Okay, last day of 2025... For completeness I'll get this December post out of the way, and over the next week or so post my best books and best music posts (though I've put the highlights on Instagram already, with top 5 tv shows as a bonus).
MUSIC - DECEMBER
BOOKS
As previously, I'm not going to list all the books I've read as part of judging the fiction category of the Ockham NZ Book Awards. I've finished my first read through of the 52 entries, and will now be returning to some to help with long-listing and short-listing decisions the panel needs to make in January.
It's Only Drowning by David Litt (non-fiction, audiobook, US, 2025)
Paper Cage by Tom Baragwanath (fiction, audiobook, NZ, 2022)
Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante (non-fiction, audiobook, Italy, 2019)
A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver (non-fiction, audiobook, US, 2025)
Driving to Treblinka by Diana Wichtel (non-fiction, audiobook, NZ, 2018)
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali (novel, audiobook, Turkiye, 1943)
TV SHOWS
Nobody Wants This - Season 2
Basically that's it. Lots of reading! And being away (3 days in Riverton for daughter's birthday and the last week in Christchurch for Xmas) means minimal screentime. Nice.
In pulling together my top 5 shows for 2025 (Andor, Adolescence, Unreal, The Rehearsal, Win or Lose), there's quite a few shows I'd like to catch-up on when I get time and have the right subscriptions, like Pluribus, Platonic, Task, Hacks (last I checked, there was no legal way to watch the latest season in NZ).
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