Kristianne’s reading year pictured. I especially enjoyed:
‘Build Your House Around My Body’ by Violet Kupersmith
‘The Hearing Trumpet’ by Leonora Carrington
And the two Anthony Marra novels, ‘Mercury Pictures Presents’ and ‘
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena’
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That's it! That's my reading for 2022. Lighter, Fluffier, and more packed with rereads than usual, but the pandemic finally caught up with me and in a year when I was sick and exhausted an awful lot, all my comfort reads were quickly to hand.

Let's hope 2023 brings us yet better things, or at least, fewer bad things. And lots fo good books.

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/fin

70. Barey and Burson, Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in the Company of Cats

I got this one for Christmas and it was a light and enjoyable read.

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69. N.K Jemisin, The World We Make

Sequel to The City We Became, and both novels are among the best NYC books I've read.

I just love Staten Island's avatar. Such a freaking KAREN.

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68. Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, vol. 1.

Believe it or not, I had never read any of these, but I loved the Netflix show, so decided to start reading them. Was not disappointed!

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67. Jim Butcher, The Law

A Harry Dresden novella, but only available on Kindle Unlimited, and the quality of the production (not the writing or the story) is very poor, unfortunately.

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66. Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves

The conclusion to the Scholomance trilogy, and quite good too!

(I read these as a repudiation of the Hogwarts model of magical education, and one in which slavery is in fact undone.)

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64. Katharine Addison, The Angel of the Crows.

A retelling of Sherlock Holmes, but in a steampunk London with Fallen Angels, not-Fallen Angels, Hellhounds, Vampires, and other creatures. Truly enjoyable, which led me to reread

65. Addison, The Witness for the Dead. So good.

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63. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit.

definitely a reread, usually annually, and sometimes every other year. a comfort read.

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61-62. Katherine Addison, The Grief of Stones. A new novel about Thera Celehar, the Witness for the Dead.

This led me of course to reread the first book in this universe, The Goblin Emperor, which is one of the best fantasy novels I've read in awhile.

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