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A (0:02)
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B (0:22)
Rebecca. It's the time for part confessional. You know the thing about confession, it's both liberating, exculpating and self indicting.
A (0:31)
I think it's just a moment for reality acceptance.
B (0:34)
Time is finite too.
A (0:35)
Yeah. Oliver Berkman would be proud of the work we're going to do here today.
B (0:39)
These are the books that we missed are going to missed going to missed. That's not going to have going to have missed will have missed by the time. Well really we shuffle off this mortal coil because I think we're not planning on getting to these into the future the books we thought we might want to get to that were in the news or otherwise more candidates at one point or another for us to consider. Rebecca. Yeah, the wheels of my reading life have fallen off the last few weeks in this year. So I'm going to come under my normal 150ish book. That's okay. We're going to get to this is a little look ahead of how to read more and better in 2026 for zero to well read. But one of my notes that I have not yet put in the document is you don't there's diminishing returns. Like live a full life is part of being an interesting person. And I think it's okay. I've done some years where I've read 200, 250 books. But I was like I didn't do enough of the other stuff. I really wouldn't have a best of the rest list in those kinds of years. So I'm okay with it. I wish I had a bunch of other things to show for it like a really like a woodworking hobby or you know, maybe a bespoke cinnamon roll sticker. That's an inside joke for something we were just talking about. So anyway there's. I missed a lot more than I would in a normal year. On the other hand, we had said that this was a B, B minus year for books for us.
A (2:02)
Yeah. You know, like it's interesting. I think we. The truth is you always miss almost all of the books.
B (2:09)
Yeah, that's right. To a first approximation, I read 0% of the books.
A (2:13)
Right. So do I. Pre Covid I was reading about a hundred books a year through Covid and up until last year it had dipped to like 75, which I was fine with because it did feel it was just balance. There was other stuff going on in life. I didn't feel like my reading life had any lower quality because I had lost that 25% chunk. I'm going to end this year closer to 100 and that is a surprise to me. I thought that adding in the zero to well read reading those would just replace other things that I was reading. But I think what happened instead was that I enjoyed that quality of reading so much that I. I found myself less entertained by and patient with yeah.