75 books in 2021!!! I blew 2020 out of the water (and still only posted twice--sorry)! And I read MANY more physical books this year than I did last year, mostly because I got on a roll with the Alexander McCall Smith brilliant series about Mma Ramotswe and the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. I read Number 4 (The Kalahari Typing School for Men) through Number 19 (The Colors of All the Cattle). I could not have picked a better series for 2021, as this lovely visit to Botswana on a regular basis is the most stress-relieving experience imaginable. The characters are just lovely people to spend your time with--I will be so sad when I read the next few and am done.
I did get into a couple of other book series in 2021. The Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn could not have been further from the Smith books (very much sex), but once you get started on them, you have to read how each Bridgerton sibling ended up finding their significant other. I also stumbled on Louise Penny's Still Life and Chief Inspector Gamache, so I'm three books into that series of twelve books. It's incredible that Three Pines, a lovely little town south of Montreal, could have so many murders! William Kent Krueger's Ordinary Grace and This Tender Land were also stand-outs. I also hit up some classics in 2021--The Giver while on vacation Up Nort' and A Wrinkle in Time as well. And, actually, I read a LOT of poetry, so if I counted those chapbooks, I'd be closer to 90. My lesson for the year--when life hands you a pandemic, pick up a book.
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