It always feels like Best of the Year time creeps up on me. Even the years when I am bursting to share my lists. This year it extra crept up on me because my sense of linear time is shot. My lists are always too long and this year is

I only have one more new release to tell you about before the end of the year so I realized it's time to start my Best of the Year lists. This is always an enjoyable task, but also a bittersweet one, since inevitably there were books I enjoyed

I used to have very long reading slumps. Once I had one that lasted nearly a year. Like a lot of people I had one at the beginning of the pandemic that went for a few months. For me, a reading slump doesn't mean I don't

Recently I was reading a book with a protagonist who was clearly coded to be neurodivergent. I say "coded" because this character had no formal diagnosis of anything, though the signals clearly pointed to a form of Autism. On the one hand, it is good to see neurodivergent

One of the nice things about having your own newsletter where you get to say whatever you want is that you can choose to just go on and on about something that bugs you. So I would like to complain about Thrillers. I love Mysteries but I don't

To my great dismay we have been talking on the internet this month about who is really the good person and who is really the bad person in a real-life story about a couple of writers. I hate the discourse, truly (I deeply deeply apologize for even REFERRING to this,

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