Dedication's what you need: the 2025 reading challenge thread

[zedr]

1/24 The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte - Karl Marx

Had the Project Gutenberg version of this on my e-reader and its only about a hundred pages long so I thought it'd be a quick way to start the year. Probably foolish as I don't know much about the second French revolution and forgot how dense Marx can be. Managed to waddle through it all but will probably go back through a clearer history of the revolution and return to this in a few years. He's got a fabulous way of insulting people though.

 

[Elpenor]

1. Rumaan Alam - Leave The World Behind.

2. Mick Herron - The Last Voice You Hear. Enjoyable, though kept me up far too late reading it!

 

[BoatieBird]

Read this one last year. How did you find it? Took me a while to get into it (found it a bit plodding and listless) but really enjoyed it by the end.

Yes, took me a while to get into it too, but it was short enough to not seem a slog!

 

[BoatieBird]

1/60 - Susie Dent - Guilty by Definition
2/60 - Emily St. John Mandel - Sea of Tranquillity (BC)

3/60 - Sally Rooney - Intermezzo