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amara reads's 2026 · Taste Buds
2026
64 logs, 64 rated, averaging 3.4★. 27 films, 6 television, 20 books, 8 music, 3 games.
The year in five lines
- Amara reads logged 64 titles and rated 64, averaging 3.4★; 8 got five stars.
- The year in one title: Father Mother Sister Brother (2025).
- Kindest to Father Mother Sister Brother, 1.8 above the crowd; hardest on The Matrix, 2.7 below.
- September was the busiest month, with 17 logs.
- Maker of the year: Kazuo Ishiguro, 3 titles.
Everything below is the long version.
Blind spot of the year
unpretentious
Nothing amara reads loved this year went far toward unpretentious (prestige vs. pulp).
By the numbers
64
rated
49 h
in films
51
days with a log
11
reviews
277
words written
4
rewatches
8
five stars
3★
most common rating
Month by month
September was the busiest month, with 17 logs.
Ratings
Fun facts
- The oldest thing amara reads logged was Sartor resartus from 1800; the newest, Who Loves the Sun from 2026. That is 226 years of range.
- The longest sit was The Wolf of Wall Street at 3 h 0 min.
- The year opened with The Wire (4★) and closed with Filme Febril (5★).
- 49 hours in films: 2 full days of the year.
- amara reads logged across 5 media this year. Omnivore territory.
- 4 returns to things already loved. Comfort is a taste too.
Five stars · 8 titles they would hand anyone
The surprise
Blood Meridian 1985★★★★★Runs against their usual leans, and amara reads loved it anyway.
mean 3.44 · 0.8 stars harsher than the crowd
Genres
- Drama19 · 3.4★
- Comedy8 · 3.6★
- Action7 · 2.0★
- Thriller7 · 2.4★
- Fiction6 · 4.2★
- Adventure5 · 2.3★
Decades
- 1800s1
- 1930s2
- 1940s1
- 1950s1
- 1960s4
- 1970s2
- 1980s8
- 1990s9
- 2000s6
- 2010s16
- 2020s14