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The Worst People You’ll Ever Meet – A The Secret History Reread
“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.” I read The Secret History by Donna Tartt in 2019. I’d read The Goldfinch in college and made it half of my personality. I started working for the studio releasing the film (I have other thoughts about that), and wondered why on earth I hadn’t read Tartt’s other work yet. So I did, and I once again became a changed person. I felt like I had soaked up The Secret History like a sponge. I thought I remembered all the important details. I assumed I…
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Favorite Read of 2019
Happy New Year! It’s been a long one for sure, and I’m very excited to get started on my 2020 reads. New year, new playlists, movies, books, podcasts. I read twenty books in 2019, eight more than my goal, and for the most part, it was a very good reading year. I genuinely enjoyed almost every one I read. I’m pretty easy to please, though, I’ve only ever DNF-ed maybe three books in my life. This year, there was one book in particular that I loved more than any other: The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I read The Goldfinch a few years ago, and it held up to be…