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Reading List 2022

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Happy New Year! 2022 Reading List  Recovering from my ACL surgery in May, reading McCarthy's brutal "Child of God" Here comes the annual reading list! For 2022 I read the most books in a year that I ever have (68). Some of this personal record breaking reading was owing to my 2 month convalescence after tearing my ACL in late April where books and comics saved my sanity (or thankfully transported my agonized consciousness.) I discovered a couple of new authors that I couldn't get enough of (I was made aware of the playwright August Wilson and the author Kent Haruf this year and I devoured their oeuvre insatiably.  I got back into Dennis Lehane in a big way as well.)   I realized during the school year I impulse-buy and read a lot of books to distract myself from the mundanity of the school work. (I currently am swearing off buying books for the new year, a resolution I clearly failed to adhere to in 2022.) I don’t usually record the poetry books I read (nor do i read...