2018 in books
a recap:
2010: i read 15 books.
2011: i started my book challenge with the goal of reading 25 books; i read 38.
2012: 34 books
2013: 34 books again
2014: 32 books
2015: 35 books
2016: 58 books (fluke/who have i become?)
2017: 57 books (the new normal?)
2018: 42 books (which somehow feels like a failure even though i know it's not. i look around my apartment at all these unread books and think, "i could have read 10 more of these this year." but it's not about the number, of course. the number helps keep me accountable, but it's about having an active reading life as part of my greater life.)
12 of those were diverse books (as in, the main character or the author is not white)
my favorite books of 2018:
unsheltered, by barbara kingsolver
varina, by charles frazier
less, by andrew sean greer
americanah, by chimamanda ngozi adichie
the sun and her flowers, by rupi kaur
the immortalists, by chloe benjamin
go get reading, friends.
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
december: 40, 41 & 42
finishing up 2018, a year in which i didn't read as much as the past few years...though other good things happened...and 42 is not a number to be disappointed in! in december i read:
where the crawdads sing, by delia owens (i really liked this book, set on the coast of north carolina and vividly described. interesting storyline about a woman who lives in the marsh alone and is accused of murder. this was perhaps overhyped for me - the school librarian said it was the best book she read this year and i didn't quite agree with that - but i really liked it!)
unsheltered, by barbara kingsolver (now this book was glorious. set in the same house in two time periods - the 1870s and the present. a long book but beautifully told and i loved reading her gorgeous prose. this was my november book of the month club book and i'd highly recommend it!)
varina, by charles frazier (okay, this book was fantastic, too. varina howell davis was the wife of jefferson davis. the main plot of this book is her at 80 looking back on her life, in particular when she and her children and some slaves fled richmond when it was burned, headed for florida and then cuba. i did SO much wikipedia-ing of her when the book was done, and there's a lot of historical truth to this fictionalized story. i found varina FASCINATING and this is another author who knows his way around his words. loved this book! read it!)
where the crawdads sing, by delia owens (i really liked this book, set on the coast of north carolina and vividly described. interesting storyline about a woman who lives in the marsh alone and is accused of murder. this was perhaps overhyped for me - the school librarian said it was the best book she read this year and i didn't quite agree with that - but i really liked it!)
unsheltered, by barbara kingsolver (now this book was glorious. set in the same house in two time periods - the 1870s and the present. a long book but beautifully told and i loved reading her gorgeous prose. this was my november book of the month club book and i'd highly recommend it!)
varina, by charles frazier (okay, this book was fantastic, too. varina howell davis was the wife of jefferson davis. the main plot of this book is her at 80 looking back on her life, in particular when she and her children and some slaves fled richmond when it was burned, headed for florida and then cuba. i did SO much wikipedia-ing of her when the book was done, and there's a lot of historical truth to this fictionalized story. i found varina FASCINATING and this is another author who knows his way around his words. loved this book! read it!)
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