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These are the books that we missed are going to missed.

Going to missed.

That's not going to have missed.

Going to have missed.

We'll have missed by the time.

Well, really, we shuffle off this moral 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 we're in the news or

otherwise more candidates at one point or another for us to consider Rebecca yeah I might

the wheels of my reading life have fallen off the last few weeks in this year so I'm

gonna come under my normal 150-ish 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 you 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 um 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 um 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, 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, B, minus year for books for us.

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