and of being buried under the weight…How to… get hold of the essential… and above all, how to recognize the essential.”

From my reading this morning. I‘m checking in. There was a shooting at Brown University last night. My husband‘s charity cover show in PVD was canceled. He made it home safely. ❤️‍🩹

Amiable It‘s so mind-numbingly sad and heartbreaking.. Today is 13 years since the Sandy Hook shootings and we‘re still doing nothing as a country to prevent this. 1mo

monalyisha @Amiable I agree whole (and broken) heartedly. 1mo

AnnCrystal This normalcy of violence is unexceptionable 😢💝🫂💝. 1mo

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monalyisha @Amiable One of our senators (Tiara Mack, who is a shining gem) wrote about it in her newsletter today. Like me, she was also thinking about the kids who are calling and texting about their grief today instead of setting up dates with their friends to frolic in the snow. This might be the first snowfall for some of them, who came to New England for school from faraway climes, and now the magic will always be linked to tragedy. It‘s so wrong. 1mo

AmyG At this point if you vote for the party that doesn‘t care….you support this. It‘s unconscionable. 1mo

JenReadsAlot Just heartbreaking yet again... 1mo

kspenmoll It‘s horrific. All of it. Our nation‘s inability to understand it is guns that are killing our children. 1mo

dabbe And if I see or hear one more politician say “Our prayers are with“ .... I'll frickin' go ballistic. We don't need your prayers. We need gun laws, you idiots. And now a shooting in Australia as well. I just can't anymore. 💔 1mo

CBee No words here - just profound sadness. Very glad your husband made it home safely 💚 1mo

Amiable @monalyisha I saw an interview with the Brown student who also witnessed the shooting at Parkland. She‘s 20 years old and has now survived not one but TWO school shootings. WTF are we doing?? 1mo

monalyisha @Amiable How do you get over that sense that you are not safe — and that nobody cares? 1mo

ncsufoxes My son is at URI. He was studying in the library when they announced what was happening at Brown (since it isn‘t really that far away). He packed up & went to his dorm. He said that he felt safer in his dorm. The sad realization is that said to me “if the gunman in an off chance came here I‘d rather be in my dorm.” Isn‘t a sad statement that our kids have to plan escape routes & where the safest place is? Instead of fully focusing on studying. 1mo

ncsufoxes He also pointed out that URI posts their exam schedules online & he wondered if they do the same thing at Brown. It‘s just so sad, frustrating, & horrific every time it happens. He‘s 6-7 hours away from us & I worry constantly about something like this happening. 1mo

ncsufoxes @Amiable my son went through a school lock down when he was in high school. A student brought a screwdriver to school & tried to harm himself. That was scary to be texts from the school for the duration of the incident as they kept updating us what was happening. They treated the lock down like an active shooter. I‘m sure that incident plays back in my son‘s mind at a moment like yesterday. 1mo

monalyisha @ncsufoxes That must be scary, to have him far from you. 💓 1mo

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xicanti

How to Make a Journal of Your Life | Dan Price

I blasted through another ten volumes this week, which means I‘m over halfway through revisiting my 130-volume journal! Now it‘s time for a break. I‘ve covered twenty-five volumes since November 23rd and I‘m burnt out on this project.

Tomorrow, THEY burn. I‘d do it tonight, but it‘s late enough I might alarm the neighbours.

(ETA NB: two of these notebooks were made from old book covers. I didn‘t burn novels.)

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xicanti

How to Make a Journal of Your Life | Dan Price

I finished reading through another ten volumes of my 25-year daily journal, so I got to have a little fire tonight. I‘ve reached 2004, in which I hit a LOT of weird little personal touchstones.

Gonna see if I can clear volumes 61-70 before I lose the privacy I need for this process. That‘ll take me past halfway through my 130-volume archive.

BookishMarginalia Wow! That‘s impressive! I‘m curious — do you still journal? 1mo

xicanti @BookishMarginalia nope. I hit twenty-five years and said, “Yeah, that‘s it, I‘m done.” 1mo

BookishMarginalia Liberation! 1mo

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xicanti

How to Make a Journal of Your Life | Dan Price

A few years ago, I started rereading the daily journal I kept for twenty-five years so I could make note of important stuff and then burn each volume. I had a longer-than-anticipated gap in the process, but the conditions are right this week so I‘m back at it. Ten more volumes met their end tonight.

If you‘re all 😱, be assured I don‘t do this lightly. This journal is my mandala: something I had to make but don‘t have to keep forever.

Ruthiella I have a friend who did this. It makes sense to me. I actually don‘t want to read the journals of my younger self. They make me cringe a little. 2mo

xicanti @Ruthiella there‘s definitely a lot of youthful ignorance in here. Also a lot of days where I wrote because I liked using my pen du jour, not because I had anything to SAY. 2mo

Karisa 👏👏👏Your words, your choice! How did it feel? 2mo

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Texreader This is amazing. Wow!! I kept diaries back in elementary school and they embarrass the heck out of me. I‘ve stuck them back in some closet. When I find them again they are getting “torched.” If I had been older and had nuggets of meaningful writings, I hope I‘d do the same as you. Such a beautiful thing. 2mo

willaful @Ruthiella So much so! I kept my pregnancy journal but everything before it went into the shredder.
2mo

Kenyazero I just read a book where a character did something similar! 2mo

SamAnne Wow. I get this. I don‘t want others to read my journals when I pass. I‘m going through them this year. Burning sounds good! 2mo

xicanti @Karisa it‘s been good. I‘ve now consigned fifty volumes to the flames. 2mo

xicanti @Texreader it‘s a satisfying act. 2mo

xicanti @willaful I‘ve ripped out and kept a few entries here and there, when they were personally significant. I think I‘ll probably keep most, if not all, the volumes I wrote when I lived in Auckland, but it‘ll be a while before I get that far. 2mo

xicanti @Kenyazero I‘ve got a fictional twin! (Or a memoirist twin.) 2mo

xicanti @SamAnne burning‘s so good! If I recycled them, I‘d worry someone would dig them out or something. 2mo

BkClubCare Yeah, add this task to my to do list 😒 1mo

xicanti @BkClubCare good luck! 1mo

Centique This makes complete sense to me too. Everything has it‘s season, we dont have to hold on to all of it ♥️👏👏👏 1mo

xicanti @Centique exactly. Plus, 130 notebooks take up a fair bit of space. 1mo

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monalyisha

The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life | Suleika Jaouad

Perhaps the most delightful email header & subject combo I‘ve ever received in my inbox. 😅

BookishMarginalia 🤣🤣🤣 Agreed! 2mo

TheBookHippie I love her emails. 2mo

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