Novel

Plural. Because: two is always better. And, both of these are doorstoppers, too. Doorstoppers I didn’t want to go over, whose labyrinths I’m still plunging through, faster and faster:

Poetry

It came out in 2020, but I only read it in January or so of 2021. Stuck with me all year. And I’ll probably be reading it again. Which is to say: I agree with the Pulitzer committee:

Fight Scene

A new category, but this scene warrants it:

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October was so, so, so busy with events &etc, much etc, that . . . I either wasn’t jotting stuff down for this, or I wasn’t watching a lot. I was reading a lot, but most of it doesn’t have covers yet . . .

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