Favorite Light Reads: The last eight books in Jan Karon's Mitford series (four of which were new to me) and three Agatha Christie mysteries: Sad Cypress, Five Little Pigs, The Secret of Chimneys
Most Challenging: Till We Have Faces (The Lit Life Podcast episodes from 2020 added helpful commentary.)
Favorite Audio: The Iliad (lectures by Elizabeth Vandiver)
Favorite Non-fiction: When Morning Gilds the Skies (reviewed here)
Favorite Vintage: Set in Silver (reviewed here)
Most Delightful Discovery: The poetry of William Wordsworth
Classic that I Tackled (for the second time): Dante's Inferno. I have physical copies of Ciardi's translation, but longed for something more beautifully written. Happily, I found Hollander's delightful audioversion on Chirp for 99 cents! Reading along with the 100 Days of Dante group was one of the highlights of my year.
The Book That I Loved In Spite of Myself: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene. Such a dark story, but so beautifully written. Many important religious themes.
Favorite of the Year: The Christmas Pig by J.K. Rowling. Brilliant storytelling (reviewed here)
This link to Goodreads shows all 95 books that I read in 2024.
It was a very good year for building my literary muscles! What about you? Did you read something good that caught you by surprise?
Blessings,
1 comment:
As always, thank you so much for your recommendations. As much as you enjoyed the Inferno, please continue to Purgatorio and Paradiso. They are increasingly enjoyable and enriching, though as you no doubt found in the Inferno, they require work.
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