25 books seems a lot, and is really. Although I upped it to 50 for this year. I noticed people on Good Reads that I follow have theirs around the 200 mark. That's 4 a week. I wish I could read that quickly.

I do feel my writing has improved from the extra reading. Just getting a varied amount of styles and themes into my writing mind seems to be helpful. Although writer's block still kicks in, but that is a separate issue. And I use those times to read more, so when ready to write I can have that extra data ready to go. That's the plan, anyway :)