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Kristianne’s reading year pictured. I especially enjoyed:
‘Build Your House Around My Body’ by Violet Kupersmith
‘The Hearing Trumpet’ by Leonora Carrington
And the two Anthony Marra novels, ‘Mercury Pictures Presents’ and ‘
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena’
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#reading2022 #yearendbooklist #2022reads #yearinbooks

That's it! That's my reading for 2022. Lighter, Fluffier, and more packed with rereads than usual, but the pandemic finally caught up with me and in a year when I was sick and exhausted an awful lot, all my comfort reads were quickly to hand.

Let's hope 2023 brings us yet better things, or at least, fewer bad things. And lots fo good books.

#reading2022

/fin

70. Barey and Burson, Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in the Company of Cats

I got this one for Christmas and it was a light and enjoyable read.

#reading2022

69. N.K Jemisin, The World We Make

Sequel to The City We Became, and both novels are among the best NYC books I've read.

I just love Staten Island's avatar. Such a freaking KAREN.

#reading2022

68. Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, vol. 1.

Believe it or not, I had never read any of these, but I loved the Netflix show, so decided to start reading them. Was not disappointed!

#reading2022

67. Jim Butcher, The Law

A Harry Dresden novella, but only available on Kindle Unlimited, and the quality of the production (not the writing or the story) is very poor, unfortunately.

#reading2022

66. Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves

The conclusion to the Scholomance trilogy, and quite good too!

(I read these as a repudiation of the Hogwarts model of magical education, and one in which slavery is in fact undone.)

#reading2022

64. Katharine Addison, The Angel of the Crows.

A retelling of Sherlock Holmes, but in a steampunk London with Fallen Angels, not-Fallen Angels, Hellhounds, Vampires, and other creatures. Truly enjoyable, which led me to reread

65. Addison, The Witness for the Dead. So good.

#reading2022

63. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit.

definitely a reread, usually annually, and sometimes every other year. a comfort read.

#reading2022

61-62. Katherine Addison, The Grief of Stones. A new novel about Thera Celehar, the Witness for the Dead.

This led me of course to reread the first book in this universe, The Goblin Emperor, which is one of the best fantasy novels I've read in awhile.

#reading2022

58-60. John Scalzi, Old Man's War, Ghost Brigades, and The Lost Colony

I'm always interested in the ways science fiction writers present colonialism.

#reading2022

57. v. Mallinckrodt, Köstlbauer, u. Lentz, Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1600-1850

I reviewed this for Francia-Recensio
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/frrec/article/view/92015/87287

#reading2022

53-56. Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King, Silver on the Tree.

again, rereads, but I hadn't read these in probably 35 years. Very enjoyable.

#reading2022

52. Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave

Another reread. I really don't understand why this hasn't been optioned as a miniseries.

#reading2022

50. Hank Searls, Soundings.

A reread, but one I hadn't read in awhile. A novel about whales and the Cold War. Really.

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50. José R. Oliver, Caciques and Cemí Idols: The Web Spun by Taíno Rulers Between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico

Great new work on how Taínos confronted Columbus and one of the best summaries of early Puerto Rico I am aware of.

#reading2022

49. Frank Conroy, Body and Soul

This is a reread. A compact and emotional novel about a gifted pianist's coming of age.

If you read it, don't read the kindle version. It's lousy with typos and bad type-setting.

#reading2022

48. Adam White, The Midcoast

wonderful novel about class and belonging here on mid-coast Maine. Highly recommend.

#reading2022

47. Samuel Wilson, Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Age of Columbus

More up-to-date in its approach to Taíno peoples.

#reading2022