susanna.fraser persists in reading for 2025

When we had to abruptly replace our car a few months back after it was stolen from out of our driveway (because apparently Hyundais of a certain vintage are really easy to steal), we bought this license plate frame for the car we bought to replace it:



...which seemed all the more fitting when my husband was unexpectedly laid off from his job and the presidential election didn't turn out as we hoped. (And I was SO SURE on Election Day that Kamala was going to win. Sigh.)

So this year my goal is just to persist. To keep reading, keep writing, keep doing my job and trying to be a good wife, mom, friend, and human being despite at all. And to keep whittling away out Mount TBR while I'm at it. As I did last year, books that are on my Official TBR Google Spreadsheet (TM) as of 1/1/25 will marked with an asterisk, with a goal that at least half my reading will be tagged as such.

Oh, and I love corvids, crows especially. They're my favorite birds AND my favorite dinosaurs.

Q1 log

January:

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Reserved for Seattle Public Library Summer Book Bingo

Diversifying my reading with books by BIPOC authors

CATs

KITs

BingoDOG

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Romance

YA and Children's

History (fiction and nonfiction)

A crow is a big black bird with a beak. A raven is a big black beak with a bird.

Science and Nature

Religion

This is an unusual theme! I find crows rather scary, especially when they flock at nighttime and cross my balcony on their way to their sleeping trees. But the pictures are great! Good luck with your reading.

I love Corvids too. They’re so smart, and so wrapped in mythology and symbolism. You’ve picked such apt and marvelous pictures for your categories!

In other matters, I’d also like to borrow your possum’s slogan as my motto for the year. Sorry about your Hyundai, and especially your husband’s job.

I love corvids as well. Unfortunately we only have one species in Tasmania- the Forest Raven.

I like how you've matched your pictures to your categories. Hope you have a good reading year.

>17 MissWatson: Crows actually started my interest in birding in general--for my 10th year anniversary gift as an employee of the University of Washington, I went with one of the "books by a faculty member" options instead of the sweatshirt, pin, or mug, and selected Gifts of the Crow by John Marzluff, which showed me how these basic black birds that are EVERYWHERE in Seattle are smart, resourceful, and endlessly fascinating.

>18 Charon07: It's such a fitting slogan, isn't it? I've also seen it with raccoons, which might have been a more appropriate choice in terms of our local wildlife.

>19 Zozette: I just looked up the Forest Raven - what striking eyes they have!

>20 dudes22: It was surprisingly hard to find an image of Odin with his ravens that wasn't terrible AI art!

How creative! I also love corvids!

I'm a big corvid fan as well. Love the possum slogan! Something we all could use in these times. Cheers to your 2025 readings!

Loving the crows. I have a pair that visit daily.

You might like Colombo in Sri Lanka. Lots of big, black ominous birds. Happy reading!

Crows are fascinating! Your wonderful graphics are well-matched to the categories. Happy reading in 2025.

Love your theme - I love corvids too, so intelligent. I will need to look for Gifts of the Crow in my library. As an aside, I loved Hollow Kingdom - never read a book with a crow as the narrator before.

Crows are endlessly fascinating and I love how they tap against your car's front window in their search for a handout along the waterfront in Victoria, B.C. Sometimes a gull will try to copy but they haven't quite pulled it off.
Enjoy your 2025 reading!