Self-Taught 2: How To Read Well

Eight months. 28 books. One overly ambitious reader.

December is my favorite time of combined optimism and laziness, of hot and sweet coffees and fat blankets.

Rarely has the drive come with a wave of bliss when you consider that it can happen in a month, at the top of next year.

And with that, I present you the 2025 top-of-year ambition:

In January, Self-Taught is back, baby!

My cooking experiment was one of my favorite things I’ve ever done. Period.

And I carry those lessons every day. I’m a different person now that I learned to cook.

It also helps that I’m eating food every day, so the lessons come up at least once a day.

But no matter! I’m onto the next transformative rabbit hole.

This next ~chapter~ is my book bucket list: the time-honored authors & books I still haven’t read.

Over the course of January to August, I will read:

• Persuasion, Jane Austen

• Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Middlemarch, George Eliot

• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

• In Search of Lost Time (Vol.…