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Original Postcript Book Tag from mementomori:    • Book Postscript 2018 [Original Tag]  

Videos Mentioned:
Little Women & March:    • Little Women & March  
Robert Alter's Hebrew Bible:    • Currently Reading | Robert Alter's He...  
Review on No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood:    • Wow or meh? No One Is Talking About T...  

Tag Questions:
1. The longest book you read this year and the book that took you the longest to finish
2. A book you read this year that was outside of your comfort zone
3. How many books did you reread?
4. Favorite reread of this year
5. A book you read for the first time that you look forward to rereading in the future
6. Favorite single short story or novella that you read this year
7. Mass Appeal: A book you liked and would recommend to a wide variety of readers
8. Specialized Appeal: A book you liked but would be hesitant to recommend to just anyone
9. Reflect on your year as a bookish content creator (goals met, good/bad memories, favorite videos you made, etc)

Books Mentioned:
Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George
Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George
Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier
The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang
The Lions of alRassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb
Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David WallaceWells
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Cain
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (translated from Georgian by Elizabeth Heighway):    • On "bleak" books & postSoviet fun | ...  
Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort
Abigail by Magda Szabó (translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)
My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović (translated from Bosnan by Celia Hawkesworth):    • Four fab books | a Balkans wrap up  
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell


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00:00 Why hewo
00:29 The longest book I read this year
02:09 The book that took me the longest to finish
02:45 A book I read this year that was outside of my comfort zone
03:44 How many books did I reread?
04:11 Favorite reread of this year
04:49 A book I read for the first time that I look forward to rereading in the future
05:58 Favorite single short story or novella that I read this year
06:45 A book I liked and would recommend to a wide variety of readers
07:38 A book I liked but would be hesitant to recommend to just anyone
09:10 My year as a bookish content creator
11:39 Reflections on the trashfire
14:24 The most random interlude ever
17:13 So looong fareweeell good riddaaance to 2021