It's nearly the end of 2025 and I, like so many others, am looking at my Goodreads app disappointed that I won't meet my annual reading goals – again. I don't get it. On top of a lifelong love for ...

Mr. Giles is a novelist and the former executive Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair. Anyone who’s published a book or tried to has had even indispensable friends and family tell them why they’re not ...