My Bright Abyss: My Top Ten Plus One Reads Of 2020
I am sure most of us spent this year pretending it was not happening. So things, like books and movies, that help us escape to the republic of the mind were popular. But
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For the last three years or so I deliberately read more female fiction writers. I've now decided to go back into a more balanced reading, adding more male fictional writers also.