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The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) [RE-READ]
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Premise: A young man from the American Midwest is introduced to the life of jazz-age New York by a high-living neighbour with a mysterious past.

Review: There‘s no way I can add to the discourse around this, so I‘m not going to try. It does what it does exceptionally well, and I was glad to make it my final read of its centenary year.
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December #WrapUp

5 #OffTheShelf2025
1 #FictionalTraveler
4 #SeriesLove2025
1 #BookChain2025
#BookSpin
#DoubleSpin
4 #Pantone2025
4 #Classic

Under @thebookhippie 's “slow and steady“ guidance, the 3rd time was the charm for this tome. While reading this book, I have experienced a full spectrum of emotions. I have admired the absolute beauty of Hugo's writing, but I've also rolled my eyes at his verbosity. I've been devastated and inspired. It's truly an opus. #readlesmis

And now I'm so proud of myself, I'm starting #proust2026 tomorrow1 🙃 Watch out 2026, I'm feeling French.

It‘s been AGES since I‘ve read A Christmas Carol. I loved re-reading it for #WhattheDickens this year, and was reminded again as to why this is such a perennial Christmas classic. I can‘t get over the sweetness of the Cratchit family, the depth of Scrooge‘s transformation, and honestly, just the *kindness* of the narrative overall. Yes, it‘s sentimental, but I love it. God bless us, every one!

My last book for 2025

This deliberate slow pacing gives a more introspective exploration of immortality; eternal life and the loneliness that shadows these indulgences.

Dark and mysterious set in a lush Gothic atmosphere that transported me immediately to another time and place.
Rice vividly paints pictures that stay trapped in your mind.

Last night I finished my 72nd and last book of 2025. I‘ll do all the fun stats and wrapups later. For now I want to mention one quirky thing that I track just for grins and giggles.

The oldest book by far that I read this year was Emma. Thank you #PemberLittens for the kick in the pants! This also means that I‘ve now read all six of Jane‘s novels. Emma was not my favorite!

#Pemberlittens my last read for #JaneAusten250. Been saving Sanditon for the end of the month. It's been a lovely year rereading everything Jane wrote. I'm reading from the gorgeous new edition illustrated by Marjolein Bastin, includes Sanditon, early novella Lady Susan, another unfinished work The Watsons and the 3 Volumes of Juvenilia. Reading all these has been a perfect companion to Jane‘s 6 main novels.📖
#JaneAustenThenAndNow

I'm making a goal to read five classics in 2026. I feel like I read this one in high school and was so unimpressed that I don't even recall it (I'm a Brontë sort of girl). But it is on every single list of recommended classics so FINE FINE EVERYONE ELSE WINS I will read it again.

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
#RobinsonCrusoe #DanielDefoe #Classics #Fiction #Adventure #Literature #HistoricalFiction #Novels #18thCentury #ClassicLiterature #School #BritishLiterature