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A Year in Reading: Christopher Gonzalez

I began my year with a goal of Twitter threading where I was the moment I finished reading a book. Incredibly stupid in hindsight! But I had grown weary of sites like Goodreads, its connection to Amazon adding further fuel to its overwhelming hand in the book industry, and wanted a new way to keep track of my reading. I live and die on Twitter, so posting photos and a brief review was second nature. Plus, I was starting to travel more by bus and car and plane to see friends or participate in writing conferences, which allowed for more reading. And even if I couldn’t remember a lick

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