Looking back at a Decade of Reading and Forward Setting Reading Resolutions
2020 rings in a new decade and our head of circulation asked us to share our favorite book of the decade. Picking just one is difficult and I've chosen a story that was heart-wrenching, thrilling, written in a style where you feel you hear every crunch of leaves being walked on and feel the blow of every strike. If you stay with the heart-stopping often too graphic action you will find courage and redemption with the female heroine. "My Absolute Darling" by Gabriel Tallent is a book I don't recommend lightly for it is filled with often difficult to read scenes, but it is a gripping story and hard for most to put down. It is one of many of this decades popular books with the theme of people raised outside of normal conventions, such as, "Educated" by Tara Westover, "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens, "Hillbilly Elegy" by J.D. Vance, and "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls. My favorite author of the decade