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:
