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Reading Journal 2025

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Welcome to my 3rd annual reading journal post I started in 2023 and continued the tradition throughout  2024 . This year many of the pages are the same but I have decided to make one change to the way I track audio books and physical books. The 1st year I kept them completely separate, having separate sections for reviews and trackers. Last year I kept the reviews together but tracked physical books and audiobooks separately. I always felt that the way I relate to the story is different in audio form than it is when I read a physical book. I find audio books closer to movies because you don't have to imagine the voices, the narrators bring the characters to life in a unique way.  I am also less concentrated on audiobooks, I will rarely sit listening to a  audiobook without any other distractions, I multi-task while listening to audiobooks, cleaning or walking or driving, even Christmas shopping. The other side is that audiobooks are faster to listen to than to read (espe...