The Q1 Anatomy of Fantasy syllabus at UChicago, followed by a long drought after Jennifer’s surgery, skews the data from this year’s reading stats somewhat, but any year with great books, old and new, to read and enjoy is one to be grateful for.

I don’t love picking favorites but at this moment I’d choose Robin Sloan’s very fun Moonbound, Teri Windling’s The Wood Wife, Monica Byrne’s The Actual Star, finally reading the full LOTR trilogy as an adult, and discovering Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga as my fiction faves, and for nonfiction, probably Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger. You already know I’m a huge M John Harrison fan, so not sure rereading Light counts, but I do love that book. I know it’s divisive but I really liked the new James SA Corey as well.