“Building the Book Fort” is a weekly post where I track my bookish life.

Currently Reading:

• Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck
• Year of Wonder by Clemency Burton-Hill
• The Phantom of the Lop Ear by Andrew Seiple
• Love People, Use Things by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus

Finished:

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Total pages read this week: 372

Days read at least 90 minutes: 7/7

Total books read: 1 of 75

TBR (goal is -36): +6

#ShelfLove Challenge: 1 of 51

I finally finished my first book of the New Year. While I’m reading for at least 90 minutes every day, I’m also reading multiple books, as usual, so 2026 is off to a slow start.

My number of books also went up by one because I used a couple of my Audible credits. I won’t be renewing my Audible subscription this year since I had planned on canceling it last year but renewed after I was offered a significant discount I didn’t want to pass up. However, I have far too many audiobooks that I still haven’t listened to, and I’m not happy with Amazon’s business practices in regards to authors, so this is definitely the final year. I also have a Libro.FM subscription that I have paused for three months. At that point, I will decide on whether I will keep it or cancel it until I use up those credits and actually get through a significant number of the audiobooks I already own.

While getting through my audiobook collection won’t reduce the number of physical books I own, nearly all of those books are now packed up, with the exception of a basket of books I want to read over the next few months. Other than those, I won’t be reading any of my physical books until I’m settled in a place where I can fully unpack. Hopefully that will be by June.

What are you reading? Let me know in the comments!