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It's safe to say I am a VORACIOUS reader. I go through phases where I pretty much just live inside of books and I spend my spare time doing things like going to work and taking care of my physical body. But, during those times, my world is inside whatever book has captivated me. Other book-lovers will know this: there's nothing like the rush of getting deeply sucked into a book, and nothing like the thrill of racing toward the end mixed with the dread of losing the world you grow to love.

My Year in Books - Short and Sweet Reviews 2015 part 1

Good evening, follow reader. This year I beat out my Goodreads goal of 25, by reading 35 books/graphic novels! I'm a comfort-reader, in the same way some people might be comfort eaters or comfort movie watchers. Actually, I'm also a comfort eater and movie watcher, as well as a comfort knitter, comfort cat-petter, and comfort napper. I do a lot of things for comfort, ok? That being said, it's been a bit of a tough year (work and family stuff, you know?) and I really hit the books with a determination to bury myself in fantasies and carefully crafted pseudo-realities.

My appetite was a strange mixture of all different kinds of books: fiction, non-fiction, young adult fantasy, memoirs, and classical literature. I basically just picked up whatever looked good at the time and dove in. So, here are my findings for 5 books from a year of reading, with short and sweet reviews: