{"id":2361,"date":"2025-12-31T10:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:32:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:32:50","slug":"annual-review-roundup-and-recommendations-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/2025\/12\/31\/annual-review-roundup-and-recommendations-for-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Review Roundup and Recommendations for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve here, and I just posted my <a href=\"https:\/\/mikerm.blogspot.com\/2025\/12\/top-books-for-2025.html\">annual roundup of the books I read in the previous year<\/a> on my review blog. I&#8217;ve been doing this for 12 years now, but have changed exactly how I do it at least twice so far, and plan to change again next year (to realign my star ratings with Goodreads and Amazon). Continuity and change: we have them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that post, I highlight what I thought were the 25 best books, out of the 132 I enjoyed enough to recommend to someone else. If you like what I write, or have similar taste to me, you&#8217;re likely to find something on that list that you&#8217;ll enjoy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve here, and I just posted my annual roundup of the books I read in the previous year on my review blog. I&#8217;ve been doing this for 12 years now, but have changed exactly how I do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/2025\/12\/31\/annual-review-roundup-and-recommendations-for-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"https:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}