In this Bookmas Day 21 video, I’m fully leaning into my chunky book appreciation era and walking you through every 500+ page “chonker” I read in 2025. I talk about what it felt like to commit to bigger books (because yes, the intimidation factor is real), why I still think long books can be wildly worth it, and how my reading stamina changed once I stopped treating page count like a personality flaw. This is very much a cozy, chatty recap—less “perfect literary analysis,” more “here’s what actually worked for me as a mood reader who still wants to finish things.” If you’ve been curious about reading more big books, I share the kind of takeaways I wish I’d had sooner: picking the right time for a chonker, how I decide if a long book is dragging vs. just slow-burn, and why I embraced big-book reading as part of my 2025 goals. It’s a celebration of long stories, big emotions, and the satisfaction of closing a brick of a book and feeling like you could conquer anything afterward.