Agnieszka

1. Two days into 2026, and I've already finished a novel, if rereading KJ Charles romances counts.

2. Reflecting on my 2025 reads:
-I found another dreamwidth user's review of The Ministry of Time. I read it last January, marked it as 5 stars, and then forgot all about it. It felt like at least three different novels shoehorned into one--interesting stuff happened, but it didn't necessarily add up to a good novel. It also reminded me of Never Let Me Go in that it didn't read like science fiction despite being unquestionably science fiction. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
-Andy Serkis's narration of The Lord of the Rings audiobook was so good I'm going to give it a relisten in 2026. Every time I reread The Lord of the Rings I'm reminded that the movie is actually quite different from the book, and then my memory of the book immediately gets overwritten by the movie again. Guess I'll just have to keep rereading the book.
-I started binge-reading M/M historical romances in the fall of 2024, and by late winter I was afraid I'd already run out of the good ones, but then I read the Enlightenment series by Joanna Chambers, and hope was restored. Hope withered again when I looked at her other books. I combed through ffa recs threads and goodreads lists and found some more authors to try, but it looks like these are less likely to be available for library checkouts. I'm also highly skeptical of the many M/M book covers with naked torsos on them; I'm looking for romance, not erotica! But I still have a few more to read before the well runs dry.

3. Among other Fanlore edits, I started a page for Barack Obama.