{"id":2595,"date":"2026-01-12T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:26:32","slug":"goodreads-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2026\/goodreads-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodreads – 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

I seem to be on track on posting every two years<\/a>. I continuing to use 35 as my annual reading goal which isn’t difficult for me to hit. Let’s look at the books I read in 2025.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>I continue to read mostly eBooks, most from the local library. Goodreads<\/a> does have some gamification happening, but I’ve been mostly ignoring this, still it’s pretty neat to see that I was a very consistent reader this past year. I read 35 books (just) for a total of 12719 pages. My average rating was 3 stars.<\/p>\n

The shortest book I read, The City Inside<\/a>, was only 244 pages. The longest book, Apocalypse of the Dead<\/a>, was 503 pages. Both of these I rated at 2 stars, so I wouldn’t recommend you spend time on either. On average my books were 363 pages in length.<\/p>\n

Lock In<\/a>, the first book I read in 2025, was the most shelved on goodreads. This is no surprise as John Scalzi is a well known author and writes fantastic stuff (I rated this a 4 star). The least shelved was Crescent written by Homer Hickam<\/a> (3 star) this was part of a series (Helium-3) and for whatever reason I only read 2 of the series. I suspect my library didn’t have a copy of the 3rd book<\/p>\n

Let’s touch on highs and lows. 8 books got 2 stars from me. 9 were given 4 stars, with the remainder being 3 stars.\u00a0 Overall a pretty good spread. A 3 star book is worth the read, but didn’t really grab me. A 4 star (or above) would be a recommended read.<\/p>\n

My 4 star books:<\/p>\n