2018 was a rather big year for me: my daughter was born in January, I wrote a memoir (which is coming to a bookstore near you very soon), I joined The New York Times, and did a handful of other things that I will (I’m sure) tell you all about in the near future. It was a wonderful year, filled with joy and fun and new levels of focus, but it was also a very difficult year, filled with sadness and hurt and serious illness.

As you know from my reading list, I try to read 52 books each...