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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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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.
/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.
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.
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!
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.
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.)
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.
63. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit.
definitely a reread, usually annually, and sometimes every other year. a comfort read.
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.
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.
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
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.
52. Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave
Another reread. I really don't understand why this hasn't been optioned as a miniseries.
50. Hank Searls, Soundings.
A reread, but one I hadn't read in awhile. A novel about whales and the Cold War. Really.
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.
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.
48. Adam White, The Midcoast
wonderful novel about class and belonging here on mid-coast Maine. Highly recommend.
47. Samuel Wilson, Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Age of Columbus
More up-to-date in its approach to Taíno peoples.