{"id":462,"date":"2026-01-21T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/?p=462"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:08:30","slug":"writing-obsessing-reading-a-short-review-of-readings-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/en\/writing-obsessing-reading-a-short-review-of-readings-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing, obsessing & reading. A short review of readings in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel I am entering so headstrong into the big, scary, unpredictable times of 2026 that it feels silly now (late January) to write a post about my favorite books from 2025, or what I wrote, or whatever. Everyone (who did it) did it in December! Well. I took some time off in December (as I hope for all people to be able to do!). But now I\u2019m back, I have a really short list, some are books you can find in English, some are books from Romanian literature. And the first part is just me, here, looking back at reading & writing in 2025, which was, for me, among other things, <\/strong>the year of writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year I wrote more than I ever did in any other year of my life, as in more words AND more as in more time writing AND more as in constantly (weekly, as a practice). I started writing on a big prose project, I researched a lot for it, I put it on pause, I switched back to my short story collection, I realized it can actually exist (I have enough stories!), wrote some more, got into another project, also wrote some poems at some point \u2013 all in all, a lot of writing. Thirty minutes to one hour in the morning before working, or in the afternoon after lunch, or in the evening after everything, or sometimes two-three hours on the weekends. Not every month, of course, but often enough. Not so much publishing, not yet\u2026 things have to ferment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s out, though, is:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n