Today I bring you the Top 10 books I read in 2021:
10: Her Final Words, by Brianna Labuskes
9: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton
8: Velocity, by Dean Koontz
7: Violet, by Scott Thomas
6: The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
5: One of Us is Next, by Karen McManus
4: I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are, by Rachel Bloom
3: The Family Plot, by Megan Collins
2: Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
1: The Last House on Needless Street, by Catriona Ward
I hope you find something you enjoy!
Month: December 2021
Elias will be visiting
I’ll be returning to the pages of Strangely Funny next year with my short story “Elias’ Visitors,” a short, humorous, not-quite-a-ghost story. Merry Christmas to me!
Men, men, manly men
Do you remember when I made goals to finish reading Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels and reread all of Ian Fleming’s James Bond books? Well, I got through all of Bond in September and read my last unread Spenser novel earlier this week. What did I learn? My big takeaway from the Bond books is they were even more sexist and racist than I remember them, as much a product of Fleming’s as they were of the times. As for the Spenser books, Parker was certainly more willing to play around in his early books than later on. That said, I haven’t read most of those books in a good long while, so maybe I’ll make that a reading challenge someday. Of course, I already have plenty lined up for next year. I’ll get to that, and everything else I read this year, in another post.