I met my 2020 reading goal…
I read 30 books in 2020, a large part in thanks to being quarantined for most of it, and here’s my list! Now I get to make a new one… :-)
A special thanks to all who helped me achieve this goal:
the books & their authors - you clever things you, definitely couldn’t have done it without you
the long walks in Grandview, MO - I only ran into a few trees and I only tripped a few times and it was only raining on a few days; still I trudged on, because there’s something so “Elizabeth in the 2005 Pride & Prejudice film” about walking and reading. I’m getting better at it, too! (I think I’ll add “don’t run into trees while reading” to my 2021 resolutions.)
the stupid lockdowns - as much as I hate you, I definitely had more time on my hands to sit and read because of you
the lovely book recommendations from dear friends - both those who directly recommended books to me or those who indirectly recommended books by posting their must-reads to social media, you have my thanks
the used bookstore where I found a book for 5 cents - you are both a blessing and a curse and I love you so (and I’ll see you this weekend ;*)
the Christmas gifts of books from all my favorite people - you guys are the real heroes; you saved me a trip to the store and the money in my bank
I’ll be starting a new Reading List page for 2021, so if you’re ever in dire need of my 2020 reading list (as one often is), you can find it here! I’ll link this blog on my Reading List page as well, just for you.
2020 Reading List
The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard
Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas
The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Always Another Country by Sisonke Msimang
The Morning Watch by James Agee
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Consider the Oyster by MFK Fischer
The Divine Comedy by Dante
Dante: A Brief History by Peter S. Hawkins
My Victorians by Robert Clark
The Second Common Reader by Virginia Woolf
The Art of Making Sense: Writings & Speeches of 2019 by Andrew Klavan
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Essays of E. B. White by E. B. White
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir by D. J. Waldie
See y’all in 2021, hopefully with all our noses in books instead of masks.
Love, Kayley