Kicking off here a thread of fave books I read this year. Some published in 2022, others earlier. One. #TheGlassHotel by #EmilyStJohnMandel, after loving #stationeleven. Both books explore (among other things) what happens when we lose our material wealth. What the Glass Hotel also explores is the morality of wealth acquisition - it is based, in part, on a famous Ponzi scheme that went belly up during the GFC. Mandel is a connoisseur of the #literarythriller - her writing is tense and lush, the worlds she creates intoxicating.