Books were my number one media preoccupation this year. I managed to read 48 of them, more than double last year’s total and well above my previous record (38 in 1998). So this year for the first time I’m able to list my eight favorites (plus a bonus) among everything I read in the last 12 months:
- Madness
- Pathogenesis
- Out There Screaming
- The Trees
- The Zimmerman Telegram
- The American Plague
- Twelve Caesars
- Making Comics and Making Comics
Thanks to KCK Public Library’s access to Hoopla, I was also able to finish around 170 graphic novels. My eight favorites:
- Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash
- Through Clouds of Smoke: Freud’s Final Days
- Bad Dreams in the Night
- Macanudo: Optimism Is for the Brave (and two others)
- Banned Book Club
- Paper Girls
- The Secret to Superhuman Strength
- It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
Movie-wise, the results weren’t as good. Only three movies made it to a three-star rating, and nothing got a full four. So I’ll leave out the top eight this year and hope for better in 2025.
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