Friends! Remember me? Charlotte Chambers, mom, lawyer, person with a reading addiction—took down 95 books in 2024, and I've already got 15 in 2025 under my belt. I'm surprised, and also not, that engagement with this newsletter has dwarfed any of my attempts to post

Hi! I’m Charlotte Chambers—mom, lawyer, and unhinged, escapist reading nut. I read 95 books in 2024, and boy did they run the gamut: from good to bad, the hardest science fiction to the hyper-realistic literary, the ‘buzziest’ books to the barely known. While I do have my