At the end of 2010, my good friend Elizabeth revealed to me a New Year's resolution that I couldn't help but appropriate: read a book a week in the coming year. As an avid reader, and having just completed my dissertation, and therefore having a new-found freedom, this challenge was more than I could pass up. And so it began, back in January with Daniel Okrent's brilliant work on Prohibition, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.
As I continued to make my way through book-after-book, my husband encouraged me to put my praise and my criticisms into a blog, the result of which is "This Year in Books;" the maintenance of which is also known as my 2012 New Year's resolution. Going forward, I will write about books as I read them, but in the waning weeks of 2011, I'll be recapping this year's books, and will end the year with a full list of the books I read this year.
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