A Year in Reading: Rhian Sasseen
End of year lists make me nervous. You have to file them in November, for one thing, leaving open the possibility that the best book, the one that will well and truly round out the past year, is one that has yet to be encountered. This is called neuroticism, I realize, but I like to think it keeps me honest: it’s how I’ve scolded myself these last few weeks every time I trip into the obscene pile of to-be-read books I keep next to my bed.
I read ’s early on in 2022, in January, a fitting
