I finished 44 books this year and I started or made some progress on many more that I never finished. That’s not counting any of the books I read aloud to the kids, though I certainly thought about them and they do form a large part of my...

1. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline My second read of this novel, about a dystopian future when most people spend most of their lives living in a virtual reality, by choice. I loved it the first time, still love it. The creator of the virtual...

Finished in March 1. In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden This was not my first visit to Brede Abbey. I’ve read the novel a few times. But recently the Kindle edition was on sale and I snapped it up, thinking it might be handy to have. I was very...