Reminded me great books like “Pale Fire” by Nabokov, “The Crying of Lot 49” by Pynchon, and “White Boy Shuffle” by Beatty, but this was totally unique.
What starts off as a seemingly straightforward travelogue soon blossoms into something quite unusual, full of utterly absurd humor (an unexpected scene featuring a perplexed and put-upon owl had me laughing out loud), sharp social critiques, beautiful descriptions of the natural world, and some extremely surprising plot twists. Probably my biggest discover of the year was purely by happenstance: I picked up Days by Moonlightby André Alexis based on its cover and the fact that I was interested to read more contemporary Canadian literature, so I dived in knowing nothing. I also caught up with shorter works from some of my fave contemporary authors like Jennifer Egan and Ben Winters. Happy to have checked those all of “The List” as it were. Ripley, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,, Wise Blood, My Man Jeeves, Passing, The Dispossessed, and The Incredible Shrinking Man were all excellent, and even if they didn’t blow my mind I definitely appreciated Travels with Charley and Siddhartha. One advantage of reading quite a few shorter works was that last year saw me tackling a bunch of classics I have been meaning to read for years, and in general they didn’t disappoint: The Talented Mr. But failing at a reading challenge is pretty forgivable, I reckon, and I’ve just adjusted my goal for 2022 down to a more manageable 50 books… Wish me luck! I’ll be continuing to log books over on Goodreads and will try to post more full reviews on my review blog Tipped In throughout the coming year.
My reading fell off a bit this year, coming up short of the 60 books I set as my goal over on Goodreads, despite the fact that quite a few of the books I logged were pretty short and lots of comics and graphic novels in the mix this year as well.
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