This summer is a strange one. The World Cup is in my backyard. Consequently, my office is closed for a month, with a mandated work remote summer. And adding countless visitors to the already congested city (y’all are welcome, though), has me hunkered down at home. So I’m treating summer 2026 as my cocoon and here is what is keeping me company.

Small Habits That Keep Me Grounded

Have I mentioned that I am a slow runner? The physical struggle I face when hitting the track is nothing to the mental one. Once I hit two miles, my mind says, “okay, we’re done here,” and it takes every trick in the book to keep me going. They say that the mental struggle gets quieter the more you do it, but after two years of running regularly, it hasn’t backed down for me.

HealthRachelle WilsonMay 31, 2026reading, audiobook, running, libro.fm, julie chan is dead, liann zhang, classics, classic literature, suspense, thriller, mystery, fiction, yu-li alice shen, rebecca, daphne du maurier, anna massey, mexican gothic, silvia moreno-garcia, overdue pod, frankie corzo, whose body?, dorothy sayers, mark meadows, fahrenheit 451, ray bradbury, penn badgley, dystopian, my sister the serial killer, oyinkan braithwaite, adepero oduye, a terribly nasty business, julia seales, fiona hampton, 1984, nineteen eighty-four, george orwell, simon prebble, big brother, my murder, katie williams, rebecca lowman, never saw me coming, vera durian, brittany pressley, beloved, toni morrison, the postman always rings twice, james M. Cain, stanley tucci, starship troopers, Robert A. Heinlein, R. C. Bray, the fraud, zadie smith, beautiful ugly, alice feeney, richard armitage, tuppence middleton, we have always lived in the castle, shirley jackson, bernadette dunne, horror, yesteryear, caro claire burke, the woman in cabin 10, ruth ware, imogen church, the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires, Grady hendrix, bahni turpin, triptych, karin slaughter, kathleen early, brideshead revisited, evelyn waugh, jeremy irons, walking, habits, daily habits, meal prepComment

21 Audiobooks for Running

Have I mentioned that I am a slow runner? The physical struggle I face when hitting the track is nothing to the mental one. Once I hit two miles, my mind says, “okay, we’re done here,” and it takes every trick in the book to keep me going. They say that the mental struggle gets quieter the more you do it, but after two years of running regularly, it hasn’t backed down for me.

Reading, HealthRachelle WilsonApril 15, 2026reading, audiobook, running, libro.fm, julie chan is dead, liann zhang, classics, classic literature, suspense, thriller, mystery, fiction, yu-li alice shen, rebecca, daphne du maurier, anna massey, mexican gothic, silvia moreno-garcia, overdue pod, frankie corzo, whose body?, dorothy sayers, mark meadows, fahrenheit 451, ray bradbury, penn badgley, dystopian, my sister the serial killer, oyinkan braithwaite, adepero oduye, a terribly nasty business, julia seales, fiona hampton, 1984, nineteen eighty-four, george orwell, simon prebble, big brother, my murder, katie williams, rebecca lowman, never saw me coming, vera durian, brittany pressley, beloved, toni morrison, the postman always rings twice, james M. Cain, stanley tucci, starship troopers, Robert A. Heinlein, R. C. Bray, the fraud, zadie smith, beautiful ugly, alice feeney, richard armitage, tuppence middleton, we have always lived in the castle, shirley jackson, bernadette dunne, horror, yesteryear, caro claire burke, the woman in cabin 10, ruth ware, imogen church, the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires, Grady hendrix, bahni turpin, triptych, karin slaughter, kathleen early, brideshead revisited, evelyn waugh, jeremy ironsComment

2025 In Books

My reading plan for 2025 was for my selections to prioritize classics. And though my reading goal for 2025 was smaller in number, it was greater in quality.

ReadingRachelle WilsonDecember 26, 2025books, reading, Joan didion, play it as it lays, beloved, toni morrison, happy city, transportation, Charles montgomery, the henna artist, alka joshi, strange fruit, Lillian smith, Georgia, southern writer, literature, classic literature, starship troopers, Robert A. Heinlein, sci fi, till we have faces, C.S. Lewis, christian, author, night circus, erin morgenstern, catch and kill, Ronan farrow, sense and sensibility, Jane Austen, transcendent kingdom, when you trap a tiger, tae keller, road dahl, the duke and I, Bridgerton, Julia quinn, persuasion, spark joy, marie kondo, broke millennial, erin lowry, we share the same sky, Rachael cerrotti, the likability trap, Alicia mendendez, the catcher in the rye, j.d. salinger, Anna karenina, Leo tolstoy, tolstoy, russian lit, classics, demon copperhead, Barbara kingsolver, hillbilly elegy, jd vance, Appalachian, dickens, David copperfield, middlemarch, George elliot, huckleberry finn, mark twain, year of yes, Shonda rhimes, midnight library, matt haig, Alice's adventures in wonderland, lewis carroll, white noise, don delillo, moon witch spider king, marlon james, dark star triology, the woman in cabin 10, ruth ware, one hundred years of solitude, gabriel garcia marquez, fahrenheit 451, ray bradbury, imago, octavia butler, my year of rest and relaxation, ottessa moshfegh, les mis, victor hugo, les miserablesComment

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