Happy 2025! And wow, I can’t believe that we’ve been doing this travel reading challenge for 8 years! It started as a simple project with friends, grew into a larger project with friends and friends of friends, and now we have a small community of of book and travel lovers. I continued my reading streak in 2024 and, according to my Kindle app, have read on 759 consecutive days and for 338 weeks. I’m proud of that streak and not just for the gamification part of it (although I do worry that when I’m changing lots of time zones and don’t have wifi that it will break my streak). You can take a look at the 2024 challenge, along with all the books that I read here. It spans a variety of genres, some heavy duty nonfiction, some light and […]
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