Some thoughts about my January Reading Journey:  2026 is about slowing down and going deeper with my books.  As much as I enjoyed blasting through what felt like a million books last year, I fully recognize that a large percentage of what I read was just fluff.  By the end of the year I was really missing longer stories and better writing.  I also wanted to return to my roots, and start living through my books instead of merely using them to escape.  Sadly, though, despite a really strong start to the month, most of my January reading was not so great.  I ended up starting a bunch of books, but then setting a lot of them aside.  Of the books I did get through, a lot of them were just ok, and left me feeling disgruntled.  Lots and lots of life stress kind of crashed me out, destroying my attention span and leaving me with little time to read.  Big sighs.  Hopefully next month will be better.   And despite all of that, there were some...