Seventy-nine? Looks like this is the number of books I'll read this year. Why? Because I read fifty-nine books in 2024 and sixty-nine in 2025. I can do it. Not fretting, though. The number of books is not important. What's really important, real readers know. To summarise the books I read in Jan: 1. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 2. Human Acts by Han Kang 3. My Friends by Fredrik Backman 4. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa 5. James Baldwin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations 6. Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman 7. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin 8. The Day the World Stops Shopping by J.B. Mackinnon 1. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky About free will, rationalism, ego, and contradiction. This is a reread. This time, I am more empathetic to the underground man compared to last time. I guess I grew a little. I may not get the full depth and meaning of the book. But I got enough to find it interesting. Also, Fyodor Dostoyevsky...