In times like these, we need books—for comfort, for challenge, for escape, for revelation. Here are some of the books I most enjoyed in 2024. I hope you’ll find some inspiration for your own reading adventures.
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2023 My Year in Books
Looking for a good book? Who isn’t? It’s an eternal quest, but luckily one that’s not hard to fulfill. I hope you’ll find a few in this list of books I read in 2023.
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2020 – My Year in Books
The 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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Searching for oblivion
A tale of two audiobooks and a library book
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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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My Hierarchy of Reads
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One day this week, as I was idly gazing at my bookshelves (aka writing), I began to think about what moves me to buy or read a particular book. Of course, there can be any number of reasons, but as I considered it, several distinctive themes emerged.
Using a few examples from books I read in 2017-2018, here is my personal hierarchy of reads.
Start with a Story 