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    A Year in Reading: Lauren Oyler

    by Lauren Oyler Dec 16, 2020 5 minutes

    At the beginning of 2020 I decided I would keep a record of all the books I read this year. I try to set really easy, attainable goals so that I can succeed and not fail, so this project was extremely pared down. I wasn’t going to worry about making precocious little observations about the books; I wasn’t going to worry about actually writing them down on a piece of paper so that my reading history and in turn soul could become a physical object in the world. I have a notebook from 2017 that contains one page of reactions to the 1985 movie Perfect starring Jamie Lee Curtis and ; I wasn’t going to make the same ambitious mistake again. I was just going to record every book I read in an iPhone note called “Books 2020.”

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