The Accidental Reader: Not Me! (Part 2)

Here are the remaining titles that I read in 2024. This year’s reading choices marked a real, but deliberate departure for me from earlier subject matter. Always drawn to historical fiction, I have been pulled to books related to WWII, the Holocaust, the Resistance, and the like. There came a point where I decided I …

The Non-Accidental Reader: Books I Read in 2023

I grew up on words. My family were/are avid crossword puzzlers and Scrabble was a mainstay in our household; I was playing against my brothers’ college friends when I was 8. To be fair, I can’t balance a checkbook, but I was raised on words. So it should come as no surprise that I was …