Thank heavens that I came out of the pandemic-induced reading slump of 2020! This year got off to a roaring start because of the Literary Life Podcast group since their reading challenge caused me to attack my most daunting books right off the bat: Kristin Lavransdatter and Anna Karenina! Towards the end of the year I was reading much lighter fare, while dipping into Dante's Divine Comedy three times a week (via the 100 Days of Dante reading project.) It was a great year! (All 90 books, good and bad, are listed on my Goodreads challenge.)
Here's the rundown of favorites:
Best light fiction: A Tangled Web by L.M. Montgomery (reviewed here)
Most fun: All Creatures Great and Small by Herriot (reviewed here), and the first five Lord Peter Wimsey Novels by Sayers (reviewed here)
Favorite re-read: Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury (with the Lit Life group)
Favorite classic: Mansfield Park by Austen (with the Lit Life group)
Unexpectedly knocked my socks off: The Inferno by Dante/Ciardi (To be honest, this was only after listening to the videos explaining each canto.)
Favorite non-fiction: Christian Faith in the Old Testament by Cockerill
My two top picks for the year were C.S. Lewis' Letters, Vol. 2 (1,000 pages) and Six Centuries of Great Poetry (600 pages). My daily sips into their contents brought me constant delight. I felt bereft when I finally reached the end of Lewis' letters.
What about you? Have you read any of these? Did you have a favorite book of the year?
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