A Year in Reading: Rion Amilcar Scott

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Yes, Ma, many good things did happen with my book, many of those dreams did become true, but because you are not here it all means less.
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A Year in Reading: Merve Emre

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Sifting through text messages, emails, and the letters scattered around my office, I pieced together a calendar of books and the people who made them matter.
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A Year in Reading: Adam O’Fallon Price

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All books are really two books: a first book containing characters and complications that make them do things, and a second book about that first book.
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A Year in Reading: Kate Gavino

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When I finally looked up, I was disoriented. I thought about this all-encompassing sensation, relieved it could still happen after decades of reading.
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A Year in Reading: Nick Moran

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All of us are viewing but one face of the cultural sphere. The one I see will always be different from yours, but damned if I won't try to show it to you.
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A Year in Reading: Jianan Qian

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I spent a lot of time rereading the same books I used to sneak into my desk back in old days. We don’t need to feel apologetic about loving these books.
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A Year in Reading: Garth Risk Hallberg

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The experience of suddenly gaining new ears for an author is one I can perhaps best compare to the effortless French fluency I sometimes achieve in dreams.
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Year in Reading: Nick Ripatrazone

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I like how her poems pull me here and there, and leave me elsewhere. “What’s a life for?” she asks, mid-poem. Let’s read and figure it out. Or just wander.
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A Year in Reading: Carolyn Quimby

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2019 was bad in many ways but the reading was good. If anything, that’s what I’ll take into 2020. More books and writing. Less indecision and trepidation.
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A Year in Reading: Sonya Chung

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As someone who’s been at this books thing “professionally” for a while, I confess I really, really need books to prove to me why they need to exist.
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A Year in Reading: Catherine Lacey

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Is it sacrosanct to so gleefully abandon a bad book in an airport? I will not mention them here because I am incapable of speaking briefly on bad books.
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A Year in Reading: Lauren Michele Jackson

This year, a joyful change: from the skittish chapter-hopping of the scholar put to market to the languid page-turning of a person who puts pleasure first.

A Year in Reading: Yan Lianke

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Yet in the dark depths of Kichijiro’s heart, the flame of his faith and his belief is never truly extinguished. This is Kichijiro’s soul!
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A Year in Reading: Max Porter

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I would have been lost this year (as any other) without poetry to cling to and travel with.
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A Year in Reading: Marcos Gonsalez

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I raged, I thought, I cried. I read it all on one cold Saturday, devoting the day to those words, taking my time to feel all it does so masterfully.
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A Year in Reading: Nayomi Munaweera

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It doesn’t make the writing any less hard but it makes me feel less alone, like I’m part of this wonderful group of people whose deepest loves are literary.
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A Year in Reading: Isabella Hammad

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This year felt like a year in which I read poorly. But now that I have drawn up a list, I seem to have read exactly 50 books, which isn’t too bad.
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A Year in Reading: Alexandra Kleeman

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The feeling was like those days when fear for a sick friend leaves you unable to eat, afraid any action could disturb some delicate superstitious balance.
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