Normally when I look back over a year it feels like time has flown. That’s not been the case with 2025. So much has happened, a fair amount of it not great, that I’m not sad to bid it adieu. There are a couple bright spots, though — namely my reading. I decided to lean…
Author: amypeveto
What I read: December 2025
How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral QuestionMichael Schur “The most important part of becoming better people, I’ll say yet again, is that we care about whether what we do is good or bad, and therefore try to do the right thing.” When television writer Michael Schur first conceived of the show…
On leaning into reading weirdly
Earlier this year I saw an Instagram post that said our 30s are about learning to revel happily in the things we discovered in our 20s but were too afraid to talk about because people would think we were weird. This is true for many aspects of my life, including my reading. For a long…
What I read: November 2025
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold RushLael Morgan “ ‘Guys, if you’re not ready, don’t stand in line!’ “ Prospectors weren’t the only ones who headed north during the gold rushes of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Women couldn’t stake claims, but many were willing to sell whatever talents they had to men…
What I read: October 2025
By GaslightSteven Price “There were leafless trees branched and cold like capillaries in the lungs of the dead and William saw this from the open seat of a rented carriage with a blanket over his knees and a scarf at his throat and he understood he had been waiting for something that had at last…