Reading Log, 2022

I read forty-one books in 2022, and looking back I see a lot of thematic resonance in the books I chose:

• Lots of time travel (or time travel-ish) stories: This Time Tomorrow, Blackout, This is How You Lose the Time War, The Midnight Library, Sea of Tranquility, The Shining Girls. What is my subconscious trying to tell me?
• Spear and Matrix bouncing off each other in a back-to-back duet
• Homeland Elegies and Concepcion each exploring what it means to be an immigrant in the USA, in this particular political moment

Some favorites:

• Finding Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series via friends
• Diving back into the Oxford time-travel series via Blackout and All Clear
• Another Locked Tomb book, which again raised more questions than it answered
• The NY nostalgia of LaserWriter II (thank you Max, I have to return your copy)
• Finally reading Neuromancer, which was a little bit like finally getting the joke
• Cloud Cuckoo Land and its mix of characters and eras

I definitely found it more challenging to read in sustained bursts last year, just due to my work and my kids’ school schedules. I also continued to watch a lot of movies, trading that for reading time. Instead of setting a numeric reading goal for 2023 I think I’m going to focus on discussing what I’ve read with friends.