Not quite a “writing” book, but a deeply interesting and informative look behind the curtains of why the human brain seems to be so wired for interacting with stories-and therefore why stories are of such importance.
(Note: All links are Amazon affiliate links.) Writing Books The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall I hope you will share some of yours with me as well! And now I am pleased to share with you some of my favorites from the year.
I read whatever seemed most interesting and pertinent. I didn’t pay much attention to most of my personal reading challenges (the classics, the Pulitzer winners, histories of countries).
It’s also been a year in which I’ve just had fun. This has been my most prolific reading year since 2016. Thankfully, many things have started to shift for me this year, and the desire to read (particularly fiction) has returned to me. For a while there, I just didn’t feel like reading (which disturbed me almost as much as the fact that I also didn’t feel like writing during that time). I went from consistently reading 100+ books every year in my 20s to sometimes scraping into the end of the year with under 40 books. Like so many other areas of my life during these past years, my reading life has felt rather under siege.
Rather, I opened just one box of books and slowly worked through its contents, supplemented by whatever randomly came my way through PaperbackSwap, and, of course, whatever most tickled my fancy on Kindle. For the first time in a very long time, I haven’t felt a subtle sense of overwhelm whenever I look at my (literally) five-foot TBR pile. (When I’m trying to remember when something happened in my life, I will often ask, “What was I reading at the time?”-then I can look up the book in my reading log and find the date.)Īs I’m still in between permanent living circumstances, most of my books are in boxes. I always look forward to the retrospective of my year, not just because I get to remember everything I read, but also because my memories of my actual life are so intertwined with what I read. This year-end round-up of my “top books” is always one of my favorite posts to write.
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