Last 2020 Reading!

Six books to round out the year.  One of them, Joan Ryan’s Intangibles is the subject of tomorrow’s post on my work blog.  Short version:  read it.

 

In preparation for 2021, I read Artist’s Journal Workshop by Cathy Johnson.  I love words, but I need another way to access my creativity.  Incorporating pictures seems like the way.  I am more than a little intimidated by the lovely sample pages in the book, but the goal is learning, not making beautiful stuff, so it will be fine.  I’m playing.

 

I’m a Don DeLillo fan, so it is no surprise that I enjoyed The Silence.  His way with language is like no one else’s and yet seems to grasp the essence of things.  If I grow up, I might want to be him.  The premise of the book, that all our tech stops working and we have to figure out who we are without it, is fascinating and a bit scary.

 

The last three were more Tamora Pierce.  I read the first three Circle of Magic books, the ones for Sandry, Tris, and Daja (and of course I will also read Briar’s, but next year!).  I like these younger characters and the team nature of the stories.  Connection is good.

 

Fall total:  37 books

2020 total:  106 books