Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Welcome to my Best Books of 2021

Books mentioned:

The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
The Country Girls, Edna O'Brien
The Painted Veil, Somerset Maughm
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
The Magician, Colm Toibin
The Souvenir Museum, Elizabeth McCracken
Early Morning Riser, Katherine Heiny
Olive Again and Oh William, Elizabeth Strout
Crossroads, Johnathan Franzen

Note: In The Painted Veil, the character Walter is trying to find a cure for CHOLERA, not tuberculosis. I am getting my epidemics mixed up.

My video about reading Mann/Toibin this summer:
youtube.com/watch?v=zssE7B9uA6E&t=1s&ab_channel=anenthusiasticreader

My video about The Souvenir Museum
youtube.com/watch?v=RN2FkTRzurI&t=363s&ab_channel=anenthusiasticreader

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