Like all years, 2022 was a good year for reading. I found myself drawn both to books that addressed our current dilemmas in some way and books that provided an immersive escape. I hope you’ll find some good options in this list, which begins with fiction and moves on to nonfiction.
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Springtime means reading time! Actually, every season is the right time to read, so I thought I’d share a list of books I’ve read so far in 2021.
I have a prediction for 2021. Readers across the country, from book group members to policymakers, will be passionately discussing the same book: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee.
Continue readingThe last thing I did before Covid-19 closed down the world was go to the library. I picked up a stack of books, thinking this would hold me for a few weeks until things got back to normal.
Ha.
Here are brief descriptions of the books I read in 2020. I hope you will find some good choices here.
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I’ve been looking for a book that I could immerse myself in and forget the world. I didn’t want to have to worry about the characters, or fume at the injustices they encountered, or fear for their futures; I do enough of that with the daily news.
Things didn’t work out exactly as planned.
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