2022 Reading — My Year in Books

Goodreads tells me I read 74 books this year, totaling 19,000 pages. I try to read about 6 every month, but I see that…

2022 Reading — December

Prague by Arthur Phillips is a novel set in . . . Budapest, not Prague. I was sitting in a coffee shop with a…

2022 Reading — November

Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux (translated from French by Tanya Leslie) is a short book that takes a deep dive into the impact passion…

2022 Reading — October

Horse by Geraldine Brooks was my book club selection for October, and I found it interesting because of the book I just finished writing,…

2022 Reading — September

Big reading month for me. I finished nine books! Long Shadows by Abigail Cutter is a novel set in my part of Virginia—just down…

2022 Reading — August

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is my book club’s selection for August. I didn’t love it, I have to admit. The novel…

2022 Reading — July

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is a science fiction thriller about an energy-eating bacterial threat to life on Earth. A man awakens from…

2022 Reading — June

In Love by Amy Bloom is a memoir about the end of Bloom’s husband’s life in an “accompanied suicide.” Married in 2007 after leaving…

2022 Reading — May

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is overly sentimental. Spoiler alert—if you might want to read this book, stop reading this review now. It…

2022 Reading — April

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu is . . . clever. The book is a faux screenplay that illustrates the invisibility of Asians in America,…