# Books 2025

By [READ|WRITE](https://rw.jjrz.dev) · 2025-12-28

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A friend about my age died before I turned 30. I went YOLO and focused on what it would be like to have little time left. There is a practice where you say 'one' as you breathe in, then 'less left.' My scrolling dropped to zero, my reading took off.

I rushed to finish what I was reading so I could pick up the next. Now I don't do this anymore. Different practices have converged into lifting weights soon after I wake up. Less time is spent reading, fewer books are finished, and less value is placed on it.

If I had to pick five:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/ecb5e90b1766e13f2fc5d7ed57470540d0bc087d3a2ebabe5cf5a2cb5541205a.png)

The brighter ones I haven't finish, the darker ones I'm not planning to:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/2c4a93fbd7a0ffae898997f89557a18042097d4b4345a0ba19ddbf35fb582580.png)

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*Originally published on [READ|WRITE](https://rw.jjrz.dev/books-2025)*