Recent reading
| Number of books read and reviewed each year |
|---|
| 1995* |
(28)
|
| 1996 |
(47)
|
| 1997 |
(74)
|
| 1998 |
(61)
|
| 1999 |
(62)
|
| 2000 |
(27)
|
| 2001 |
(51)
|
| 2002 |
(60)
|
| 2003 |
(37)
|
| 2004 |
(36)
|
| 2005 |
(32)
|
| 2006 |
(46)
|
| 2007 |
(109)
|
| 2008 |
(78)
|
| 2009 |
(65)
|
| 2010 |
(68)
|
| 2011 |
(98)
|
| 2012 |
(129)
|
| 2013 |
(114)
|
| 2014 |
(101)
|
| 2015 |
(88)
|
| 2016 |
(82)
|
| 2017 |
(76)
|
| 2018 |
(67)
|
| 2019 |
(95)
|
| 2020 |
(90)
|
| 2021 |
(85)
|
| 2022 |
(101)
|
| 2023 |
(124)
|
| 2024 |
(155)
|
| 2025 |
(133)
|
| 2026 |
(47)
|
| * Partial year |
[Finished 2 August 2026] My moment of embarrassment: I had it somehow in my head that this was a novel and only after I finished the second “chapter” did I start to wonder how the two narrative fit together and then I thought to glance at the back cover which described the book as a story collection and oops.
[Finished 31 July 2026] A surprisingly compelling novel told by an aging priest who serves in a declining parish after a bout of alcoholism sent him to a multiple year stint of rehab. The intimate detail of clerical life led me to wonder if O’Connor was perhaps a priest, but he was not. I began the book a bit skeptical of it, but the garrulous narrator and the details of the lived life sold me on it pretty early on.
[Finished 31 July 2026] A somewhat sprawling novel of the experience of a group of Chinese friends in both China and the U.S. I found the middle section with its flashback to one of the characters’ failed academic experience in the U.S. (at an unnamed University which is clearly University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). It was an interesting enough novel with an uncompromising choice to center Chinese identities (mot notably through the choice to italicize all text where the characters are speaking in English to emphasize the foreignness of English to them).
[Finished 23 July 2026] Ugh, I’m way behind. No reviews for a bit to catch up.
[Finished 15 July 2026] Ugh, I’m way behind. No reviews for a bit to catch up.
[Finished 13 July 2026] Ugh, I’m way behind. No reviews for a bit to catch up.
[Finished 2 July 2026] Ugh, I’m way behind. No reviews for a bit to catch up.
[Finished 30 June 2026] Ugh, I’m way behind. No reviews for a bit to catch up.
[Finished 27 June 2026] Ugh, I’m way behind. No reviews for a bit to catch up.
[Finished 26 June 2026] Ugh, I’m way behind. No reviews for a bit to catch up.