I read 180 books #NowReading2025 this year. That's 15/month, almost 1 every 2 days. Mostly non-fiction but did read 33 novels. 54% were by women or included women in edited volumes. 14 eBooks, 27 library books, and I think the most re-reads I've done in a year, 12.
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The grey hardcover book where the author name & book title is so faint it can barely be seen is on a white counter. The black plastic lidded paper coffee cup with a light brown sleeve with the YANAKA COFFEE logo on it is to the right. The torsos of people can be seen beyond the counter
#NowReading2025 GIRL ONLINE: A USER MANUAL by Joanna Walsh via @versobooks.bsky.social imbibed at Yanaka Coffee #Ueno #上野 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
On a grey square table lower left corner sits the small white paperback book with a black and white photo of black jazz musicians at a piano behind which are playing from left to right, violin, trumpet, trombone, clarinet & saxophone. They are all in white suits. The xylophonist & pianist are smiling back at each other. To the right is a white cup of black coffee on a white saucer with a small silver spoon in front. The cup and saucer have small blue flower designs. Above is thick white toast with caramel on it, a small bowl of salad with corn, & a small bowl of whipped cream. A metal circular ashtray can be seen off to the side. An orange puffy vest can be seen on the chair across. The finished ice cream sodas of other patrons can be seen in a booth on the left in the distance
#NowReading2025 THE RED NOTEBOOK by Paul Auster via New Directions Publishing imbibed at Coffee Shop Gallant #Ueno #上野 #Coffee #Books 📚 💙 #CoffeeSky #BookSky
The thin hardcover purple book with orange title (I'M AFRAID OF MEN) and black author's name (VIVEK SHRAYA) is on a white table in the cafe. To the right is a small clear glass small tumbler of black espresso with brown crema. In the distance is A Christmas tree. Outside the window a cyclist can be seen
#NowReading2025 I'M AFRAID OF MEN by Vivek Shraya via @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social imbibed at A 3rd Time #Hikifune #曳舟 #Books #Coffee 💙 📚 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
Photo of inside the bookshop. On a light wooden table is the small hardcover library book with an illustration headshot of Japanese woman artist Yayoi Kusama with an orange bob, black sunglasses, red lipstick, and red shirt with white polka dots. To the right is a white mug of black coffee on a small round wooden coaster. Above it is a small cloth-covered sketchbook with "noma books" in cursive on it. Sitting in the distance at a counter against windows is another patron in a rust brown sweater.
#NowReading2025 LIFE OF THE ARTISTS: YAYOI KUSAMA by Robert Shore via Lawrence King Publishing care of Adachi-Ku Public Library imbibed at Noma Books #Narashino #習志野 #Books #Coffee #Art #Japan 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky #ArtSky #JapanSky
Photo is inside the coffee shop. On a brown wooden table jutting out from the wall on the right is the large orange hardcover library book. To the left is a white coffee mug & saucer of black coffee. The lower part of a patron can be seen in the distance
#NowReading2025 RAMEN FOREVER by Tim Anderson via Hardie Grant Books care of Adachi-Ku Public Library imbibed at Cindi Roast & Brew #KitaSenju #北千住 #Books #Coffee #Ramen 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky #RamenSky
Photo of the white paperback book on a dark brown counter between a white coffee mug to the right and a plastic pitcher of black coffee with an orange lid on the left
#NowReading2025 BETWEEN US: HOW CULTURES CREATE EMOTIONS by @batjamesquita.bsky.social via @wwnorton.com imbibed at Radicase Kizuna #Hikarigaoka #光が丘 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙#BookSky #CoffeeSky
Outside the coffee shop, on a round black plastic stool, sits the tiny red hardback book to the left of a white mug & saucer of black coffee
#NowReading2025 ON BULLSHIT by Harry G Frankfurt via @princetonupress.bsky.social imbibed at Coffee Swamp #Shinjuku #新宿 #Books #Coffee #Philosophy 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
Photo is of a gray table with the paperback book on it with a cover illustration of an empty red canoe on open water. A small orange-ish clear tumbler glass of water is to the left. Above them is a narrow perpendicular white tray on which is a card with the shape of Kenya on it, a handle-less gray cup of black coffee & a concave sake cup with more coffee in it. On the chair opposite is the purple plaid inside lining of a winter jacket. Further in the distance we can see the lower body of a customer at the counter
#NowReading2025 SURFACING by Margaret Atwood via @bantambooksuk.bsky.social imbibed at Covert Coffee #Shinjuku #新宿 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
On a light brown wooden counter is the black paperback book with an illustration of a bowl of noodles & the title as noodles with the O in red like the flag of Japan. To the left is a light brown wooden tray with a white mug of black coffee on a small round wooden coaster and a brown chiffon cake slice with lines of chocolate syrup & a tiny dollop of whipped cream. A small silver fork on a brown paper napkin is in front in between. At the back edge of the counter are two small sketchbooks that read "nama books" on them against a white curtain.
#NowReading2025 SUSHI & BEYOND: WHAT THE JAPANESE KNOW ABOUT COOKING by @amichaelbooth.bsky.social via @vintagebooks.bsky.social imbibed at Nama Books #Narashino #習志野 #Books #Coffee #Food #Foodie #Japan 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky #FoodSky #FoodieSky #JapanSky
On the small light brown wooden table is the thick paperback book with a photo of a rock tower sculpture on it. To the left is a paper coffee cup with a white plastic lid and brown sleeve. People's feet can be seen through the glass door. In front of the door is a black doormat that has ATRE AKIHABARA on it
#NowReading2025 AFRICAN LAUGHTER: FOUR VISITS TO ZIMBABWE by Doris Lessing via Flamingo via @harpercollins.bsky.social imbibed at Sarutahiko Coffee #Akihabara #秋葉原 #Coffee #Books 💙 📚 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
Image of the book's cover which is dark blue. It uses the original INTELLIVISION font and has 80s style illustrations of a white woman playing the TV console, 3 collage images of INTELLIVISION games, space ships an Atari Space Invader, & a boxing game. In the foreground is the brown & tan console
#NowReading2025 INTELLIVISION: HOW A VIDEO GAME SYSTEM BATTLED ATARI & ALMOST BANKRUPTED BARBIE by Tom Boellstorf & Braxton Soderman via @mitpress.bsky.social brewed with Aalto Coffee & The Rooster #Books 📚 💙 #BookSky
Photo is of a line of food trucks in a plaza in the distance. In the foreground is a round grey metal table on which is the paperback book with a very small green paper coffee cup with a clear plastic lid
#NowReading2025 DANGER & BEAUTY by Jessica Hagedorn via @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social imbibed at Motoyori Coffee Truck #Otemachi #大手町 #Coffee #Books #FoodTrucks 📚 💙 #CoffeeSky #BookSky
Photo of a light brown wooden table on a 2nd floor overlooking the narrow street below. The paperback book is on the table and has a sepia photo of 2 Filipina nurses. To the left is a white saucer & mug of black coffee. A brown paper book-sized menu is above the coffee & book.
#NowReading2025 EMPIRE OF CARE: NURSING & MIGRATION IN FILIPINO AMERICAN HISTORY by Catherine Ceniza Choy via Ateneo de Manila University Press imbibed at Coffee & Bindery Gigi #Sendagi #千駄木 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
On a brown wooden table is the white paperback book with an illustration of a lemon unpeeling. The book is between a Saito old medieval timey red logo white mug of black coffee on the right & 2 rectangles of thick brown cinnamon toast on a white plate
#NowReading2025 THE LEMON TABLE by Julian Barnes via @vintagebooks.bsky.social imbibed at Saito Coffee #Kanda #神田 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
The thin paperback book with an illustration of bronze round typewriter keys displayed chaotically is on a brown table. A small white paper cup of black coffee is to the left. It has the coffee shop logo on it but it can be barely seen
#NowReading2025 THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by Brigit Viney via Oxford University Press imbibed at Aomi Coffee #Kanda #神田 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
Photo is outside a cafe. A blue metal table has a paperback library book with a photo of a bench overlooking a mountain lake. To the left is a light brown wooden tray with a white coffee cup & lid with a round blue logo with vertical writing of EN CA FE. There is an almond croissant in a brown paper sleeve and a napkin on the tray as well. The sidewalk can be seen in the distance
#NowReading2025 FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS: TIME MANAGEMENT FOR MORTALS by Oliver Burkeman via @vintagebooks.bsky.social care of Arakawa Ward Public Library imbibed at En Cafe #Kuramae #蔵前 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
On an old dark wooden table sits the white paperback library book with a white mother reading with her white child on the floor. To the right is a white mug & saucer of black coffee. Behind it is a small clear tumbler of water. On the chair across the way a purple puffy winter coat drapes a chair. Outside the bright window is a Japanese woman walking left with her long black hair obscuring her face
#NowReading2025 RAISING A BILINGUAL CHILD by Barbara Zuber Pearson PhD via Living Language imbibed at Shiroiomise Coffee #Sendagi #千駄木 #Books #Coffee #Linguistics 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky #LingSky #LangSky
Photo is of a cafe table. On the table is the large orange hardcover library book on which is an illustration of a woman reading a book in a chair in front of a large bookshelf containing the book's title. To the left is a off-white mug of black coffee with the Present Coffee logo on it. On the other side of the table is a woman wearing a Pittsburgh Pirates black sweatshirt but you only see her torso in front of her is a red paperback book with the title WHEN YOU ARE MINE laid out open in lieu of a bookmark. To the left is another off-white mug of black coffee but with no logo
#NowReading2025 I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF by Grant Snider via Abrams Comic Arts thanks to Arakawa Public Library imbibed at Present Coffee #Ohanajaya #お花茶屋 #Books #Coffee #Comics 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky #ComicSky
The beige hardcover book with the title "says who?" in large red lower case letters is to the left of a tray with a white mug of black coffee in the left corner and a plate of souffle pancakes in the center. They are on a wooden table that overlooks a window out to the pedestrian street. Off to the right an older Japanese man is pedaling to the right and smack dab in the center is a stylish young Japanese man walking to his left looking at his smartphone as he steps along in boot cut jeans
#NowReading2025 SAYS WHO? A KINDER, FUNNER, USAGE GUIDE FOR EVERYONE WHO CARES ABOUT WORDS by Anne Curzan via Crown imbibed at Pleasant Coffee #Ohanajaya #お花茶屋 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙 #CoffeeSky #BookSky
Inside in the coffeeshop with rusted brown walls and a plant against the wall in back. On a wooden table is a grey mug of black coffee on a tray with a white napkin in front. To the right is the hardcover white book with an artwork of the naked backside of a white statue looking at a pile of clothes
#NowReading2025 FASHIONOPOLIS: THE PRICE OF FAST FASHION & THE FUTURE OF CLOTHES by @danathomasparis.bsky.social imbibed at Yururi Coffee #Gotanno #五反野 #Books #Coffee #Fashion 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky #FashionSky
Photo is on the white hardcover book with an image on it of a black high heel shoe with the heel broken. To the right is a grey handleless mug if black coffee. Both are on a wooden counter. The back of a man sitting with his arms akimbo can be seen in the distance
#NowReading2025 OVER-DRESSED: THE SHOCKINGLY HIGH COST OF CHEAP FASHION by @elizabethlcline.bsky.social via Portfolio Penguin imbibed at Good Coffee Farms #Nihonbashi #日本橋 #Coffee #Books #Fashion 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky #FashionSky
On a dark wooden counter sits a dark brown paper cup of black coffee with "Yanaka Coffee" & their logo on it. To the left is the slim paperback book with an illustration of a scene of a hill in the countryside. Up against the wall is a Japanese signs saying no outside food
#NowReading2025 SAVING BEAUTY by Byung-chul Han via @politybooks.bsky.social imbibed at Yanaka Coffee #Akabane #赤羽 #Books #Coffee #Philosophy 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
The thick paperback book sits on a horizontally narrow table. The bakelite white mug of black coffee with the words "Brown Sound Coffee" is to the left of the book. Beyond the table is a plant. Beyond that are the backs of 2 Japanese women. Beyond them is a small sandwich board with "Brown Sound Coffee" on it. Way beyond is the back of another Japanese woman. Across the street is a white van with the trunk wide open in front of a Japanese restaurant and a further restaurant that says TEXAS
#NowReading2025 IN SHORT: A COLLECTION OF BRIEF CREATIVE FICTION Edited by Judith Kitchen & Mary Paumier Jones via @wwnorton.com imbibed at Brown Sound Coffee #Tsudanuma #津田沼 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
The thin narrow paperback book with a photo of a Slovene village on the cover is to the left. On tye right is a black tray with a tan dense Myanmar Semolina Cake with white poppyseeds on top on a black plate with a black fork. To the right is a white mug of black coffee with Burmese writing & "Aung Coffee" on it.
#NowReading2025 SLOVENIA by/via DK EYEWITNESS imbibed at Aung Coffee #Shinjuku #新宿 #Books #Coffee 💙 📚 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
The tannish paperback book is on the round wooden table with cut-out illustration of old timey white heads from newspaper clippings of early 20th century sprouting from a green plant and a naked white man sitting at the bottom clasping his knees. To the left is a reddish paper coffee cup with a white plastic lid. Behind is a red tray with 2 red plastic plates of four halves of toast, one kaya butter and one peanut butter. In the lower right corner of the tray in a red plastic plate is a soft boiled egg & spoon. A male patron's back can be seen at the table across. A blurry Japanese woman can be seen on the sidewalk in the distance
#NowReading2025 HERLAND by Charlotte Perkins Gilman via Parthenon Books imbibed at Ya Kun Kaya Toast #Marunouchi #丸の内 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky #KopiTiam
Photo is of a blue plastic round collapsible stool on which is a yellow paperback book showing a mountain pass above which floats a black smoke of snakelike woman's head. To the left is a paper coffee cup with a black plastic lid and a black coffee sleeve. In the distance of a tiled floor you can see some feet
#NowReading2025 WHERE THE WILD LADIES ARE by MATSUDA Aoko translated by Polly Barton via @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social imbibed at Hibiya Roastery Coffee #Hibiya
#日比谷 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
The white paperback book features a Spiderman figurine emerging from the right side. The book is on an orange counter with white speckles. The wall is black with some white faux-graffiti. A handle-less grey cup of black coffee is to the right of the book
#NowReading2025 THE MARVEL STUDIOS STORY by Charlie & Stephanie Wetzel via @harpercollins.bsky.social imbibed at Single O Coffee #Yurakucho #有楽町 #Coffee #Books 📚 💙 #CoffeeSky #BookSky
Photo is outside the cafe. On a round tan wooden table is a white mug & saucer of black coffee. To the right is the purple & green paperback book. In the distance a man on a motor scooter can be seen on the street
#NowReading2025 TOWARD ETERNITY by @antonhur.com via Harper Via imbibed at Brunch & Coffee Grains de Cafe #Nishiarai #西新井 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
The large paperback book is on a wooden counter to the left of a white coffee mug & saucer of black coffee. There is a red apple in the center on a shelf above. To the right is a green bottle with a red label that says GET. To the left is a white macaroon in a glass jar
#NowReading2025 EMPIRE OF AI: DREAMS & NIGHTMARES IN SAM ALTMAN'S OpenAI by @karenhao.bsky.social via @penguinpress.bsky.social imbibed at Toiro Coffee #Sendagi #千駄木 #Books #Coffee 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky
