favourite books you read this year?

Big Nate: a gerbil ate my homework

BOOKS?...WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO READ EARLY MOVIE DRAFTS...JUST WAIT FOR THE MOVIE...IN ALL SERIOUSNESS,I READ BIOGRAPHIES AND FILM RELATED BOOKS ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY THESE DAYS....I JUST FINISHED AMY POEHLER'S BOOK 'YES PLEASE' TODAY...IT WAS DELIGHTFUL.

The Stand
A Man Called Ove
Murder at the Vicarage
The Invisible Man

I used to read a lot. Not so much anymore.
I do read periodicals a lot, just not books.
The last book I began reading was Freedom by Jonathon Franzen.
I didn't like the subject matter, but it was engaging, it was clever, easy to read.
Reminded me of John Irving, observational of human foibles.

Just reminiscing here, but I had a great friend who was kind of a vicarious reader for me. For Christmas or her birthday I'd buy her a book I thought sounded interesting. She was very bright but she would also read almost anything as long as it was fiction, and if something was light reading she might pick up the same title only to realize she had already read this one, which I could never imagine myself doing. Even admitted to reading some romance novels, I think because the library had a rack in the cafe where you could just grab something without having to go through check out. Years before she shared Dune and The Mists Of Avalon with me. Previous to this I had a lot of fun reading Bonfire Of The Vanities and Lonesome Dove.

Once I lent her a copy of a book I did read and owned in paperback, Snow Falling On Cedars. She liked it so much she gave it to someone else afterward, which I did not appreciate. Sure, philosophically it's nice to pass a good book around rather than possess it, but that wasn't my intention.

A few years ago I bought two copies of a book I never read - A Time Of Gifts (PL Fermor) - on the recommendation of someone involved with a small bookstore venture cleverly called Books Without Borders. This was just when many bookstores were going dark because of Amazon and ebooks. They were gifts and I never did receive feedback, so I'm forever curious what sort of a read it actually is.

One of the best books I've read is All The King's Men (Robert Penn Warren) and I always recommend Ken Kesey's Sometimes A Great Notion. The last book I had fun reading was The Milagro Beanfield War, a light slightly silly book but good fun.

I miss reading but now I do stuff like this. I doubt it's a good trade-off.

I start reading Ulysses by Irish writer James Joyce. This is an incredible book indeed. I am currently reading the third chapter of this book. The problem is that this is the most difficult book of the 20th century and I have tried to read this book several times and never went beyond the third chapter. I am writing an essay about Joyce and his work. I am helped by the company https://essayontime.com.au/buy-essay-online where I bought the essay. This helped me to clearly form the bibliography and to draw up the thematic outline of my full essay.

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Ubik really got in my head. I sometimes feel like I'm in the half-life state (without the canister).