Time passes quicker as we get older, or so they say. My annual tradition of year-end lists have completely slipped my mind until I saw the midnight skies light up with fireworks. Seems like the lists will have to wait! I do have a few movies and albums to catch up with anyway, and I'd be happy to read any of yours meanwhile.
For now, I'm grateful to connect with my dear friends on this nifty web space and wish all of you a wonderful, pandemic-free year ahead. Here are my final good reads of this very strange year, while I ready my choices for Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge 2022.
Piranesi (Susanna Clarke, 2020)
It is my belief that the World (or, if you will, the House, since the two are for all practical purposes identical) wishes an Inhabitant for Itself to be a witness to its Beauty and the recipient of its Mercies. If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty?
In a beautiful labyrinth of infinite halls and intricate statues lives a man who goes by the name of Piranesi. He believes that there are but 15 people in the world, 13 of them long dead. Twice a week, he meets The Other, the only living soul he knows, and deeply admires.
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