Yay books! Soundside's 2025 in letters88%
By Libby Denkmann0% Gabrielle Healy0%
12/18/2025, 11:45:01 PM
Topics: Audiobook Debate, Local Authors And Events
BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including In-Group Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Appeal to Emotion, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 60.4% saturation with 93 hits. Analysis detected 509 faulty-reasoning hits from 149 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 81.2% and a BS Rank of 88% (2,130 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 87.30% of the article peer group.
There are only a few weeks left in 2025.
That means for those of you who resolved, at the beginning of the year, to do more reading — it's crunch time.
Did you actually put down your phone long enough to get through a book this year?
It's not too late.
Many great books came out this year.
If you need suggestions for something to read or to give to someone who really ought to be reading more, we've got you covered.
GUESTS:
Misha Stone, reader services librarian, Seattle Public Library
Spencer Ruchti, author events manager, Third Place Books
RELATED LINKS:
Our list of books we loved! Yes, it's a Google Doc.
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Analysis
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