2021's Fifty Books Challenge

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It's a brand new year!
With last year's successful (in that it was instituted at all, which for 2020 is a big deal) challenge done, it's time to start a new one.

My usual rules apply: I don't count books I've read before, and I don't count books I don't finish.

If last year has taught us anything, it's that despite our best goals, life can take you by surprise. I hope to at least beat last year's amount of books read and reviewed, but anything that gets published obviously is going to be a source of pride.

WELCOME TO THE NEW FIFTY BOOKS CHALLENGE! WATCH THIS SPACE!

Wrapping Up 2020's 50 Books Challenge

 

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2020 is finally over, but we've still got a couple loose ends. And I KNOW you want to hear my thoughts!

No? Well, come for the snark then.

At any rate, like most carbon-based life forms, 2020 caught me by surprise. I knew going into this challenge that I might not make fifty given how my schedule has changed since I used to do the challenge, but I wasn't expecting the level of comfort food rereads I was going to need, or the way that doomscrolling and other 2020 interruptions would interfere with my plans.
Still, we've got a solid 14 books reviewed, and I'm going to talk about them! I actually have finished three more, but didn't get the reviews written in the holiday chaos. I debated what to do, and decided to put them with 2021's books, both for clarity's sake and for the fact at least one of the 2020 reviews I started in 2019, so it all comes out in the end.

I MAKE THE RULES OF THE CHALLENGE, MIND!

I liked the old "year in review" categories I used when I wrote about this before, so I'm going to keep them, but I'm adding a new one. Watch 'til the end for a special shoutout!