Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Hello Everyone

It has been awhile, but I am finally back! I have made the move to Portland, OR and it was an adventure to say the least.
So, I thought I would do a catch up video to give you an update on life.
And though I have not been doing videos, I have been reading. And today, I wanted to share my favorite reads of the year so far.
Please tell me in the comments below your favorite reads of the year so far. What am I missing?? Tell me all about it.

I am so happy to be back. Thank you to everyone that sent me a nice message while I was moving.
And thank you to all the publishers that continued to send me books.
I am so very thankful.

So, here we go. (I am a little rusty - so be kind)

Books Discussed :

1. On The Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle, Translated by Barbara Haveland (New Direction Press)
2. Flashlight by Susan Choi (FSG)
3. Walk Softly On This Heart of Mine by Callie Collin's (Doubleday)
4. Audition by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead)
5. Fox by Joyce Carol Oates (Hogarth)
6. Are You Happy? by Lori Ostlund (Astra House)
7. The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter (Knopf)
8. Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski (Knopf)
9. The Anthropologists by Aysegul Savas (Bloomsbury)
10. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
11. The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press)