random thoughts – Day 2,111 (Saturday) – snowy book day

Tracks in the morning snow.

I woke up thinking it was Saturday and today I was finally correct. It was also another snow globe kind of morning. Last night when I looked outside at 9:00, it wasn’t snowing but when I looked out at 10:00 before I went to bed, snow was coming down steadily and everything was covered. When I woke up this morning, there was a fresh blanket of snow, with some tracks across my back yard along the tree line. By the time I had made coffee, the snow angel across the street had already cleared my driveway and path to the front stairs.

The day had already been mentally mapped for reading and the snow validated my choice to not shower and dress in the officially designated staying home fleece pants and top. I parked myself on the couch and read. I took a break from reading a watched the rest of a Christmas movie with Diane Keaton that was started last night (The Family Stone, which I had seen before and was too lazy to look for something else). That was followed by another Christmas movie with Diane Keaton (Love the Coopers) which was a coincidental choice and not because I was hosting a Diane Keaton movie festival for an audience of one.

After the movie break it was back to the reading and eating Christmas Eve leftovers. The second book of the three I wanted to knock out before year’s end was finished. I’m kind of on a mission because one of my friends read 40 books in 2025 and I’ve been feeling very inadequate since learning that information and also acknowledging the insane number of hours I spend watching Netflix.

Books on deck.

At least when I was in the book club in Lowell, I was sure to read 12 books a year but in 2025, Tuesday night book club was sacrificed for Tuesday night dance class. My sad official tally of books for the year according to my Good Reads shelf is six. Seven if I finish the either one of the two David Sedaris books started this year (eight if I blaze through both!!). By the first of January, I will be well positioned to tackle the next six books on deck which includes three more by Sedaris, one about roller derby, one about Martha Graham, and a really skinny one called Signs from the Universe that I should slide in this week just to boost my book count (and ego).

There may have been some books I never logged this year because, as much as I like data and lists and progress charts, I’m also sometimes lazy and tracking the number of books I read in a year can be fun, but it’s not exactly a super important situation like say, tracking blood pressure, cholesterol, or sugar levels. The stakes are pretty low if I fail to log the books I read. Maybe I’ll be more consistent in 2026 with both the reading and the logging. Or not. We’ll see.