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A Year in Reading: Diane Cook

This was not my best year for reading. For some, quarantine meant more time to kill. But I had a two-year-old to entertain in lockdown, a to launch and promote, a baby to grow and give birth to during the pandemic, and then a dark quarry lake of post-partum depression to drown in. I did not often reach for books, or if I did, they often fell out of my hand from either sheer exhaustion or melancholia. But some stuck

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