Let me start with how I ended the year then circle back to how I began my 2021 reading journey. The year ended on a high With West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge. I didn’t only like this novel because a female author wrote it from a male point of view, which I appreciate after tackling that challenge with Whiskey and Old Stogies. Not a romance, but West with Giraffes shows how Americans, and especially one dust bowl boy, fell in love with a pair of giraffes heading from a east coast hurricane t...