I read slightly fewer books this year than usual, due no doubt to the COVID-19 pandemic curtailing my shuttle commute. 2020 was a typical reading year for me in terms of the balance between fiction and non-fiction: a dead heat at 22 of each.
While the average rating ended up being about the same as past years (3.27, just above expectation), the variance was higher than usual. That is, I gave more 4+ star ratings this year and also more 2- star ratings. Is that due to the selection of books I read or to the circumstances under which I read them? Hard to say.
My favorite literary discovery of 2020 was The Island of Second Sight. I am also happy to have finally gotten around to Nobel Laureate Alice Munro and The Makioka Sisters, both of which proved the folly of my prejudice against "woman's lit."
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